Denis Pickles
There is an article in this months Artist magazine written by Steve Hall entitled Wesson's Watercolour Secrets. I read it with a high degree of interest because Edward Wesson was the guy who re-ignited my love of painting. Steve mentions that he (Wesson) would willingly give out his work for others to copy as part of his teaching process. I can confirm this to be the case. I still use work by other artists who I admire, trying to produce a painting as they have done - trying to work out how they have achieved such a lovely picture. I love the work produced by Charles Reid. This was copied from one of his books. He is a master of wet in wet, hard and soft edges and simply luscious colours. I wish I could paint like Charles Reid !
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Denis Pickles
I’ve been drawing and painting for a long, long time. The first picture I have still in my possession is dated November 1939 and 83 years on I’m still at it! Keen on art at school and would have dearly liked a job with an art connection- I had hoped to get into architecture, but it did not happen.…
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