Juried In!

Whew - Christmas is almost upon us.  How did that happen so fast?  It seems as if I just began my fall art classes and this past week attended a fun party to celebrate the ending of classes for this year.

One feature of the party this year was an invitation to all the pastel students to bring two paintings to be juried for a show to be held at the Old Brick Inn in St Michaels.  Not having been a part of very many juried shows, I fretted over what to take.  A landscape? A still life? A portrait? Our teacher had asked an artist friend to be the judge as she knew all of us and didn't feel she could be impartial.  Hmmm - what would the friend like?

I finally decided to enter two that I really liked and that I loved painting.  I have posted them before but have tweaked them each a bit since the first post.

This is "Winnie's Butterfly" from my September 19 post.  I worked some more on it - changed the butterfly a little.  I thought the other butterfly was too harsh - this one seems softer.

The other one was Pastel Class Project from my November 10 post. I did some more work on this one, too.  When I entered it in the competition I called it "Maizie at the Fair" but I think it should be "Hello Cow."  Any thoughts?