More green upstream by Anthony Stubbs

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It's fabulous Anthony.

Wonderful use of lights and darks and that spectacular water. Love it Anthony.

Excellent use of colour.

Lovely burst of light here Anthony.

To take absolutely nothing away from your ability with the medium, this does show how far acrylic paints have come over the last 50 plus years: you'd have struggled back in the distant past when I first discovered them to achieve this sort of subtlety. You've got water here that actually looks wet - and that's an achievement - but not only that, you've also conveyed the bursting life of the riverbank, fed by the water, the trees arching overhead. For once, I like the stippling - it's so easy to overdo that, and worse, to rely on it to represent foliage; but used with restraint and in the right place and proportion, it's very effective.

Hang on Studio Wall
02/06/2025
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This is the same stream as featured in my previous two submissions. As the title implies, this is a little upstream and I've taken a bit of licence! This is a medium sized image, (60cm x 42cm) on stretched canvas executed mainly in acrylic over a charcoal drawing and using my usual cast of implements and brushes.

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Anthony Stubbs

Now passed my allotted span of three score years and ten and enormously relishing being fully retired from paid employment as a lecturer in electronic engineering, working part time did give me more time to pursue my interests, now I have all the time in the world and the future has become even…

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