Juried Member Show - Awards and Reception (Part Three) - all the paintings

Well, without further ado I will post now ALL the paintings from our juried show. Sorry the photos are not that good. One drawback of pastels is being unable to photograph them easily once they are under glass - too much glare, too much reflection. Some of these are taken at odd angles to avoid as much reflection as possible, or to avoid my own image reflected in the glass.

But I just take it as a sign that you really need to get yourself over to the Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach and see the show in person. Alas for working folks they are not normally open nights and weekends. However their doors will be open this Saturday because we have our FCPS general meeting there this coming weekend. Stop in and see the show!

Here are the paintings you will see, presented alphabetically by artist:

Barbara Adams - "Creek in the Park"

Barbara Adams - "February by the Creek"

Lyn Asselta - "Big Cloud"

Lyn Asselta - "Just After Dawn" (Third Place)

Lyn Asselta - "Sunny and Clear"

Janet Christenson - "Janet's Barn"

Debbie Cusick - "Misty Maritime Morning"

Debbie Cusick - "Savannah Sunrise"

Kay Deuben - "Solitude"

Kay Deuben - "Wading Tarpon Springs"

Wendy Deverieux - "East Point" (First Place)

Wendy Deverieux - "Just Over There"

Debra Fox - "Pleasant Day"

Donna Grasso - "Bullwinkle"

Donna Grasso - "Rocky"

Donna Grasso - "TaterTot"

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Linda Green - "Cross Creek Barn"

Betsey Hogan - "Step in the Right Direction"

Tish Hubbard - "Boat at Bunratty"

Tish Hubbard - "Water Lily"

Steve Johnson - "After the Rain at Boone Park"

Steve Johnson - "Solstice Storm"

(?? somehow don't seem to have photo of this one. Sorry Steve, will get it Saturday)

Steve Johnson - "South Creek Overflow" (Merit Award)

Sheri Lewis-Seals - "New Day,New Year" (Lyn Asselta Founder's Award)

Richard Lundgren - "Chinatown Bird Whisperer"

Richard Lundgren - "Embrace of Vines"

Patrick Mahoney - "Allis Doesn't Work Here Anymore"

Patrick Mahoney - "Backyard Geraniums"

Patrick Mahoney - "Last Day of Summer" (Second Place)

Marie Marfia - "A Little Help"

Marie Marfia - "Sure is Pretty"

Eve Miller - "Low Country Tranquility"

Eve Miller - "Nightfall Hunting Island" (Merit Award)

Eve Miller - "Summer"

Rebecca Pasko - "...and She Still Runs"

Rebecca Pasko - "A Patch of Blue"

Rick Petersen - "One Pair, Both Red" (Merit Award)

Rick Petersen - "Spring Reflections"

Cynthia Pierson - "Ximenez-Fatio House" (Merit Award)

Cynthia Pierson - "Handyman" (People's Choice Award)

Jackie Piontek - "Coral Reef"

Perry Russell - "Alice 1906"

Perry Russell - "Follow the Flow"

Perry Russell - "Low Country Tree"

Corinne Samuels - "Hijinx at the Helm" (Best in Show)

Corinne Samuels - "Kelsey"(People's Choice Award)

Christi Shatzel - "Perfect Day"

Christi Shatzel - "Near Racing Beach"

Christi Shatzel - "Mountain Grace"

Blair Strain - "Mad Madison"

Janelle Wagoner - "Lucy"

Carron Wedlund - "Lake Shoreline" 

Juried Member Show - Awards and Reception (Part Two) - the Winning Paintings!

(photo courtesy of John Cusick)

After spending about seven hours on the blog the other day I decided to take a break from blogging yesterday. But here is the next post finally - photos of our winning artists with their paintings! The artwork was amazing and I can see why our judge or juror, Ann Manry Kenyon, had this to say about our show:

Oh the pain of it all - to try to choose between all these lovely pieces.There are those shimmering with color that beg "pick me, pick me", yet the next painting's composition is exquisite. Each piece allows me a tiny peek inside the artist's soul...Alas, having been given my orders to chose only eight pieces, I agonized. For really each of the 76 pieces had their own element of Beauty.

(note the number 76 is for all those entered in the show, including those juried out, not the number actually hung).

The next post in the series will show *all* of the paintings that were hung in our show, including better shots of the winning works! Meanwhile, here again are our winners, this time with their winning paintings. Again a big congratulations to ALL of them.

