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JOHN TURNER

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Glad of any comments ,Regards John Turner
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Marjorie Firth

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I 've just seen this on the gallery , John. A magnificent sunset. Not sure whether it's valid to make a suggestion because it works very well as it is. If it were mine I would bring in a touch of that lovely blue here and there at the bottom of the painting, just for balance. However, we all see different things and, as I said, this works. 

Alan Bickley

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Pop it on here John and I’ll have a look!

JOHN TURNER

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Thanks Alan, I'll try!

Alan Bickley

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Great! I’ll have a look at it tomorrow with fresh eyes… I can see a couple of possibilities that may help. I’ll be back!

Alan Bickley

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Okay I’m back John. The sky is a really good effort, not overdone and the introduction of the blue is excellent. Yes, as Marjorie has said, you could and I think should introduce a touch or two into the water. I’m not keen on the shapes of the distant trees, perhaps flatten a few off, they’re all a bit rounded and repetitive, merge some into the sky, the edges are too hard. That strip of land divides the composition into two segments! Break into it by simply dragging those trees over some parts, and all the way into the water using the same mix. The reflections to the right are good, to the left not so good, a bit too fussy, lose some of those ripples. These are my observations, these small details will help, but overall a really good job in the main!

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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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I agree with Alan about the trees - they look a bit too cloud-like in shape.  There's some subtle variations in tone and colour among them though, which is good. As with quite a few painters who post works for critique, though, I think my overall advice would be "just keep doing what you're doing": you have all the skills you need, but (like all of us - something we should never forget) they'll get even better with use, i.e. practice. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I’m not going to critique your painting John other that to say I like it and yes there are areas that could be improved. What I wanted to say was that I totally agree with Robert as regards doing what you do and keep at it, practice , practice and yes even more practice. Just small paintings if you don’t want to do a full painting , I have fun and learn a lot from painting simple vignettes of scenes of just small single item as a still life . Your skills needs fine tuning, achieve by regular use  and like the rest  of use you will spend most of your life learning and still have space to learn more .  

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JOHN TURNER

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Many thanks to Alan, Robert and Paul! Actually the "trees" are tropical cumulus clouds and they really do have cauliflower-like tops where the rising air is pushing up. The strip of "land" was the horizon. Thanks for all the encouragement and useful comments. Regards John.

Alan Bickley

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Unusual trees indeed! They just need to be blended into the sky a touch. The land or horizon as I said previously, divides the painting into two, not ideal in this instance!

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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Ha!  I see it now! You're not the first to be caught out that way, if it's you that's been caught out and not us - I painted what I thought was a fairly realistic looking distant hill, only for the first people who saw it to presume it was a cloud-bank.   A case of seeing what you expected to see, perhaps, and not what the poor bloody artist painted!
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