Spring is always a busy time for me. Art shows begin to happen and I have to make decisions as to what I want to send to be juried, or to exhibit.
It is always difficult to make the final cut. The first thing that attracts me to one of the pieces I love is its memory. That doesn't always make it a great painting, but I have an emotional attachment to it anyway.
I have the hard task of trying to overlook the emotional side and analyze the technical qualities of the work that make it stand out and hopefully resonate with the viewer. Composition, brushwork, use of values are all the tools that help a painting work visually.
If one of my paintings can pass all that, then I look for uniqueness...and if I think it has that as well, then it is submitted.
The jury is the one that then decides...and sometimes they agree with my choices...sometimes not. A painting says something unique to each of its viewers. It is not an unbiased decision. I wish I had the formula to know a winner everytime. No one does... it is always a surprise!
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