PAINTING PORTRAITS

We opened the 2nd Annual Door Prize for Portraiture at Chez Cheryl on June 30 with a bash for the 18 artists and their friends. I thought it would be hard to top last year's initial launching of DOOR PRIZE, but the weather held nicely, a great and happy crowd attended, the art work is once again a best representation of each artist, and the show looks good, though it is a very different presentation from last year. Can't put my finger on it but it seems more subdued, still diverse in media, with photography, ink drawing, pastel, oil and acrylic. BEST IN SHOW was awarded to Lori Beringer of Plymouth WI, Honorable Mention went to Rick Risch of Fish Creek and Suzanne Rose of Kohlburg, WI. I did a painting of Joanna Lavell, of Melbourne Australia. She is my step daughter and a very talented and lovely person, the painting is titled FRANGIPANI BLUES and recalls my first time meeting her in Lismore New South Wales, with the huge frangipani bushes surrounding her place, I had never experienced them, and now when I think of Joanna I think of her wonderful singing and her frangipani.