It was a big surprise when I've found out that "Finding Felicity" won in the CPAL Featured Artist Contest. It's my first time winning in the expert category and with a Canson/Bruynzeel award to go along with it. Yay!
Here's a very nice review from a distinguished artist: "Mother love in the most beautiful way! I love this! She's so vast and sweet, her cub so cute and trusting. Clambering all over mom's back. Beautiful color harmony and exquisite composition, great rendering, I could wander through this painting for hours. Love the perfect textures and anatomy. you captured the softness of her fur under her chin, the stiff whiskers, the cub's soft flexible paw, everything has such depth and richness! The greens in the background form a good impression of the forest without distracting from the tigers, the key on the log in the foreground is a potent symbol. They're free, they're not locked up, the key theirs. Wonderful little gothic touch to a glorious nature painting. I love it." ---Robert A. Sloan
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"Ecstatic Melancholy" 12x18 inches colored pencil on stretched canvas CP: Koh-I-Noor, Polychromos, Lyra, and Van Gogh Photo ref courtesy of Shelley Ashkowski People gaze at an artwork, some in admiration and some in disapproval, yet many are unaware of the difficulties an artist have to endure behind each and every creation. I am an artist and I know that it takes more than just inspiration to create art; blood, sweat, and tears perhaps is more appropriate. To be able to fulfill their passion for art, some artists have to overcome physical, mental, emotional, or financial struggles—of which I have my own fair share. This is a tribute to all artists who, in spite of all the obstacles that bound them, still strive to do what they love even if only within the limits of their abilities and resources. The ambitious project has now come to completion. The whole year of going through the difficulties and overcoming the challenges of working with a large scale colored pencil artwork on canvas was all worth it. I've started with nothing but colored pencils and a dream, in time, I've gained knowledge and experience that broadens my understanding about art and colored pencil. Finishing this is like earning an art degree for myself, a diploma that I never had.
I'm having a fabulous time exploring the wonderful world of colored pencils! |
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