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Sat 19/04/2008
Hi,
Just discovered your web site, excelent explanations that even I can understand !
Will you please help me out as I am struggling to paint a reasonable weeping willow in oil.
Cannot even find a picture on the internet to give me a real chance to produce one.
Kind regards,
ian hayden MBE
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Hi Ian, I'm afraid I don't have any particular methods that would help you by themselves. The best solution of all would be to find one, sketch it, photograph it if you want, or better still, paint it on the spot - preferably all three. In my opinion, to make a convincing painting, your eye needs the kind of information that only observation can really provide. Hope I haven't put you off. Best wishes, Ken
Dear Ken, I am sorry it took a few days to e-mail you about the painting's arrival.
It got here safely and is absolutely beautiful. The glow of the sunlight in the painting is riveting and is what caught my eye with this as well as your other paintings. Thank you and good luck with all your future endeavors!!
Clare
Friday 14/03/08 - Paintings
I just wanted to leave a message saying that i think that you are fantastic for being a practicing artist that is willing to share your knowledge of painting with others. We could do with more of your ilk. I came across your site whilst looking for contemporary landscape artists. I think that your paintings, especially in the group "earth" are amazing, and have given me the inspiration to try using coloured glazes in my paintings.
thanks
Ayla
Wednesday 12/03/08
hello,
my name is rosie watling and i am a upper sixth student at the ursuline college in kent. for my A2 exam i have chosen to study clouds.
i happened to look at you work by searching artists painting clouds into google and your work struck me as being beautiful.
i would love it if you could give me any information on your paintings so i can quote you in my exam work. this would be such a great help.
i am also going to include work by more publically known artists, such as turner and constable, but i also have another artist that is a family friend that i am going to include as i think that having a varying range of artists is key to developing my own work.
any other information of artists would be much appriciated.
thank you
rosie watling
Tuesday 4/03/2008
Dear Ken Bushe
Need something beautiful to look at & found your paintings.
My good friend Hazel painted until her eyesight worsened. She gets around by electic wheelchair & it's not easy to get to the Art galleries in Newcastle. When I passed on your web site to her she can see beautiful art & take time studying your techinques.
I thank you for sharing this wonderful talent with us. Best wishes for your future success,
Ruth.
Friday 29/02/2008
Hello Ken,
I have been searching for a link artist for my A level art exam on the internet this morning, and after a while of searching I came across a link to your website. I have been blown away with the stunning pictures that are featured on your website, and I just felt that I should inform you of how amazing your art work is.
Thank you for producing work like this, it is just what I need to give me inspiration for the colours and textures I can use in my work.
Thank you again and I look forward to seeing more of your work.
kind regards,
Kristina Parry
Tuesday, 19/02/2008 Your work
Dear Ken, I have just come across your work by searching under "Seascape Artists". What a very impressive and varied artist you are. I am just an amatuer, like so many and have recently turned my hand to watercolours again after an absence of some 10 years.
The last time an artist impressed me so much was when I was a young boy on a school trip to see the John Moores Exhibition at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool. The winner had completed a large work entitled "John Getting In the Swimming Pool"...I think it was the title. I could have purchased the painting for about £250 as I recall. More than my pocket money for a few years...
The artist was.....David Hockney!
So keep up the good work and I sincerely hope that you are in increasing demand in the future. I am sending the web details to a few friends in London who appreciate quality so I hope that more sales result.
Best Wishes,
John Riding
Sat 16/02/2008 absolutely love your work!
Hi Ken, I was tooling around the net looking for 'sky paintings' and came across your work...I absolutely love your work! Please stop by my website and check out my landscapes/sky paintings in my 'landscape and architecture collection' www.melindacampbell.net
Hope to keep up a dialogue with you. Sincerely, Melinda
Fri 15/02/2008 Greetings from Naples
..Idaho, not Italy.
I was flipping through my copy of J.M.W. Turner, 'A Wonderful Range of Mind' hoping for inspiration and searching the web when I stumbled upon your amazing site. I'm very glad to know of your work. Put me down as a big fan. Yours, Bob
Wed 13/02/2008 - Hi from Norway
Hi, Ken Bushe !
I just surfed around the world to find out how to paint outdoors, as I have just pickt up my pallet and canvas after 30 years. I found out that I had to do something to cheer me up, as I work as a undertaker, which is not very funny! I want to paint outdoors in a contemporary impressionist way…..knowing that I am not scared of the canvas ore the oilpaint!
I am an amature with a lot of confidence, which I maybe should not be…but I have skills, but I know my limits…but belive in developing “as I walk on the road”! I sound a bitt over the top of confidence…well, entusiatic is the word…I will try to read and reread you homepage….
