Above is a pastel that I rushed to finish after the Lakewood Art Show and before Halloween (which is a big deal at my house)!   This was done as an entry into the First Annual Fall Painting Competition on Facebook.    The had nearly 1000 entries!  The paintings had to be started and completed in the month of October.  They have several categories similar to all competitions:  oil, acrylic, pastel and watercolor.  They will be announcing the winners they hope by mid-November.   I’m not sure they knew what they had gotten into,  but by the end of the month they were saying how amazed they were at the number of entrants.  Each person was allowed to enter up to 3 paintings, but I was lucky just to complete one.   Maybe next year?

If any of you are Facebook users you can look at all the entries by going into the Events forum from the main page and clicking on the Fall Painting Competition….you know, now I’m not sure that it isn’t titled Autumn instead of Fall….but, in any case, once there you see a section of photos and the words “see all”.  Click on that and you get the screen filled with thumbnails. Clicking on any of them will enlarge the image and there are arrows for moving forward.  If you enjoy looking at art, you’ll be very impressed with this collection.  Most of them are just stunning.

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