Rio Grande Gorge (collage) Christine has had 2 of her works juried into the 2nd Annual Springhouse Visual Arts Contest. The works are Rio Grande Gorge, a collage, and Charlotte's Cousin, a watercolor. The show will be on view at the Springhouse Worship and Arts Center from Nov 19, 2011 through Feb. 25, 2012. Charlotte's Cousin (watercolor) The opening reception and awards presentations will be Sat. Nov 19, 2011 from 7-9pm in The Gallery at Springhouse 14119 Old Nashville Hwy, Smyrna. TN. [email protected]
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Autumn Flight (collage) Christine's collage, Autumn Flight was awarded 2nd place in the TN Art League's Juried Theme Show "Autumn Song". The show is on exhibit through the month of October in the Poston Gallery on the 3rd floor of the TN Art League and Gallery's building at 808 Braodway, Nashville, TN. The galleries are open Tues-Fri from 11-3, and Sat, 10-4. 3 of my works have been accepted into the Pennyroyal Juried Art Exhibition sponsored by the Hopkinsville (KY) Art Guild.
Aerial View, was entered in the "experimental" category which includes abstract, collage, and non representational work, and recieved a 2nd place award. Also accepted into the show were Blue Crab, in the animal category, and Plumb Crooked in the landscape category. The show is at the Hopkinville Community College in the Auditorium Bldg. Art Gallery, 720 North Drive. The opening reception is Sunday, Sept.11 from 2-4pm. All are invited to attend. The show will be on exhibit through Thurs, Sept. 29, 2011. I have been invited to join the Studio A group and have begun showing my art work with them. You will find the group's work exhibited in the 2nd floor gallery and Studio A of the Tennessee Art League at 808 Broadway, Nashville, TN. The galleries are open Tues through Sat from 10 am until 4pm. (tha gallery is closed on Sundays and Mondays)
You are invited to join the First Saturday Art Crawl in downtown Nashville the first Saturday of every month from 6-9pm. There are free receptions for the TN Art League openings on all 3 floors of galleries......the crawls are fun events and there is even a free shuttle Plumb Crooked (watercolor) My watercolor "Plumb Crooked" was awarded the Betty Hairston (memorial) Award at the Arts Alive Gala celebbration May 14, 2011. McDuff II was also juried in to this show -- you can see a picture of him further down in the blogs. This is the 12th year in a row my work has been juried in to the Arts Alive Gallery Show in Florence, AL, an honor and streak I hope continues. The show will hang in the Kennedy Douglas Center for the Arts, 217 E. Tuscaloosa Street, in Florence, AL through June 17, 2011. While you are in Florence, stop by the University of N. AL and see Una and Leo the lion mascots -- you can see some photos of them on my photography page. 2 works juried into Janet Mason Art Museum's Biannual Juried Show 2011 April 29-June26,20114/26/2011 Christine has 2 works juried into the Biannual show at the Janet Mason Art Musem in Cadiz, KY, "Standing Tall" and "Aerial View".
The museum is located in downtown Cadiz, KY at 71 Main Street. The Building is a former WPA-era post office. The museum is open Tuesday - Saturday 10-4 and Sunday 1-4. Opening Reception is Friday April 29, 2011 from 6-8 PM Admission is free. 270-522-9056 [email protected] Along the Silk Road II, a collage by Christine was awarded second place in the TN Art League's current them show "Reflections of the Orient" This show is currently hanging on the first floor gallery of the TN Art League at 808 Broadway in downtown Nashville, TN. through mid-April. This current them show in March will complement the Japanese Doll traveling exhibit. And more good news -- this collage SOLD during the show! January found me in Florida again taking another collage workshop with Gerald Brommer. The workshop was great, as all his are, but the weather was fabulous too, especially since I left 16 degrees and snow in TN to head "souther" : ). The day after I got back home, more snow fell.....enough already!!! This has been a heck of a winter in the snow dept, but back to workshop blog -- we collaged papers and other things on to a support of illustration board, then gessoed the surface making everything white. On the white gessoed surface we then used watercolors to finish our designs, some abstract, and some realistic. I have lots of new starts and even more ideas of how to finish and/or make more collages. Now if i could just adhere papers to the surfaces as fast as i can dream up ideas. I am working on some totally new pieces and am reworking an old one. The old one is a rhino that i did in watercolor and now am collaging over the watercolor, changing my previous rhino from the kind with the really long horns to the variety that appears to be amored.....the old rhino had to loose the long horns in the process as the rhinos with the armor have a single rather short fat horn and not the long variety. Here is his "before" picture............. This is the watercolor I began to use for this project. I will post an "in progress" pic as soon as I get some more texture on him. You probably wont recognize him later. I enlarged the pic so you could more easily see the added textures. Note he has lost his big horn and now has only one small horn. I also enlarged his ears. I added a speckled paper to the background. On the rhino I added several different kinds of papers for the texture -- the brownish is a heavy weight paper with visible fiber strand texture. The white area on the rhino is a combination of white pebble textured papers, including some paper napkins. I used a combination of the paper napkins and plain tissue for the face. The heavy ridges of the armor plate edges and some of the folds of his skin are created using a thick cotton string. The finer ridges are rolled tissue paper. I left the watercolor area at the bottom section of the painting untouched for now. In the pic you can see I have gessoed over all of the rhino. Looking closely you can see the "bumps" on his armor on his side and parts if his leg. At this point you can still see remnants of the watercoloring on his face. I did not put gesso on the speckled backround paper as I want the speckles to show through more on the background than they would if a put gesso over them -- this could change later... I also did not put any gesso on the bottom section before i took the pic to make it easier for you to see the contrast between that and the rhino. After I took the picture, I did gesso over the watercolor at the bottom. Starting to look like a rhino in an explosion at the confetti factory : ) Since the last pic, I gessoed the lower "ground" portion of the painting. then added some paint -- I was not pleased with that, so I collaged more paper with a stringy texture in it over the painted gesso. I also added lots of layers of color to the rhino itself. There is more work to be done on the entire painting, but he is coming along and I am pleased with its progress to this point. The rhino's head wasnt big enough. While enlarging his head, it got very dark, so to lighten it to go with the rest of his body (that i liked) his face got a coat of thin gesso or thinned white acrylic paint. I also thought he looked mighty lonely so I gave him a couple yellow-bellied ox peckers to keep him company, and add a little interest to the composition. Here you can see I have repainted his face, lightening it up some to go better with his body coloring. Seeing Eye to Eye This is the final version. I have added some more paper that I colored with watercolor paint, and have tweaked a few other areas like the dark area of his neck, and shaded a few areas. I have also given him a title: Seeing Eye to Eye. I hope you have enjoyed the evolution of this layered paper with watermedia work. Doesnt look much like he did when he was just a watercolor! McDuff is a Scottish Highlander Steer that I met at Shaker Village in Harodsburg, KY when my some of my fellow Art Seen members took a little trip north to KY to paint and sketch and take pictures. McDuff is a very friendly fellow. He has very long hair. He is just too cute and personable not to paint. You will find McDuff I and his friend, Sylvia on my watercolor page. This painting was recently juried in to the Pennyroyal Juried Art Exhibition, fittingly in KY. This collage was included in the Tennessee Art League's "Small Works" theme show in the member gallery and sold after being exhibited for less than a week! It sure expresses how hot it was in Tennesee this past summer!!! If you are in the Nashville area, stop by the TENNESSEE ART LEAGUE at 808 Broadway and see all the galleries of art. Be sure to look for more of my work while you are there too : ) |
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