Flatford Mill - sketch

Flatford Mill - sketch
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An excellent piece, you've captured much of the atmosphere of the place.

This is very good John.

I like this very much John. Yes it is difficult to know where to go with your art when it accumulates. I have the same problem and recently I sent a hundred or so older ones to the great bin in the sky. I can't go to craft fairs because of lack of transport but it could be a way for you to try to sell your work. You can but try!

You are incredibly accurate in your observations from a linework point of view. Fantastic work John. I only wish you had committed to the watercolour side of the sketch a bit more. More colour, more deviations and loose strokes. Don't get me wrong here John, it's very appealing what you have, but I feel you are on a "busman's holiday" and still very much planted in the architecture side of things. I checked out your facebook stuff, I love your quicker sketches like "Riverside Farm in Langstrothdale" try and get looser is my advice ( I only presume to give it since you ask ) But thanks for sharing anyway :)

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18/06/2016
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My first visit to Flatford Mill and what a captivating place it is. I'm sure John Constable would have been laughing as he looked down on me sketching in his footsteps

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John Edwards

Following a long and successful career in architecture John is a full time Yorkshire based artist, illustrator and plein-air painter. An award-winning artist, he works predominantly in ink and watercolour to capture the Urban and Natural Landscape. Voted "Best in Show" at the 2015 and 2017 Leeds Art…

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