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  Joe Advanced Member Username: Joe Post Number: 104 Registered: 2-2007 |
Congratulations Eugene. I have enjoyed all of your amish paintings. Very nice. | ||
Eugene Senior Member Username: Eugene Post Number: 469 Registered: 8-2006 |
George-- thanks for telling me about Wet C. I had not seen it. I'm embarrassed by all the praise. It''s really not a top award..but I was happy to even be accepted in a show of that stature. | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 639 Registered: 8-2006 |
Eugene, I am relieved that you found the right painting. I remember that there was a problem with the horse and carriage being too close to the fence, creating a kind of tangential error with the fence post almost appearing to be a wooden leg on the horse! The finished piece is really nice. | ||
George Unregistered guest |
This should be it! http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=510507&page=3 | ||
George Unregistered guest |
Eugene, wow! You took a strong design and made it even stronger. The addition of the angular elements in the foreground, the movement of the buggy to the right in the composition and the removal of the silo are especially impressive changes in the finished work. It buzzes with excitement and energy. Did you notice – there is a long thread about this award you won on the wet canvas site? | ||
Eugene Senior Member Username: Eugene Post Number: 468 Registered: 8-2006 |
George, glad you caught my error. posted the smaller study, not the prizewinner., You'll notice some changes I made. here's the real thing---  | ||
Joanna Advanced Member Username: Joanna Post Number: 181 Registered: 10-2006 |
I always liked that barn raising and the cow picture is really wonderful. Congratulations! Every time I see them building a barn here, I think of you! | ||
George Unregistered guest |
Eugene, Congratulations! Yes, you posted the painting some time ago when you painted it. It has a very strong design that pulls the viewer in. | ||
Eric Member Username: Eric Post Number: 30 Registered: 4-2008 |
Congratulations, Eugene. That's a well-deserved honor. | ||
Eugene Senior Member Username: Eugene Post Number: 467 Registered: 8-2006 |
Exhibition Award in the 27th Annual Adirondacks Exhibition of American Watercolors. Judi Betts. juror of awards said of the painting “I felt your enthusiasm for your work. The energy, mood, emotions, and personal expressions caught my attention. I enjoyed the humor, imagination, and innovation.” Full sheet, 140# stretched arches cp paper. Colors, mostly Talens Rembrandt and Van Gogh==Ultramarine blue,raw and burnt siennas, hookers green. Perm. rose, cad. red. Ivory black. gamboge  I may have posted a smaller study version some time ago. I can't remember. | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 603 Registered: 8-2006 |
Eugene, just wanted to add my congratulations as well. Can't wait to see what you did! It would have to go a long way to top your painting of the dairy cattle crossing the country lane. | ||
Eugene Senior Member Username: Eugene Post Number: 459 Registered: 8-2006 |
Thanks George. The show doesn't open until late August. I'll post a photo of the winner sometime in Sept. | ||
George Unregistered guest |
That's wonderful news Eugene. Being accepted in, and to win an award from, the Adirondack National Exhibition of American Watercolors (ranked one of the ten best competitive watercolor exhibitions in the country by The Artist’s Magazine) is more than the majority of artists ever achieve. I could not have happened to nicer guy. | ||
Eugene Senior Member Username: Eugene Post Number: 458 Registered: 8-2006 |
I definitely had a best moment today, when I picked up the mail and found that I had won the EXHIBITION AWARD in the Adirondack National Exhibition of American Watercolors. It isn't really one of the top awards, but I'm thrilled anyway. Frank Webb was the juror of selection and Judi Betts the juror of awards. I was happy when I was accepted, but an award---WOW! | ||
midnight_baseball |
i like the cows - particularly how some are lighter / darker than others. nice job eugene! | ||
Eugene |
MARIE Dimentions are approx 15 x30 or thereabouts. It's bigger than my usual work, and a different shape. For my landscape greens I use sap green mixed with one of the following: Raw sienna Burnt sienna raw umber and less frequently yellow (for really bright sunlit grass) and perhaps a touch of thalo blue for distant foliage | ||
marie |
Eugene, I have a couple of questions: * What are the dimensions of the painting? * How did you mix your greens? | ||
Eric |
Once again, I'm extemely impressed with Eugene's painting. I'd like to offer a critique, but I can't come up with anything to improve on. Thanks for sharing, Eugene. | ||
Raliegh |
Eugene that is a very special painting! When did you paint it? I just visited an Amish farm in Brewster, Ohio. I told my homeschooled girls that it was just like stepping into the pages of history. ONe of them said "even better!" | ||
John Preston |
This may seem an odd comment since the building is not a key feature of this picture but you consistently handle barns and outbuildings so well. Congrats on that prize. | ||
marie |
Congratulations! It's an awesome piece. I was going to comment on some things that struck me as especially good -- but the whole thing is good! I don't know where to start. | ||
Eugene |
I entered this in the Lancaster County Art Asso. National Juried show and it won 1st in watercolor! A happy day for me.  | ||
greg |
Seeing and hearing someone as happy with a piece as I am. Getting wonderful encouragement and advice from my peers, and being able to do what I actually enjoy doing.....these are a few of my favorite things. It is not about getting rich, It is who I am.......even subliminally when I am out walking around the world, I see an object an think to myself....the colors I could blend to nail it. | ||
Linda |
Best moment (absolutely sublime!) - knowing the completed design of the whole in my head, looking at my sketch of this idea and relishing the fact I get to make beauty! Worst moment - ruining something I've worked ever so hard on because of what I didn't know. I console myself with the fact I am about to break through and leap miles as a painter. I stop painting and intensify my education. Has happened mostly in my beginner days. Has been (thankfully!) a very, very long time since I've experienced this last. | ||
Robert |
When I enter the zone--happens every now and again. | ||
tachee |
what is the best moment of a painting for you? it hit me today as i was putting the tip of my paint-laden brush to the wet paper and watching it flow over the paper that this gives me a rush. i LOVE this part- tipping -tilting. and i know the worst moment for me, too. not knowing when to quit. i am getting better, but there have been times when i discover that 3 brush strokes ago was the time to quit. |