What I am looking for is equipment fore going out…I have for the moment no equipments for painting outdoors! I am looking for a box oilpainters box where I can keep all I need fore a nice day outside to paint….Do you know of any shop who make ore where I can buy a smart outdoor kitt fore this…please help me to find a shop..
By the way I love Scotland and Scottish catles like the one you painted Ballinbreich Castle. Funny, I am a member of The St Adrew Society ( the Flagg of Scotland
Sincerely Roy Lindquist.
Sun 10/02/2008 - Your Website
I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your website, and how I nearly fell off my chair laughing at your "outdoors" page, you have a great sense of humour.
Also, I really admire the fact that you have managed to establish yourself via a webiste. I have had one for ages, but not sold anything from it despite selling hundreds of prints worldwide and masses of work thro galleries at one point. I have decided I loathe the vast majority of gallery owners. I find it really tricky these days to celebrate my life as a painter...constantly feeling the need to change the way I work in order to be less conventional - and therefore appeal more! Still, that is not your problem, I just wanted to say well done you. Jackie
Mon 28/01/2008 - Compliment
Hi from Charlotte, NC. I just wanted to say how much I appreciated your website and the wonderful pictures of the trees. You are a very gifted person!
I'm an amateur artist - well, have sold a couple - and done a few trees also.
But you are in another league. Thank you for sharing!
Elizabeth
Sun 27/01/2008 - Dana on the Gulf Coast of Mississipi...Re: Art
Hi.. Mr. Bushe.... My name is Dana Bordelon and I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, USA ...originally from New Orleans. This is my 24 year teaching art.. and still enjoy it... so it must be a good professional fit. ... Lately as an artist however, my work has taken on a new direction....I am much more involved in my work for what it is revealing to me than ever before. Living on the Coast (any coast I'm sure) one is much more aware of the diversity, change and extremes that exist in life, revealed through our natural world ... frequently its simutaneous. I can see that awareness in your work. Its wonderful to be able to reach around the world and connect with someone. Its been my pleasure to have a glimpse at your work. Take Care....
Dana
Wed 23/01/2008 20:39 - Art Gcse
Dear Mr Bushe
Hi I am Simon Bell and I am currently doing a GCSE art exam and am basing it on barriers in the landscape. I particularly like your style of oil painting and would like to include you in a sketchbook of artists. I would like to ask you the artist if you think you have any work that could be interpreted as a barrier, it would be a big bonus if you have. If you do could you give me a link to it or attach it to an email it wold be a massive help. I very much like your website and found it extremely interesting. I am glad I have found your website because the reference material I have from the exam board is limited only containing old artists from the past, and think it is a god send to actually be able to talk to the artist directly. Thank you for taking the time to read this and apologise for any inconvenience I may have caused.
Thankyou
Simon Bell
Tue 08/01/2008 18:18 - Painting
Dear Ken
Many thanks for the painting which arrived at 10.20 a.m. this morning -Tues.- I hardly dared hope it would come so quickly. We are very pleased with it, I have been in and out all day and the painting changes with the light, I love the depth in the cloud. Thrilled to own a "Ken Bushe"!
Best wishes
Judith
Sun 02/12/2007 - your artwork on oils.
After reading most of what you have writen about oils i can only thank you as i am a 1st timer and being colourbling i find it hard to build pictures up from scratch.but after reading how you do it and not being overwelmed to much by to many types of colours and mixing but still getting the results i wanted ..the scetching come natral to me and woundering were to start and how to build up the picture i can only say thank very much Mr bushe.
tunesboy
Reply/
Drawing and sketching is the foundation of a visual artist’s work, tunesboy. Drawing forms the skeleton of a painting that the colours can sit on, it trains the eye so that you can see rhythm, harmonies, relationships and it’s the basis of good composition too. Stick in there, I knew a guy at Art College in Edinburgh who was colour blind and he did really well for himself.
Keep drawing.
26th Oct. - Found your site by searching Yahoo Images for 'reflections.' Beautiful work. - Kind regards, Sherry Miller, Northern California
26th Sept.
Dear Ken,
The painting arrived this morning. I love it! I'm really impressed by the craftsmanship. Plus, I can see the colours you used written on the back so it's taught me something!
I will keep an eye on your website. All the best for your painting
Thank you sincerely,
Rachel
Reply/
Oh Rachel, ..... I’ve got to write the colours on the back. If I need it to dry before working on it again, by this time I can’t remember what I used. Were it not for this I could have had a well paying job in the City or maybe been a Pilot
Best Wishes and thanks again!
