Debbi Friedman’s Blog

My colored pencil drawing “Amber Bowl” was awarded First Place in the Graphite, charcoal and colored pencil category of the Artists Magazine’s On-Line All Media competition.  I am so honored to receive this recognition for my work, especially as there are so many fine entries for them to judge from.  I spoke with Chris McHugh, the Managing Editor of The Artists Magazine, who told me that there were over 1,800 entries this year.  You can see all of the first place winners and honorable mention award winners at The Artists Magazine.

In spite of my lack of blog entries lately I have been working hard.  I’m planning to post a photograph of my latest drawing, last written about  on February 11th, by next Monday.  So please check back soon!

My colored pencil landscape of Wellesley Hills in traffic at sunset won “Best in Show” at the 75th Anniversary show of the Wellesley Society of Artists.    The opening and awards ceremony was this afternoon, and here’s what the juror had to say about my piece:

- Great  value range with wonderful mood.  Great sense of late afternoon light.  Good division of space.  Striking piece!

I currently have artwork up in three shows in the Northeast:

• H2O – Artistic Interpretation of Water, Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island, through December 3rd
• Wellesley Society of Artists, Annual Juried Exhibition, Wellesley Free Library, Wellesley, MA, up through November 31st, and
• Allied Artists of America 95th Annual Juried Exhibition, the National Arts Club Galleries, Gramercy Park South, New York City, New York, November 14th through December 2nd.

My piece at the WSA’s exhibition, “Last Year’s Remnants” was awarded Third Place in the show.  Below is a photograph taken of the opening reception at the Spring Bull Gallery showing some of the work on the wall.  One of my pieces is in the middle of the photograph:  “Still-life with Broken Wings”.

I am very pleased to write that my blog has been awarded two different awards. First, Holly Bedrosian (www.hollybedrosian.com) nominated my blog for the Arte Y Pico Award, which is described as follows:

Arte Y Pico Award Origin

The designer of the award puts it like this: “The Arte Y Pico Award has arisen from the daily visits that I make to many blogs which nourish and enrich me with creativity. In them, I see dedication, creativity, dare, comradeship, but mainly ART, much art. I want to share this prize with all those bloggers that entertain and enrich me from day to day. Doubtless, there are many and it will be hard to pick just a few.”

The rules:

1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award through creativity, design, interesting material, and also contribute to the blogger community, no matter what language or country.
2. Each award should have the name of the author with a link to their blog.
3. Award winners have to post the award with the name and link to the blog of the person who awarded them.
4. Show these rules and the paragraph above explaining the award’s origination.

I also received the Brillante Weblog Award from Dee Overly (www.deeoverly.com). Thanks Dee! This award also has rules, as follows:

1. Put the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Add links to those blogs on your blog.
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.
6. Participation is entirely voluntary, of course! Have fun with this!

Now I have the tough job of finding 12 blogs to award. . . which is hard to do – I’m not sure I read that many blogs. I do have a couple of awards to bestow, and will probably do the rest at a latter date. I award the Arte Y Pico Award to: Dee Overly (www.deeoverly.com)!