SUNFLOWERS AT THETFORD MILL - Famous for Willie Lott's Cottage - Constable Country!!!

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Super work Adele, especially the leaves, and great story!

Posted by Frank Bingley on Thu 09 Jun 17:00:41

Love the leaves

Posted by Peter Loft on Thu 09 Jun 17:03:35

Very famous sunflowers Adele and well painted

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Thu 09 Jun 17:14:39

lovely sunflowers Adele and leaves excellent

Posted by David Harrison on Thu 09 Jun 17:15:49

Super league Adele. The way you have captured the damaged leaves is skilled and accomplished.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Thu 09 Jun 17:31:45

Beautiful sunflowers Adele, love the varied shades and shapes.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Thu 09 Jun 19:15:18

Lovely Adele, as already said "the leaves are great"

Posted by David Johns on Thu 09 Jun 19:26:00

Adele these are beautiful and perfect - I can't do a flower to save my life !!!

Posted by Donna Crane on Thu 09 Jun 20:12:37

Superb Adele, I love sunflowers they always make me smile and so did these.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Thu 09 Jun 21:02:07

Thanks everyone for these lovely comments. Took me quite a while to paint as I kept leaving it. Pleased it's now finished.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Thu 09 Jun 21:19:03

Lovely bright painting Adele like it.

Posted by dennis roberts on Thu 09 Jun 22:44:50

Thank you Dennis.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Fri 10 Jun 09:25:50

Love the colour in this, Adele! The Seedhead in the main flower is different from the others and is a lovely touch! Your nibbled leaves add character and interest to the plant and the veins and different greens , blues and yellows in them are great! Like Fiona, Sunflowers make me smile. I am Beaming back at these!!!!

Posted by Jennifer Alsop on Sat 11 Jun 01:46:17

Thank you for your kind comments Jennifer - I absolutely love Sunflowers.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Sat 11 Jun 09:11:53

I like it that you're not afraid to go dark, lots of impact, I do love a sunflower!

Posted by Caroline Greene on Sat 11 Jun 09:27:16

These are a radiant bunch of sunflowers Adele. Lovely work.

Posted by Sarah Bottjer on Sat 11 Jun 10:05:08

Thank you Caroline and Sarah. I think the bright yellow always make people feel happy - like the sun shining.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Sat 11 Jun 21:19:45

Fantastic work and splendid colour.

Posted by Christopher Russell on Mon 20 Jun 17:01:36

Thanks Christopher.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Tue 21 Jun 09:04:32

Hang on Studio Wall

09/06/2016

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This old codger plus her hubby was on holiday touring around Wiltshire, saw a sign for Thetford and instantly recognised it for the home of the famous painting by Constable?? Asking the bemused residents where the famous Mill was and not receiving any useful information, I texted our daughter who is attached to internet facilities by an invisible umbilical cord. Flatford Mill was the place we were looking for. OF COURSE! a senior moment experienced by both of us. Funnily enough I was more enamoured by the sunflowers than the cottage! Open Acrylics.

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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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