Awards, Articles and Teaching
Karen and I are thrilled that my Online Wednesday Morning Class, is
going so well.This upcoming March 20th Series is filled up but there
are openings in the next series that starts May 22nd. Classes are every
Wednesday Morning from 10am -1pm PDT. Eight-3 hour sessions.
I have other Plein Air Workshops, Portrait Drawing and Painting
Workshops , paarticularly excited of starting up some new workshops
called: "The Art of Seeing-Finding Your Unique". Focusing on finding
our own "unique" concepts and compositions. I think some of you will be
equally interested and excited about those opportunities. They are
posted on my website : Ned Mueller Online Classes and Workshops
For more information email us at nedmueller06@comcast.net
lpvm
Todos Santos Man
Todos Santos Man
It has been a busy Winter so far and looks like it will continue into
this Summer and Fall if all keeps going well! I like to enter some of
the better National contests that are offered online along with a few
of the local shows that are in person. It helps to keep ones name out
there and lets people know that one is still alive and
producing...people must wonder a bit when you get in your middle to
late 80's and are dealing with some difficult health issues...I look at
the obituaries on occasion, hoping I don't find my name there!
The drawing above -"Todos Santos Man" Got the Best Drawing in the Plein
Air Salon's November Contest. I also got a couple of others in that
same month's contest.
Minaret Range-Sierras
Minaret Range-Sierras
My painting "Minaret Valley-Sierras", was from a great painting-pack
trip into the beautiful Minaret Range of the Sierra's with four other
artist friends. It got 'Best of Show" in Plein Air Washington's 2024's
annual show. Certainly nice to get these awards along with a few others
that I have gotten in the last few months. I should mention that both
of these two works are available on my website. Let me know if you are
interested.
This portrait on the right has always been one of my favorites.
Valentina who was from Ukraine, actually was modeling for me on a warm
June day, but she had on this wonderful shawl and I decided to change
it to a winter scene and just made up the background..which was
originally a golf course!
It got an award in the November Plein Air Salon along with two other
paintings. Forgive me for going on about my awards, but I am proud of
them, as the competition is pretty tough, and more often than not, I am
not selected...but it is fun to try and just see how our work might
fare!
Valentina
Valentina
Magazine Articles
Just in the last few months, I got feature articles published. Karen
and I were back in Ireland for six weeks last summer and went to a
wonderful plein air event in the delightful town of Graignamanagh. We
went to see old artist friends and just enjoy the show. The Jamie and
Niamh Dunne, the couple that ran the show asked me if I would be an
honorary judge and I thought..why not. It was fun to do with the other
two judges and as usual an agonizing job, but we got it done.
Later on I suggested to my friend, Michael Diorgi, the editor of the
wonderful new art magazine "Modern Impressionism".. if I might do an
article on the show, as it is in a very unique setting in a river
valley, with a great old stone bridge and wonderful quay with a great
selection of colorful boats lined along it! They gave me ten wonderful
pages with many of the photos with most of the text that I had written!
I was quite proud of that whole experience!
The second article was in "Plein Air Magazine..they asked me to submit
some paintings and text on the experience of being 83 and dealing with
the difficulties of the challenges of serious health issues. That was
pretty special getting into all of that and being an artist.
I was particularly thrilled that they used an almost "double page
spread of this great photo by Kathryn Townsend... of me painting at
"Artist Point" between Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan in the North
Cascades.
All of this has happened in the last six months and certainly has done
wonders for my spirit!
I will be having a feature article on my life and work in the May/June
issue of Modern Impressionism.
"The Edge of Summer"
"The Edge of Summer"
Karen and I are both looking forward to this Spring and Summer and
getting out more to travel and paint. We will make our usual Summer
trip to Ireland in August and connecting with our wonderful Irish
relatives and friends. The painting above is a plein air painting I did
in the Olympic mountains in their annual "Paint the Peninsula" plein
air show. It is one of three paintings that I just submitted to
Ireland's most prestigious exhibition at "Royal Hibernia Academy" or
better known as the "RHA" Karen submitted three also and it is always a
great reason to tease each other over who does or doesn't get accepted,
an award, or not...and on and on! We are both blessed with having a
home there and also one here--some very interesting contrasts in the
cultures..some lively conversations if I might call them that!
We both are hoping that this finds you well and we are very grateful
for your interest and support of this newsletter.
All our best, Ned and Karen
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