Wowza!! 2019 was certainly a very busy year full of fun workshops and several happy surprises!!

 

Pure Poetry and Tender Miracles of Splendor were among just ten fortunate finalists awarded by International Artist magazine in two different competitions! Pure Poetry was awarded in their annual Still Life Competition and Tender Miracles of Splendor was awarded in their annual Florals and Gardens Competition. I'm thrilled to have these two pieces selected from among so many entries submitted worldwide! 

 

Both paintings were also showcased in separate feature articles in the Feb/March and Oct/Nov issues of International Artist magazine!!

 

Pure Poetry was also chosen for a few other wonderful awards, including “Best Still Life” in the recent Fall 2019 International Exhibit through NOAPS (National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society) AND a Finalist Award at the Master Class level of the Art Muse contest!

….and earlier this year, Judge Warren Chang selected “Pure Poetry” for a Finalist Award in the April 2019 BoldBrush Painting Competition!  

 

Huge thanks to BoldBrush and Judge Warren Chang!! Here’s his incredibly generous critique- “Diane’s painting has the delicacy, close observation and elegant color harmony of a Fantin-Latour still life. But it’s much more than “still.” In composition and color, and shape-placement, the painting alternately booms and whispers across the canvas, in the artist’s sensitive and rhymical treatment of light and shade, and lost and found edges. Essential Beauty!”

 

Several New 2020 Workshops Now Open for Registration!!! Come join me in beautiful Florida, Vermont, Connecticut, and Maine!

It’s always exciting to learn new skills – especially while painting with new friends in new places!!  Here are my 2020 Workshops - hope you can join us!!

 

“Paint Beautiful Flowers with Luminescent Color”

February 27, 28,29 & March 1 – Boca Raton, Florida

This four-day color & floral workshop will be offered at the Sheila Wolff Studio in beautiful Boca Raton, Florida.

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“Paint Beautiful Flowers with Luminescent Color”

May 4-8 – Putney, Vermont

This five-day color and floral workshop will be offered at the Village Arts of Putney, aka “The Barn” where the amazing and inspiring artists Richard Schmid and Nancy Guzik get together to paint with the Putney Painters.                        

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“Color Mixing Made Simple”

June 3-4 – Wethersfield, Connecticut

Wethersfield Academy for the Arts is just minutes away from Hartford, CT. 

Note: This two-day workshop is conveniently offered just prior to my “Paint Beautiful Flowers” workshop, held the following three days (June 5-7).              

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“Paint Beautiful Flowers”

June 5-7 – Wethersfield, Connecticut

Wethersfield Academy for the Arts is just minutes away from Hartford, CT.

(Note: This three-day workshop can be taken separately OR just after taking my  two-day “Color Mixing Made Simple” workshop. It is conveniently offered two days earlier than my floral workshop because it teaches how to mix luminescent color, which is very helpful when we are painting those beautiful flowers a few days later!)                                                

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“Paint Beautiful Flowers with Luminescent Color”

July 20-24 – Rockland, Maine (on the coast!)

This five-day workshop will be offered at Coastal Maine Art Workshops, located on the gorgeous coast of Maine. Note: I plan to stay an extra day or two for some exploring as well as plein air painting along the beautiful coast –  and you’re certainly welcome to join me.

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Well, that's all the news for now!  Hope you are having a wonderful start to 2020 and the new decade!

Wishing you countless blessing of joy, peace, fun and laughter - and of course lots of time to enjoy painting!!