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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I like a lot of us tend to look further afield for landscape inspiration, often forgetting that many have excellent landscapes around us , we have just stopped looking. Because it there everyday, we see it so often it tend to just become the norm, till someone points it out to us. I decided to have a look at what’s around me with fresh eyes so to speak and within an hours drive at the moment. Not surprisingly I was very pleasantly surprised rediscovering what I’d forgotten, now to get some of the scenes on paper and do some paintings of them . I’ve started with a local village Hambledon use in a lot of film and tv series over the years, you can see why it’s good old fashioned British Countryside, visited by many tourists. I set out the base sketch  Then started to add base colours, one thing I need to watch is all those difficult greens , fortunately they are broken up by buildings and other colour trees . Moving on a bit quicker as I started this a eight days ago putting in some of the big skyline trees .

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Added some more detail, needing to be aware of the different greens and adjust them slightly so it’s not one fat colour.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Moved on quite a lot , just about to start again for an hour or so , bit cross with myself as I faikd in the bury to do the foreground to leave white areas for a few sheep grazing. I will succumb to the old white acrylic to save the day but wet the areas and dab off some of the green, letting it dry before adding the sheep . I’m quite happy with how the trees an the background scene is coming along, don’t have a great deal to do now , but I need to go slowly as it’s around this point that I start to rush things and fiddle around unnecessarily, undone may a decent painting before now .
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Completed this afternoon, I was strict with myself and did not work on a couple of paintings at the same time , ok with the outcome, few thing learned and will do somethings a bit different next time .
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Sandra Kennedy

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Really like this Paul, and very interesting to see how it developed. The wide format certainly works well, and yes you did get the range of greens. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you Sandra , I really appreciate your comment. 
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I too like the size of the paper too. I often use a long and narrow canvas or paper depending on which medium I am using . Looks great Paul!

Alan Bickley

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Another successful painting Paul, difficult with those greens, but you’ve mixed a decent range. I love this elongated format, I often draw across the gutter in my Stillman & Birn sketchbook. It just works well I always think… One I did earlier…
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks Alan , I live the format but don’t use it very often no idea why ,will make more effort, that a superb piece yku have posted.

Norrette Moore

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Like it very much, Paul. I often wondered how to approach a painting that shape. Great work
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Paul - I like your strong colours, and the format: you never know what'll sell, do you...?  I sold a couple of long format oils; I've another one, in acrylic, which didn't sell: it now sits on top of my bedstead ... now I come to think of it, I sold a long-format watercolour, too - anything that challenges your usual way of doing things is good and keeps life interesting.  Alan's pen and wash (presumably?) is great too - I've never thought to find out if someone makes sketchpads in that format - I'm sure they do; pretty sure I've seen watercolour pads cut that way, though I've always just taken a sheet of Imperial and sliced off the dimensions I like; which does make getting a ready-made frame and mount a problem - but these things are sent to try us.  
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Robert Jones, Napa

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With Alan's drawing, while the boat would be the problem you could almost present the two sides as separate and independent pieces of work: both sides are well balanced, and the whole thing is well-balanced too - there aren't many pieces of work which would work as well if you bisected them: if I still ran an art shop-cum-gallery, I'm very sure I could sell that to my more discerning clientele.  Unfortunately, some 50 years have elapsed since then, but I'm sure it'd still go for a good price today.