Woo hoo! “Reflections on Heavy Metal” was juried in to the CPSA 20th Annual International Competition to be held in Covington, Kentucky this summer.
I stumbled on this bit of news in an unexpected way. I was perusing through my Facebook newsfeed last weekend and stumbled upon a status update for another CPSA artist. She said in her update that a work she submitted was juried in to the CPSA show. While I was excited for her, my heart absolutely sank. I had received no communiqués from CPSA about the list of accepted entries. In fact, the list wasn’t due to be posted for another few days.
With my heart racing, I immediately went to the CPSA website. I clicked on their “news” link and saw that the list of accepted entries was, in fact posted. One more click took me to the list. I thought about it for a moment, then begin to slowly scroll down the page. Since the list is in alphabetical order, it didn’t take too long to arrive at the “M’s.” Ma…Me…Mi…then I saw it! Mills, Lisa!!! Something resembling a squeak came out of my mouth. I couldn’t believe it. This is a huge honor for my name to appear amongst some really accomplished artists.
So now, my framed work will travel to Covington, Kentucky this summer to appear in the exhibition at the Carnegie Center for about six weeks. Each accepted entry will be reviewed by the judge and from those, awards will be given to those who he deems has merit. Last year there were over 700 entries, with approximately 120 or so being juried in. From that, just over 10% will win an award. I don’t know where the judge thinks my work fits in this whole puzzle, but I am thrilled to have been selected to appear in the exhibition.
On other notes of exciting news, I have teamed up with fellow artist and my former teacher, Alyona Nickelson in creating online tutorials as a part of her website. She offers subscribed members access to various tutorials and my first one has been published to the site! Also, this blog that you’re reading now is the Featured Artist Blog in Colored Pencil Magazine (both online and in print) for the month of May. Many thanks go out to Sally Ford, editor/publisher of Colored Pencil Magazine for deeming my work worthy of print! All that said, I must get back to work. Among the items I’m working on now is a larger piece of my two dogs playing in the snow and I have taken all the photos I need for an upcoming piece that will continue in my “Reflections” series. Not a guitar this time…but I’ll keep you guessing!
Until then, here’s a picture of a work that I did of Lucy in the snow after I finished “Reflections on Heavy Metal.” It’s called Snowdog. Lucy, after her playtime in the snow came up for air with a “beard” of snow.
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