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Drawing is so integral to all art, and in and of itself, I consider it to be as major an art form as any. With such an emphasis on traditional art and methods being taught again in many atelier's and other schools around the world drawing is rising to an importance in art that it has probably never had before. It is wonderful to see so many younger artist's today learning those methods and learning to become such excellent draughtsmen (and women) Traditional realism is alive and thriving and hopefully through Crosshatching's I can add my own little niche to such a great body of work existing now. Enjoy your visit here!

Monday, August 22, 2011

TODAY'S SURPRISE!

I received a nice surprise today in my email inbox; my watercolor painting entry into the July 2011 Bold Brush Painting Competition was awarded one of two Outstanding Watercolor honors along with a beautiful watercolor by Keiko Tanabe. It is an honor to be placed beside such an outstanding award winning watercolorist. Congratulations to all the award winners, that is an amazing bunch of talent to be grouped along with!

The top 15% of entries into the July competition can be viewed online by clicking the following link:
http://faso.com/boldbrush/fav15/60
There were some fantastic paintings entered by fantastically talented artists!

2 comments:

Rosalie Wrona said...

Congratulations! How very exciting for you :) Also, looked at the link you gave .. some lovely paintings there - very nice!

Michael Bailey said...

Thanks Rosalie! There were some really great works entered. I am really honored to have been included alongside them.