It’s always a wait and see process when entering adjudicated art shows. I recently submitted the following three pieces to the Sidney Fine Art Show for review to see if I was accepted into their prestigious Oct. 14-16 show. The first piece is a photograph I took from my car window this past summer. I loved the old world feel of the scene but wanted to make it even more atmospheric so I got out my acrylic paints and started painting. This was the only one of the three that was accepted into the show but considering they had well over a thousand submissions I’m thrilled. I’ll have these and other works on display for the month of October at the Mocha House in the Cook Street village where I was invited to hang my work.
FALL PICKUP
BEAUTY IN ALL THINGS
This shot was to be of a beautiful lush green cabbage I spotted at the grocery store but accidentally forgot in my crisper until I smelled something (let’s not go there)…anyways, I pulled it out and still found it so beautiful, especially after I peeled back a few of the most rotten cabbage leaves and saw something of a heart before my eyes in an amongst all the beautiful texture of the peeling leaves.
PASSION AFTER THE BLOOM
Sometimes flowers maintain a beauty after they wither and die and that’s exactly what I saw in this collection of the remaining old blooms from a bouquet that had given me so much pleasure that I didn’t want to see it go. However, I couldn’t bring back the sentiment of the bouquet until I added paint to it and worked it into a lush frothiness of warm sensuality, hence the title.
