It's official!!

Amy wrote:

And LOL, let's HOPE the 'salt and earth' doesn't make it---are you saying it's actually in the top 10?!?!

Yes, indeedy! Salt and Earth is in the top 10. ( ) One of my friends told me that he thinks that the "artist" behind that work had a friend stand by it, and look intellectual, and say, "Oh, this is deep. Very deep...." etc. etc. so that the people around would feel like they *should* "get it", and would vote for it to feel more intellectual themselves. I can't quite bring myself to call the person an artist, because piles of sand and dirt just don't qualify in my estimation. And I swear that isn't sour grapes! I'm honestly super excited to see the Cavalry unit in there....I just don't think Salt & Earth deserves the position.

Sorry to hear you didn't make the Top 10, Savannah. I'm glad you had a good time anyway. Here's to next year!

SO sorry to hear you didn't make the top 10 BUT think how much you will grow in a years time. They better watch out for you next year!!!

Thank you, Cheryl and Gin! Gin, I'm looking forward to trying new things and working hard at learning more in the next year.

WOO-HOOOO!!!!

My favorite won!! My favorite won!!!! Chris LaPorte won for his Cavalry drawing!

Awesome!

It came down to him and another artist....And the other artist exclusively does paintings and mosaics of herself. Nothing else. (She has a Svelata foundation based on 22 paintings of herself.) They're good - and they're beautiful....but I wanted someone a little more diverse. Besides, I LOVED Chris LaPorte's piece!

The third-place prize went to a display of red strings. Seriously.

Great news! Congratulations to Chris. Real art lives!

I'm absolutely THRILLED.

Here's the piece that won second-place. Very lovely, too. I don't mind it coming in in the top three....The strings are a bit much - but I don't mind this piece at all:



A sheet of glass was placed over a large photo (in six panes) and tiny pieces of glass were filled in to make the mosaic. I think they said it took 2,700 hours to make.

Savannah wrote:

WOO-HOOOO!!!!

My favorite won!! My favorite won!!!! Chris LaPorte won for his Cavalry drawing!

Yay! Glad to hear it.

SO awesome that your guy won Savannah! He totally deserved it.

Savannah wrote:

It came down to him and another artist....And the other artist exclusively does paintings and mosaics of herself. Nothing else. (She has a Svelata foundation based on 22 paintings of herself.) They're good - and they're beautiful....but I wanted someone a little more diverse.

Um, I'm sorry, but isn't that just a wee bit narcissistic?? I'll admit it though, her mosaic is stunning. Wow.

Savannah wrote:

Rob wrote:

Great news! Congratulations to Chris. Real art lives!

Indeed!! CrAzY that those 'strings' came in third?!

I'm obviously too small-town to be able to see what people found so amazing about the strings.

Here's a short video with Chris talking about Cavalry - and it shows the full-sized project.

Amazing to see it "live" like that! It's a great work. The thing is, your drawings are just as good, they're just on a smaller scale.

Those are very happy tears. Thank you, Rob - what a beautiful compliment!

Congrats! You know how much I love your works, Savannah.

As for the red strings...Oh, well. A similar thing won an art contest here in B.A, but the strings were green, not red. I don't think these could be called "art" at all...But I suppose there's people who likes them, after all.

Vanesa.

I'm glad Chris LaPorte's won too. Wow, I don't know what people saw in the red strings. The Last Supper made out of dryer lint was better. I thought Pixel Pete's picture made out of Rubik's Cubes was better too. We didn't make it there this year, but the news showed quite a few of the pieces.

Lori wrote:

Wow, I don't know what people saw in the red strings. The Last Supper made out of dryer lint was better.

I must have missed that one!



Love the video Savannah.....wow, that is one HUGE piece!! Unbelieveable!! Incredible to think what was inspired out of a simple picture from an antique store.

Savannah wrote:

I'm obviously too small-town to be able to see what people found so amazing about the strings.

Here's a short video with Chris talking about Cavalry - and it shows the full-sized project.

It is stunning to see the portrait in the video, I can only imagine what it was like to see life-size, in person. Incredible.

Rob wrote:

Amazing to see it "live" like that! It's a great work. The thing is, your drawings are just as good, they're just on a smaller scale.

I agree 100%. Savannah, you are so good at capturing facial expressions and all those important little details that really bring your drawings to life.

Thank you so much, Pam!