Hi to all from Paul

Sharon Knettell · 02-22-2006, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Foxton

I must admit though, all I'm doing at the moment is drawing. I see it kind of like a musician practicing scales, learning the language of their instrument. Its interesting to me that painting appears to be one of the few crafts where its acceptable to be taken seriously without putting in any serious effort to learn the basic skills, in some circles at least.

It is incredibly silly. It is like letting an untrained dancer on the stage of the Royal Ballet.

I work in natural daylight as well.

Paul Foxton · 02-22-2006, 10:08 AM

Indeed.

Sharon, I tried following the link in your signiature, but was taken to a 'directory listing denied' page. Should it have a filename as part of the link?

Sharon Knettell · 02-22-2006, 11:53 AM

Paul,

I had that problem too. Go to The Strokes of Genius main site and find my name and click on it. It is on the bottom of the Forum page. My site does come up.

I have more recent stuff on the professional unveilings site. This is what I am doing now.

Paul Foxton · 02-23-2006, 07:12 PM

Thanks Sharon, I found my way to your paintings. I see that you are most definitely not one of those people we were talking about earlier, beautiful work.

By the way, if you change your signiature link to www.portraitartist.com/knettell/knettell.htm it should work.

I'd like to say what a nice introduction to the forum this has been. I can put work to a few names now and am feeling at home already. I think I now have some idea of the high standards being set here.

As far as I can make out, the first post on this forum was in July 2001. If you'll all excuse me for a moment, it looks like I have a little reading to do.