Cheese!

This painting plus "All Rows Boarding" can soon be seen at The Winter Show at the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art in Greensboro. This annual show is one of the most exciting exhibitions held in Greensboro, and I am always quite thrilled when my art is selectied for it. The show opens on December 3 with the gala "Collectors' Choice" reception, and continues, open to the public, through the holidays and into mid January.

By the way, you can see and read about "All Rows Boarding" if you look back to my April 10 posting from this year. It was included in the Southern Watercolor Society exhibition, so I blogged about it then.

So - back to "Cheese." I shot a photo of a bunch of kids in Paris, mugging for their photographer whose shadow was in my picture. I liked the perspective of looking down on the kids and seeing the shadow but not the actual person who was taking their photograph. I felt I needed a better connection between them and the shadow, so I added the checkerboard pattern on the floor, keeping the colors and contrast in and between the floor tiles strongest in between the kids and the shadow - to pull us visually back and forth between them.

Cheese!

watercolor on cold pressed paper, 23 x 25" framed

$2000.00

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