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| "Music in the Air" Colored Pencil Kath Pollack |
While paintings are in the majority, entries in the 13th Annual National Miniature Exhibition also include many fine art mediums in addition to paintings. We have sculptures and wood burning. Encaustic and scratchboard. Paper cutting and collage as well as different textile art.
Being a card-carrying member of the Colored Pencil Society
of America, (http://www.cpsa.org/) and
the drawing teacher at the Renaissance Art Gallery, I am naturally drawn to
those works done with some sort of pencil or pen, or in the case of
scratchboard, stylist.
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| "Peek-a-Moo" Colored Pencil Nancy Garcia |
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| "Red Pears" Colored Pencil Susan Tschantz |
We have a wealth of these works this year.
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| "Firework Flower" Colored Pencil Susan Tschantz |
Many of which
more than one person thought were oil paintings. Some like Kath Pollack of
Dunedin, FL have such a gentle touch that many believed her drawings were
watercolors.
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| "Pennsylvania Covered Bridge" scratchboard Dolores Andrew |
Yvonne James of Palm Harbor, FL won a complimentary award
with her amazing drawing of hat of all things! Finely drawn and detailed.
Although he won a Merit Award for “Mr. Hercule”, a painting done in acrylic,
his “Study of Gorilla” done in graphite to me is much more intriguing. The
gorilla’s eyes seem to look right at you.
So here are just some of the drawings submitted to the Renaissance Art Gallery's 13th Annual National Miniature Exhibition.
When it come to drawing you cannot forget the whimsical and
colorful felt pen drawing of Don Watts. Don has been drawing in Huntington, WV
for quite some time and always has a different take on things.
One truly outstanding colored pencil painting is Lenore Long
Lancaster, of Ridgeley, WV. Her Mountain Path seems to come right off the
paper.
It is always fascinating to see just what people come up with in miniature art, and the variety of media is part of the fascination.
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| "Flowing Colors" Felt-tip pens Don Watts |
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| "Mountain Path" colored Pencil Lenore Long Lancaster |
