Figures

Your figures are really lively Louise! Also very slim............. where's that darn diet again!

These figures are fab Louise, so spontaneous. I've not been on for a while for various reasons so I've missed your latest Manchester scenes but they are great too.

Great practice and well handled Louise

Agree with all, these figures stand out beautifully Louise

Many thanks Carole, Val, Derek and Ros!

These are the best figures yet, very lively and realistic poses, you've really managed to capture so much detail in the minimum of brush stokes.

Ah, thanks Anne and Kevin, I did feel more confident when painting these figures and hopefully it shows. The Trevor Waugh camel effect? LOL

Who is a clever girl? Fantastic " camels" Louise!!

Well done, Louise. I like the spontaneity of the figures. It seems simple but I know it certainly is not!!!!

Love these 'loose' figures Louise, to achieve this with just a few strokes is very clever!

Many thanks Satu, Mia and Christine!

Look at those expressions on the faces, the different hairdo's and the attitude of the bodies - amazing to have captured all that with just a few brush strokes. Go to the top of the class!

Very nimble Louise - the sort of painting that bears witness to enthusiasm and application and provokes severe cramps of conscience in many of us (well, me at least!)

Superb work, Louise! So this is what camels in Manchester look like, lol! Thanks so very much too for your comment on my painting. Always good to receive advice on how to improve on a piece of work. I think I'm generally too obsessive compulsive for abstracts!

Thank you Kim, Seok and Thea!

I would never have believed they were imaginary - so well depicted.

Very beautiful figures Louise - There is a lightness about your paintings of figures that I really like. I must do a few more paintings without pencil as they seem to be fresher.

Thank you Michael and Joseph. I'd never get six people to pose like this Michael, in fact I don't know six this shape anyway :) and Joseph, life is sometimes easier without the pencil lines, for me anyway. Too much pre drawing and I seem to end up filling in the shapes and adding too much detail. I learned here though that as I'm right handed, it's best to work from left to right. I'd mistakenly started with the middle figures and the ones on the left weren't so easy. Not sure why that was unless it was because my hand covered the one's I'd already painted and it was difficult to assess their size. Hope that makes sense!

Great figures, in all sense! I must get my pencil out and do some sketching too. I have made some progress on my oil, but must wait for the paint to dry!!

Thanks Gudrun!

Love the immediacy of these, Louise. They're great! After two pages of comments, there is little left to be said, except, keep them coming!

Thank you Lionel, you know me and my painting habit by now....just can't stop, like most of us here I think ... LOL

Interesting!

I enjoyed viewing your work at the Colin Jellicoe gallery earlier today. It was good to see them 'in the flesh' as it were and well framed and presented. perhaps a painting of the 'antique' facade of the gallery might be an idea, trust you have some sales.

Thank you Stephen. Colin's gallery has been there for 40 years!