Sunday, January 24, 2010

Parasites



My daughter Sarah and I posing in front of the painting "Parasites" which won Best of Show at the Arizona Watercolor Association Spring Exhibition 2009. It also won Best of Show at The Contemporary Watercolorists of Arizona 37th Annual Exhibition in October of 2008. This painting is transparent watercolor and watercolor crayon on 140# Arches Cold Press. The juror for the AWA exhibit was Betsy Dillard Stroud DF, AWS, NWS. These are her notes on "Parasites":

- strength in rhythm -

- content strong.. -

- content is implicit & inherent in technique -

- unpredictablility of organization is a real plus -

- excitement comes from movement! -

- different -

- suggestive so allows a visual dialogue -

8 comments:

  1. Your work is fabulous! Congratulations on the award and Betsy's evaluation. You look very proud of your beautiful daughter.

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  2. I have truly enjoyed scrolling down your blog. Your work is beautiful - it is no surprise you won.

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  3. Thanks for the nice comments Kathy and Dan. Yes Kathy I'm the proud father of five daughters and one son. It's a busy life.

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  4. am glad you stopped by my blog--- I juried the Arizona w/c assoc. show a few years ago-- good show and congrats. my husband's family lives in Tucson and I will be traveling down there this coming week for the Gem and rock show-- though I am mostly interested in the rocks and fossils.
    congrats for a good painting

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  5. Thanks Donna! I've admired your work for some time. What a joy to find your blog. Thanks for the nice comments.

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  6. Stan, I just found your blog thru your comments on Kathy's blog. Congratulations on your successes with this wonderful painting. I will now be checking out more of your work while becoming a Stan Kurth follower... -Don

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  7. Thanks Don. I've been following your comments on Kathy's blog as well. Do you have a blog and/or website?

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  8. Hi Stan...
    My website is http://www.donmichaeljr.com
    My blog is http://www.donmichaeljr.com/blog

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