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Alan Owen

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no one can compete with PHOTOSHOP .waste of time looking at shows at all . the best software will always win today

Alan Owen

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Buy PHOTOSHOP and become great artist today ,, look at the gallery all photoshop stuff well not all ,, some are just pure artists

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David Perry

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Alan, are you really saying that you think people post photoshopped images of their own art, effectively turning their 'whatever medium'into digital? D

Alan Bickley

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I think what Alan O may be saying is that there is an awful lot of digitally enhanced/manipulated photo's on the gallery, not their own art. These people don't often acknowledge this fact, and pass it off as their own painting which it clearly isn't. Yes Alan O, if that is what you are getting at, I agree entirely, I get sick of seeing it! Amazingly, they usually attract a generous amount of comments.

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Alan Owen

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do you not think a photoshop pic ,can,t be put on canvas and then copied over .... they photo on van side ,, the winner on K Bromley's catalogue ExCUSE ME.... not even a blackhead or pimple ...

Ant Holder

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There's an 'Oil' painting in the gallery, a lady knitting..... is this one of the photoshop pics you are referring too?

Alan Bickley

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The work to which I refer is purely digital, it's never seen a paintbrush. I've not seen anything that relates to painting over an image on this gallery. It could be done of course, a one-off giclee print can be expensive mind you, and I don't know if paint would stick to it anyway - but that's another story that we don't want to elaborate on. The KB brochure cover winners, certainly the past three anyway, have all had some digital manipulation and are photographic quality. The winners are picked by public voting from a shortlist which is chosen by the KB team, I had one selected a couple of years ago, so did Jennifer Allsop the same year. I've stopped entering now, my work is impressionistic so doesn't stand a chance.
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Best piece of advice I've received? Remember your darks.
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Anonymous User

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...and be patient when it comes to applying washes.

Haidee-Jo Summers VPROI RSMA

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Hi Sylvia, I sent Max a message last night to let him know. He asked them to remove the photograph of the lady knitting (yes it was a photograph). He has some beautiful portrait paintings, I'm confused as to how they mistook a photograph for one of his paintings. I'm also confused as to why they are posting work on other people's behalf, I haven't noticed anyone doing that before. The one they have posted now is actually a drawing.

Ant Holder

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Well it would be nice for the 'group' to acknowledge the fact that we were right about the photograph. Anyway moving on...

Alan Bickley

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Thanks Haidee-Jo for the clarification and your input. I think it was plainly clear to many of us (not all by any means, as there were some glowing comments) that is was a photograph. Mistakes can happen, particularly when posting someone else's work. As they were so adamant it was an oil painting, it would be nice to receive an apology - perhaps we will. Max does have a great gallery as I said yesterday, I particularly like his life drawings.
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