Signature Membership

I finally go my signature membership award from the Texas Watercolor Society. They are a great group of people. Now I have to start painting for the 2010 exhibit that will be held at the Rockport Art Center. Visit their website at www.texaswatercolorsociety.net. New art coming next week

New Job at Williamson County Art Guild

Two years creating a newsletter for this great organization was enough. Membership chair should be much easier. Be sure and visit their webpage at www.wcartguild.org. You can access all the newsletters from their webpage.

Another interesting newly formed organization in the area is Georgetown Art Works, www.georgetownartworks.org. They will again be sponsoring the Fall Art Hop in October. You can download a prospectus from their webpage. The Art Hop is open to all Texas artists working in painting, printmaking or photography. Last year's first Art Hop was a great success. The group is sponsoring many upcoming functions for Georgetown. Be sure and check their webpage for information.

The city of Round Rock's newly formed group Round Rock Arts held their first art show titled "Imagine" at the newly built Texas State University facility in Round Rock. I had three paintings in the exhibit and the "Once Great Babylon" (attached) hung in the facility for 3 months for their long term exhibit. This was an amazing art exhibit and the reception was first class.

"The Hitchiker" going to Texas Watercolor Society 2009 National Show

The 2009 Texas Watercolor Society 60th Anniversary National Exhibition will be held at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas; exhibit dates, March 6-22nd, 2009.
Juried by Pat Dews, she stated that this year it was difficult to chose only 60 paintings out of 497 entries. I'm honored to have one of mine accepted.

WCAG Library Show

The Williamson County Art Guild is sponsoring a juried show at the Georgetown Library for its members. The show is now hanging there through the month of November. I have two large pieces from my new series hanging in the main room. They look great on the wall and I was amazed that I got so many compliments from our members on my work. Those of us on the board of the Art Guild have been trying to educate our members regarding the purpose and value of non-representational art. The compliments from them were really appreciated as I have been trying very hard with this series to make it conceptual rather that pictoral.

Waterloo Watercolor Fall Exhibit

A great surprise came my way a couple of weeks ago. I entered two paintings in the Austin Waterloo Watercolor Fall Exhibit. The show was juried by a well respected painter and juror, Christopher Schink. I won awards for both of my entries, First place for Rainforest and a Merit Award for Grampa's Farm. Boy was that exciting!

Georgetown Art Hop

Georgetown Art Works first juried exhibition was held in October. Jerry Seagle, a well known Austin artist juried the exhibit. My painting "Beach Party" was accepted into the show and hung in the library. This group put together in just 5 months a great new art venue for Georgetown.

Other Than Art

I don't spend all my time painting. I'm a volleyball groupie. Granddaughter making a kill at Junior Olympics.