Scottish Watercolour Paintings

[James Greig]

Hi,

I've just done a new website for my Mum, who paints (mainly Scottish)
landscapes in watercolour, in a Chineese influenced style. I was just
wondering if anyone could give me some feedback on the design of the
site (you might even like the paintings as well!)

The address is http://www.deirdre-edwards.co.uk

Thanks,

James.

[Jiri Borsky]

I think the website works very well, indeed. And your Mum's work
is fine, too.

Jiri Borsky
www.borsky.dial.pipex.com/

[Cavedens]

Very nice site, and tell your mother her work is very nice, shes a
very talented artist.

Cave...@hotmail.com

<A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/art/Sketchbook/main.html">My
Sketchbook</A>
An Amateur Fantasy Art site for artists to post thier work and get
noticed.

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[Salmon, John [HAL02:0S29:EXCH]]

James Greig wrote:

> I was just wondering if anyone could give me some feedback on the design
> of the site (you might even like the paintings as well!)
>
> The address is http://www.deirdre-edwards.co.uk

Hi James,
go on, admit it, that's not your Mum in the pictures, she look's
far too young. Go on, tell us it's really your sister.

Anyway, back to business:

Your site looks clean, uncluttered and professional.

You present the artwork well, and give us all the information we need.
I like the muted background colours, and your choice of clean readable fonts,
make for a pleasant relaxed web experience.

I like the pictures of the artist at work. Letting the viewer into the
inner sanctum where creativity is taking place is a very nice touch.

All in all, a very good site. You and your "Mum" should be proud.
I like the artwork. I like the freshness and freedom with which the
watercolour medium is used, and I like the colour.

Just two very small pernickity points, if I may?

1. Could you not lose the scrollbar on the home page? I found myself
scrolling down to see that there was nothing there.

2. When I enlarged the main picture on the home page, I couldn't go
back by using the "<back to previous page" link. It didn't work.

I didn't try all the links, but the ones I did worked fine except for
the one I mentioned.

I am viewing this on a Sun Sparc Ultra 10 with a 21" Trinitron monitor
and using Netscape 4.77 Browser which is notorious for screwing up
if the HTML is just not quite right. Your site looks fine 9.5/10.

Now do me a favour and have your Mum look at my site. You'll see that
it is now due for a re-write, and I will not be using frames.

http://www.geocities.com/woger_uk

All the best and well done both of you.

John Salmon.

[Sharon Barcone]

I also enjoyed the site. And while this type of work doesn't usually appeal
to me, I did find "Garden in Argyll" and "By the Old Smithy" very appealing.
I find the cool gray background to be very effective for the work. The
enlargements of the work did load a little slow however.
One thing I personally would like to see added to the site would be an
artist's statement. While the background on the artist that is given is
good, I would like the more personal contact that the artist could provide
in a first person comment.

sharon

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[Jiri Borsky]

Sharon Barcone wrote:

(snip)

> One thing I personally would like to see added to the site would be an
> artist's statement. While the background on the artist that is given is
> good, I would like the more personal contact that the artist could provide
> in a first person comment.

No! Please.
I absolutely detest artists' statements.
Let the (excellent) work speak for itself.

Jiri Borsky
http://www.borsky.dial.pipex.com/

[James Greig]

> Hi James,
> go on, admit it, that's not your Mum in the pictures, she look's
> far too young. Go on, tell us it's really your sister.

Well, it is actually my Mum! I'm 20 years old and if you have a look
through the website you will be able to work out for yourself how old
my Mum is.

Thanks for the detailed feedback though - I don't know why that back
button wasn't working.

James G
www.shoestringdesign.co.uk

[Sharon Barcone]

Sorry, Jiri. Maybe I should have said "a few personal comments from the
artist". I didn't necessarily mean a traditional artist's statement.

sharon

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[Capodocio]

Sharon...

