Not Dorian Grey..

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I love your portraits. This one is particularly good: colours and use of pen, just right. I saw a quote by Oscar Wilde yesterday about you don't necessarily become wiser the older you get. I can't remember it exactly.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sun 25 Mar 20:04:41

I love your choice of colours, Jim. This is a super portrait.

Posted by Seth Dalton on Sun 25 Mar 20:15:37

Lovely colours and pen work Jim.

Posted on Sun 25 Mar 21:35:32

Good solid work, Jim, and uniquely yours, as ever.

Posted by Lewis Cooper on Mon 26 Mar 06:35:25

Thanks Gudrun, Seth, Ibolya and Lewis. My view on portraits is simple, the more like the reference sources they end up, the least interesting. Why bother painting a perfect copy, just take a photograph instead? Art is about the artist and their interpretation or personal view, not reproducing a perfect copy of the subject. This is where technology is taking us. Long live the simple paintbrush....Amen..(-:

Posted by Jim Morris on Mon 26 Mar 10:38:25

Pen work really effective here Jim, and the palette adds to the air of mystery.

Posted by Thalia Stones on Mon 26 Mar 12:05:53

You've done a great job of this Jim.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Mon 26 Mar 15:23:50

Hang on Studio Wall

25/03/2018

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..but its author, Oscar Wilde. Not a portrait, but a pen and wash sketch version from a black and white photograph. I've vaguely indicated light and dark (grey?) sides to a complicated but brilliant man.

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Jim Morris

I've reached 83 (84 in September ) years young and love to paint and draw. Watercolours are my preference used also with line and wash. I paint or sketch something most days of whatever takes my fancy. Glad to have found this site. I don't feel I have a set painting style but I tend to go for…

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