I got a letter yesterday - “Congratulations! Your art has been accepted in Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2010 at The State Museum June 27 – September 12. There were only 150 works chosen from 2,076 entries.”
This watercolor painting is a scene from Columbia, PA, coming down from Chickies Rock.
I painted this because of a remark made by a teacher at a workshop I took. John Salminen, a very well known artist, had looked at one of my other paintings (a schoolbus) and remarked that I’d made a mistake, I should have made the road equal on both sides of the white line. He explained that the uneven road in my photo was probably caused by camera distortion. I snorted.
“John,” I asked, “have you every been to Pennsylvania?” It wouldn’t matter where it was, he explained, roads were the same all over the country. I don’t think he’s been to Pennsylvania - our roads are a bit different. I’m just going to paint what I see. If my roads seem uneven, it’s not camera distortion, it’s life as usual, in Pennsylvania.
Congratulations Debi! It is really good news to hear that you are doing so well with your shows and it sounds like you are staying very busy. You just keep painting what you see because it is working well for you -lol.