3rd in Best of Show at Spanish Moss Miniature Exhibition!

I'm so excited to share that I have won my very first cash award in a miniature art exhibition!  My "Mother Hen", a 4"x4" acrylic painting on clayboard, took 3rd place at the Spanish Moss Miniature Art Exhibit.  It's at the Southern Gallery in Mobile, AL. 

Inspirational

So if you could only visit one more location, and then had to remain in your home town forever, where would you go?

I think I'd choose to tour a castle.  I've only ever visited Windsor Castle and The Tower of London.  I think I would choose to tour a big, ancient castle that is no longer fit for today's coddled royalty - something out of the middle ages, where I could imagine King Arthur and Lancelot jousting in the courtyard.

The best part about my studio - storage space!!

WIP Update

I now have a studio!  It's not real exciting LOOKing, but just to have a big closet to store frames and substrate supplies in - and to be able to hook my computer up to the printer - and not carry it over every time I need to print something....I'm in a happy place!

Here's an update on my Neuschwanstein castle painting.  As luck would have it, Yahoo recently posted a photo of the same castle on its news feed, declaring it to be the most beautiful castle in the world.  And here, I was just picking it from the photos Cliff brought back from his trip to Germany.  This piece is just 11"x14", and it's on art board, which has a pretty deep tooth.  So I don't have an EXACT duplicate of what the castle looks like in real life.  There are places where I just couldn't fit every detail.  I want to finish this piece by Sat., because Cliff's friend, the one who lives in Germany and hosted his visit in Oct., is coming to visit us.  I'd love to be able to show it to him....Wish me luck!

Works in Progress

This is my current work in progress.

It's not progressing very fast.

This is my other work in progress...probably the reason my castle is still just an outline.  I decided to kick my kids out of their tv room and turn the space into my art studio.  (I have been working out of a corner of our bedroom until now, and when Cliff works mid shifts he comes home and sleeps till noon, so I haven't been able to use my studio much on those days.  Well, all that is about to change...if I can just get things to progress!

Good Day!

Look at the sunrise that greeted me this morning!  Some days it's just SO worth it to wake up early!  Any of my blogging friends who paint skies, or need a colorful reference for a background, please feel free to grab these photos.  And have a blessed day, all!

That's Dulles International Airport on the horizon in the last photo.

Thrilled in Piedmont!

I am so honored to share that I'm one of the featured artists in the winter issue of The Piedmont Virginian magazine!  Along with nine other local miniature artists, I am sited as one "of Piedmont's best painters of miniatures."  How exciting!

 

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Tanked

"Tanked"

4"x6" gouache and colored pencil on gesso board

I think I'm ready to call this one finished..for now.  I'm planning to enter this one into the Spanish Moss Miniature show in Alabama.  Entries are due Jan. 25 if anyone else wants to enter!

Next up, that castle in the sunset that you all helped  me choose a few posts back!