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| The Living Room Window Copyright 2011 |
As I said, we artists are not really in competition with
each other as much as we are in competition with our own artistic ability to
keep going in whatever direction we choose. We compete every time we pick up
the paintbrush.
Timing and luck, I guess you could call it, also play a
bigger part in our lives than most of us care to admit. We like to think we’re
pretty much in control, but as often as not, things just fall into place.
For example, the painting for which I received the award, The Living Room Window,
almost wasn’t even entered in the show. Here's how it went.
You are allowed to enter up to three paintings, and there is a little price break on the entry fee for your second and third entries.
You are allowed to enter up to three paintings, and there is a little price break on the entry fee for your second and third entries.
Originally, I was going to enter only one painting that I
thought had a chance to win. It had been in a recent gallery show and had
received several nice comments, although it hadn’t sold. While I was getting
the paperwork together for the members show, I happened to remember a painting
I had completed last spring.
It was not yet framed because it's rather large, and I didn’t
have a mat or a frame that fit, etc. Then I remembered a framed painting that
was hanging in my hallway—one that I never really liked that much--but one of my first watercolors.
So I measured to see if my unframed painting would fit in this
older frame. It did, and I switched the paintings and decided to enter it at the last minute.
And it won something.
That’s why, as a painter, I never like to think of it as
winning, or especially, as losing.
Until next blog,
Happy Painting!
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