Morning Glorious
watercolor 15" x 18"
Chris Beck
I've been out of touch for a while, so have a bunch of things to share. I'll start with today and work back. I just received notice that my painting "Morning Glorious" made it through Round 1 of the Shanghai Zhujiajiao International Watercolor Biennial jurying. For anyone unfamiliar with this exhibition, it held its inaugural exhibition in 2010 and is the largest exhibition of watercolor in the world -- approximately 250 paintings will be displayed for a month in the Quanhua Watercolor Gallery. There were over 4000 international entries and only 127 paintings advanced to Round 2. (There are another 5000+ Chinese entries, but jurying for the two sets of entries is done separately.) The second round of jurying will take place in Shanghai from the actual paintings, so my next task is to unframe the painting and figure out how to mail it to Shanghai. (If any of my readers has a suggestion for packaging a painting for mailing, I'd appreciate hearing from you.)
Heirlooms
watercolor, 10" x 10"
Chris Beck
The next bit of news is that I will be featured in The Artist's Magazine, September 2012 issue. The article features a selection of my paintings of vintage salt shakers and ceramics and includes a sidebar on the techniques used to paint one of these fun little critters. There will also be an expanded online "demo" which will be more detailed than the sidebar in the article. I'll post a link when I have more info on that. The magazine should be on the newstands in the next couple of weeks.
Waiting in the Wings
watercolor, 12" x 12"
Chris Beck
To top off the past week's news, I was thrilled to be juried into the National Watercolor Society show for a second year in a row; the Fezmatics will be heading south in a couple of weeks. The show runs from September 29 to December 2 at the NWS Gallery, 915 South Pacific Ave., San Pedro, CA. And this year, I'm happy not to be faced with the stress of sending three additional paintings for signature jurying -- been there, done that!!
