OH NO! NOT ANOTHER FLAMINGO!

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Oh Adele this is beautiful & has really cheered me up and brought a grin to my face. Lovely colours and I have never heard of this type of Art before - you never fail to amaze me. Well done x x

Posted by Donna Crane on Fri 21 Apr 12:50:35

A 'flaming' flamingo Adele, (who ate all the prawns!) :)

Posted by Carole Swingler on Fri 21 Apr 13:01:45

Looks a good technique too

Posted by Carole Swingler on Fri 21 Apr 13:02:36

Wow Adele, this is fab! Such beautiful colours, you are doing ever so well with this craft, very clever as I know how hard it is to do. Well done.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Fri 21 Apr 15:08:28

Thank you Donna, Carole and Margaret. I thought the flamingo had been at the carrots as I had never seen such an orange one before!

Posted by Adele Elgood on Fri 21 Apr 16:17:52

Just lovely Adele.

Posted by Henry Martin on Sat 22 Apr 05:56:07

This is wonderful.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sat 22 Apr 09:59:33

Thanks Henry and Gudrun. Still clearing up the errant fibres!!

Posted by Adele Elgood on Sat 22 Apr 11:47:49

Really lovely!

Posted by Linda Wilson on Mon 24 Apr 02:18:19

Thank you Linda.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Mon 24 Apr 16:13:31

Well this made me smile, Adele, because it lovely and because I too have done yet another flamingo! I enjoyed reading your profile too. Thank your so much for commenting on my work.

Posted by sian strandjones on Wed 03 May 17:44:04

Glad you like it Sian. All fun - which is what arts and crafts are about.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Wed 03 May 21:54:06

It's a beauty Adele

Posted by Dermot Brennan on Mon 08 May 09:46:27

Thank you Dermot.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Mon 08 May 10:28:07

Amazing work ... and you have used felt...so original!

Posted by Lucy Grinchik on Wed 17 May 14:41:37

Thank you Lucy - glad you like it.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Wed 17 May 21:27:47

Wow Adele, this is amazing!

Posted by Teresa Allen on Tue 20 Jun 21:15:01

Glad you like it Teresa.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Tue 20 Jun 21:25:47

Hang on Studio Wall

21/04/2017

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Medium - Fibre Art on Felt - Size - Approx. 14" x 11". I couldn't resist this vibrantly coloured flamingo which I had downloaded from Pixaby. I have subdued it a little (artistic licence) because it was a little too bright for me. Only the second fibre art painting I have done and a real challenge for me as I wanted to show the feathers - simple I thought, thinking of paint applications, only this isn't paint! I shall now have to take out the vacuum cleaner and clear up all the fibres which are clinging to everything. How can so little go such a long way?

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Adele Elgood

When I was a young girl my parents had a large mirror which had an etching of a "crinoline lady" on. I would spend hours copying this. In the 1960's when I was at Secondary school, I was told to give up painting and drawing as I was useless and would never be any good. Following these words of…

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