I'm happy to announce that "The Butterfly Effect" received First Place in the San Clemente Art Gallery Spring Judged Show, Other Media Category (Colored Pencil on the Icarus Drawing Board). If you'd like to find out how I did the background, you can click on this blog link.
The Butterfly Effect
Flying High From Happiness
My artwork "Above and Below" (colored pencil and oil pastel on the Icarus Drawing Board) has been awarded the Expy Best of Show and Prismacolor Award in "Explore This! 6", the Colored Pencil Society of America's online exhibition. The juror, Dr. Barbara Grazul Hubbard, has selected the work of 55 artists for this annual prestigious exhibition which will run until January 31, 2011.
Edit (2/4/10): Katherine Tyrrell wrote a post about "Explore This! 6" on her blog Making a Mark. You can read her wonderful comments on my artwork by clicking here.
"Popping Out" receives an Honorable Mention in the San Clemente Art Gallery Winter Judged Show, Master Category. In the Master Category all previous winners in their medium compete against each other.
SC Winter Judged Show 2009
"Above and Below" receives First Place in the San Clemente Art Gallery Fall Judged Show, Other Media Category.
Above and Below
"Across My Universe" and "Daisy in E Flat" received each an Honorable Mention in the San Clemente Art Gallery Summer Judged Exhibit.
Across My Universe
Daisy in E Flat
"Popping Out" receives an Honorable Mention in the juried exhibit "The Red Space...In Between" of the San Diego Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society.
My "Daffodil" on the "Gallery 21" Poster
"Popping Out"
"Into the Light" and "The Fire Within" have been selected as finalists in the 25th Annual Art Competition of The Artist's Magazine, experimental category.
Into the Light
The Fire Within
"Into the Light" receives First Place in the San Clemente Art Gallery Winter Judged Show, Other Media category.
Winter Judged Show Awards 2008
Into the Light
"Into the Light" received the "Award for Excellence" at the 16th Annual International CPSA Exhibition in Seattle, WA.
Into the Light
San Diego Chapter Friends
"Into the Light" wins BEST OF SHOW in the 9th Annual FMP Exhibition (Ann Kullberg's Online Colored Pencil Magazine).
Read what the juror, Alyona Nickelsen, says about the winning piece:
"This is a hymn of life, light and color; the ode to creators and creations; the glory of the instant and the triumph of eternity. This work has everything. A fresh idea that uses spectacular effects to achieve a dynamic and moving composition. Brilliant colors culminate in a superbly executed and masterful piece. Bravo Ester!"
Into the Light