Art Center Merit Show

When I won

Best of Show at the all member show awhile back

I was so thrilled and shocked.

It earned me a position in this months Merit Show,

along with the first, second and third place winners.

Last night was the long awaited reception and

 it was a great success!

All four of us have 3 panels of work each, on exhibit

for the month of August.

I had so much fun meeting everyone,

talking to other artists etc.

I had 6 watercolors and 4 art dolls in the show.

All four art dolls sold before I left the reception.

I got to meet and talk to the people who purchased the art dolls.

Doing that is something I always enjoy.

Here are the Keepers of the Secrets I and II,

each sold separate.

Karen and I are standing by

Peace be Still

who sold right off the bat

to a woman from San Antonio.

My friend Karen (who is an artist in her own right),

 her husband Steve, (in the yellow shirt)

and my husband (in the blue shirt) attended the show,

and I was so happy they could be there with me.

My husband took this photo of me with my friend Laura

 (who is a wonderful fiber artist and is shown here

in the orangey/rusted hand dyed shirt),

with 2 more of her friends, who came to see the show.

Thanks for being there ladies.

Also thanks to Happy and her husband for coming too.

The crowd was wonderful, as you can see.

We had a band, food and great fun.

The art is wonderful here!

One of the other featured artists was

Narice Hopp.

Narice's work reveals some Mexican Folk Art influence.

I love her assemblage work

as those and her paintings

are filled with color and humor.

Here she is wearing her googly eyed necklace.

Too funny!

Lynn Dickey and Pat Dittberner 

were the other 2 featured artists at the Merit Show.

Lynn paints in oils and also does pottery work.

Pat does some wonderful drawings and other

contemporary art paintings.

Congrats to all for a successful showing.

Thanks goes out to the Art Center for the Islands

and to Mary Rose, the director,

who always does such a wonderful job.

Savor the Day!

Yvonne

"Imagine Peace" painted and dyed fabric

For Paint Party Friday

I am sharing

Imagine Peace.

It is hand dyed fabric and also

 painted with oil pastels

and watercolor crayons.

I also used paper fabric, beads

and free motion quilting.

The face was painted on a piece of muslin

with watercolor crayons.

Here it is pinned to my design board.

Below is a close up of the face.

I sewed leaf beads around part of her forehead.

The next picture shows detail at the bottom.

I stenciled the words on with oil pastels.

The little butterfly on the 'A' is just stamped on.

I stenciled/stamped/painted on some flowers here and there,

and some tiny blue birds in the canopy of the tree.

The stars are stenciled and then I used metallic thread on top

to bring them out a bit more.

The tree goddess roots and canopy

form the peace symbol,

as shown in the first picture above.

This fiber art piece will be entered in a show

in September for the Fiber Art Society

that I belong to.

The show is

"Much Made from Small Pieces" A World View.

This piece measures 24 inches by 34 inches.

To see more PPF art

click on the PPF logo in my sidebar.

Savor the Day!

Yvonne



Wu-Yi tea and musings

Happy Tea on Tuesday!

This morning I am enjoying a cup

of zesty lemon tea made by

the Wu-Yi Tea Co. out of Austin, Tx.

I found the hand painted lidded cup

and the linens while thrifting

awhile back.

Wu-Yi tea is named after the Wu-Yi mountains in China. 

 This is said to be some of the most sought after tea in the world.

I love their blue leaf logo.

I always drink hot tea early in the morning.

Then I switch to iced tea. 

Most tea I drink is decaf or herbal teas.

To read more tea posts,

visit Kimmie at

http://artinredwagons.blogspot.com/

You will also find lots of creative items

when you visit Kimmie's blog

and Etsy shop.

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MUSINGS

Well, tropical storm Don was a dud,

so we are still in a drought, big time.

The so called eye went right over

us here at Baffin Bay.

We were so hoping for some rain,

but not this time. 

We are still in hurricane season

until November 1st.

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The Art Center for the Islands director told me yesterday

that the Barefoot show and sale was a success.

I took my Merit show items over

and picked up what I didn't sell at the Barefoot show,

which was only a few things.  Yippee!

Now the reception for my Merit Show

will be August 5th.

I'm so excited!

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Soon I will be attending

another plein-air watercolor event,

out of town.

My instructor Dolores Price will be there

 and will be giving a demo.

The day includes a salad luncheon.

It should be lots of fun!

Future photos here!

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Savor the Day!

Yvonne