Best of Show:

 ‘Hijinx at the Helm’, by Corinne Samuels

First Place:

 ‘East Point’ by Wendy Devarieux

Second Place:

 ‘Last Day of Summer’ by Patrick Mahoney

Third Place:

 ‘Just After Dawn’ by Lyn Asselta

Merit Awards:

‘Nightfall Hunting Island’ by Eve Miller

‘South Creek’ by Steve Johnson

‘One Pair, Both Red’ by Rick Peterson

‘Ximenez-Fatio House’, by Cindy Pierson

Lyn Asselta Founders Award:

            ‘New Day, New Year’ by Sherri Lewis-Seals

People’s Choice Awards:

            ‘Handyman’ by Cindy Pierson

‘Kelsey’ by Corinne Samuels

Stay tuned for the next installment. 

Juried Member Show - Awards and Reception (Part One)

(photo courtesy of John Cusick)

Friday night was certainly a great occasion for all those who made it to our third annual Juried Member Show awards ceremony and reception. In fact the event was so awesome that one mere blog post just can't do it justice, and so I think I will have to break it up into multiples - maybe three will do it. You'll just have to hold your breath to see the artwork. The artwork will come up in following posts.

Those who were with us last year, and who have attended our meetings, know what a nice gallery space it is at Ponte Vedra, not to mention that they hang the show for us. As anyone who has ever done it knows, hanging the show is just about the hardest part of the whole process, so having it done for us is a big plus!

As in previous years our members really "stepped up to the plate" in providing us with outstanding food for the reception.

There was plenty for all of the large crowd who attended, and a wonderful variety as well.

And some of our members demonstrated that their artistry extends far beyond pastels!

(photo courtesy of John Cusick) 

We had a great turnout of artists, friends, family members.

I heard nothing but praise about the artwork, and about the food as well, :-)

(photo courtesy of John Cusick)

This year there were a few seats available to rest a bit, but I think next time we might try to have even a few more!

There were some there who were also impressed by the beautiful ribbons we had to award, and couldn't wait to see who the winners were - but in addition to the lovely ribbons we had generous prizes of both cash and merchandise. I don't think any of our winners were unhappy with the prizes received.

We have to wait until the next post to actually see the paintings from the show, but here are all the winners.

Congratulations to our winners:

Best of Show:

 ‘Hijinx at the Helm’, by Corinne Samuels

First Place:

 ‘East Point’ by Wendy Devarieux

(Wendy was unable to be with us Friday evening)

Second Place:

 ‘Last Day of Summer’ by Patrick Mahoney

Third Place:

 ‘Just After Dawn’ by Lyn Asselta

Merit Awards:

‘Nightfall Hunting Island’ by Eve Miller

(Eve was unable to be with us Friday evening)

‘South Creek’ by Steve Johnson

(Steve was unable to be with us Friday evening)

‘One Pair, Both Red’ by Rick Petersen

‘Ximenez-Fatio House’, by Cindy Pierson

People’s Choice Awards:

            ‘Handyman’ by Cindy Pierson

            ‘Kelsey’ by Corinne Samuels

And our founder and current co-President was surprised by the new award the members created in her honor, the Founders Award.

Lyn Asselta Founders Award:

            ‘New Day, New Year’ by Sherri Lewis-Seals

Stay tuned for the next post and you will get to see the wonderful award-winning artwork.

May is coming - bring your pastels!

What: May general meeting
When: Saturday, May 2, 10 AM to noon
Where: Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach

Yes everyone, the posts about our WONDERFUL member juried show will be available shortly, but in the meantime it's almost MAY, and that means our next upcoming member general meeting is almost here as well. This is going to be a "hands on" meeting for everyone so you need to bring your pastels with you.

Please bring a backing board, a simple reference photo, a sheet of your favorite paper, approx. 8 x 10, and 3-4 values of two different complementary colors, preferably hard pastels, but not your softest pastels. (for example: 3 sticks of violet-light, medium and dark and 3 sticks of yellow, light, medium and dark.) Please bring something other than Terry Ludwig pastels.

Why the Terry Ludwig restriction? Lyn has this to say:

I've had a couple people ask why they shouldn't bring Terry Ludwigs....
I personally LOVE Terry Ludwigs, but for this particular exercise, I don't want you filling up the tooth of your paper too quickly.   Hence the request for harder pastels of any kind (NuPastel, Faber Castell, Caran d'Ache, Rembrandt, possibly even some Unison or Mt. Vision)

It should be a lot of fun. Hope to see many of you there this Saturday.