Summer 2022 Poll Results

I messed up slightly with this poll.  About half the paintings in it were of naked figures and I think this is why 26 of the first 40 people to click on the link closed it without voting.  Polls For Pages only allows me to see the results from those first 40 people (unless I wanted to fork out £39 for this survey or £76 for as many surveys as I want in the next twelve months) so the survey’s effectively closed after 14 people have voted.  And I’m one of those 14.  Maybe next time I need to warn people first or have the nudes as a separate question, with the option to just skip them.  Anyway, what’s done is done.  Here are the results.

I didn’t vote for any of these, so I can’t complain that nobody else did.

Not sure about the top left but the votes for all the other nudes were mine.  The coloured pencil nudes with their less revealing back views seem to be just as unpopular as the more revealing inktense pencil paintings.  Still, both are great fun and make a change from landscapes.  There’s also only the one vote for each of the two oil pastel paintings in the survey and one of those isn’t even a naked figure.

A strange set of results, with three landscapes and two dash & splashes scoring more highly than some of their cousins in the previous set that I thought were better.  But the main message here is that there are at least two people who like my coloured pencil portraits – I need to do more of these during the winter.

These are looking better than the last set.  One of the things that catches my eye about them is the moody looking skies.  Looking back up the page at other paintings, this seems to be a theme that’s been coming through during 2022.  It’s not only when I’m using the tundra or shire supergranulators either – I’ve been putting weird colours in the sky when I’ve been using my conventional watercolours.  Again, nothing to do with survey results.  And, on a separate subject, interesting to see the most abstract painting in the survey scoring so highly.

Three paintings with hills in them, two of Black Rock Cottage and two in tundra colours.  There are messages there.  I’m already wondering whether I should do a third painting of the cottage at some point using shire colours.  It wouldn’t look very Scottish but might be interesting.  The skies are worthy of attention again.  Even the one in the top left, with its more conventional colours, looks decent.   While I’ve been experimenting with crazy sky colours, my sky painting generally may well have improved.

Any, you know what?  I’m not surprised this one came out in top.  It’s the sort of painting that always does well in these polls.  Colours not too adventurous.  Idyllic, chocolate boxy scene.  My favourite bits are actually the hanging baskets, the purples in the nearest white wall, the shadows across the road and the car in the bottom corner.  Lots to like about this one and it is now up on the wall inside that cottage.