WOW and DOUBLE WOW!

The Leesburg Art Show was a great success. It was held the same time as the annual Leesburg City Art Festival. The Festival was held in the city streets and spots were paid for by the art vendors.

The Leesburg Art Show was held in the Center For The Arts building and of course both events were juried (by different judges). Needless to say, artists are nosy critters and always take the time to view other artists works and techniques.

Well, here is where the WOW and DOUBLE WOW comes in ------- I WON THE "PEOPLES CHOICE" ribbon.........that is the one where everyone votes by secret ballot the painting that they like best.......I WON! I still cannot believe it. Oh yes, I also won an Honorable Mention for the painting as well. I prize the Honorable Mention ribbon because I was in the company of some great, well known artists that have been around a long time and have the credentials to prove it.

But most of all I prize the PEOPLES CHOICE because that was the choice of everyone that saw the show (other artists as well).

Enough tooting my own horn now!! Just tried something new,,,,take freezer paper, (you know like you wrap meat in for the freezer) tape it to a hard surface....get liquid acrylic or water color...be sure it is soupy and start putting drops of it on the paper--hold the hard surface up and watch the paint slide down the paper..put another drop (different color) next to the first one and there it goes again...after you have lots of drops and lots of color...draw a straight line across part of the streaks and put drops on that straigt line.....JUST PLAY...it is fun and sometimes you get a stained glass look that is beautiful.

Gotta' go -