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Oil painting of Tucker Bayou in warm tones, stylized from photo app, www.joanvienot.com

I am pleased to report that both of the paintings I entered in the A+Art 2014 Top of the Class Juried Show were accepted. It is a beautiful show of only 37 works, juried from 85 entries. The juror and judge was Brian Jekel, an instructor at Pensacola Christian College. It is an honor to be showing alongside the works of Susan Lucas, Charlotte Arnold, Melody Bogle, Heather Clements, Donnelle Clark, Lynn Wilson, Ann Welch, and Theresia McInnis, the award winners and honorable mentions, and beside the many other talented artists whose work was accepted, all members of the Local Arts Agency, Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County. McInnis won Best in Show with ‘Bromeliads Gone Wild’, winning the $500 Trustmark Bank Award and a solo show of her own in 2015. Lucas won the Livingston Financial Planning $250 Award of Merit, Clements won the Watercolor UPS Store $250 Award of Merit, and Arnold won the Hidden Lantern Bookstore $250 Award of Merit. The show will be exhibited at the South Walton Center of Northwest Florida State College in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, until May 30, 2014. Hours are M-F, 9:00 to 4:00.

Oil painting of the dune forest and the rose-tinted grasses bordering Western Lake in Grayton Beach State Park, Florida — Grayton Beach Rosy Grasses, 12 x 36 x 3/4 framed oil painting on stretched canvas.

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We had a live model posing for the portrait workshop I am taking from Charlotte Arnold, and for our final drawing this week we had the luxury of a longer pose. When I am figure drawing, I need to try to get the whole figure drawn, or at least much of it as I can, which doesn’t allow much time on any one part of the body. So getting more than 30 minutes to draw just a face in the portrait workshop was extraordinary. The drawing is still unfinished because I spent the whole time on the face.

At our figure drawing session at Studio b. this week, we returned to the shorter poses and a familiar model. I was able to capture bits and pieces of a likeness of her face, but only in a rough and hurried fashion, nothing worth showing. But that showed me I am making progress with the portrait workshop I am taking. I have posted only one drawing from the session, a simple one, just lines, one that captured the essence of that particular pose.

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Acceptance into A+Art 2014 Top of the Class Juried Show

The Luxury of A Longer Pose