received acceptance award az accc 11 2008

Portand Or rose

awarded 3rd place in az camera club council 11 2008

Bagno Vignoni Italy door

Award 2nd place in the az camera club council 11 2008

Cortona Italy door

Charlie received THREE ribbons today for photos submitted to the Arizona Camera Club Council competition. There were 750 entries and he got a second and third on the Italian doors already on this blog and a ribbon for his Oregon rose. We could not bring them home yet or I would put them up. Congratulations Charlie!!!

Here we are working on each other's paintings. (See next post). We had 15 min. to work at each painting and finished up at our own for the final 15 min. It was pretty intense but fun!!!

Yesterday, at the AAA Art show in Fountain Hills, Karen Budan, Liz Kenyon, and I did a paintaround. Here you see us (Karen is hidden) beginning work on our own paintins with reference photos we took in Italy. We are the Tuscan Trio.

This is the second door I painted; this one is watercolor. It was/is a very old door that has seen a lot of history.

This is the pastel painting I did from Charlie's photo.

Doors of Tuscany Italy, May 2008