Announcing The Prize for the Best Photo!

Don't know about everyone else, but I really love winning a prize.  Just finished the newest painting and was ready to put it up for auction when I decided, "Hey, let this one be my prize for the winning photo contest."

This is a painting that I would love to keep myself.  It is an 8X10 inch landscape titled, "The Fall Wheat Harvest."  I could sell this painting, but I want to make it worth your while to enter my photo contest.  This is the nicest prize I have offered yet.  To make the deal even sweeter...I am having it framed and will ship it to the winner.

Thick fresh paint in vivid colors.  This one will look good on any wall in any room.

Now, we need entries to make this a fun contest.  So please share this on your Facebook page.
An impartial art person will be chosen to do the judging

The rules are:

One photo submission per day by email or by Facebook.

Submit your favorite photos that showcase something you think would make a beautiful painting.

Finalist will be selected based on creativity, clarity, color and how well the photo can become art.

Send photos to artzyone@cox.net  or post on https://www.facebook.com/Lindadunbarfineart  or https://www.facebook.com/linda.h.dunbar

All rights to publish or display the photos are given at the time of submission to LindaDunbarArt.

And here is the prize...

Wordless Wednesday

It's A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood....

Today was a really cool day for an old girl learning new tricks.  Maybe you CAN teach an old dog new ones after all?  Well, maybe not new ones, but learning how to get better at my skill and promote my art to others.  This is a journey and I am happy to share it.

The day started out with dealing with the Oklahoma Tax Commission about the collection of taxes on my paintings.  Not fun, but good to have to deal with since I have had sales.  Then on to an art class I always look forward to.  This class is with Yoda, my instructor who now tells me he does not want me referring to him as Yoda anymore.  He prefers to be called, "The Dos Equis Man."  (The Real one is in this photo.)  He is some commercial character supposed to be the world's most perfect man.  By the way Yoda has a real sense of humor!

Okay, whatever....Dos Equis (formerly known as Yoda,) was able to help me solve some issues I was having with a painting that had been driving me crazy for days. So worth the 18 miles I drive to this class!  His critique of my work helped me instantly see where I was falling short and get on with it.  For his help I was very grateful and makes me realize how much more there is to learn.

                                  

Yoda

After class, I had my first meeting with the representative of a downtown artzy type restaurant that will showcasing my work for the next few months.  It was nerve wracking to follow up with this meeting, because my confidence is not there yet.  However, she really loved my work and took more paintings than she normally does.  More to come later on that story.

Then to cap off the day, I sold another painting on DailyPaintWorks.com.

So as I told Yoda, I mean Dos Equis, my family is the true cause of all this attention.  My husband is the best Agent you could have.  He worked out this meeting with the restaurant, made them known of my work, helped me for two hours prepare the paintings, frame the paintings and load the car, and took off work to go with me to the meeting.   My son helped me set up my studio this summer, work out details of where things would go, find the best lighting, figure out how to make my blog and website work.  My daughter is the best IT department any business ever had.  She has created the LindaDunbarFineArt Facebook page, set me up an Etsy online store and set me up a gallery with DailyPaintWorks.  Plus, she is researching other venues to sell my art in licensing projects.  Hours of reading and research that frees me up to actually do what I feel called to do....Paint!

Get To Snapping...New Challenge Is Official Launched!

These give-aways are so much fun and I cannot help but try once more!  Get to share the art, or artfully share your skills with me.

As viewers of my blog already know this time it is a photo challenge.  Submit your favorite photo that you think would make a great painting to me, and a pic will be selected to win.  It could be anything old or new.  Landscapes, vacation photos, funny people, pets, pretty sunsets, flowers, bugs, street scenes, babies, and who know what else?  It is all good and I want to see them.  One winner will chosen to win a painting from me.  The prize has yet to be determined.  Thinking about giving away a winner's choice this time.

The rules are:

One photo submission per day by email or by Facebook.

Submit your favorite photos that showcase something you think would make a beautiful painting.

Finalist will be selected based on creativity, clarity, color and how well the photo can become art.

Send photos to artzyone@cox.net  or post on https://www.facebook.com/Lindadunbarfineart  or https://www.facebook.com/linda.h.dunbar

All rights to publish or display the photos are given at the time of submission to LindaDunbarArt.

So get out your cameras or get out your photo albums and show me what ya got!

Two photos below have already been submitted and I love them!  Keep them coming.

We Have a Winner!

The entries are in for the Ballerina - "I Hope You Dance" oil painting!  She may only be 5 inches high by 7 inches long, but she sure has got a lot of attention.  Tons of emails about her and she even won a coveted spot as the Painting of the Day on DailyPaintWorks.com.

She received more entries than even I could hope for and a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who liked my Facebook page and shared the contest on their facebook page.

We placed all entries on a slip of paper and into a basket they went.  

My trusted husband was the only one here to do the drawing for me.

Disregard the watermelon in the background and the dishes in the sink!!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

The winner is Mandi Owings Ostein!!

The Art in the Square...SOLD!

Utica Square is about as "High End" as it gets for shopping in Tulsa.  A gorgeous setting for some of the nicest of stores, and each year in the fall they promote local artist with a show to sell paintings and other art.  Today was a beautiful crisp fall day and it brought out lots of artist and shoppers alike.

As a member of Alpha Rho Tau a Civic Group of Artist, I was able to show 3 of my pieces of work and sell two out of three! Hooray!!  That's three paintings sold this week, one on Daily Painting Works.  Makes me feel so accomplished and even better, means an order of new paints is going in on Monday!  Yippee!!

These are dear painting friends who were also selling or shopping today.  They are a wonderful support group, who encourage each other and work hard to promote art in Tulsa.  Each of them are in a painting class with me.  There are so many more who should be in this photo. Our booth was right outside The Wild Fork restaurant, and let say the food smells were amazing.  Sell or no Sale, it was a fun day.

New Challenge For Facebook!

Aren't you lucky??  Well, as faithful followers of my blog I am going to let you in on the next giveaway.  This time it is a photo challenge.  It has been made pretty clear on my blog and on my other social media outlets that I stink at composition and photography.

People send me photos off the internet all the time, but they are copy protected and I need originals.  So my solution is to trade a painting for the winning photo.  Not sure what the prize will be yet.  That is still to be determined.

The rules will be:

One photo submission per day by email or by Facebook.

Submit your favorite photos that showcase something you think would make a beautiful painting.

Finalist will be selected based on creativity, clarity, color and how well the photo can become art.

Can't wait to see your photos and what you suggest I could paint.  Oh and it does not have to be a recent one either.