Feeling Lucky!

16 Sep Feeling Lucky!

For most of us career-artists, at some point we realize that we don’t/didn’t choose Art.  It chose us.  At this stage in my life I feel like one of the very lucky souls that has been given the gift of “being chosen”.  Not the gift of “easy” but still Lucky, Blessed, Grateful and so happy to be able to keep working!

This week’s work took my artist-friend, Diana and I,  to her family camp.  A very special place in the wilds of Michigan’s upper peninsula (da’ U.P.), the Yellow Dog Plains and conservation preserve.  We had a marvelous day of hiking, painting, and learning about this very special and environmentally important preserve of old timber, bogs, meadows and water shed area.  Here is a picture of our view.

At the end of that already perfect day I received word that my painting, “Meet me at the Market”, had won the Holbein award at the National Watercolor Society’s (NWS) 104th International Exhibition!  Doubly thrilled because it’s so hard just to get into that highly competitive exhibition (I have the “rejection slips” to prove it), but then to win a top award!  Lucky?  Yes! Grateful? Absolutely!

Beauty is everywhere.  Sometimes it’s in front of our face and other times, we have to go hunting for it.  Take a hike somewhere in nature and it will be there waiting for you.       Happy Autumn!  Kathleen