Library series of paintings

Writer's Helps

I painted these paintings for submission to our local writers’ guild annual anthology. I hope some of them will be accepted. I took all of these pictures at our local library and then painted them in gray scales.

Library Table

The Chair

Literature Index

The Big Dictionary

Library Cart

Writer's Friend

An Open Book

Library series of paintings

I painted these paintings for submission to our local writers’ guild annual anthology. I hope some of them will be accepted. I took all of these pictures at our local library and then painted them in gray scales.


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Second Place Award, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Jo, Mo.

Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Annual Membership Exhibition, St. Joseph, Mo., January 16-February 21, 2010; Second Place award.

Hot Off the Press

2010 MAA member calendar. I have two photos in it this year.

"Lions & Tigers & Puppy Mills...Oh My!"

"Lions & Tigers & Puppy Mills...Oh My!"
The Misery In Missouri Art Exhibition 2009
A touring art exhibition raising awareness aboutMissouri Animal Legislation

My winning entry is titled Pampered - Not Punished. Read my comments about this picture on their web site.

MU Alumni Association 2009 Calendar

January is the month for my picture on the MU Alumni Association 2009 Calendar. They published the picture upside-down which of course is the appropriate way for it to be published because it looks right-side-up. I don't think there is a way to take a reflection picture without it being upside-down. There are other posts about this picture on August 20 & June 29, 2008.

Visions

Today, I am entering two of my pictures into the Visions Photography Exhibition. Black and white was my choice for my pictures, and they are new photographs that I have never shown before. The clocks were at the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Convention; I call it "Time and Time Again." The old ship was in Michigan and the ship crew was dressed in costume. It is titled, "Sailors Choice."

Visions

Yesterday, I delivered my entry form for the Visions Photography Contest during the Fine Arts Festival late in September in Columbia, MO. This may be one of my entries.

Your comments helped me win contest

Jesse Hall Reflected

Do you remember back on June 29th I asked for comments on which of the three pictures I should enter in the Mizzou Alumni Calendar Contest? Guess what! The picture with the most comments from all of you on this blog is the one that won the contest! I had my doubts about it, because it was so different from anything else that I had seen on the calendar. Thank you for your wonderful comments. I am thrilled. This will be the third year in a row to have my photos in the calendar.

Les Bourgeois Vineyards Wine Label

My photograph is on 2007 Merlot: This early released Merlot made with grapes grown in CA offers bright cherry and boysenberry aromas with roasted peppercorns riding on a long lingering finish. Last fall I entered the wine label contest at Les Bourgeois Vineyards. I was very excited when I was informed that I had won the contest. The photograph that won is A Little Fog which is pictured at the top of my blog. The three artists that won now have their art on the labels of the Collectors Series Wines.

2008 MO State Fair - Aug. 16

August 16 will be the day I share Missouri Life Magazine’s booth at the Missouri State Fair. I will donate a framed copy of this picture (valued at $275) to be given away at the State Fair. I will receive recognition and promotion in the hourly Public Address Announcements made by the state fair on that day. Missouri Life will make space in their booth in the Fine Arts Building for me to display other pieces of my work for that day. I won’t be selling my work, but it will be great exposure to a self-selected audience in the Fine Arts building. I will be passing out my cards.

MU Alumni Association calendar contest

Right now I am going through my pictures that I have taken this year on the Missouri University campus. This will be my third year in a row to enter the Mizzou Alumni Association calendar contest. The first year, I had one small runner-up picture in the calendar and in the 2008 calendar I have three pictures: April, October, and December. (The columms pictured below is the October picture.) I, also, had two pictures published in Missouri University Alumni Association Sesquicentennial Gala Program, September 2006.

Here are some of the pictures that I’m considering for the 2009 calendar. Which ones should I enter?