I hope you don't mind it that I call you Sharon instead of Ms. Barcone. If I
win Fawn Dew's mixed up contest we will get to be knowing each other much
better, so I call you Sharon.

Now, about "traditional artist's statement" let me say there is no such thing.
Artist's statements are a feature of the later years of the 20th Century
growing because art of that time needed some kind of talk to explain it. Such
statements have not been around long enough to be "traditional" in my mind.

I think with Jiri. They are carcinogenic (sp?). At least, sickening.

Jiri and Alphonso are not alone, or new in their thinking; see this quote:

" I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any
description."

- Winslow Homer, when asked for a few descriptive lines about The
Gulf Stream

Regards.

Alphonso

[Capodocio]

Sharon, again...

I think "typical" would be better word than "traditional" but it is your language
not mine and so I do not know. I try to think about these things but usually get
confused. (Much better now than two or three years ago, I think.)

Thank you.

Alphonso

[Sharon Barcone]

Your point is accepted. I guess my thinking was a little "muddied".

Also Alphonso, please see my post under "Contest, Contest, Contest". You are
becoming entirely too familiar with anticipation. Though I really don't mind
if you call me Sharon, you should remember that I am a 50 year old
grandmother.

sharon

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[Alphonso]

Sharon, young woman:

You are a child! I am a sixty-eight year old grandfather. You are not old
enough for me! Too bad. You would have loved Firenze! I could have learned
more English from you.

Thank you.

Alphonso

[Sharon Barcone]

Gee, Alphonso, you sounded so much younger! Too bad I am too young for you,
I have always been attracted to older men. And I bet you could have taught
me a few things too! ;-)

sharon

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[lauri levanto]

Once I was dating a woman who was of same age as my children.
When the relationship was growing a bit more serious,
I once said "if you were not so young"
She answered "No problem, just wait a little"

- lauri

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[Sharon Barcone]

Good one lauri, here's another one...

Between husbands, I once dated a young man who was just couple of years
older than my oldest son. I once told him that he was too young to really
understand where I was coming from.
He said "Huh???"

sharon

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[Dale Ford]

Grandmother wow, I will have to be less obnoxious to you now.

( Good for you)
Dale

[Sharon Barcone]

"Dale Ford" <bdf...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Grandmother wow, I will have to be less obnoxious to you now.
>
> ( Good for you)
> Dale
>

Oh no, Dale. Please don't!
As you know, I can be quite stubborn in my opinions. But that doesn't mean I
don't respect those who disagree with me. The obnoxious only make me examine
my own positions with as much intelligence and knowledge as possible. I like
a good argument and a fair fight. And while I may disagree with someone that
doesn't mean that I can't learn something from them.

Old dog, still learning some tricks. And after all, it's all relative.
Alphonso calls me young woman and a child. I confess, some days I do feel
childish! And Alphonso seems young and romantic to me.

sharon

[Dale Ford]

Sharon Barcone wrote:

> "Dale Ford" <bdf...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:3B7DE7A6...@mb.sympatico.ca...
> > Grandmother wow, I will have to be less obnoxious to you now.
> >
> > ( Good for you)
> > Dale
> >
>
> Oh no, Dale. Please don't!
> As you know, I can be quite stubborn in my opinions. But that doesn't mean I
> don't respect those who disagree with me. The obnoxious only make me examine
> my own positions with as much intelligence and knowledge as possible. I like
> a good argument and a fair fight. And while I may disagree with someone that
> doesn't mean that I can't learn something from them.
>
> Old dog, still learning some tricks. And after all, it's all relative.
> Alphonso calls me young woman and a child. I confess, some days I do feel
> childish! And Alphonso seems young and romantic to me.

I guess he probably always was and always will be young and romantic at heart.
Getting ready for the body painting?????? Personally I just think I am probably
going out drinking with a wild bunch of Winston's cowboy friends down in Texas.
The rest are just too afraid they could not survive the third prize :-)
Dale