“May-Cember”
Hello fellow art enthusiast! Happy “May-Cember!” Huh? “May-Cember…what’s that?”
It’s a coined phrase that sums up perfectly the hustle and bustle felt in the month of December yet experienced in the month of May. For our family, like many others, May brings final soccer games, yearend band & orchestra concerts, graduations and the greatly anticipated end of the school year with summer almost in reach. It’s the busiest month of the year!
Amongst the busyness of family life, there are good things to share from the studio. I’m thrilled to announce my Gouache painting, “High Mountain Pines” 8x10, was accepted to the 26th Annual American Impressionist Society’s National Juried Exhibition!
“High Mountain Pines” 8x10
$950
Cassens Fine Art || Hamilton, MT
AIS’s 26th Annual National Juried Exhibition
The society received 1,728 entries with only 181 artworks selected for the show. What an honor! My painting is available by clicking on the link below as well as all the works showcased for the exhibition at Cassens Fine Art.
Currently, I’m on a chase to incorporate dynamic foregrounds in my work. This includes diagonals, receding planes, and angels that help accentuate depth. I can’t wait to get out this summer to explore specific areas outside the Treasure Valley such as Silver City & Blue Lake, Idaho as well as seeing familiar places with a new intentional focus of dynamism. My goal is to develop further sensitivities specific to foregrounds that can enhance the overall success and variety of my paintings. I use sketchbooks to paste, journal, write, design, paint and really think things through. It’s incredibly helpful to have thoughts and ideas in one place!
John Singer Sargent once stated,
“Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind… a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later.”
These sketchbooks become an avenue to “store up in the mind” all thoughts and ideas important to me for new growth.
I hope your “May-Cember” continues to be fruitful with all your professional and creative endeavors. Here’s to the start of the peak season of plein air painting! If you’re ever in the neighborhood, stop on by, we’ll venture out and paint!
Cheers!
Allie