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Opening Night Jitters and some truth telling!

Ok so here is Isadora

I recently submitted her into a local Art Exhibition. But

before I go any further I have to confess some truths.

1) when applying fixative to her, some drops of the fixative

beaded and ended up making a mess of some of her hair, 

feathers, mask and body. This was after spending hours

and hours working on her. Only to be ruined in several 

minutes. And of course not realising that I was making a mess

until after I had bought her inside......

 ----  Cue major  melt down ---

My cheer leading team (aka hubby and kids) kept 

reassuring me that it was fine and I would be able to fix it.

NO SHE'S RUINED

BUT thanks to my wonderfully skilled main man, 

between the two of us, we managed to fix her in time

for the exhibition. So that was the first hurdle.

2) The night before drop off for the exhibiton (hubby was doing 

the drop off for me as I had to work), he asked me for the details 

of where to go etc etc. He was looking at the entry form and said - 

"you know she's bigger than the allowance don't you". 

Um NO

yes I'm one of those people who gets her feet, inches

cms arse about and confused all the time.

------ Cue second major melt down -----

After wiping the second lot of tears away, I had decided

that if they didn't accept her, it just wasn't meant to be.

Well they accepted her! YAY!!

3) Opening night arrives and we get all tizzied up and make our

way down to the event. I started wondering around to check out all of the

artwork and the first thing I noticed was that all of the

 paintings seemed to be framed and behind glass. Not that that's a biggie right....

Second thing I noticed was that 99.9% of the paintings were of a 

traditional nature. Again nothing wrong with that, but of course

I start second guessing myself and thinking  well they've 

obviously hidden mine down the back because it stands out like the

 preverbial and they probably hate it! Well I was right with some

of that statement. It was down the back, but actually it was in a better

light, than a lot of the other works. So big tick for me.

 Secondly, I won an award! 

AN AWARD!!

Highly Commended for my Medium - Mixed Media. 

So after all of those tears that were shed

and all of the drama of thinking there is

no way in this world she was going to get there, 

she did. and she did me proud.

Sorry for the dorky stance... I never know how to stand or behave at

these sorts of events. And my smile looks so fake. Even though

I was super duper happy. I just wasn't reflected in this photo.

SO thank you for being patient and reading

to the end of this blog post.

As always

Thank you for popping by

xx

No Matter What They Tell You

Isadora

I love this quote. Found it on Tumblr (via Pintrest)

Sums up how I would love to work, but in reality because of 

life/work/family commitments I'm (reluctantly) a 9-5 girl. But 

I honestly do my best work and have the best ideas

in the middle of the night.

On a different note entirely, but still relating to art, I have put my

name down for an upcoming local Art Exhibition. My first time

exhibiting here, so I have no idea what to expect. I knew I wanted to paint

large, and I knew I wanted to paint another strong girl, this time

with a feather head dress.

So below are a few photos of my work in progress and finished

piece.

 Titled

Isadora

 40 x 60 inches

first layer of the background down.

This took 4 hours to glue down.. just to 

give you an idea of the size/time.

Initial drawing of Isadora

Some layers added to the background

A few more layers of paint and some more

detail on my gal.

Close up of the texture of the background

A close up of her face

The finished product! 

Ready for the exhibition

phew did it in time!!

As always

thanks for

popping by xx