This will be our 3rd week of Our Lightchasers Painting Challenge and the number of Lightchasers participating is growing every week! The paint brushes are flying across the canvases
and papers, and the paintings are amazing!
Before we show you our painting submissions for this 3rd week of our Challenge, we would like to present to you our winner of the Best Painting for the 2nd Week of our Painting Challenge!!! THANK YOU TO ALL ARTISTS WHO SENT IN PHOTOS OF THEIR PAINTINGS FOR LAST WEEK'S CHALLENGE!
OUR WINNING PAINTING FROM LAST WEEK IS
"DISTANCING" BY LINDA KUBECKA
OIL 11" x 14" Linda's painting will be entered into the Final Challenge, to compete for prizes, which will take place when we resume our usual Thursday paintouts.
CONGRATULATIONS LINDA FOR A BEAUTIFUL PAINTING!!!
Here are this week's submitted paintings for Our Painting Challenge!!! Thank you to all the artists who have been busy painting and have shared their beautiful work with us this week!!!
And Thank You for keeping the Lightchaser Spirit Alive and Creating in these uncertain times!
Penny MacKenzie
Best Buddy
Oil
11x14
Amy Webber
"Ringling Bridge at Sunset"
9x12
oil on panel
Robert Jeffery
Spanish Point boathouse
Oil
11x14
Lydia Kaeyer
Solitude
Watercolor
12x16
Sue Bridgman
Lakeside Dining
Acrylic
20" x 28"
Judith Klein
Shoreside
Oil on canvas
8x10
Patti Cripe
“Crabby-Seeing Red” & “Crabby-Feeling Blue”
Each 8x8
oil on canvas
View from my driveway
Nancy Casey
Oil on canvas
16 x 20
Marie Baumann
"Keith Mansion, Phillippi Park"
Watercolor/Pen & Ink
9" x 12"
Farmhouse
Linda J Greaves
9” x 9”
Oil on Canvas
Doug Finfrock
Coastal Rocks
Watercolor
14" W X 10" H
Bonnie Elkins
“Lanai View II”
Oil
9”x 12”
Wayne Chunat
The Ornotholgist
Charvin Acrylics
8x10 inches
Carmen Letelier
A Path of Light
Acrylic
11 x 14
Anne Wedler
Sky Over Bedford Basin
Oil
11x14
Carolann Garafola
The Harborage Pond, Fl
11x 14
Oil on canvas board
Kathy Baiamonte
St. Armands Circle
Oil
9x12
Marino Roncari
Sunrise on Venice
oil on wood panel
9”x 12”
Bill DiMenna
View from plaza #3
Oil
36”by 48”
Doug Michalski
“Life Goes On”
Acrylic
18” x 24”
Coleen Kordas
Beach Blues
Oil on Panel
8x10
Roddy Dammeyer
"Shells on the Beach"
Oil
12"x12"
Dave Purnhagen
There is a season, tern, tern, tern
Watercolor
9x12
Since we will not be meeting every Thursday due to Coronavirus concerns, we will be offering to you instead a WEEKLY PAINTING CHALLENGE to keep your brushes active over the interim.
RULES:
1. This Challenge is for Lightchaser Members only.
2. Each week send in ONE painting. Please only submit paintings done between Monday to Sunday of that week. The deadline to submit is Sunday at 5PM! YOU ARE ON YOUR HONOR TO COMPLY WITH THIS.
3. In your email please include:
A. Type Weekly Painting Challenge in the subject line of your email
B. In the body of the email please advise the following info: Your name Title of painting Medium Size of painting Attach a photo of your unframed painting done that week. Entries without all the above info will be disqualified. C. Send the email to lightchasersinc@gmail.com.
4. The Light Chasers board will vote on the paintings and the winner will be announced the following Sunday along with that weeks new entries. Board members will recuse themselves if they submit a painting.
5. Each weeks winners of the Challenge will qualify for the final judging for several prizes that will be awarded when we resume our usual weekly Thursday paintouts.
All mediums are acceptable that we allow in our Annual Shows. (Please consult the rules for our Annual Show on our Lightchasers Website to check on Mediums allowed) Photography is not acceptable.
ART & FRAME
Members, in case you did not receive a notice from our long time sponsor 'Art & Frame’, please be advised that they will be closed for the month. Robert assures us that their plan is to “come back strong on May 1st.” They are not accepting any online sales during this time period. Art & Frame has been so consistent in their support of us with generous prizes for our events. Please shop local and we hope everyone looks forward to supporting Art & Frame when they reopen.
We will stay in touch through emails and facebook. Stay safe.
From: Robert & Donna Antovel and the whole team at
Art & Frame of Sarasota
1055 SOUTH TAMIAMI TRAIL, STE 102, SARASOTA, FL 34236
OUR 2021 SHOW AND EVENT DATES!!!!!
PLEASE SAVE THESE DATES!!!!!
2021 SEASON AT A GLANCE
THE QUICK DRAW CONTEST
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021
THE PAINT SARASOTA PAINTOUT
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18 -WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2021
THE LIGHTCHASERS 10TH ANNUAL MEMBERS SHOW
AND FEATURED ARTISTS SHOW
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2021
THE 9TH PAINT SARASOTA PAINTOUT SHOW
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2021
OPEN GALLERY
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2021
ALL SHOWS AND EVENTS SCHEDULED TO BE HELD AT PHILLIPPI ESTATE PARK, SARASOTA
Many Thanks to all our Participating Artists who keep Creativity and Art Alive for all to see!!!
Stay Well,
MaryAnn, Susan, Patti, Jack, Lynn, Sharon & Terry
"My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."
