Last Shift by xxAlanxx xxConnerxx

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Excellent Alan.

Posted by George Cutter on Tue 27 Sep 10:33:03

I like your imagination!

Posted by Heather Love on Tue 27 Sep 11:11:03

Great watercolour painting in a wonderful impressionistic style...I like it

Posted by Steven Ponsford on Tue 27 Sep 12:04:12

Super work Alan. With this scene there is almost an essence of Lowry!

Posted by Spencer Lambeth-Angell on Tue 27 Sep 15:53:16

Great painting.

Posted by Denise Cat on Tue 27 Sep 17:36:33

A sad day - this represented the death of whole communities, however much of a liberation it might have represented for those spared from going down the pit; as my grandfather did - and it killed him.

Posted by Robert Jones, Napa on Tue 27 Sep 19:06:00

Thank you for all your comments. A bit of serendipity about this. I started with two ideas- painting figures and a restricted palette based on neutral tint. The background is a mixture of shapes from several photographs chosen as being easy to draw with a weak hand and turned out giving the colliery a dilapidated look. When I look at it now I understand your feelings Robert

Posted by xxAlanxx xxConnerxx on Wed 28 Sep 08:40:24

Brilliant representation Alan. Having worked on the coal face from 1975 to 1991, I know how every one of them felt. Brings a tear to my eye.🥲

Posted by Chris Downing on Thu 29 Sep 09:10:02

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