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Painting Challenge, BBC, again.... Episode 2
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It is produced as prime time general entertainment and is not a painting programme just as Strictly is not a competitive dance programme. The participants have been chosen on the basis of producing 'good' television rather than producing good works of art. The general theme seems to be that of inexperienced painters being presented with challenges that would take many experienced painters, me included, outside their comfort zone. I watch it if I've nothing better to do while making the evening meal as pure entertainment, if I want to see good painters at work I've got DVDs by Fred Cuming, Brian Ryder and others I can turn to.
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Thanks Peter for confirming what was probably obvious, namely that it is not a painting programme, you are absolutely right on that one and I wish that it had been made clear to me before I wasted 60 minutes watching absolute trash.
Yes indeed Robert, irrespective of the changing light issues that I mentioned 6 hours of constant painting would exhaust many of us, certainly includes me.
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I watch Strictly Come Dancing.....( I like dance you see.(-:) but since Len Goodman is going, that might soon end. One who really knows what he's talking about will no doubt be replaced, but by whom in the name of viewer ratings over dance skills? If it's a dancer (like Anton du Bek) I'll watch on, if it's another Alesha Dixon...I won't bother. The paint challenge is hardly likely to rate equally, but no doubt the experts at Van Cough college of excellence will probably claim it does. Bring it on....(-:
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I've had a bit of inside info on the programme. Someone I know was asked to be a mentor. One of her students was in the regional heats and kept ringing her, because he did not understand what was being required of him. she did not take up the offer as she did not want all the contestants ringing her day and night. It seems surprising that there were regional heats, considering the contestants who ended up on the programme.
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I am surprised at that splosh, usually I would see these regional heats flagged up in the art magazines (and I do take all 3 major ones), but I didn't. However, if that was the case how on earth did the judges arrive at the finalists?, surely there must have been some better artists than that lot.
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An interesting programme, and not for many good reasons!
I thought it would be a good episode, with the change to see how they all fared out of doors. Instead I think the most memorable bits were the weather, the way the contestants either disagreed with the mentors or did not understand what was required of them, and the unsuitable set that the artists had to make use of.
I quite liked the exercise of simplifying the landscape into five lines, but thought that doing it on such a huge scale only complicated it again. For their main paintings some of the artist clearly listened to the mentors and made improvements, some did their own thing and used hair. I'm not sure why the public voted again for Jenny, maybe it was because the people who voted were locals who are tired of seeing local landscapes and didn't recognise Hastings in her picture at all?
I thought the leaking sett was appalling. Surely the people who set it up knew that rain would be likely? I really felt it for the people whose paint ran away. It was a disaster.
I'll watch again next week but I remain pessimistic.
Kay M.