23rd Sept.
Dear Mr. Bushe,
I live in New England and have, ever since I was a child, loved being in the woods. Being solitary and quiet. Each and every time I'm able to get away by myself it is always the same. I want to pull my surroundings into myself and keep it there. I love the smells, the sounds, the sights, every bit of it. To the point...your paintings of the rivers have captured the woods as I love them. "River Landscape" is one where I can actually imagine being on the bank of that stream. I've bookmarked your site and will return to it often.
With Kind Regards, Deb
21st Sept. Dear Ken
Just wanted to say that I love your work. Will bookmark the site, and when I have some more money will buy one of your cloud paintings.
Regards
David Woodford, Warwick Queensland.
Good day to you,
I love your art work, but I am a beginner and trying desperately to do water drops on a flower petal. I have searched to find a simple but good tutorial to explain how to do this, and wonder whether you would be kind enough to assist.
Kind regards
Jaye Hubbard
Reply/
Hello Jaye,My own feelings are that no-one can (or should) tell you how to paint like this. Trust your own eyes and powers of observation. Get real flowers, sprinkle water on them if this is your subject, don’t panic, spend as long looking as you feel you need to and then start to paint what you see. (Trust your senses too). It’ll work.
/Good luck, Ken
15th Sept 2007
Hiya, my names Zoe Spurr and ive just started my second year at Stratford college doing Fine Art. My lecturer found your work and recommended you to us, and I loved your work!
I was wondering if you could help me with a few things for my coursework? I really want to know how you start a painting, do you sketch it first? And how long does it take you to complete an average painting?
Thankyou for your wonderful work!
from Zoe
14thSept. 2007
Dear Ken Bushe
When I first got onto the www I found this painting of yours somewhere – no name or title attached – but just loved it so much I copied it onto my laptop and have looked at it forever since. It gives me so much joy.
And now this morning was checking out a site from a link from and friend’s work and there you are – and more and more and more of your wonderful works.Just wanted to let you know how much joy your gift has given me.Have a good day
Thank you Angie Franke
Hello Ken
I have been browsing your site for a few months, your work is inspirational, if only I could....... but I keep trying.
I just came across the Fall of Dochart at Killin - it captures the power of the water wonderfully. We went there fortytwo years ago! on our honeymoon. In those days one had to go up to the clan chief's house to get the key to the burial ground. The door was opened by his wife who told us Himself was in bed but when she found our name was McNab she showed us some clan memorabilia and had us sign the visitors book. We were thrilled. Sorry to hear about the spammers, small people.
Best wishes Judith
Thanks for your web site, everything you wrote was incredibly helpful. I was not bored at all but I also really enjoyed your picture of your rabbit. I think I found your web site through looking at Michael Harding's web site. I have just started using only his paints. What a difference, another world.
Thanks again. Pat Leyshon
Reply/Dear Pat, Thanks a lot for this. My rabbit went where all good rabbits go many years ago now, but my next door neighbours have a wee beauty in a hutch outside so can I spoil her with lettuce and a few raisins. Good paint is a revelation isn't it? Especially when you try to really push it - and it works!!!
Hi Ken!
Stumbled on your site tonight, while googling "fire paintings" I am an artist in Canada and am involved with an exhibit this month, the theme being fire...I was looking for inspiration and found you...very nice. Sad to hear about your inability to sustain a relationship with the caterpillar...bugs are too fickle anyways...better to stick with dogs...
Take care and please, keep painting!
Alix McLachlan
Canada
30th July 2007
Hi Mr. Bushe -
I stumbled on your website looking for inspiration while painting a
grapefruit tree in my backyard that has an orchid hanging from it.
I am in the middle of it and am somewhat stumped of where to go next with shadows etc. Your trees
are amazing, as is the rest of your work. Oil painting is a fun escape from raising my busy little
kids. Today though, it has me a bit frustrated because I'm not sure where the painting should go.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your beautiful work.
Caroline in Florida
Reply/Thanks very much for this and for getting in touch.
If a painting doesn't have you stumped in the middle you're probably just repeating what you already know. The best ones usually have a fight somewhere under the top layer - especially oil paintings.
You gave me the incentive to make a new guestbook and upload it to the website - I'd just about given up from all the spam that floods into the normal kind of guestbook but I'm keeping it simple and just cutting/pasting e-mails onto a normal page now.
Anyway - thanks for this also.
Right.....
Get back into that painting and give it a fright from me!!!!
