Vicki Ross Art

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

GREAT NEWS! and you have to read to the bottom to get it...:)

New York 6x12 oil on panel

Different Strokes From Different Strokes entry for this challenge. It was a fun one...

Sold 'Le-Go My Sake', and found a perfect frame for it from Roger at Franken Frames... It is a walnut finish 'floater' frame. Be sure to tell him I sent ya. They have GREAT customer service and quick delivery.

'Le-Go My Sake' 6x12 oil on panel

COLLECTED

ALSO, am delivering my 2 paintings to another juried show this week. Will post pics when they are framed.

Had a great lunch today with Erika at her house. We talked for several hours, almost not making time for actual eating. It is SO fun to visit with someone and you still have so much to talk about when it is time to leave.

and...drumroll. I pretty much hate to blow my own horn, so I didn't have to this time. I submitted paintings for jurying into an international show...and out of 350+, was chosen as one of...well, just read it for yourself.

Kippy wrote all about it on the new La Bonne Etoile blog. I am still way up on a cloud...and will probably be there for several weeks. The stress of the perfect frame is done, now all I have to do it put the painting in the frame.

My pastel Peony will be exhibited at the Ventana Gallery in Santa Fe and featured at their reception on Friday June 4...We are going to stay over, of course, spending a week seeing the sights, waiting for my 15 minutes of fame!

This wouldn't be complete without quoting what author Joann Smith emailed me last week...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This I sent in answer to Randy’s news this morning:

She made it!! Thanks for a most pleasurable 45+ minutes of viewing and appreciating art in its finest form! Vicki’s in tall cotton now AND STANDING OUT IN THE CROWD! Her Peony is so delicately beautiful and realistic you don’t know which to do first, breathe deep or weep! The golden mean placement is genius and the colors and execution, well, . . . mon ami . . . superbulous!!

Can you tell she is a wordsmith...hmmm. a Smith is a wordSMITH!

My big head is going to float me off to bed!

Friday, May 15, 2009

Moses-Botkin Challenge for May...'Pig Party'

"Party Ears"

oil on panel 7x12

I've been threatening to paint these little guys' portrait for a couple years now. Yes, their ears are REALLY ruffled! I thought it was some new kind of grafting or something like with lacy tulips. Was disappointed to find out it is a method of marking which shots they've had or some record keeping like that.

It started out as an 11x14" panel, and guru Tim suggested I had 2 paintings...SO, it got cut in half. I'll post the other half tomorrow.

This month's theme was "Pig Party", brainstorm of Mike Beeman.