Blue Ribbons and Honorable Mentions ~ Painted Paper Collage ~ Mixed Media Abstracts by Texas Contemporary Artist Nancy Standlee

"Minerals and Metals"
12 x 16

MIXED MEDIA ABSTRACT

"Uncle Bob's Goat"
11 x 14
SOLD

GOAT COLLAGE

Both of these pieces, "Uncle Bob's Goat" and "Minerals and Metals" won an Honorable Mention in the Dallas TX Expressions 2010 show National League of American Pen Women Show.
Click on the above link for place and show dates and times.
Here is my original blog post about the show.

Saturday was the reception for the PCPC arts festival and while CBC didn't get a blue ribbon for "On Earth, Peace" I will mention some links for work that did. And it was a beautiful day for "the peeps" to meet, greet and celebrate.

"Keep Going" was a Blue Ribbon winner from Deborah Jencsik and one of my favs. I wrote her a fan letter and we have emailed back and forth this week and one of her statements that meant a lot to me was "We artists are always saturating ourselves with the work of others, hoping to create a fresh new visual language for ourselves." I was interested in the heavy texture she achieved with the oil since I've been taking Texture Town online. Hey, Julie and Chris I know I'm terribly behind in my homework!!

Two more of my favorite pieces by John Cook and Cynthia Stone were mentioned in this article:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-reliart_14met.ART.Central.Edition1.4b97d35.html

After the reception, Maryann, Connie and I made it towards McKinney to take the McKinney Art Studio Tour. We had a full day of saturating ourselves with the work of others and how inspiring it all was and wishing we had studios in old houses side by side. We finished our time in McKinney with a delightful dinner at Cafe Malaga.

I learned some of my texture techniques used in "Minerals and Metals" from Carol Nelson when I took her Colorado workshop in March. She is working on some beautiful poppies here using some text background. Click HERE to read her post. In her May 2007 blog post she describes in wonderful detail on some of the ways she adds the poppy image. Click HERE to read that informative post. For a real treat just search "Poppy" at the top of her blog. Carol will be in Texas for a 2011 Granbury workshop and yes, I'm signed up for it. Oh, and after looking at all of those poppy paintings I'm thinking a poppy would make a great collage.

In the last post I mentioned several good collage sites and here is one I overlooked. Check out Eileen Downes.

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"Now is the Time" ~ Mixed Media Textured Contemporary Abstract by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"Now is the Time"
10 x 10 in. acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. That is a sentence I've typed many times during typing class warm-ups in high school. Another variation is "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party." It's something I've never forgotten and type it when trying out computer keyboards. It might be better to use a sentence with all the letters of the alphabet, such as "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Which sentence is preferred, I'm glad I took Mrs. Box's typing in high school before hints of blogging posts and emails. I never quite grasped shorthand.

I'm taking an online class called Texture Town and this was a class assignment to apply gel and write in it. I didn't try to write carefully or very legibly and most have been organic shapes in my projects but these figures kept appearing. It thought it a fitting post for today.

Mixed Media Textured Abstract

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