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Old 05-09-2006, 10:29 AM   #1
Tom Edgerton Tom Edgerton is offline
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Here are the finalists names, but I don't have complete information re: places, especially in the Honors awards. I will only list the ones I'm sure about, and you all can help me with the rankings:

Vasudeo Taranath Kamath--Grand Prize
Jeremy Lipking--Best in Show
Marvin Mattelson--First Place
Kay Polk--Second Place
Jamie McMahan--People's Choice
Paul Newton--First Honors
(Our Own) Alexandra Tyng--Second Honors

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Jean-Paul Tibbles
Ted Reed
John Ennis
Jeanne Ciravolo

(Note: the finalists' paintings, with other awards, are now posted on the PSOA site.)

Congratulation to all! And to second Alex's sentiments, it was great to meet our Forum winners face to face. We all missed Garth...
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Old 05-09-2006, 12:06 PM   #2
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Big Congrats to Alex and Marvin and all other that made it to the top
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Old 05-09-2006, 12:19 PM   #3
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It was wonderful to meet so many new faces and talk to so many artists from all over the world. I would like to add my congratulations to all the terrific finalists whose paintings were at the convention - it really was a stellar show of talent.

Most of my photos are incredibly bad, but here's what I have so far:
A few finalists: Marvin Mattelson, Alex Tyng, Jeremy Lipking:
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Old 05-09-2006, 12:21 PM   #4
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Chris Saper, teaching Juan Maritnez (Certificate of Excellence Award winner) how to use a camera.
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Old 05-09-2006, 12:24 PM   #5
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Me, Tom Edgerton.
I had to post this photo. Neither Tom nor I will ever look this good again.
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Old 05-09-2006, 12:52 PM   #6
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Congratulations to all!

Please post images of the paintings that received recognition. It is great to see so many SOG artists receiving honors!
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Old 05-09-2006, 05:30 PM   #7
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I am so sorry I couldn't attend this year but I hope that my congratulations and salutations will be heard by everyone.

Hope to see you all next year.
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Old 05-09-2006, 07:38 PM   #8
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It was so great to see all the SOG and Forum buds at this conference, and make new friends - I'm still buzzing from it. And I am so excited and anxious and inspired to get back to work, to improve. The talks were really wonderful, I got so much out of them. The demos were fabulous - Thurs. night I wished I were 4 people, to be able to sit through all of them. I would like to share a quick story - I suspect others will find it amusing, as I have:

My brother lives in Taos, New Mexico, and is also an artist. A little more than two years ago, he and his wife bought a house, that has a very large studio space attached. It's all a bit unfinished, but they are remodelling it a little at a time. It's huge. I visited them the summer before last and, as they did not have a finished guest room, I was brought into the studio. My brother had put a futon, some sheets, blankets and a pillow on this model's stand which was situated against a large wall. This was my bed for two weeks. Well, in a few days I was told to "clean up." It was Thursday and every Thursday evening the studio is opened to area artists for a live model drawing session. So I cleared off my "bed," put my clothes and stuff away, etc. That evening, about twelve or so artists and a beautiful model showed up... and so we all got started. During one of the breaks, I walked around and saw a drawing that this older guy was working on. It was incredible. I told my brother, "this guy is really good." He said, "yeah, he's a pretty good artist."

Well, last Sunday morning, as I was listening to David Leffel and Sherrie McGraw's talk, I was thinking, David Leffel sure looks familiar. Then he or she mentioned they were now living in Taos...and then it dawned on me. It was like "Oh...my... God! I can't believe it." That "pretty good artist" was David Leffel. I had heard of him for years, and admired his work but never knew what he looked like. Then as I was musing, I came to this realization, this seminal fact - (this is just how my brain works):

David Leffel was in my bedroom, drawing a naked lady who was standing on my bed!

Wow! How many people can say that!?! And, yet, I didn't even know it at the time. Well a few hours ago I called my brother and said, "you know when I was visiting, that drawing group, that guy....etc? Do you realize who he is?!?" And he replied, "yeah, that was David. David Leffel...Art Student's League. What about him?"

- Do you ever have those moments where you feel like the stupidest person on the planet?

But what really impresses me is that even though David and Sherrie could certainly hire a model themselves whenever they want to, they go to this Thursday night drawing group at my brother's studio - and fairly regularly, according to my brother. It's very cool. To me that speaks volumes about the dedication, the character, the spirit of these two incredible artists, these two incredible people. Anyway, I'm going to go to Taos this summer to attend a workshop with both David and Sherrie (hopefully, if they are not already full). And I can't wait.

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Old 05-09-2006, 07:54 PM   #9
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Old 05-09-2006, 09:44 PM   #10
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Enzie, I had a lot of trouble getting good photos of the Finalist paintings. I'm glad that Janel posted Marvin's so that we can take a good look at it here.

Here is the one for which John Ennis won an Honors award (I grabbed it from his website):
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