Life class

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Strong light bounces everywhere—reducing value contrasts and bleaching shadows, blurring edges and obscuring detail.

Posted by Alan Ridley on Tue 20 Oct 10:28:46

Beautiful

Posted by Anjana Cawdell on Tue 20 Oct 10:45:02

Am really enjoying viewing your lifeclass paintings

Posted by Heather Love on Tue 20 Oct 10:50:56

A lovely painting, full of colour and light.

Posted by Colin Cripps on Tue 20 Oct 14:39:11

The lack of detail is a real plus here Alan. It makes the viewer look more curiously and there is much to admire.

Posted by Carole Kelly on Tue 20 Oct 15:01:26

I very much like the fluidity of your life paintings - as well as the colours of course.

Posted by Chrissie Havers on Tue 20 Oct 16:32:27

Beautiful

Posted by Romila Datta on Tue 20 Oct 20:26:33

Beautiful work again.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Wed 21 Oct 06:48:35

Anjana, Heather, Colin, Carole, Chrissie, Romila and Gudrun, thank you for your kind comments. May I add a rider? Light is basic—it reveals space, form and colour, and the colour of light colours everything it touches. Overlooking these effects and simply copying what exists in the light is more likely to result in a painted reproduction than truthful beauty.

Posted by Alan Ridley on Wed 21 Oct 14:58:27

Hang on Studio Wall

20/10/2020

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Watercolour 56x38 cm.

About the Artist

Alan Ridley

Previously a neurologist at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, I resumed my interest in drawing the human figure and painting the figure in watercolour when my wife and I retired to Exeter in 1997. I work from life class models and use watercolour in a loose impressionist way. The drawing or…

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