Art with Heart by Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson | Make Your Own Book

I'm really excited about the upcoming show at the JaxPort Cruise Terminal. This is a show that they graciously offered to us in the Art Guild of Orange Park and that we are doing with SoMMA (Society of Mixed Media Artists). It was required to use materials that JaxPort gave us - which were an annual report/brochure and a poster. They makes many efforts to be green there so wanted to recycle their left overs.

Those of us in SoMMA may have had an easier job of this assignment since many of it's members already do collage and mixed media art. Since many of the members of the Art Guild of Orange Park are more traditional painting artists this was a bit more of a challenge. From what I saw in the take in process they came through with flying colors though!

The show travels to JaxPort corporate headquarters and then to the main Jacksonville Public Library. Come to the opening if you've already RSVP'd and enjoy the talent on the walls - oh and the food and music too.

Here are two of my works. You'll have to see the show to see the third!!!!

Okay no one wants to talk serious art philosophy so here's a self promoting post!
I received an Honorable Mention award in the Art Guild of Orange Parks
(http://www.artguildoforangepark.com/)
show at the First Street Gallery

(http://www.firststreetgalleryart.com/)
in Neptune Beach.
Yeah for me!

I hope to start a dialogue.

I've been thinking alot about what the differences are between painting and photography as an art form. Since I took up painting again, I've had my share of failures. But sometimes it wasn't a matter of execution. I tend to paint from photographs and choose photographs that I like and that evoke a feeling of some measure in me. The problem with some of these failures is that though the photographic image may be lovely, powerful, interesting and beautiful etc, as a painting the image fails.

And so the question is why?

I've been thinking about it a bit. But haven't really concluded anything.

Some of it may be a lack of "focal point". Do we demand more of a painting when it comes to this? There must be a more obvious reason a painting was painted?