Roses from Harrogate

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Nice adele. Is it done on an actual plate or have you trimmed the paper?

Posted by Paul Hardy on Fri 06 May 11:20:26

Love the colour Adele beautiful framed.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Fri 06 May 13:18:53

Beautiful Adele

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Fri 06 May 13:21:04

It has a dimensional feel and beautiful colour Adele.

Posted by John Graham Inkson on Fri 06 May 13:30:57

Lovely rich colours, Adele.

Posted by Ellen Mooney on Fri 06 May 15:03:36

Beautifully formed Adele!

Posted by Sarah Bottjer on Fri 06 May 16:33:43

Lovely work Adele, keep going.

Posted by Alan Bickley on Fri 06 May 18:28:17

Thanks everyone for those comments. I mount and frame my own paintings Paul and I cut an oval mountboard for this one. I usually photograph my paintings and edit out the frame and mountboard but whilst I could edit out the frame on this one I had to leave in the mountboard due to the shape.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Fri 06 May 18:29:27

Most certainly A rose Adele and a beautifully painted one too.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Fri 06 May 19:54:52

Adele which mount do you use?

Posted by Carole Swingler on Sat 07 May 09:58:31

Thanks Fiona. Not always so good at naming flowers that are a little different. Carole, I get A2 Daler-Rowney Mountboard from the SAA - they also do A1. Quite an extensive range of colours.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Sat 07 May 10:20:52

I's gorgeous.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Sun 19 Jun 15:58:36

Glad you like it Margaret and thank you.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Sun 19 Jun 16:34:25

Hang on Studio Wall

06/05/2016

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Open Acrylics - Well I think they are roses! Went to the Harrogate Flower Show several years ago and took this photo. This was one of the first paintings I did with the open acrylics and it was more a trial than anything. Was a looser style than I normally do for flowers.

About the Artist

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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