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Top Six - the Note Card Set. 3 days left!

9/19/2014

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 Cabbage Art & Scarf Invitational Set of Note Cards Reward.
You've chosen a very dramatic and colorful selection for the top six winners, which will be the Note Cards Reward. (See &/or join the Kickstarter project at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/743498317/the-cabbage-art-and-scarf-invitational.) THANK YOU!!!

I'm delighted with the selections, since my own color sense tends towards the dramatic and colorful. These have been a pleasure to work with, and I think they are great together.

The quality of these winning selections prove to me the validity of my concept of crowd-sourcing the survival of the fittest decisions, which will be much more important (and powerful) for my some of next projects, which will feature more generations, fewer images. Many, many thanks for sticking with this somewhat demanding process. If you've been enjoying it, or have suggestions for future iterations, let me know. Thanks!
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"CABBAGE ACTING THE ROLL OF VOLCANO"

9/16/2014

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"Cabbage Acting the Roll of Volcano"
"CABBAGE IN THE ROLL OF VOLCANO" Finished Cabbage Artwork from the Cabbage Art & Scarf Invitational Kickstarter Project. This positively seething cabbage artwork apparently JUST HAD to come out today. I love it when that happens.

For other pixel painters, I used Camera 360, Tangle (several times), Percolator (several times), Big Photo, LOTS of iColorama (amazing app!) and the workhorse tools in Photoshop.
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"FIRE TREE, WATER DAY" pastel painting

9/16/2014

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"FIRE TREE, WATER DAY"
THANK YOU to juror Stan Sperlak for accepting this original pastel painting into the 2014 APS Juried National Exhibition, at the Bascom Center for the Visual Arts in Highlands, NC, from October 4, 2014 through January 4, 2015. Bunzl Gallery.

"The Bascom is honored to host the 2014 APS Juried National Exhibition. It is a biennial events organized by the Appalachian Pastel Society to provide competition opportunities for fine pastelists around the country. The society was formed in 2006 to promote an understanding and appreciation of pastel painting throughout the Appalachian Region. This exhibition brings some of the finest examples of contemporary pastel art to our region. Stan Sperlak is the 2014 juror. Sperlak was trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and continued his development with Patrick Arnold, Pennsylvania Academy, and Patricia Vanaman Witt, Barn Studio of Art. He is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America, the Maryland Pastel Society, the Pastel Society of Colorado, the Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association and The Cape May County Art League. "
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"Light at the End of the Tunnel" finished artwork & some of its Whimsies

9/13/2014

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"LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL".

This image has so much going on that it didn't need any extra textures  or fanciness. It's the kind of artwork that art show judges would like. It also made some terrific Whimsies!
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
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Four Light Tunnel Whimsies
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"Blue Seafoam" Finished Cabbage Artwork

9/8/2014

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"Blue Seafoam"
the 7th finished artwork from the Cabbage Art & Scarf Invitational Kickstarter project
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Color Grid from Square Pastel Box project

9/7/2014

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Square Box Color Grid
When I sort out and organize my pastel boxes, I make these grids to compare this piece of pastel with that one, to eliminate duplicates and near duplicates.
I like to make art with whatever I'm doing, so I make these color grids.

This Color Grid is from my most indulgent box of pastels, the Square Box. Not only is the box itself square, but all the pastels are square or rectangular - NuPastels, Terry Ludwigs, Great American, and so on. I prefer these shapes for the clear variety of strokes sizes they can make, and for their sharp edges.

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Square Box of Pastels
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    About
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    Nancy Freeman is a native of California who lives now in Washington, DC. A lifelong artist, she paints portraits and other commissions for a living, which keeps her traditional skills tuned and supports her decades-old obsession with computer art, and pastel painting.

    She is currently using her 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th computers, but remembers
    when Dick Tracy had to make do with a two-way wrist radio.

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