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Do you watch The Big Painting Challenge? I'd have got rid of all the last 3 yesterday. Especially Chris. That was one strange painting. I was sorry Bokani left; I thought her skeletal tree was stunning

I've not come across that one, rosalind. I do occasionally watch "Landscape artist of the year" on Sky Arts, though.

6 pm BBC1 Sundays

rosalind

I saw it for the first time yesterday. I thought some of the artists were excellent - and some ...,er... not so good!

Very polite, jigjag! Really bad would be my comment. Though I do think it must be difficult to paint in front of cameras and with such time pressure.
Not my thing at all (painting).

Chris Davies has ocular albinism so finds it hard to see small detail, but although his portrait was "impressionist" the overall shape was wrong. I also liked the "skeletal tree" even though the branches were not 'correct' but sometimes the impact a painting has is sometime later spoilt by over-analysing the proportions.
I once viewed a painting in an art exhibition which made my eyes water. I just had to buy it, and it is now on my lounge wall. It was not until my husband poiinted out that the perspective was not correct, I then noticed it too. But the rest of the picture is so beautifully painted, that I forgive the artist :)
My favourite artist in the challenge is Anil (I think that was his name)

I like Anil, too, but I don't think the judges do! I thought his first painting (of the vats etc) brilliant.