Shakespeare's Birthplace

Shakespeare's Birthplace
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Such a great place to visit, and a very well drawn sketch Adele.

Your sense of direction sounds a lot like mine, Adele. If this is anything to go by you ARE getting to grips with watercolour as you say you'd like to. Not overworked, lots of variation in the tones, and I like all the different ways you've done the windows, darker at the bottom and lighter/bluer where they're nearer to the sky. Nice dark darks too. When all is said and done (groan), a very accomplished piece of work.

Thank you Alan and Caroline. Still not too comfortable doing watercolour, but will try some more.

Nothing wrong with your watercolours Adele. This is a really well drawn and painted piece of work.

Beautiful, excellent artwork

Thank you Fiona and Jenny.

Beautiful work, Adele.

Well painted - I would find all that woodwork would a bit daunting but you've pulled it off so well.

This is fantastic I remember it well.

Thank you for your encouraging remarks John, Cesare, Michael and Donna. Especially as I find watercolour so hard.

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10/05/2016
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Pen/Ink/Watercolour - Most of you will recognise this iconic building (hopefully). Visited my sister and brother-in-law in Stratford-upon-Avon about 3 years ago and I went off to take some photos whilst my husband waited for them to arrive. They all had to come and "rescue" me as I got lost on the way back!

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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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