International Artist Portrait and Figure Finalist
 

I just picked up my new copy of International Artist Magazine and saw that our own Marina Dieul has been selected as a finalist in the portrait and figure category for her drawing of La Nonette! Congratulations, Marina! It deserves that and more!

Congratulations Marina! Excellent news, and very well deserved!

Congrats Marina! The drawing deserves it, now what is in store for the painting?

Jean

Thank you so much Alex, Thomasin and Jean !
I didn't reveive my copy yet, so I wasn't sure what were the results of this competition...
Whaaa! That's such exctiting news !
Where is the mailman ?

Marina,

Big congratulations! Very well deserved.

David

Marina, that is great news and I am very happy for you.

Marina, I am so happy for you! A very big congratulations on your well-deserved recognition!

Congratulations, Marina! La Nonette is positively lovely and it's great to see you getting international recognition for it!

David, Enzie, Linda and Julie :
Thanks a lot!

Now I really wonder where's the mailman ? Maybe frozen somewhere ?...

Congratulations Marina. My favorite drawing won. Since I have been ridiculed recently for using children as models, I am doubly happy that this won. It's a wonderful subject ,excellently done.

Heartfelt congratulations to you, Marina!! Very well deserved! I saw the other winners on their site and you are in great company. I

Congratulations, Marina!

Congratulations, Marina! I've always loved that piece.

Linda,
thanks so much! ( when a woman cooks, it's normal it's her duty to feed her family, when a man cooks, it's a chef . I think it's the same with painting : when a woman paints some children, it's her hobby, when a man does the same, he's Rembrandt. We have to change that !)

Carlos, Cynthia, Michele,
thanks a lot!

Marina, because you are the best kind of "warrior" for this cause: one who makes her point with her work, one who is totally focused and uncompromised in her pursuit of her vision. You are changing things.

Alex,
I'm not sure there's a "war" to win, but there are certainely some preconceived ideas ( and we are probably all guilty to have some, on a lot of different subjects ) we have to dismantle.
Thank you for thinking that I'm able to change a bit things. I believe that in some case, facts have more power than words .
So Ladies, give your best at your easels !

Yes, I didn't mean that there was actually a war! Thanks for clarifying--I agree.

Wonderful work, richly deserved recognition!

Best as always--TE

Heartfelt congratulations Marina! Well deserved, too.

Tom and Pat,
thank you for your kind words,
sorry for the delay answering you, I really find more and more difficult to find time just to read this Forum, and even more difficult to find the time to write !