Post 511: Lime Challenge Revealed

Lime Challenge Revealed

At the Prince William Art Society meeting on Monday, October 28, 2024 which takes place on the 4th Monday of the month at 7:30pm at the Tall Oaks Community Center in Woodbridge, we finally revealed our PWAS Lime Challenge artworks. The story is here on how the Lime Challenge began, and at the meeting, we showed our results.

 

The original Lime for the Challenge

PWAS Lime Challenge

Get a bunch of artists together and they see something 'out of place' and this is what they come up with. The task was to come up with an artwork for a lime in whichever way you see it - as is or how it should be.

Step 1. We need a subject for the challenge.

     For the story behind the Lime Challenge, see https://artistryspin.blogspot.com/2024/09/post-497-pwas-lime-challenge.html

Step 2. We needed a way to vote for our favorite.

    I used simple pictures of limes that I cut out and each lime was a vote for the members to place in front of/on their favorite piece. The piece with the most limes, wins. AND it was hard to pick a favorite as they were all to wonderful! Great job everyone!!

Step 3. Should we have something for the winner?

    I gave out an inexpensive sketch book to the winner.

Step 4. Should we have something to go with the challenge as far as food/drink?

    Think Lime and much comes to mind in food and in drink. I made Easy Lime Jello Sugar Cookies. I think folks enjoyed them, there was only 1 left.

As members came in, they placed their lime works on the table. And we were NOT disappointed - you guys all did great with your limes! 

I kept thinking, now WHAT do we do with our Lime Challenge artwork? I didn't have an answer for that. Maybe someone does?

As you can see, voting on a favorite was NOT easy. I loved them all.

 

Our winner was Robert Dew's Lime with 7 limes

The PWAS Challenge can be anything that we want it to be, but this is how I played it. I think it turned out fun. I'm thinking we need to continue the challenge...

Who Wants to do the Next PWAS Challenge?

PWAS Challenge is something I would like the art group to continue and I've heard a few others say they enjoyed it as well and would like to see it continue. I played it the way I did but if someone wants to take over the next challenge with suggestions and do it differently - just stand up. 

I'd be happy to work with the next PWAS Challenge if need be, and I was thinking SNOW in January....

What do you think?

Other PWAS blog posts from the Monday, October 28, 2024 PWAS Meeting:

Mark Murphy's Photos from DC

PWAS Meeting Guest Speaker M. Jane Johnson

Miss a meeting and you miss a lot!

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Author: Donna Liguria
Artistry Spin Blogmaster and an artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Donna's Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

Photography/Video Credits: Donna Liguria

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Post 507: Creating Beauty from Chaos Upcoming PWAS Meeting

Creating Beauty from Chaos Upcoming PWAS Meeting

Come on by the next Prince William Art Society's (PWAS) next meeting on Monday, October 28th at 7:30pm at the Tall Oaks Community Center in Woodbridge and enjoy our guest artist, M. Jane Johnson. Also on the agenda is our Lime Challenge and what our art group has been up to. And we have a new PWAS member art show call for art.

 

MJJ Written in Code

Creating Beauty from Chaos

The Prince William Art Society will meet October 28th at the Tall Oaks Community Center, 12298 Cotton Mill Drive, Woodbridge VA at 7:30 pm. The meeting will begin with a program by M. Jane Johnson who will share her work and how she creates one of her paintings. Meetings are free and open to the public, who are cordially invited to attend.

 

MJJ In a Swirl

M. Jane Johnson uses a process-driven technique when she is creating her work.  She has learned to let the painting tell its story and carry her along on the path to completion.  As she works, she will photograph the work and use the value study to help guide her in the next phase of the painting.  She mixes various acrylic gels to create textures to play opposite collage she has added, so each piece is an intricate weaving of color, pattern, texture, and it's own history. As it moves closer to completion, she will start honing down the chaotic process.

 

MJJ Floral 2

Ms. Johnson has a BFA in Fine Arts with a focus on drawing and painting. She studied art in Italy and took many classes at the Art League School in Alexandria, VA, and her work is in international, corporate, and private collections.  Twelve of her paintings are in the Heart Clinic at Children’s National Medical Center.  She has had successful solo shows at the Art League Gallery in Alexandria, at the Arts Club of Washington in DC, at Artist & Makers in Rockville, and at the Workhouse Arts Center, as well as having participated in group shows and art fairs.  Ms. Johnson teaches at the Workhouse Arts Center and the McLean Project for the Arts. 

