 I've been dabbling in oils and taking photos for years, self-taught like many artists and photographers. Then, for the past couple of years, I've taken watercolor lessons. The watercolor medium is much harder than painting with oils, pastels, or acrylics, although all mediums, including mixed media, are represented among my art work (no photographs though).
I've been lucky enough to have a painting accepted into all five of the juried shows I've entered. I've won third place twice in 2011. Subsequently, each hung in an art gallery for over a month each time. My paintings have also hung twice for at least a month each time, at the John F. Kennedy Community Center in Florissant, Missouri; in multiple art shows at St. Peters Community & Art Center in Missouri; at an art gallery in Chesterfield, Missouri for 2 months; and have hung twice, for 6 months each time, at the David C. Pratt Cancer Center in the St. Louis area.
Some originals and giclees are currently hanging in Dardenne Prairie's new City Hall (St. Louis area) until September 2011, at St. Peters Art Center located in a huge facility at City Hall, and at Creative Art Gallery in St. Louis. If you see something you like hanging at a City Hall, it can be taken down and shipped. However, the paintings hanging at Creative Gallery can be purchased, but must stay there through the end of May 2011.
Hope you enjoy viewing my work! If you don't want to invest in an original painting, consider a Giclee (shzee-clay). They are professionally done by a man who specializes in these special prints of art. Giclees use archival ink on archival paper or on canvas. His giclees are so good that when placed side by side with the original, it is virtually impossible to tell which is which. Giclees (when done well) are vastly superior to the lithographs/seriographs of the past, and allow more people to enjoy the same art.
I'm a member of Florida Watercolor Society (the largest Watercolor Society in the country), St. Peters Community & Art Center, Oak Leaf Artists Guild, and a Signature Member of the St. Louis Watercolor Society. |
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