Landscape artist of the year

[Magnalux]

Anyone watching this? I know nothing about art but I’m on episode 4 and I can tell every time which one the judges will pick ( usually one I hate !) take the view in and paint it a bit blurry! Every week same thing.. again I will reiterate I know literally nothing about art so I’m sure more arty folk than me will know why! Anyway what do you think?

And yes, I loved that charcoal one too!

Didn’t the BBC attempt a painting series with a formula similar to Bake Off? Not sure it was very successful but that might have been the quality of the contestants.

I’d like see an extra week where all the wild cards compete against each other, rather than just select one.

The Wild Cards never seem to get very far.

One of the winners was awful with harsh and unrealistic colours and no perspective or any basis in reality. They turned the sloping green with a path into two odd green banks. She will probably end up the overall winner!

OH and I have a chuckle every week over the bolloxy comments by the judges that usually don't make any sense but sound good.

I think i remember that. Dh uncle who was RWS was asked to take part as a judge i think.

Just watched the LA final. No spoilers, but DH and I picked out the winner from the start because they were so obviously the one the judges were going to go for. And lo, it came to pass…

Yes OH and I did too @Manicule. I did like their home/work submission but we thought they were the least suited to the prize task out of the three.

We thought asking them to paint a day/night landscape was a bit daft!

oh i enjoy watching this, aside from the judges.
the male judge is from the uni where dd went to but she never saw him and finished uni hating art!

Yes they did. I'd forgotten that. I enjoyed it. They took different styles, media every week and then someone was eliminated. One week they had ballet dancers pirouetting across a floor and they had to paint/draw to show movement.

Have now watched the winning commission programme. It was perfectly pleasant but not outstanding and had an A'level Art vibe (not sure why they plonked in a bloody ugly cloud dominating the whole thing?). They were out of their comfort zone and it showed (I think). Not sure it's a good idea to give an artist a thousand pound commission that will 'push' them and help an artist progress in their career? Surely you want someone who has proved themselves in some way and you know will deliver something exceptional?

I liked the final commission, apart from the cloud. It was far too heavily done, it looked like smoke.

Don't think the judges have made great choices this year tbh. The winner is v good at urban landscapes, but since the £10,000 commission is to paint Orkney, I'm not sure she's the best candidate. The watercolourist, Brian? was outstanding and would have done a great job with it.

Not progress in their career but in their craft