I reckon it's that sort of time. I've created another of my biannual art polls.…
H2 2023 Poll Results
Well, I’ve had 17 responses to the latest poll and I think responses have dried up. I’ll leave it open, along with all my previous polls but I’m going to post up the results here. To say the results were unexpected would be an understatement. I’m shocked by some of these scores and can see there’s a huge difference between the paintings that I rate highly and those that other people like. Painting for fun and painting to sell require me to approach painting in two very different ways. But here we go…
These paintings got no votes:
Obviously, no complaints from me. If I was a big fan of these I’d have voted for them.
Then these all got just the one vote:
The Corbomite Manouver Collection (top right) was presented as a single work. A few portraits of guitarists here; people unsurprisingly aren’t keen on portraits of people they’ve never heard of. I really, really like my BB King (bottom right) though. And I thought bottom left was one of my better figures.
Two votes for all of these:
It came as a big shock to me seeing The Good, The Bad And The Ugly coming out this low: I thought they were going to be right up near the top. And Sir Bobby Charlton was another surprise, getting two votes despite a lack of likeness.
These all got three votes:
The Mukurob (bottom right) and John Lydon (top right) are other two that surprised me. Especially John, being a decent likeness of someone that people might recognise in the street.
On four votes are these paintings:
Not much to say about these except that, after seeing results from surveys, United Underworld is scoring strongly for a collection of marker drawings and the three in top left are scoring highly for figures, so maybe my figures and my use of markers are getting better over time?
Where are we now? Oh yeah, which paintings got five votes?
Another high scoring figure. Good to see the Dads Army Collection scoring highly: they’re the top scoring portraits (not a surprise). I like the Mukurob (bottom right) too but prefer the one that only got three votes. And as for the one in bottom left, I’m staggered. I don’t like those foreground rocks and considered leaving this one out of the survey. Just shows what I know.
I really have no idea what’s going on now. Six votes for these:
Happy to see all of these scoring so highly. Thea in top left is the top scoring figure this time round.
Not many left now. These all scored seven votes:
The bottom two, in coloured pencil and charcoal, are the highest scoring non–watercolours. All four seem to me to be fighting over their weight. I think I just underrate my landscapes; other people like them more than I do.
A little jump to nine votes:
That church at the bottom was one that I expected to see right up near the top; the distillery less so. But it’s a landscape and landscapes score votes.
And that leaves just these three bad boys, all scoring ten votes:
There’s one there of Hartlip Church, which always scores highly in these polls, so no surprises there. And then we have two more landscapes, both of them looking fairly innocuous. In both of them the sky looks to me like the best feature, so maybe that’s what got them this high. Who knows?
So, yes, overall a set of results that’s full of surprises. If anything, the message coming through is that people prefer my landscapes to my portraits, figures and crazy paintings. It’s hard, though to tell what distinguishes the higher scoring landscapes from the lower scoring ones. It all remains one big mystery.
Thanks to everyone that voted. Plenty there for me to think about.
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