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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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Here's the other painting, which has many of the same problems as the first one, plus a few all its own - I really don't like this one at all, but it would be interesting to read what you think of it.

Alan Bickley

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Similar scenario again as you’ve already identified yourself Robert. The eye is clearly drawn immediately to the coloured beach huts/sheds, drawing the eye away from the main composition - which has a lot of horizontal planes. No obvious lead in (perspective) to the scene!
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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My thoughts exactly!
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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OK - well, the second one is a weak painting, and I remember getting bored with it at the time, which is why I resorted to gouache.  There are too many barriers in it, no real way in - and I'd have to re-invent the scene entirely.  Besides which - I am just bored with the scene.  So - I might try working on the first one: by zooming out - hmmmm.  Should I bother....?  There's SOMETHING there - the odd angle of the steps down to the water; the boat house intruding on the path; but the fact is that the details of an Isle of Wight beach scene just aren't that interesting to me - I've seen them all too often, and most of them are oddly similar: could I improve this composition by moving out of it, making the colours more 'natural' ..... I still don't know....  Possibly, if in doubt  - try something else.  Too many of the scenes available to me are very 'domestic', and thus, a touch tedious: seek more natural subjects, perhaps - not the conservative architecture of the average beach and protective sea defences......

Sylvia Evans

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I must admit Robert I have seen a fair amount of your paintings and enjoyed them..  this one would not rank amongst my favourites.  Maybe crop it to the beach huts ?  Or just abandon it...life is sometimes too short.   You can get over absorbed  by too familiar scenes yours being coastal mine rural .   Yesterday I did go to a localish beach about nine miles away and it was a delight to have big horizons , though as I was busy playing throw the ball for Sam ,painting / drawing was not an option.  Sometimes I close in on a very tiny bit like water, stones, plants... oh go and draw a few more rattys .
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Stop obsessing, in short!  Yes.  You're right. 
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The middle distance tones are the same as the foreground. Lighten the middle or darken the foreground. I like the huts as they are, a lovely focal point. You have a nice L shaped composition of interest on the left, and quiet passages on the right, for us to linger a while.
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You can never know you have painted a good picture until you have painted a bad one.
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I have folders full of the latter.

Sylvia Evans

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Doubt it CJ. 
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Wish I could be as optimistic as you, Sylvia, if I ever get to come North, again, we'll have a folder fest over a coffee, or maybe something a bit stronger.

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The wee bit stronger sounds good... look forward to it . 🐕
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