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		Click here to see a selection from Andy’s Art Forum Latest Stats (July 29th 2010): Registered Members: 251 Topics: 376 Total Posts: 1,946

	I love how interactive you are with all of us students. It's great to know that I can ask questions from you and the others on the forum and get sincere, polite, helpful answers. Thanks for everything, Lee Hernandez


	Competition for June 2010: Flowers




		Congratulations to Jenny for her winning painting of a Bird of Paradise flower painted in oil on canvas




	This watercolour painting of ‘a Rose in my Garden’ was a worthy runner up from Maria


	Competition for February 2010: Venice

Venice - the painters paradise was the setting for this challenge, and people painted from either the photo I set (The Gondolier) or from their own Venice photos. These three were voted the best paintings by members of the forum.


	Competition for December 2009: Winter Scene


	These 3 paintings were voted Best Winter Scene, by members of the Forum.


	Competition for November 2009: Boats


	Boats are often tricky to draw and paint, so this competition was quite a difficult one. I eventually chose this painting (left) by Janice Gardner as the winner. It’s very well drawn, composed and balanced, and there’s an unusual but effective use of muted colours. There’s al;so such a great sense of mood - you could almost be there..



	This pencil drawing by Susan Massey (above) is a well deserved runner up as she’s managed to get the shape of the boat perfectly.

		This boat by John Kendall also caught my eye. as I liked the clean washes and the sense of light in the painting. The composition is also quite striking and the boat looks solid and well drawn.


	Competition for September 2009: Paint a Portrait

Portrait painting and drawing is one of the hardest disciplines, so congratulations to everyone who gathered up the courage and took part in this challenge. I think you all did brilliantly, but eventually I had to choose a winner, and for sheer watercolour painting ability and such clever use of colour and tone, I was pleased to choose the painting on the left ‘Kiki and R’ by Tony Macelli.

Below are some of the other outstanding entries that caught my eye. (from left to right by Vivienne Adams, Rosie Phillips, and Ramnath Benegal).


	Competition for July 2009: Summertime




		Ist Prize : Acrylics Course Congratulations to Robin



		2nd Congratulations to Jan


	Competition for June 2009: Paint a Townscape




	Ist Prize : Acrylics Course Congratulations to Susan




	2nd Congratulations to James


	May 2009 Competition - What’s in the Kitchen? In the second of our monthly painting competitions on the Forum, the winners were:




	Ist Prize : Acrylics Course Congratulations to Vivienne



	Joint 2nd winners : Congratulations to James (right) and Sue (above) for these two paintings


	Thanks to everyone who took part. There were a good number of entries and the choice was very hard to make. See the Forum for more information on why these paintings were chosen as winners.


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