Nibblefest Art Contest: 3.5 x 8 painting: 'Wash Day"..... |
The fourth of my four Nibblefest Art Contest entries, the theme for May being 'The Elements: Fire, Water, Earth and Air"
We have here a painting entitled, "Faith in a Seed" and my entry for "Air". It also happens to be my Faces #22 and #23 of the '29 Faces' May Challenge. (YESSSSS!!! I am officially caught up!!! Only 6 more Faces to go!)
The following is my auction description:
".....One of four entries by me for
this month's Nibblefest Art Contest (NFAC) (~the theme for May being
"The Elements: Fire, Water, Earth and Air") is an original acrylic
painting of vellum, mounted permanently onto a 3.5" by 8" reclaimed
wooden board (3/4 " thick). 'Wash Day' is signed and ready to hang (not
the original is sharper and more colorful that appears in this flat
scan). This is a 5 Day auction.
This month's Nibblefest theme, 'The Elements', was quite different than usual. Being as that there are four classical elements (Fire, Water, Earth, Air), we were allowed to enter a total of four pieces rather than the usual limit of three, provided that each pertained to a separate element. This is my entry for 'Air'.
We don't own a working dryer.
By choice. Years ago, when the heating element of our old, second hand
dryer burned out, we just never bothered to get it fixed, or replaced.
I didn't use it that often anyway, preferring as I always have an
old-fashioned clothesline. Air drying clothes saves money and energy,
besides the fact that you just can't beat that fresh, air-dried smell.
And so we have here a busy Mama and her little helper, on 'Wash Day'
(unfortunately my own 'little helper' isn't nearly this cheerful when it
comes to our clothesline. She wants our dryer back.....!)
4 comments:
Just been checking back on the other elements in this collection, and I love how you've linked human interaction with the natural world. Fabulous work :D XXX
Just stunning Patience... faces are beautiful... and the whole scene is fabulous...
Hugs
Jenny x
Thanks so much Gina. I really did think very long and hard about my entries this month! Well, I always do -- but somehow THIS month really seemed to take extra brain power for me to come up with a cohesive 'set', lol. I rejected so many ideas before I finally settled on these four. IN any case, I'm really glad you were able recognize the human/nature connection there within the concepts -- it's nice to know when one's ideas expressed in art are also apparent to others :-)
I really appreciate the comment, Jenny -- thanks for the stopping by and leaving the kind words, and please drop over again soon! ;-)
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