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In reply to your comment on the watercour artist saying you didn't know what he was seeing. Then at the start of the video you said they should really add some verticals. That is Plymouth! Those buildings are there and he decided to add them to his landscape. As for your little giggle when you made the comments I thought was very disrespectful.

Daphne Selfe is a supermodel, she started when she was 21 and is been modeling ever since even at the ripe old age of 96. She is in the guinness book of records for it .

R.I.P. Michele Opoku-Taylor .she died of cancer before the episode aired .

Hi Jo, just came across your video. What a trip down memory lane that was! What you said about my self portrait just warmed my heart 🖤 and I agree, I would've loved to have more volume in my final painting. I definitely needed more time 😅

Absolutely loved watching this! Thank you for the kind words about my painting of Josh! If you ever want to chat to another contestant I'd be happy to offer 😊

I’ve been thinking… after years of complaining ( to myself mostly) about the lack of watercolorists being selected…. One can’t do “ wet on wet” on this show…. Wetting the paper, putting on some paint…coming back in a few hours after that initial layer has dried… well…. No one would be there…..it would be an empty hall..🎆🎆🎆🎯🎯🎯… so there are severe limitations of water coloring styles that can be used…

Would you include Bulgarian subtitles in the videos?! Thank you!

Happy to see you're doing the rest of season 10! I was very pleased with the winner of this one. Her work is wonderful. Not that the others weren't too. Those subtle diagonals in her sweater in her self portrait were just so perfect. Love the way she handles colour and her brushes. Thought the tattoo artist's self portrait was amazing also. Very striking and dramatic. I liked the way your friend Hannah handled the hair of her subject, with the abstracted brushwork, and the quick highlights of desaturated violet.

I agree with your opinion on the one that was the best artist but wouldn't win because it was too conventionally good, that one is my favourite too. I totally agree with you, and just fyi for anyone watching this now, Season 6 is available on Amazon Prime Video, seasons from 1-6 are currently available as of 30th Oct 2024

Hey, Jo. Not sure if you know already but all 13 episodes of season 10 are now on Prime. I won't spoil, but the last judging with all of the season finalists was something else. I would NOT want to have to be a judge! I'm surprised they're shooting another season because it sounded like this was the last one. But am very happy if there's going to be more!

I bought 15ml. Dan smith Naples yellow. I hardly ever use it. It doesn’t mix well with reds or blues. So strange. Waste of $.

Ive just witnessed an even more egregious decision.The award of the episode featuring a brilliant painting or 2 of Dan Snow was awarded to a dogs breakfast of a portrait of a effete actor with feathers on his chest.They do this all the time because darling they feel they must reward the unusual over likeness.Its a bit vulgar to catch someone's likeness in their world.

Totally agree with you Jo. Particularly on the portrait of Derek Jacobi by the painter Frances Bell (PAOTY 2018 S04E08). If you look at Frances Bell's latest work (a portrait of Rose) she is definitely a modern-day Singer Sargent. If Rembrandt went on the show under a pseudonym, he wouldn't make it through the heat either.

Thank you so much for your synopsis on Portrait Artist of the Year. I was an avid watcher on UA-cam until Series 10, when the wheels fell off. I am a big fan of your appraisals and I also agree with your pics. Well done.

You are a wonderful artist and teacher.

I thought this was the episode itself. Please change the title to "Critique of Portrait Artist of the Year, etc. etc." Or something like that, so the viewer is not fooled. Thanks.

They painted the “ back” of the house…. Which gives me, at least, some thoughts as to just how obscenely wealthy these blue bloods were…. I guess giving them such a boring scene to paint was one way to check out who was capable of coming up with an interesting composition. Checking out their current work, the gouache painter dawn blatherwick is producing very interesting ( to me at least) paintings. There’s only 2 more left….

Keep going with the season. Your comments on the painting is really improving my work. I don’t find you overly negative about the work but realistic.

Please do a video showing us some of your work please?

Oh well, I heaved a big sigh.🤔

Yeh… I wouldn’t pay to have any of these hanging on my wall…still…checking out their webpages and the prices… many from this episode seem to be doing well….even the faded watercolorist seems to be doing well…if I found the right person..

It's situations like this where you have to believe in yourself (provided you're good and not delusional). I know a young lady who is attending a prestigious fashion design school. She has an elegant aesthetic that she has to suppress because the school is into "different." A parent would demand a refund after seeing the senior show from last year. It looked like a Project Runway episode where students were randomly given clothes from a Goodwill dumpster and not allowed to do anything to them. Five years of tuition for that.

I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Thanks, thhis was very helpful. What consistency of paint are you using?

Well wish I could make a sculpture like any one of those. Other than that I agree with you all the way

If you wanted a brighter yellow, say lemon yellow, would you add a tiny bit of red to eliminate the green from the aureolin?

What a great app. Thanks

I loved the episode at the observatory! Difficult subject, yet they all did so well. But when they showed this painting, it was the one. She captured the bright silvery light the way no one else did, and I love everything about her painting. In the watercolorist's Battersea painting, she did her sky early, showing the remains of twilight. That's where she got the cerulean at the low horizon line. It was a smart choice, because it worked very well. My only complaint about her painting is I wished she'd warmed up the lights on the two towers to show the glow from them. I'm not a big fan of the woman who won. Her submission was good, her composition on the bridge painting was good, but the way she handled the railing in the foreground looked clumsy and crude to me. She did the same thing with her commission, with the fence on the far right. Otherwise it was a very good drawing. I suppose her work just isn't particularly my cup of tea.

