Stephenson Square

Great scene - worth trying to get them printed as a Manchester calendar - one of the charities? Without any recompense as good marketing ploy? Anyway they deserve recognition.

Thank you Michael for your kind words! As often happens, once I photograph a painting and see it on screen, I spot a few parts which need reworking. I've since added some white indicating a shirt on the chap in the foreground and a few other details and improved it I think. You'll have to take my word for it as I wont re post it now, but it always surprises me how these things become apparent on screen!

You're so right Louise - it's often the case but conversely quite often i post a picture and it never lives up to the original no matter how much i play around with it.

So immediate and wonderfully dark and atmospheric.

Wonderful brush painting Louise.

Thank you Thea and Carole.

Wish I was brave enough to go straight in with a brush, no pre drawing. I've only ever done that at life drawing classes and only because I don't worry how they turn out as I know I'll never make a figurative painter lol. Love the dark washes.

Louise - thanks for your comments about primary colours etc. which you left against my sunflowers. I feel quite elated that there is someone out there somewhere who feels as I do. There is an awful lot of pomposity and even arrogance spoken on the forum - well if people are interested in theory so be it but that does mean you need a theoretical knowledge to be a good artist or to teach artistic techniques. I must admit that some of the comments leave me cold (I could be really scathing about some of the contributors) and I just gloss over them or ignore them altogether to the extent that although I have been contributing to the forum for some time I am thinking of giving it a miss in the future, I just want to scream 'Lighten up' at them but i do have a bit of an odd sense of humour' which isn't universally shared. Anyway so glad to learn that you are a kindred spirit - keep painting.

Think I missed a 'not' out above - about time I got 'notted'.

I'd realised you'd missed the 'not' Michael!

Great, lovely watercolour Louise! Isn't it liberating to paint without drawing! An interesting discussion with Michael there and if I understood correctly you both don't care much about theory? Can I join the club? I don't do theory, colour studies, perspectives and I don't even know the names of most of the colours. I do like to learn new techniques and try different painting tools but most of all I want to enjoy what I'm doing and not to be too serious about it.

The books on art theory sell though which is why there's so much confusing information out there today!

Very, very atmospheric, Louise. Great work!