Truly an Honor!

I'm proud to announce that my scratchboard diptych, "Sleeping Patterns" won an Award of Excellence in the Open Division at the International Society of Scratchboard Artists' (ISSA) exhibit in Vancouver, British Columbia! You can read more about the drawing in this post. The award truly is an honor because the judges in the open division were three of the ISSA Master-level scratchboard artists (MSA) who are my peers and artists I respect and admire. This drawing was one of those pieces that "all came together" from the moment I saw the reference photo and I couldn't be more pleased with the way it turned out. To win an award for it is icing on the cake!
John & I were able to travel to Vancouver to see the exhibit and hang out with the 20+ ISSA members who attended the artists' reception at the Federation of Canadian Artists' gallery. We rented a car and drove and had a wonderful time. On Saturday and Sunday following the reception, ISSA presented demos by 7 members, including myself. I demonstrated a couple of my techniques, including how to add color to a board. You can see that board in the second of these photos from my demo. I've since finished the drawing, a portrait of a Toy Manchester Terrier. He'll be the subject of a future blog post. Thanks to Allan Ace Adams for taking photos during my demo.


See my previous post to read a bit more about why it's so fun to attend these ISSA events and to see my other two works that were in the exhibit. To see all of the exhibit entries, visit the ISSA Exhibition Preview.

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International Society of Scratchboard Artist's 2nd Annual Exhibition

I'm honored to have 3 drawings in this juried exhibition and to be a Signature member (SSA) of the ISSA. Our 2nd annual exhibition opens tomorrow (June 4th) at the Federation of Canadian Artists' gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia. The show runs through June 23rd. I attended last year's inaugural exhibition in California and it was fantastic (read about it here). To be able to see an entire show of nothing but scratchboard art is such a treat and scratchboard really needs to be seen "live" to appreciate the level of detail and see the scratching involved. Not to mention the joy of having a chance to meet and hang out with other scratchboard artists. We have chosen an uncommon medium, so there aren't many of us around to get together in our own neighborhoods. I'll be attending again this year and will be one of the participating artists in the workshop/demos. I presented a demo last year as well. If you're interested, you can purchase my demo video and others at a very reasonable cost.

You can see all the works that have been accepted in the show here.
Below are my drawings that were accepted (click on any image to find out more):

"Kili Man Jaro", 5" x 7"

"Sleeping Patterns", 8" x 16" (each half is 8" x 8")

"Baby Face", 3" x 5"

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