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Peter Smith

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If I was going to be sent to a desert island and could take one picture with me it would be Renoir's 'Luncheon of the boating party'. A couple of years ago I tried copying it but the result was dreadful....only later did I find out that the real thing is over six feet wide and the figures almost life size, a bit different from my little canvas. I was feeling in a bit of a rut so yesterday I took the plunge and bought a 1000mm x 1200mm canvas. I wanted to have another go at the picture but rather than a straight copy making my version in the present day; after all when Renoir painted his picture it was bang up to date. I have a feeling that now sitting a dog on the lunch table might be frowned upon!  This is how I've started; I've had to take the photo's in artificial light as it's pouring with rain and almost dark.  This is the original. just in case anyone isn't familiar with it: I don't like to do an detailed drawing, I let the painting develop as it goes on. I'll work on this corner until it's pretty much complete before tacking the rest. I've never attempted anything this big before so I'm breaking it down into more manageable segments. You might have noticed the lack of men in my version.......very odd, I've no idea where they have all gone.  I'll post an update every so often and we'll see how it develops.  Peter

Sylvia Evans

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A ladies who lunch painting...what a brilliant idea .  Oh...go on put the dog back somewhere , it doesn't have to be on the table. Look forward to your progressions. Will have to think very hard about what I would take to a mythical island.   
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Peter Smith

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I'll find somewhere for a dog Sylvia but it might be a different breed.  It could be ladies that lunch, or being by the river it could be 'ladies that launch'! I've done some more to the top corner, that's it now until Monday as I'm going to be away. Comments and criticisms welcomed, don't hold back. I'm not sure that the Seine is ever that colour these days but I'm not painting it a muddy brown. Peter

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I've found him: It really has to be a French Bulldog, he'll go in the bottom right corner where the girl is looking down. Peter

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Sylvia Evans

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It is a whole lot of fun Peter and yes a FRench Bull dog is just right.
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I've had time to do a bit more this afternoon: I'll finish the four figures tomorrow before beginning anything else. Peter

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My fingers are sticky and fat. 

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The expressions are wonderful Peter ...Ladies who lunch and bitch.
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I couldn't possibly comment Sylvia! Peter
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

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Crits welcome?  Well - I think your painting of eyes could do with a bit more work: eg, the figure on the left does look a touch wall-eyed.  You might have conversation with her, and wonder which eye you should be looking at (an experience I have had with a wall-eyed friend, whose other eye was travelling up the wall while I was trying to engage with it, and so had to adjust my focus).  They're also a bit too elliptical - but then, I know hard it is to deal with make-up: eg, to paint someone who has already painted themselves, basically: leaving you wondering where nature ended and artifice began.  Apart from that, though, a lively representation: my suggestion would be - thinks carefully; talk among yourselves - hmm.  I think I'd just do a few sketches in paint of eyes, trying to leave the make-up out of it; I don't have, nowadays, QUITE so much trouble with eyes as I used to have; but I do still make sketches of hands and forearms, if I need to include them; figure and portrait work is perhaps the most difficult to get right: and I know I haven't.  But I shall prove this when I attempt to upload a portrait I've just - sort of - done; at the moment, the oil paint is still wet, and making photographing it difficult.  But contain yourselves!  It will follow!  
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Eyes, like all features, are on a curve - the danger lies in painting them flat, on what is inevitably a curved surface.  I've had to think about that, hence the delayed post. 
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Lucian Hodoboc

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I've taken a look at the works he posted in the gallery and I think that this is just his style. That's how he painted the eyes in most of the portraits he uploaded in the gallery. To be honest, I kind of like it. I wasn't too fond at first, but it started to grow on me. It gives the characters an unique look, a delightful mixture of realism and naïve art.

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