Did that Really Happen?
Carmel on Canvas Plein Air Competition September, 2018
Carmel, IN
1st Place
Painting in Carmel was quite the adventure and a quite yet bustling place I would like to visit again. It was HOT! I finished 3 paintings over 2 days that I turned in for prizes and sales. No sales but I did pick up some nice recognition! I also competed in a quick paint with only 1.5 hours to paint in a farmers market. That really pushed me to work fast and only worry about the important parts.
Northbrook Plain Air Festival
I experienced a multitude of distractions trying to accomplish finishing two paintings worth turning in: rain, a grease truck blocking me, weather and work. I learned so much hanging out with my painting buddies and made a few new friends with some very accomplished artists.
Art Created at this even is for sale in Northbrook, IL!
Reception: Sunday, November 18th
2-4pm
Northbrook Historical Society
1776 Walters Avenue Northbrook, IL
Come see 100+ paintings from the 2018 Northbrook Plein Air Painting Festival at the Northbrook Historical Society. From 2-4 you can view and purchase paintings from the event and celebrate Northbrook’s 117th birthday! FREE EVENT.
https://www.facebook.com/NorthbrookArts/
It’s that time of year!
Looking for a unique gift for that someone special?
There are two events I will be exhibiting in this December.
Saturday, December 8th
Sunday, December 9th – Bucktown Holiday Art Show
Hoslstein Park Field House – 2200 N Oakley Chicago, IL
12 – 5pm – Free Admission
JoyKo • go small
Original mini paintings created by Rachel Joyce and Karen Sako – all under $100!!!
December 15h – Aeon Gallery Holiday Event
10331 Main Street Richmond, IL
12 – 11pm – Free Admission
All art 10% OFF!
I have my work in the Rapture 2 Show and will have a few other paintings available.
More information on both exhibits on the EVENTS page.
Starline Factory
Honorable Mention
Mixed Media – Oil +Cold wax Medium
Arrival
12″ x 16″
Mixed Media + Oil + CWM
Getting ready for my first big plein air event in Milwaukee, WI with two of my good painting buddies.
Saturday, July 14th – Friday, July 20th
Quick Paint is Sunday, July 15th 3:00 – 6:00 along the Riverwalk at Water St. and Buffalo St., outside of Blue Bat Kitchen
Norris Art Gallery
Annual MCS Members Show
Remembrance
30″ x 30″
Mixed Media Collage
Thank You for this honor Judge Susan Bartlett
Comments: A striking piece from afar that depicts light versus darkness. Upon looking closer the haunting colors have many hidden moments that are inspired by the texture of the paper and the strokes of color.
Congratulations to all the winners!!!
I was so impressed by the creative and diverse use of collage in this show.
The MCS has over fifty members from Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Most members reside in the Chicago area. All members are professional artists who exhibit regularly in urban and suburban galleries. Many exhibit in other states, and a few exhibit internationally. The backgrounds of our members are varied, and range from those with graduate training in the fine arts to the self-taught. Many work in fields outside of the art-related professions. The diverse experience of our members is one of the Midwest Collage Society’s greatest assets, and has contributed to our growth.
https://midwestcollagesociety.blogspot.com
Spring has sprung and plein air season has begun! I am making a point to designate time each week to get outside and paint with friends. It takes a lot of practice and dedication.
I am honored to be critiquing the Spring Member Show for the Lake County Art League this May.
My recent artwork is currently in 4 exhibition in Schaumburg, St. Charles, Righmond and Chicago Heights. Please check out the events page for more information and I hope to see you at a show!
Insights 2018
Addison Center for the Arts
Honorable Mention
Bewilderment
10″ x 10″
Mixed Media Pastel
By using soulful marks and energetic colors it is possible to feel the joy, the mystery, the whimsy and the enchantment of the everyday people of our time.
Naperville Art League
Hidden Detail – April 2018
What an honor to be awarded Best of Show!!!
Remembrance
30″ x 30″ Mixed Media, oil + cwm
Remembrance of who I thought I would become came back with startling clarity as I read an old story I wrote in second grade. Hidden in that first layer of collage is my handwritten story of my predicted futuristic city. Using the accompanying drawing as inspiration, I play with the contrast of then and now by using multiple transparent layers of paint creating an ethereal wistfulness. Somewhere inside that lost curiosity, the traces of who I was leads me to who I can still become.
Sometimes… things just don’t work out. This painting was first created for a show with The Midwest Collage Society called Remnants and Remembrances. Found lost in a dark corner of a forgotten drawer, I discovered an old story describing my futuristic city. Written when I was about eight years old, it was inspiring to see my handwritting and I was astonished that it was accompanied by a drawing. The first layer of the design used altered copies of the story and the drawing. I threw everything and the kitchen sink into it: molding paste, crackle paste, glass bead gel and oil paint. The finished painting was too wet to deliver to the show so I had to back out. That is when I realized how horribly wrong it had gone. I struggled and fought the nature of the design becoming desperate to make it work. Driven almost to madness, I ran out to the nearest hardware store and bought an oribital sander. Power tools can be quite liberating. Obliterating layers with the sander outside of the studio I felt that fun childlike excitement building when I saw the face emerging from the the shadows. Pleased, I entered it in a show where it was awarded a ribbon. Wow, someone likes it! Casually observing it over months while it hung on wall I grew more and more dissatisfied. I decided to read my story again and let the words and the drawing guide the design. Scratching out layers of oil paint to bring back that first layer of collage I started feeling content. Here is the before and after which truly holds remnants and remembrances.
February 27, 2019
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