Comments on: Choosing a Painting to enter for Competition

By: ruth

ruth — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:22:16 +0000

Thanks Catharine, That is how I’m choosing this time too. Good luck to you and me both!

By: Catharine Kim Woodin

Catharine Kim Woodin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:24:42 +0000

Hi Ruth, This is a topic that we have discussed alot lately in our local art group. Now, I just enter what I think is my strongest work to date. Sometimes that is hard to determine, depending on how the work is going currently, other times there is only one choice. It gets tricky when I paint something that I consider a personal artistic breakthrough and I want to show it off, but it might not be a great painting yet—I only see that in hind sight. NWS was more difficult because we can only enter one and for me the size limitation was a factor. Luckily, I hadn’t framed the painting I wanted to enter, even so, it is pushing the upper size limits. I am very confident that this is my best painting to date, however it has been rejected from a museum show recently, and even though I was determined not to let that get to me, it did make me second guess my choice. Oh, how tender our artist souls! In the end, I had to go with my first instinct. We’ll see what the panel thinks!

By: ruth

ruth — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:31:05 +0000

Thanks Pamela! I don’t have much news to pass along about Etsy, other than it was pretty easy to set up! Hope you have a great show at the Country Fair!
xo ruth

By: pamela ourshalimian

pamela ourshalimian — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:18:09 +0000

Hi Ruth,
Since I don’t have much experience with competitions I can’t respond to that question.
I did want to say, I like the feel of ‘Explorer” very different than “Knowing”. A soft mystery about Explorer.
I LOVE your Etsy shop too!
I have an artist friend that turned me onto it.
It would be wonderful to hear your experience with it so far.
After the Oregon Country Fair is behind me I can look into this more, so Many great creations on that site.
Pamela
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