Paul Kasmir has very generously bestowed the Kreativ Blogger Award on me for my watercolor showcase blog -- Brush-Paper-Water -- but because I restrict that blog to features on other artists, I am going to accept it over here. This has been a great week for that blog in other respects as well -- it's now had more than 11,000 visits and the number of subscribers increases each week. On top of that, I discovered that Technorati ranks it as one of the top 100 art blogs. So thanks, Paul, for your enthusiasm and your vote of confidence for my efforts.One of the conditions of the award is to list seven things about yourself, and also pass the award along. I'm going to reveal those seven factoids in a second, but instead of limiting myself to only seven bloggers, I'm going to suggest you visit all the fabulous blogs on my blogroll. I have a great collection of incredible artists on that list and you won't be disappointed!!
Now, on to those little details you've all been waiting for...
1. I love the smell of Winsor-Newton's watercolor paint Rose Madder Genuine. Even during the years I wasn't painting, I kept an old tube of it around for an occasional sniff. Very benign!! No need to call the DEA, folks!!
2. I love the name and the color -- Chartreuse.
3. When I was a child, I used only red crayons for several years. I suppose mental health professionals would have their take on this, but I'm quite sure it was because I was so enamored of the intense red tulips in my Grandmother's garden.
4. Godzilla and the Michelin Man are engaged in a perennial face-off in my studio. Oh, Godzilla thinks he's tough, but the Michelin Man just puts his hands on his hips, puffs out his chest, and stares Godzilla down. HA!!
5. When I was at my parents' home a few weeks ago, I found the Christmas exchange gift I got in 4th grade!! I don't think we coined the word "packrat" but we certainly tried our best to live up to it!!
6. I went to the site of the Haunted House that we used to visit when I was a teenager -- a moonless night was guaranteed to be scary. It's now a county park and nothing of the house remains these days. Sigh.
7. But I did see lots of fairy rings at that park. Contrary to superstitions held worldwide in the past, fairy rings have no supernatural source -- unless you regard fungi as alien creatures!! Fairy rings are simply circles of mushrooms which grow ever larger as the center of the ring becomes unable to sustain them due to loss of nutrients or changes in the soil chemistry.
Congratulations, Chris. You deserve this award - creative and so sharing with information about your work and other artists' work, too! Hope you are doing well - sound like a good trip back home...but don't they call them fairy rings because the fairies come out and dance at night around them? Hmmm...??
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely a lot more romantic to think of fairy rings as evidence of dancing fairies -- and those ethereal creatures certainly populated my childhood storybooks. But then I grew up and became a science nerd!! Hope I didn't crush your dreams too badly!! ;-D
ReplyDeleteChris,
ReplyDeleteYou do know that you have earned this!!:0)your willingness to share and point out great art/artist is truly something that I admire.
Glad your here! This website and your BPW website are in my favorites bar and I'm always clicking it when I get online to read thru past post and use as a diving board to splash in a new direction towards some new work of yours or the great artist you continue to point out, and since your blogs are a reflection of who you are then you are a splendid person.
One last thing Chris I still have not rotated out your painting of the flower that I downloaded as a screen saver from Watercolor Artist.
Sincerely
Paul
Thank you, Paul. I'm very glad you like my work (both art and curatorial efforts). Neat that you have my art for a screensaver -- I was quite pleased that the magazine decided to offer it.
ReplyDeleteConcurring with the others - you do such a good thing with BPW - I've found some amazing artists to watch now (in my spare time - beginning in December, I hope!)
ReplyDeleteNope, didn't dampen my magical side at all, Chris (or shall we now call you Chartreuse?) - I do, I do, I do believe in faeries :)
ReplyDeleteGlad you're enjoying the BPW show, Deb!! What's all this spare time you're talking about??
ReplyDeleteRhonda, if you call me Chartreuse, I'll have to move to France and take up cabaret singing!! La Chanteuse Chartreuse!! Hmm... I kinda like that...