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8/9/2017

Below, I'm addressing the most often asked questions in my gallery. If you have a question you'd like me to answer, please feel free to post it as a comment below.

Am I a living artist? So far!

Am I local to coastal Delaware? I've never seen what this has to do with the quality of art, but yes, I've lived in Delaware since 1962. That doesn't make me a "native" though. You have to be born here. My son's a native, so he's my claim to fame on this subject.

Are the images on this website and in the gallery photographs?
No. Although I will look at photographs occasionally when painting, particularly when painting a scene with specific architecture or lay of the land and when doing portraits, every one of my paintings is done "from scratch," a blank canvas or sheet of paper. Please refer to my Paintings in Progress page.

Is the man in the gallery Ellen? No. And yes, my manager does get asked this. If you want to see how high an eyebrow can go, just ask him that.

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Ellen Rice began painting as a small child, sitting across the dining room table from her mother, a Corcoran student who loved to volunteer her drawings for good causes.

Ellen’s first love was drawing ballerinas and horses, then family pets, portraits of her sisters and the many aspects of life around her. She won her first award in the sixth grade for a Maryland safety poster she created and sold her first painting as a sophomore in high school to a fellow art student. It was enough money to get a bus to her summer job in Rehoboth Beach.

Today one of the East Coast’s most collected artists, Ellen’s paintings are found in private homes and government and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad

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John

8/9/2017 10:49:10 am

Are personal portraits very expensive?

Susan

8/9/2017 10:53:47 am

It must surely depend on the size and medium.

Ellen

8/9/2017 11:03:36 am

It is relative. Size and medium go into it, as Susan says, but what it amounts to is how much detail is involved and how much time it takes to do it. A portrait with a plain background and only one subject, head, neck and shoulders, takes far less time than a full length portrait where not only a likeness to the person but the clothing and background are involved. The same applies if there are multiple subjects and complex backgrounds. I have a basic price list and work out from that, adding for complexity as needed. Please feel free to email me for more details.

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