Every best wish,
Ken
5th July 2007
Hello Ken
Your paintings are very beautiful and evoke a deeply spiritual sense. I am putting together a small
multimedia presentation on Rivers as a spiritual metaphor and would love to show your painting (the
one from the den of Alyth). I will include your name and url in the presentation, and no printed
copies of the painting will be distributed. I will be presenting this at a Methodist church near
my home in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. May I have your permission to do so? I promise to be very
respectful of your rights as the artist.
Sincerely
Melissa T
12th July 2007
Really like the Mountian and Cloud. WEll done.
Alice Helwig
http://ashelwig.tripod.com
5th July 2007
Hello Ken
Just a quick line to say hello!
I was on the internet trying to find a name for one of my paintings. I typed in ‘Orange oil
paintings’ and found your website.
Well done your work is beautiful. And very evocative of the Scottish seascapes.
I still haven’t been inspired to find a name for my painting but I have discovered lots of
interesting art!
Keep up the excellent work.
Best wishes
Caroline
12th June
Hi really loved your paintings! They are so inspiring keep up the good work!
Sharon Rust
14th May 2007
Hi Ken:
Just wanted to write a quick note to say that I think your work is excellant... Wish you were in
Canada! We are opening a gallery here in the next year once we are finished renovating the place...
Used to be a church... Anyways, if you ever want an avenue in Canada... let us know...
It's excellant stuff...
Sincerely, Chris Wikman
17th May 2007
Ken,
apologies for not coming back to you sooner, I have received the picture, safe and sound. And it is
beautiful!
Many thanks,
Amy
7th May 2007
Dear Ken, I am an untrained frustrated artist living in U.S.A.
For the better part of a year, I have been dreaming that I am painting on canvass.
I paint huge and small pictures of natural scenes in the moonlight. This evening while doing
dishes, which always puts me in some sort of alpha state, you know repetition, warm water, sweet
smelling soap, mind left free to wander, I remembered a dream I had last night, that I was in the
woods, painting the moonlight coming through the trees...The trees were just budding with tiny
leaves, Their branches like a thousand arms and hands...ready to pluck the stars from the sky,
which had a purple quality to its blueness. The stars were crystalline and bright. Not a cloud in
the sky, but a mist was low and covered the forest floor.. I could smell the woods..and hear the
frogs and night creatures singing . It was so lovely. You are probably wondering right now why the
heck I am telling you all of this. When I finished the dishes, I came upstairs and "Googled"
Moonlight on the Internet. And I found your website. I loved your Moonlight painting so much, that
I looked at it for 20 minutes. Then I looked at every picture on your web Site. Your work is
astounding. It draws me into it, and I am standing inside your paintings, touching the bark on the
trees, feeling the sand beneath my feet, feeling the waves wash over me. Or my feet, cool and bare
in the dew splashed grass, watching the sky turn purple pink and gold. Thank you for all these
wonderful images. I enjoyed myself so much in the world through your eyes.I believe I will buy a
canvass, and try my hand..I'll make it a small canvass...I have never tried this before. But I
will learn by looking at your work. I really feel all lessons are right inside one of your
paintings.
Thank you again
TB
1st May 2007
Dear Ken:
The painting arrived. It is enchanting! Thank you.
Best wishes,
Susan
24th April 2007
I was browsing the net for an art project that has ended recently, when I came across your website
and was generally astounded by the talent and sophistication of the work you have created and
mentioned it in my portfolio.
This may seem like a weird e-mail for you but I just want to show my appreciation for some one with
actual talent, and I will be looking at your page in future for updates and new works.
Your work encouraged my cloud and water reflection studies throughout my project and will hopefully
get me a well deserved grade!
Hopefully soon there will be an exhibition near to me.
Thank you for the inspiration!
Fran Staples
27th March 2007
I am also an artist, a bit older than you, though...much older, probably! Live in Colorado (U.S.),
the home of the beautiful skies, in my opinion. Like to paint with palette knife in oils, also
enjoy soft pastels, of course! My favorite subject: skyscapes. Lots of them. Little and big.
You have a great website, plan to visit often, have sent your link to three other dear friends who
happen to be artists, also. Good luck to you (although it certainly does not appear that you need
it!)
Karla Nolan
18th March 2007
found "Starlight" by accident while searching in Google and I think it's amazing! It reminds me of
my own land.
The light is very special in your paintings, spelling...
Best wishes,
Rocío (Asturias, Spain)
12th March 2007
Hello Ken, I just wanted to say I saw a painting of yours today, Mounatins and clouds and just
wanted to let you know it bought a wonderful picture to my mind of Moses talking to God on the
mountain top. Thankyou for your talent , I wish I had the money to buy it.
