Hello and thanks for your comment - what a nice way to put it.

Hello again and thanks as usual. That's very flattering but I can think of loads of things I'd like better - a fortnight in Spain for a kick-off - and maybe a full head of hair. Thanks again.

Hello and many thanks for your positive reponse to the channel. I hope you continue to find content that sustains your interest.

I'd never heard of him before, and I'm an instant fan!

Hello again, and you're absolutely right - aremarkable range of abilities. The portraits are a clear demonstration of what not to attempt unless you can actually draw like an old master.

Hellon and I'm very glad you think so.

Hello again and your continuing appreciation of the channel content is very rewarding. Thanks.

Hello and thanks for the comment. I'm glad the video led you to the discovery too.

Thanks for the comment as usual, and yes those portraits were astounding. I can't even imagine having that much skill.

Hello and my thanks for your positive reponse to the channel and its content. It matters to me.

Hello and many thanks for your supportive comment. It's very rewarding to know that viewers appreciate what I'm doing.

Hello again and thanks to you for your continued appreciation of the channel. I'm pretty glad (if surprised) that I'm here too.

Hello and I'm gad you enjoyed them. Many more great forgotten talents are on the way.

Hello Paul and you may well be right. I don't know that much about him other than what I wrote in the narration but that would be his kind of territory I think. Thanks for your continued support and appreciation.

Hi and just to add a reply, thanks. E-mail on it's way.

Hello and I'm glad you are enjoting the channel content. I've been surprised by just how many Art Nouveau illustrators are now quite forgotten, and more are on the way.

Hello again and that makes my heart swell with pride. For a long time I had very few viewers but I felt obliged to continue this mission before I fall off my perch. And now I'm glad to say I seem to be reaching quite a few more.

Hello and I have to admit I only knew 2 out of 4 previously. A voyage of discovery for me too.

Hello and thanks a lot. Positive responses like yours are a real incentive to keep making the videos.

Many thanks for your comment, and I think that's the first time I've been considered of medical benefit.I really don't like my voice much but quite a few viewers have said nice things about its soothing qualities. Just sounds like an old mancunian to me.

Hi again and thanks again. I wish I could turn them around faster (the list keeps getting longer...)

Hi John - good to hear from you again. I can't imagine what it would be like to be able to draw with the precision of Ernest Hamlin Baker, and be able to pull off other completely different techniques too.

Hello Jeff and with such glowing compliments about the channel you're more than welcome. It would be nice to think the videos were finding their way to current students but I don't have any evidence that they are, other than maybe a handful.

Hello and season's greetings to you too. Thanks for your continuing dedication to the cause, and hopefully more to come in 2022. It seems unreal to me that here I am in what used to be an unimaginable future...

Hello again and thanks for the comment. You wouldn't say that if you'd seen me eat. And I had the feeling you were a visual creative so I tracked you down and what a lot of fascinating work. Very impressed.

@@petebeard Thank you very much! Those are tremendously kind words when coming from you, Pete. And those utensils do take some practice, but I won't judge, hehe.. I'm spreading the word of your channel like gospel!

Hello and particular thanks for your comment. I'm also someone who tends not to comment even if I really like something (don't know why). And I genuinely hope that your dedication to study the methods and techniques used by some of these great illustrators benefits your own progress. And like you I don't particularly like many of the illustrators I feature but I want to be even-handed in my exposure of them rather than just show favourites. I hope you continue to watch (and comment?)

@@petebeard Take it for sure Mr Pete

Hello again Mark, and if ever I'm in need of cheering up (which during this Covid farce I do on a regular basis), comments such as yours always do the trick. Many thanks.

Hello again and thanks for the comment. 3 out of 4 isn't bad. And I'd have agreed with you about Jones until quite recently, but I've started to like his work and that of his somewhat eccentric English contemporaries of late. Funny how tastes change.

Hello again and my gratitude for your long service with the channel. And I must admit even I thought I'd have hit the bottom of the barrel by now, but they just keep on coming.

Hi, and regarding your comments sadly you're right about the red squirrel. I've only ever seen one in the wild.There are a few in the extreme North and Scotland but all I ever see are the grey ones. And I agree completely about Ward and Eichenberg, who is scheduled also to make an appearance in the series sooner or later.

@@petebeard thank you for all your work, these are a true treasure trove!

Hello again and I hope you are finding plenty of others on the channel who used the principles of Art Nouveau. It may not have lasted longas a movement but it has certainly endured in the heart of many.

Hello and that's music to my ears. Knowing the content continues to interest viewers of the channel really is very rewarding.

Hello again. There were anumber of British illustrators who were Jones's contemporaries who also explored similar non-sentimental work for children. A couple I've already covered in the series and there are more in the pipeline. As a certified grumpy old man I have a personal distaste for 'cute'.

Hello and thanks a lot for watching and commenting so positively.

Hello again and thanks as ever for your conrtinued support.

Thanks a lot for your recent comments. It's very rewarding to know that viewers enjoy the channel.

Hello and I'm grateful for your appreciation as always. It really is a pleasure to have enthusiastic viewers all over the planet.

Hi again and thanks as usual. And at the risk of sounding corny that's how I feel when longterm viewers continue to comment.

