Yesterday evening I received e-mail from Oil pastel Society starting that my painting "Koi Pond" was awarded second place at Professional/Signature category on annual members only OPS International show.
It is a huge honor, way more that I expected. I'm thrilled and totally happy.
Quoted from http://www.oilpastelsociety.com/:
"Transcendence"
2010 Members' Only Online Show
| "Koi Pond" Oil pastel by Tatiana Myers
2nd Place Professional/Signature category.
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View Transcendence
http://oilpastelsociety.com/2010Show/2010Transcendence.htm
Judged this year by Bill Creevy, Internationally known artist
Bill Creevy is a widely exhibited New York artist with over twelve solo shows to his credit and has had work represented in many group shows throughout the nation and abroad. Originally a native of New Orleans, Bill Creevy holds an MFA degree from Louisiana State University and a BA degree from the University of New Orleans. Bill Creevy’s painting style is representational and he is at home in still life, landscape and figure painting. Creevy’s favorite medium is simply drawing but he has extensive knowledge of both pastel and oil painting. In fact Bill Creevy is the author of two professional level books on art technique: “The Pastel Book” & “The Oil Painting Book” both published by Watson & Guptill.
Both a writer and an artist Bill Creevy has had articles and reviews appear in “American Artist”, “Pastel Journal”, “Art in America” and “Artist’s” magazine. Among his many awards and honors are included the National Art Master’s Award for Pastel Teaching sponsored by American Artist magazine; and the Max Beckman Teaching Fellowship from the Brooklyn Museum. Creevy is also a signature member and Master Pastelist of the Pastel Society of America and is listed in Who’s Who in American Art.