The only one that does it for me is the one with the purple and orange. That is a wow! The rest, eh.

Hey, I love cityscapes and other genres that are landscape adjacent, but it does bother me that they've expanded the definition of landscape to essentially mean anything that isn't a portrait or a straight up abstract. Haven't seen this episode, or maybe season, yet. The only one of these paintings that speaks to me is the one with the umbrellas.

This was an odd episode. Most surprising to me was the guy who did the detailed vertical green landscape, and then later the messy painting that not only didn't relate to the scene, but looked like it was done by a completely different artist. I like the surrealist's paintings. That cracked effect of the clouds in her submission, the moody muted colours. Good composition in her on site painting, overall nice brushwork. To me her muted colours give it an intentional mood, which goes well with her surrealism. The clock seemed out of place and like she ran out of time to finish it to the level of the rest of the painting. The heron is great! If I had to pull a flying heron out of my imagination like she did, no way would it be anywhere near as good. Props to her for that. IMO she was the best artist there. Pink water painting, no. The sky was nice, the buildings were fine, and the touches of pink worked with both. But the water, no. That's all I've got. Thanks again for doing these commentary videos!

I like your commentary videos. Still re-watching the show so I enjoy them even more because of that.

Love your content. Don't stop!

First… keep going…just go with what is that worst season of this program; second, surrealism is very detailed which I can’t stand. Third, … Just can’t understand how they justify keeping watercolor out of this program…fourth, why not a pink sea? -- red and green complimentally colors ( or so they say) …opposite on the color wheel…fifth, that last painting I don’t know…I’d buy Red Sea one…. But keep going-- accept the challenge..👍👍👍

No likeness whatsoever, I do not understand that this sculpture has been accepted! So weird.

I love these videos Jo, so I would absolutely love you to continue! 👍❤️

Jo, I can hear my beloved German grandfather saying, "Halt die Klappe" (Shut up!!!) and that I will do. I remember how this will end as well--and trust me you'll have to (Halt die Klappe) too.

Yes!! I watch all your videos!

Love this! YES - Please keep doing these videos! I love your commentary and appreciate all the time you put into producing your videos.

About the painting with the green triangle, it was a sign somewhere in the area, that's where she got it from. But I completely agree it didn't work, it just felt stuck there for no reason and didn't work compositionally or any other way. The rest of her painting was okay, but agree the guy whose painting you first gushed over should have won. I also liked the tonal guy's painting in the heat and thought his original submission was very powerful and beautiful. I'm doing a re-watch of the series and it's fun to have someone to discuss it with.

Not keen on any of the paintings.

So pleased this one was chosen👏👏

Jo, I spent some time in Cambridge England, and traveling around Ireland as a student during "The Troubles" I believe that I got an accurate understanding of the dynamics between the two countries after talking to A LOT of folks on both sides and from readings. Having said that, I wouldn't expect the (Southern) Irish to have a statue that recognized Elizabeth II in her capacity of queen. I don't think that it was intended to be a backhanded insult but to delimit her position as one who appreciated gardens. I can't explain why her husband was in the garden😄 Now, regarding the statues, they remind me of the stilted army men figurines that I had when I was a kid.

Hmm Ireland … they really don’t like royalty. The statue has brought her down from her pedestal. I wouldn’t recognise it as the queen. I too love the corgis. Great video

Hi Jo, Good discussion. I spent many years managing public art projects in two cities. The process, no matter how hard you try to be fair and careful, is usually fraught with difficulties. I sus'pect the sculpture in Antrim was done on a direct commission basis. So the artist's abilities and experience are all important but who you know may be the most important factor, In my opinion, this work, like other examples, falls short of an acceptable standard in many ways. You may be right about latent resentment of the Irish for the English monarchy! Another sculpture that disturbs me is the one of Princess Diana in Kensington Palace gardens.

I don't mind the idea of bronze statues of people, and in fact tend to like them, but if they are representational, they just need to be more accurate and recognizable. I'm sorry to critique an artist's work but this is just not very good IMHO. I agree that installing this in Northern Ireland too feels a bit tone deaf and aggressive. Also I'm not a fan at all of Prince Phillip as a person so don't appreciate him lording over the queen who in turn looks more like a 19th century Russian peasant woman (would be a more powerful sculpture as that!) than the queen. This statue detracts from the beauty of the garden rather than enhance it.

The monarchy is an evil institution that does to children what previous customs did with foot binding, head wrapping, etc… these human beings have their lives so manipulated/perverted by the forces around them… plus , as a lover of democracies which are under systematic attack by the world dictatorships, even to have a relic like the English monarchy glorified is dangerous. Finally, I don’t like any representational sculpture… . The media say nice things about this sculpture because they have to show loyalty to the older era monarchy…. The statues shown are hideous.

I dont like it

This is incorrect in that welk, being a band master on par with glenn miller had unique acts rather building upon the orchestral and brass band disciplines.

I love the collage