Back Street, Whitby, North Yorks

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I love Whitby, this picture has lots of charm.

Posted by Janet Humphrey on Mon 18 Apr 23:56:24

Good effort..

Posted by Manashree Bosom Mitra on Tue 19 Apr 06:06:28

A beauty Adele

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Tue 19 Apr 07:51:00

Perspective good, the figures are moving. Maybe the blues a little too strident against the other colours and variation on the path with some texture.

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Tue 19 Apr 09:03:36

Thanks everyone. Yes the bright blue is quite strident. And good point about the path. Maybe this may encourage me to try more watercolour. Although I do have two more which I will put on some time. Your advice is always appreciated.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Tue 19 Apr 16:45:13

nice

Posted by john hsu on Fri 10 Jun 23:59:52

Thank you John.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Sat 11 Jun 09:09:44

Hang on Studio Wall

18/04/2016

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I Love watercolour and it hates me. Chas persuaded me to paint this scene in watercolour. Trouble is I tried to handle it like oils and open acrylics. Chas likes it (but he is biased) . Any advice?

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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