Best Regards,
Michael Pollina
Dallas, Texas, USA
6th March 2007
Dear Ken
I collected the picture this morning. It is even better in real life than it was on your website.
Now I just have to decide where to hang it!!
Hazel
4th March 2007
Hi
Just read your tips on oil painting outdoors.
Thank you for a lovely informative page that also made me laugh out loud and for some really good tips.
Regards
Ruth
3rd March 2007
Good morning,
I’ve just finished browsing your web site once more, and always find your paintings to be an inspiration. I too am an artist, and your technique of hazy, dreamy landscapes is very pleasing.
You have mastered that to which I still aspire.
Thank you,
Richard Jenkins
Frankfort, Michigan
USA
27th Jan 2007
Ken,
I "re-found" your website, and love your work. I too love painting landscapes, trees and skies.
They say so much. Your work has such a wonderful feel. Keep up the good work!
Elaine
2nd Jan 2007
hi Ken,
My name is Tracy Collins and i'm in my second year of fine art 'a' level in adult education. Im my
recent project is the characteristics or water, thus i'v ended up drawn to the sea. The sea, waves,
sky and anything else that i can see looking out onto a seascape!!! i'm also drawn to the
contemporarty style and as i was searching the net i came across your works. Love them ! the
colour, compostion and very much your style.
Could you please let me know where i can go to see your works. i live in Dorset but thats not a
problem
Look forward to a response,
Many thanks Tracy
6th Dec 2006
Mr Bushe,
This'll be quick, I just thought you'd like to know that I'm basing my final piece for my art exam
on your work.
It's very beautiful.
Jess x
30th Nov 2006
Dear Ken,
Thank you for your website. What beautiful paintings! Delightful to browse through and inspiring
to "have a go!" I particularly appreciate your paintings of trees as I have sometimes tried to
paint trees and find them completely mind-boggling.
All best wishes, Terri (Sussex,
England)
19th Nov 2006
This is a work of a genius, how did you do that???
I love your work and i hope to one day be as good as you
you have my compliments
Laura
xxx
12th Nov 2006
Hello Ken,
I chanced upon your site while browing, using "painting commission" to see what came up. You are
number One on Yahoo.com over here!
I was very struck with your paintings, especially the river landscape which is the kind of painting
I have been dreaming of doing. So wanted to let you know that you really are doing something I
drool over, noisily and lavishly.
I am English, transplanted into Californian soil, but did have a Scots grandad. So please bear
with me. I am self taught and if you care to check out my site sometime, it is
http://www.katydidart.com
Keep up the magnificent work!
Katy
11th Nov 2006
Dear Ken,
A note to let you know that my husband just returned home from the
post office with your painting, and it's as lovely as we thought it
would be; beautiful light, beautiful colours.
We like the white one included in the packaging as well; your
minimalist period? :o)
For some reason our dog, and Irish Wolfhound, has taken quite an
interest in the packaging. Perhaps it's close enough to home for her
to smell familiar, or perhaps you have a dog as well? Either way, your
painting has provoked a lot of tail wagging. From all of us.
Thanks so much, Ken.
Best wishes,
Kim Clyde
Reply/
Dear Kim,
The white one IS "Loch Tay" - I just wrapped it up with an old landscape painting that no-one wanted.
Ken
6th Nov 2006
Dear Ken
I love your work. And I got a great chuckle over the "woolly bear" hairy caterpillar saga. This
year has been my year for plein aire painting in my own garden: painting my sanctuary. Forty years
of painting and I finally got outside the studio. Hard to get back in.
Thanks for your inspiration. Do you give classes? Someday, I would l love to come over to Scotland
and paint with you. Or maybe you could come to North America, maybe the West Coast?
Thanks for all the tips.
Ellen J. B
Bellingham, Washington State
1st Nov 2006
I entered your site by accident
and it was suck a blessed one
you have a uniqe senstivity
thanks for the sites
keep painting
Liad .m
Israel
23rd Oct 2006
I saw your work on Saatchi and wanted to say for me..... a non professional that I loved how you
give these mini tutoriaals on what you do and what paints you use. It really helps to build the
picture from the viewers perspective. eSPECIALLY FOR THOSE OF US WHO LOVE ART BUT ARE STILL ON
PAINT BY NUMBERS :)It's like creation as you apply your choices to reflect your vision. It's
breathtaking to see the falls and how you were able to capture and transpose the light to the
picture.....
Thanks for sharing ...... your work gives off a sense of being there- of feeling the wind as the
person walks or the desolation in the more barren landscapes and then the fogs that roll in and how
it changes......Congratulations on being featured on Saatchi.....
Anjela W
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