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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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Arthritis playing up good and proper, couldn't sleep, so got up in the very early hours and just laid this down on an 8" by 10" canvas board. Not at all sure where I'm going with it yet, but I quite like the colours and don't want to fiddle with it too much - thing is, do I bang on with it today or take it easy over the weekend and give it a good, long Fink....? Insofar as there's a mood and atmosphere, which I think there is although I can't quite define it (or the time of day; night?) it would be very, very easy to dispel it by heavy-handed work, especially because it's acrylic, the subtlety of which can be lost all too easily. I shall mull it over (you've all heard of Mullitova - famous Russian ballerina? Course you have.... - sorry about this: it's probably the pain-killers).

Pat Harrison

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Looks like the painting is off to a good start. Was this ballerina any good? Hope your pain has gone away now.

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Oh bang on with it Robert sometimes something absorbing helps to shove other probs to the back of your mind ! ....hope you feel better soon. Ots looking good and full of moody atmosphere .

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Sure I posted yesterday but here again is...... it's looking great so far and from a master in the medium and this site I expect a smashing result.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Still sleeping on it: I expect I shall crack on shortly, but I probably need (somehow) to recreate the mood I had at 4am when I couldn't sleep and had pains in every joint and wanted to kill something. Snarlllllllllll.....
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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I don't want a foreshore, Syd. I like getting my feet wet.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Here are two further stages - the trouble with attacking the easel when you're partly asleep is that you have to follow up the mood, which can be a bit difficult.... I think I'll have finished it later today - I like the colours; details need a bit of sharpening. Again - actually the picture isn't cut in half; there is a line that goes all the way across, which normally I'd try to avoid, but I don't think a foreground would help; it would crowd it (it's only a small picture, 8" by 10").

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Fancy a little praise and a little criticism? I LOVE that middle distance water - the shades and the reflected colour are really nice... you could almost smell the weed grasses and duck poo. BUT... the foreground water looks like you;ve copied it from a SEA scene - it look too much like rolling-in surf for my liking (sorry). It just doesn't gel with the rest of the picture. Sorry, again, but I vastly prefer it without that extra foreground water.

Derek Snowdon

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I agree with Dipper
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Alan Green

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Me too - that's not to say Robert's work isn't good, though

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I have to say - I MUCH prefer the original picture here: The second one is spoilt by the wavelets..
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Don't apologize! I wouldn't have put it here if I didn't welcome criticism.... I've not varnished it - still thinking about it, and may well take these suggestions on board, ta! The scene could be a relatively local one - actually it's reminiscent of an outcrop of land on the coast, which probably accounts for the sea impression; there's something like this on the north side of the island, although I can't quite remember where. Perhaps I'll take a look before putting the final stamp on it - the fact that it sort of came to me when I couldn't sleep explains why various parts don't quite fit together: it's not from life, but from memory plus being three-quarters asleep at the time. I like the colours, though, which is why I'm taking a while to finish it; it'd be easy to over-complicate it. Cropping it isn't really possible, given it's on a board - so the suggestion about neutralizing the foreground a touch is useful. I shall return.
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