And another acceptance

Dear Jeni,

Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that one or more of your entries have been chosen for inclusion in the 3rd Annual Lines, Shapes & Objects (June 2021) Online Juried Art Exhibition. 

Your participation in the competition is very much appreciated as it helped to ensure a diverse body of work from which selections were made.

Please visit the exhibition on our website starting tomorrow, June 5th, to see the exhibition winners and all the beautiful artwork that was selected for inclusion in the exhibition.

Award certificates will be sent to the winners no later than the 15th of the month. If you won Best in Show, your award payments will be sent via PayPal by the 15th. Best in Show winners will also receive an email in the Fall with the details for the Annual Group Show in Palm Springs in 2022.

Thank you again for your participation and sharing your talent with us.  We’re honored you chose Fusion Art.

Sincerely,

Chris & Valerie Hoffman

Fusion Art

Here was my submission, “Cloud Castles” Watercolor collage, 9.5×7.5 in mat to 12×10″. $65:

Fusion Art Waterscapes

Was delighted to get an email yesterday that my painting ‘Wiest Lake’ was included in the Fusion Art Waterscapes online exhibition. Thank you Chris and Valerie Hoffman!

Newer work #117

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1454 Cloud Castles. 9.5×7.5 Watercolor collage on foamcore in mat to 14×11. $65
Contains the poem:
Do not be afraid
to build castles in the clouds,
the sky is where we live.

A Forever home

Yes, it is possible to sell art during the pandemic.  A major collector saw one of my ‘Newer Work’ posts and decided to treat herself.  I’m not only blessed with the sale, but also the pic of the painting in its new Forever Home.  Although she says she might move things around.

The painting is called “Sky Comes Down”.

It contains the following haiku:
Sky comes down to us,
At every angle the rain
that might wash us clean.

Newer Work #98

Sometimes you just gotta love something….enough to let it show.

#1426 Blue Heart. Watercolor collage on foamcore, 7.5×5″ in mat to fit 10×8″ frame. $45. Free shipping.
Contains the words “Let your blue heart show through the haze”.

Newer work #96

Pretty apropos of the current situation.

#1424 “Without Darkness”. Watercolor collage on foamcore, 7.5×5 in mat to fit 10×8″ frame. $45, free shipping.
Contains the words “Without darkness we would not appreciate the light.”

Newer work #95

#1423 One Direction. Watercolor collage on foamcore, 7.5×5 in mat to fit 10×8″ frame. $45.
Contains the line: “When everything points in one direction.”

Newer work #93

A third collage from the batch I’m currently showing you.

#1408 “All the way up”, 7.5×5.5 in mat to fit 10×8″ frame.  $45.  Contains the poem:
Sky goes all the way
to eternity and back
and into our hearts.

Etsy store

Thought I’d fill part of the void by putting a few more things up on my Etsy store.  The Folded Flamingo was created for a lesson for a class I was teaching a few years ago, a repeat of one of my earlier watercolors.

 

La Mirada talk and demo

Last week I went to the monthly meeting of the La Mirada Art Club to talk about my work and demonstrate part of my process for them.  I was fortunate that one of the members agreed to take some pics of me working while I was assembling the refractured watercolor.

Here’s the empty room, just when I’d set up.

After having watched me brutally hack up my painting, I start by assembling the horizon. 

I usually am looking at the sky the ‘right way up’…..

…and I usually start with the top of the sky….

Now it’ starting to come together.

Sliding some deeper blue under other pieces.

Well folks, that’s all we have time for tonight.

This is the layout that I created at the demo, but I just picked up the pieces without marking their places.

This is the final product

The poem in it reads:

Dawn leaves me speechless

These gold and turquoise jewels

precious beyond words.