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Croft Castle drive, Autumn

Hilary Forbes

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Martin, I hope you don't mind me adding another portrait-"The Drifter"  by Andrew Wyeth ? I have admired this painting for a long time - the contrasts in colour and textures, the light and tonal values, the overall colour palette. I think the model for the painting was one of his neighbours.
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That makes you stop and look…the textures and palette…..

Martin Shaw

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Martin, I hope you don't mind me adding another portrait-"The Drifter"  by Andrew Wyeth ? I have admired this painting for a long time - the contrasts in colour and textures, the light and tonal values, the overall colour palette. I think the model for the painting was one of his neighbours.
Hilary Forbes on 22/06/2025 11:52:57
I can only say Wow! I’ll keep coming back to this one. Thanks

Martin Shaw

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Fabio Hurtado (Spanish Artist, born 1960) - The Fan
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Yup, superb. Good call

Martin Shaw

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Lewis Cooper

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Some good work on here.  It's great how people see and paint things differently.

Martin Shaw

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First and very last are great there Lewis

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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Andrew Wyeth often used tempera, I think - I wonder if the wonderful portrait up above was painted with that medium.  Some of these do make you consider either throwing your brushes away or just not attempting portraiture, but that's not an entirely unknown emotion for me...  Wonderful though many of them are though - Rembrandt is THE one for portraiture (even notwithstanding Bellini's Doge Leonardo Loredan, or van Eyck's man in a red turban - beat that, AI!).
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 I like the Ivana Besevic painting. Another Andrew Wyeth tempera painting... Mary Whyte, the American watercolourist, is another artist I admire...
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