 

MJJ Floral 1

PWAS Lime Challenge

In September, PWAS sent out a Lime Challenge artwork challenge based on this solo lime sitting on a table while we were taking part in the Arts Alive Art Show in Manassas. So at this PWAS meeting, all members are requested to bring in their Limes! I know some of you created artworks based upon your green vision. See Lime Challenge. So be sure and bring in your lime artwork and let's pick our favorite.

PWAS Montclair Library Art Show

A call for art from the PWAS members was just sent out for the Nov-Dec art show at the Montclair Library, so check your emails!!

Location: 5049 Waterway Dr, Montclair, VA 22025

Art Submission Dates: Tuesday, October 22 until Sunday, October 27, 2024 11pm DEADLINE.

Art Drop Off Dates: Monday, October 28 at the Tall Oaks Meeting at 7:30pm to a PWAS Board Member (12298 Cotton Mill Drive, Woodbridge, VA); OR bring to the Montclair Library on Saturday, November 2 between 10-11am.

Montclair Library Art Show Dates: Saturday, November 2 through end of December (Actual Closing Date TBD)

 

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Author: Emily Hawes

 

Author: Donna Liguria
Artistry Spin Blogmaster and an artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Donna's Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

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Local Art: The Prince William Art Society is a 50+-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia. Visit us at any of our local art shows or join us for our monthly meetings - held on the 4th Monday of the month at the Tall Oaks Community Center at 12298 Cotton Mill Dr, Woodbridge, VA at 7:30pm

Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership

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Post 497: PWAS Lime Challenge

PWAS Lime Challenge

Arts Alive was Saturday, September 14, 2024 and a fun day it was. What puzzled our creative artists was this lime sitting near an exit door all day where we were set up. A still life? Yes and no. A paint project? Yes! Hence, the PWAS Lime Challenge was born.

 

Photo from Donna Liguria

Let's Have a Paint Challenge!

Get a group of artists together and the ideas start happening. This lonely green guy sat on this table all day. The question was raised, why was it here? Who did it belong to? What should we do with it? We had no idea but we decided at first that it was a still life. Should we add more oddball items with it through the day to make a more interesting still life scene out of it? Was some woman without her lime in the coconut?

The final decision was a PWAS Lime Painting Challenge for the entire art group. We would like to throw down the Lime Challenge and have anyone in the PWAS art group do a painting of a lime and we can bring the paintings to a meeting and see and enjoy our results.

Paint the lime in whatever your style is: realistic, abstract, paint pour, whatever. Create a Picasso Lime! "Mona Lime" by Leonardo da Vinci. "Girl with a Pearl Lime" (Johannes Vermeer). "Starry Limes" (Van Gogh). "The Son of Man" with a Lime instead of a green apple (René Magritte).

Or a simple lime on a table.

Small painting? Maybe...but you do you.

Lime is a color so shoot for whatever interpretation of a lime you want to do.

Maybe even as you see his ultimate purpose in life. A margarita? A Corona? A Keylime Pie? 

We offer here a few reference photos to get your lime thoughts stirring, no limetations.

 

Photo from Donna Liguria 

 

Photo from Donna Liguria 

 

Photo from Anna Gatling

 

Photo from Anna Gatling

When to Show Your Lime Challenge Paintings?

With the next PWAS Meeting scheduled for Monday, September 23 at 7:30, at the Tall Oaks Community Center - 12298 Cotton Mill Drive, Woodbridge - there may not be enough time for everyone to get limed up. Do you want to shoot for October's meeting on October 28?

Next steps...How to sell our lime paintings/interpretations? We'll need to come up with some good ideas on this too. Want to vote on your favorites as a group? (Perhaps don't sign the front for this idea.)

Don't show your Lime paintings beforehand but we'd love to know if you are taking part in the Lime Challenge! May this not be our first and only PWAS Challenge!

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Author: Donna Liguria
Artistry Spin Blogmaster and an artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Donna's Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

Photography/Video Credits: Anna Gatling and Donna Liguria

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Local Art: The Prince William Art Society is a 50+-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia. Visit us at any of our local art shows or join us for our monthly meetings - held on the 4th Monday of the month at the Tall Oaks Community Center at 12298 Cotton Mill Dr, Woodbridge, VA at 7:30pm

Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership

Have an idea for a blog post? Are you a writer and want to help with the blog? Let me know! Thank you for visiting, and remember to Share, Follow, and Comment!