@@petebeard You're a good man. Look me up next time you're near the Arkansas/Oklahoma/Missouri border, I'll show you the local watering holes.

Hello again and thanks for your continued support for the channel. I had been quite familiar with Harold Jones' work for several decades but I must admit it didn't mean much to me, and neither did that of many of his British contemporaries. My obsession with cartoon illustration led to a bad case of tunnel vision. But since retirement he and others of a similar stylistic persuasion have come to be a source of real delight.

@@petebeard Sadly tunnel vision seems to have been a major feature anyway of design education through the '50's, though I think you were a bit after that. For me it was Bauhaus or else and though I frequently experimented with Finnish and pre Bauhaus north German ideas it was not until my final thesis that I was able to stage a major revolt. It didn't go down well but had to be accepted. Throughout it was the delightful illustrations that I had encountered rather at the end of childhood in those children's books together with the extremely beautiful landscapes by which I was surrounded after the war that gave a firm base for personal aesthetic sensibilities. Through those I was able to avoid total indoctrination because they enabled me to put into the subsidiary work of illustration and painting (not really subsidiary for me) something less formulated. The problems of minor tertiary establishments of the times! Your videos are not nostalgia though. They are revitalising Pete.

Hello again, and your own backgorund in art and design sounds like it would make a compelling narrative. And yes I'm somewhat behind you in the queue - art school (graphic design) 69 to 73 and then realised I'd rather have fun even if the going was considerably harder in illustration. Thanks again for your insights.

Hello and thanks a lot for that. I'm just glad I can give these people some exposure.

Hello and thanks for the comment. Obviously none of us know what the future (if any) will be, but I think the images stand a better chance of survival if only because most are digital. So many originals from the early 20th century were lost or destroyed.

Hello and many thanks for your positive response to the video. I hope you'll stick around for more.

Hello again, and yes its pretty distinctive. Good luck with your own output.

Hello again and thanks a lot for continuing to watch and expressing your appreciation.

Hello and I'm very glad you think so. There really are an asonishing number - more than I would have thought possible - of almost forgotten greats to see.

Hello and many thanks for your favourable response to the channel content.

Hello and thanks for letting me know, even if it does make me squirm with embarrassment. I had never previously known about Jones's work and even as I was compiling the images I found myself thinking 'I'll bet Ian beck is an admirer of this guy'. I had remembered your appealingly formal crosshatching style from my own time as an illustrator. I should have learned by now not to trust google images without a verified signature. Anyhow if it's OK with you I'll flag the mistake up in the description box.

@@petebeard That is absolutely fine. I am and have been a huge admirer of Harold's work and indeed had the pleasure of visiting him at his remarkable house in Putney. I found him an admirable model for discovering how to be simple and how to invent / make up figures and so on. Avid follower of your videos keep up the good work.

Hello and many thanks for your enthusiastic response to the video. And thanks for introducing me to the work of Mark English - I had never heard of him before. Unfortunately, much as I like his illustration he was born far too late to be included in the 'unsung' series. There's no reason you would know this but my parameters are those born between 1850 and 1910. But I now have him bookmarked and if I can find an excuse to feature him in another context I will.

Hello and welcome to the channel. Thanks a lot for commenting so positively about the channel content and I hope you continue to find subjects of interest. And I apologise for my French (and other) pronunciation. You know how bad we British are at that...

@@petebeard Hey don't be ashamed by your french and other,I just have learn english at school when I was 11 and I'm sure I won't be able to have a good accent and I'm sure that the "wrotten" is not better 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thank you so much 😉👍😘

Hello again and thanks again for your comment. As a Brit I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground, and I must admit quite a few of the other portrait subjects too.

@@petebeard Musial was a baseball player, and when I met him I barely knew who he was either! (I was awfully young!)

Hi again and thanks for your comments. Like you I thought Baker's magazine covers were the most interesting aspect of his output. Harold Jones was one of any number of Brits of his generation who produced such strangely disconnected work - more of a similar persuasion on the way.

It seems mine is the perfect channel to send viewers to sleep..

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the channel. It seems I opened Pandora's box when I first started the series as Im now in the position of having many more to feature than I already have. And at my age it's by no means guaranteed I'll actually finish. And I'm sorry but there is no master list. The best I can suggest is that you take a screenshot from the video description to record the names.

Hello and thanks for the comment. But I confess I'm a bit puzzled. Each illustrator gets their own introductory page and they are listed in the description box too. I sort of thought it would be over the top to have their names up on screen permanently.

@@petebeard I enjoy the introductory page, however in the process of your subsequent descriptions it’s easy to forget the illustrator’s name. This can prove tedious and frustrating to the listener after a while. I am only trying to help make a good sight even better, that’s all.

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation.

Hello and thanks for your appreciation and corrections, for which I'm suitably embarrassed. I have now put a note in the description box confessing my geographical sins. I shouldn't have trusted wikipedia.

Hello and thanks for your positive response to the channel. And I took a look at your work online, and I like the colluision of art principles with Tex Avery imagery. Would you be upset if I said they are unsettling?

Hello Eamonn. I'm very pleased you continue to appreciate the content. It means a lot.

@@petebeard all good ,sir..