That pledge has been a good incentive for me. Most of our shows have been specific themes - which are always fun challenges - or art that I have been working on already. There was a time a few years ago when we had an Oil and Acrylic Only (OAAO) show - I do neither of these things. But, I made myself try some acrylic and it turned out OK.
Now we come to this fall. For the first time, the art league is promoting a Photography Only show. Everyone takes pictures. Most of us use them as references for our paintings. True confession time...of the more than 30,000 photos on my computer, most of them are of my grandchildren! Many of them I have painted, but they are not fine art photography.
I began looking through other files and discovered one that I had labeled 'Veggies.' My son, an organic farmer, has had beautiful displays of veggies at the farmer's market during the summers. I picked out a few of old pictures to play with.
Here is a box of tomatoes - ready for market. I am calling it "One turned over"
I also found a wonderful bunch of carrots.
That's a lot of carrots, but the photo wasn't very sharp. I don't know much about Photoshop, but I thought I would see if I could make it clearer. Well, that didn't work (I need to take a class), so I started to play with filters or something... I decided to go for texture and ended up with this.
I'm definitely not going for 'fine art' photography, but I did have fun... and besides, the folks who do really great photography don't have to worry about me taking any prize money away from them!
It was fun and a good challenge!
The show will be hanging at the St Michaels Library during the month of October.
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