Flower Copied From Billy Showell

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Beautifully painted Adele, the leaves have lovely markings.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Mon 30 May 22:20:57

Well accomplished Adele.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Mon 30 May 22:26:01

Great leaves..

Posted by Peter Loft on Mon 30 May 23:16:50

Nicely done Adele, great colour graduation and blending showing the folds of the petals. Really great viewing and colour on the leaf giving real structure, smashing little painting.

Posted by Malcolm Buckley on Tue 31 May 11:35:19

Thank you Carole, Michael, Peter and Malcolm.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Tue 31 May 18:05:23

Lovely work Adele.

Posted by Sarah Bottjer on Tue 31 May 21:20:32

Thank you Sarah.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Tue 31 May 21:44:38

super subject and so well painted

Posted by Michael Edwards on Wed 01 Jun 07:48:40

Very good indeed!

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Wed 01 Jun 08:37:09

Thank you Michael and Gudrun.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Wed 01 Jun 09:59:29

Beautifully painted Adele. I have two books of Billy's which really inspire me.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Sun 19 Jun 15:57:05

Thank you Margaret, she is a wonderful artist.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Sun 19 Jun 16:35:09

Absolutely beautiful, Adele!!

Posted by heather adams on Fri 01 Jul 18:13:45

Thank you Heather.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Fri 01 Jul 21:00:57

Hang on Studio Wall

30/05/2016

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Open Acrylics on watercolour paper - I saw the original of this painting in an art magazine some time ago and I fell in love with it. It was by Flower Painter Billy Showell and I bought the book it was taken from.

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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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