"Write it on your heart, that everyday is the best day of the year".
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm so pleased to share that I'm a finalist in the Sedona Art Prize again in December 2016. Judge Charlie Hunter made some very entertaining comments about all of his selections. Here's a nice little story he wrote about mine:
Charlie Hunter says:"Bingham settles the question art historians have been asking for decades: "What would El Greco have made of 1940s-era Ford trucks? He would have liked them a lot, obviously.
Dang! This has some beautiful passages! Look at how the rail of the bed leads us in; to the cracked-open door; where we get to sit, in excited dread, looking at the possibly-impending thunderstorm until the fear of a hidden nest of wasps somewhere in that scratchy upholstery gets a little too unsettling, and we burst out -either direction- into that excellent field behind.
THAT, boys and girls, is what 'leading the eye through the painting" is all about."
Thanks Charlie:)
Quittin Time Painting available through RS Hanna Gallery, Fredricksburg, TX.
If you like to see all the finalists and enjoy what Charlie says about each one click here.
I started off the New Year in Sedona, AZ. The scenery was spectacular to say the least!
My two favorite studies are shown below.
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