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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Quite some time ago I posted a couple of painting that had a white mount with a inner black border in retrospect not a good move . The paints were well received  the mount had a thumbs down  fortunately Alan Bickley had commented on the painting and the frame, he advised using nothing but a simple white mount , I think he uses antique white . I recently had a gift voucher and as I’m ok for painting, paper etc bought some white mounts , what a difference it’s made to the ten paintings I’ve mounted . All are A3with a A4 aperture the paintings are 23x 36 cm on watercolour paper, I chose different subjects to mount ax I wanted to see how effective it was . Well here they are all ten sorry to inundate you with them all but it does gives the opportunity to see the difference. It’s the burst time I’ve mounted my own painting so not the expert look to them . Lastly a big thanks to Alan for the advice . 

Alan Bickley

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An excellent example of your work Paul. There’s some good stuff here I must say, some I hadn’t seen before. I’d love to have a go at this one… as long as there’s no copyright on the original artwork… what was the source if you can remember?
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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It was from fee online photo, there was no name for the artist so I was unable to acknowledge him/ her I did but a thanks to the photographer when I originally posted it on line. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Sorry Alan forgot to thank you for you kind comment. 

Alan Bickley

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If it was free I’ll give it a go if you don’t mind Paul. Obviously I’d have to work from yours unless I can find the original which is unlikely!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Please do Alan I’m looking forward to seeing your version. 

Alan Bickley

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Great stuff, it’ll be a while yet as I’m busy working to deadlines for the magazine - and I’ll probably simplify it down quite a bit!
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Lewis Cooper

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Your paintings look terrific.  The artwork is obviously the most important thing, but having them properly framed with a suitable mount makes an enormous difference.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you Lew for you much appreciated comment, the mounts do make such a difference. I deliberately tried one on a painting I’m not happy with and it made such a difference to it . But as you say it needs to be fairly reasonable to start off with .

Denise Cat

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They look great Paul, really super framed.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks Denise. I really enjoyed the fiddling about getting them mounted . 
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Helen Martell

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The plain mount makes such a difference to your work. I like them all, in particularly the boats one that Alan has singled out. That is stunning.

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