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Lewis Cooper

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That’s really informative.  You started with pretty much a monochrome.  Thanks for sharing that Marjorie.  The finished piece is fabulous. I’m liking acrylics more and more, and slowly finding how I can use them.
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Marjorie Firth

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Lewis, I used acrylics years ago and then switched to oils. However, after using them again these last few days, I appreciate them much more. For speed, you can’t beat them.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Marjorie, that's a very splendid acrylic; and I'm glad to read that you (and Lew) are falling back in love with acrylics - oils are always going to be particularly delicious - Alan Bickley insists that portraits must be painted in oils*, and although I sold an acrylic portrait last year, I tend to agree that oil can't be beaten for that discipline.  I am a little bit on the superannuated side, and can remember when Rowney, then Geo. Rowney & Son, brought in Cryla - one of the first acrylic paints, and still, for my money , one of the best.  This was at least 50 years ago - John Bratby being one of the early adopters.  Well, there's a totally irrelevant wander down memory lane...  Anyway!  Have yet another anecdote.... one of our early members, still among the land of the living, was Phil Kendall - who counselled us all not to worry about oil paints, we should all convert to "modern acrylics".  I never did convert to the extent of giving up on oils, but I saw his point, as you will if his brilliantly coloured paintings are still available on this site, which I hope they are.  *Alan might have been somewhat less dogmatic than that: but not by much, Alan? 
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Sadly, Phil's best paintings seem not to be here any more, which is sad: he used Winsor and Newton artists' quality acrylics, and the full range of colour - he didn't mix or blend, but used them straight out of the tube.    I've spent some time looking for him, but discovered only a few that aren't typical of his style (and may be another Phil Kendall entirely).  A shame.  Those who have not seen them would have enjoyed them. 
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Marjorie Firth

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I have a lot of Amsterdam Standard, which work well. Then I have a few left of an Italian brand ( Maimeri) which I bought when on hol after foolishly deciding I would’t paint…I needed to). I like them. The shop owner must have thought she’d hit the jackpot when I walked in and bought rather a lot! A few System 3, some Daler Rowney and one I can’t seem to find ( it’s in a safe place somewhere) which is a Liquitex heavybody white - lovely and thick! But what I have serve me well.

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John Graham Inkson

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That’s  how a painting should be done. You have left your scarf behind Marjorie.

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Marjorie Firth

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Oh that’s where it is John! Now where did I leave my specs?

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Sandra Kennedy

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Really beautiful seascape Marjorie. I don't think it really matters whether oils or acrylics, although I'd agree with Alan about portraits. It's the level of skill that the viewer reacts to.
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Cordelia Campbell

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That's a beautiful painting, Marjorie, I love it.
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Marjorie Firth

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Thanks very much Sandra and Cordelia.

Norrette Moore

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Lovely seascape, Marjorie.  Was it from a photo or a previous sketch/painting?
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Marjorie Firth

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Norette, we went there last Thursday and took some photos.
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