Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Nibblefest Art Contest Entry: "Air", A Painting entilted "Wash Day" (And My #22 & #23 Faces of the '29 Faces' Challenge)....

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:

Gina said...

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

Jenny said...

Just stunning Patience... faces are beautiful... and the whole scene is fabulous...

Hugs
Jenny x

Patience said...

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 :-)

Patience said...

I really appreciate the comment, Jenny -- thanks for the stopping by and leaving the kind words, and please drop over again soon! ;-)