Signature Status

I'm IN!!!! Yeah!!!

I submitted three matted paintings to the Central Ohio Watercolor Society (c.O.W.S.) jury process on Saturday. This is a tough group to get in to. Applications for membership are only offered once a year. I left the paintings with the jury about 1pm, and was to return at 4 to pickup my paintings. There were approximately 10 applicants this year. I did get a chance to peek at my competition. I thought I had a good chance.

My former teacher (Charlie) who was on the jury, later confided in me that I was in and that I had one of the top scores! He wasn't supposed to tell, but have to wait for the official letter in the mail.... Of the 10 people trying to get in, 3 made it.

Now I can add the c.O.W.S. to my signature on my paintings!!! How fitting on my painting of the cattle!

Last Walk of October

Hoover Mudflats Boardwalk

High and dry.....

Last Harvest

Painting of the Week - 'The Boys with Calf'

Painting of the Week - 'Malabar Pony'

Painting of the Week - 'Punkins'

Quotes

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Maureen Dowd

If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit

Malabar Farm State Park

In the rolling countryside of Richland County, Louis Bromfield, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and dedicated conservationist, created his dream -- Malabar Farm. Inspired by his love of the land, Bromfield restored the rich fertility of the farmlands and preserved the beauty of the woodlands. He built a 32-room country home, where his family, friends and neighbors could share the pleasure of life on the farm.

Malabar Farm was built in 1939 and was his home until his death in 1956. On May 21, 1945, Bromfield hosted Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall's wedding and honeymoon at Malabar Farm.

Holding up the wall?

Painting of the Week - Clifton Gorge

Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve

Painting of the Week - Dinner

Another tomato painting? This time, sliced - with toast and bacon......

Highbanks Metro Park

Spent the evening taking nature shots. These are the best of the lot.

This one was taken with my new cell phone camera. Not bad, but I had the settings wrong and couldn't keep my hand steady.

Back on track

Simple subject, but am happy with my technique this week.

Back to Square One

Well, not happy with last night's painting. BLAH...Things just turned into mud..

Quick Studies

Here is last night's work. Just a couple of quick paintings to work on technique.

Hopefully this is the last sunflower I will paint. This was an attempt at a looser style of the same composition as last week's sunflower.

This one is still my favorite - from June 2007:

Fun Time Killer - Where have you been?

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Sunflowers

Painting of the week.
Not quite what I wanted to achieve.

Girl with Bike

This week's class painting. Needs more work, but not sure I will do anything to it.

Ladies Lunch

This week's painting. This was done under one hour. Stan lectured and did a demo, so our time was limited. I seem to work better under a time contraint.

Feeder Cattle

This week's class painting. I really like this one!