The Crown & Anchor

Another gem Joseph - love the way you work with and use the darks.

Great use of dark colours, stunning!

OMG Joseph - they just get better and better!! I took ages to look at the painting so as to appreciate all the shapes, darks, lights and details. What a feast for the eyes.

Love the detail here Joseph. The chap with the phone to his ear, the pints on the table, her sunglasses, the petunias in the baskets etc. All so true to life and so well painted and observed. Lovely work!

Fabulous. Like the angle, as if from a bus or similar - a quick snatch of life, dynamic.

Your paintings just draw you in. Fabulous work.

Thank you all for your great comments - much appreciated. This one took me absolutely ages and for some parts I lost it a bit - (over complicated). I think I need to either simplify them of getting bigger paper lol.

Talking of paper reminds me that I wanted to ask you what paper you use?

Another fantastic scene Joseph!

Love all the detail and colour in this.

From petunias to pavement, all up to your usual exalted standard. The real question Joseph is: what did you use to sign it in such startling white (with which only the billboard can compete)?!

Thank you all for your comments. LOL Kim, I was waiting for someone to ask me about the signature. I used masking fluid (thought I'd give it a go after seeing one of Louise's paintings). It does look really bright now you come to mention it - must be the brush strokes around it (or my rubbish camera over bleaching everything). Note to self - purchase DSLR.

Hah, I suspected as much Joseph! So you signed it off before completing it? A gesture of supreme confidence - justified of course. ;-) PS. no, I've never done a book

PPS love the gesturing bloke with the mobile (the bane of my life here in Italy - a nation of notorious gesticulators!)

Super lively, strong work once again Joseph. I would not worry about putting detail in, as with your skill it works, for most of us simplification is essential! Talking of detail, have you come across Geoff Butterworth's work? He's from the Rochdale area and has done quite a few Manchester scenes, I think he has a website.

Lol - not sure it was confidence Kim (more like foolishness). PS - I think if you did a book they would sell - I'd buy one (signed of course :-) ) Thank you Stephen, I will have a look at Geoff Butterworth's website.

"Excellence" is always the word that comes to mind when I view your paintings, Joseph! Fabulous work - great light and atmosphere, superb washes and a lively scene.