Just Gotta Brag

For the past six years during the month of December, the St Michaels Art League has had a watercolor competition at the St Michaels Library. One of our members endowed an award - the Martha Hudson Award for Excellence in Watercolor. It is a coveted prize and brings out some remarkable paintings - everyone putting their 'best foot forward.'

It's tricky trying to decide what to enter - I can only enter two paintings and they have to have been painted within the last year. I waited until the last minute (as does most everyone) and finally selected two - one of them was Buoy #1 (that I recently blogged about) and the other was Autumn Leaves, an abstract that I had played with several months ago.

All the paintings were brought to the library last Monday and were hung for the judge to see. On Monday night we had our annual Arty Party and the winners were announced...

Ta da...Autumn Leaves won second place! What a lovely surprise - maybe there is an abstract painter hiding inside me somewhere.

Autumn Leaves