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Thank you!! to the client from Knoxville,TN who purchased an acrylic print (24 x 17.5) of this painting, September Orange Poppies

Today, Kathy Braud traveled to the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, St Paul, to pick up her watercolor painting, Four Clucks. A large, pea green rosette award ribbon with 3 tails, Best Watercolor - Northstar Watermedia Society, awarded by the MN State Fair judge was sent home with Kathy.

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Kathy Braud shared a 2 month art exhibition at Hope Lodge, Minneapolis, MN - a facility for adult cancer patients similar to Ronald McDonald house. Any sales of artwork would contribute to the care of clients. This exhibition came down Sept 1, 2015. Patty Healy, co-exhibiter, also displayed art in the lovely hall gallery. Artists rotate through the year and do present a lovely gallery of varied artworks.

Kathy Braud, at the Fine Art Reception - discovered her chicken painting Four Clucks had won the Northstar Best Watermedia Award!
She will be receiving a rosette and a $100 check on behalf of Northstar Watercolor Society from the Minnesota State Fair.

Four Clucks is colorful with good ingredients that judges look for when judging a show.

Kathy Braud's watercolor painting, Four Clucks, was chosen to be included in the Minnesota Sate Fair Juried Fine Art Exhibition 2015. Approximately 5000 artisans apply for entry each year.
I am excited! I just found this comment about the MSF by another artist who was also accepted into the MN State Fair..... "For those outside of Minnesota, it is this regions' largest fine art competition, receiving as much public viewing in 13 days as the Minneapolis Institute of Art receives all year. It is always an honor to be accepted."

August 25 - Tuesday: First Glance Event, 5-7 p.m.
The Minnesota State Fair Foundation 501(c)(3) invites artists, friends and family to support the future of the arts at the Minnesota State Fair. This is your chance to get a first glance at the selected works and celebrate art at the fair with arts enthusiasts. Light refreshments will be available. Tickets are available for purchase at www.msffoundation.org or by calling (651) 288-4323.

August 25 - Tuesday: Artists' Preview Night, 7-9:30 p.m.
Participating and non-exhibiting artists and their friends are cordially invited to attend the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Preview Night. Please refer to the map and instructions on page four of the rules and regulations for directions on entering the fairgrounds.

Phase 1 & 2 - successful digital entry for Kathy Braud and delivery of painting to the MN State Fairgrounds for final judging
Phase 3 - I was a successful entrant and Four Clucks was chosen to be accepted into the Minnesota Sate Fair Juried Fine Art Exhibition 2015.

I, Kathy Braud, attended the Opening Reception for this show tonight in my own home town, a wonderful collection of all kinds of art - all mediums, abstract and not, 2D and 3D coming from all over Minnesota. Many local people enjoyed the artworks and the sharing of the experience of appreciation of those who make art.
I was fortunate and had a couple of pieces included in the show also.
It is so fun to visit with people, some we see only on occasion, and reconnect ..... and enjoy all the talents of the area.

The GRA Juried Exhibition is displayed in the Great River Arts Main Gallery and will be up July 8 - August 29, 2015. www.greatart.org
details on the website.

This 25th annual artistic summer event happened in Nisswa, Minnesota at the Journey Church - inside and air conditioned.

Our displays were set up on Thursday July 9 and the art event was 10 am - 5 pm on Friday and Saturday July 10 - 11, 2015. Great weather!
See card above to know names and variety of artworks.

I, Kathy Braud, had brought a tremendous amount of unframed art on backings with clear bag coverings, some matted and fewer framed work in which to show a completed painting.
Visitors easily had about 80 5 x 7 glossy cards on display to enjoy, so folks could view the variety of my interests in life.
We had a great time!

Bad storms went through the next day, but we were done and gone! Praise the Lord!

The Cross Lake Art Club, gathering together in the small Minnesota town of Cross Lake in mid June 2015.
We gathered to learn new pointers for painting portraiture, small abstracts suitable for jewelry and birch tree landscapes from a great artist and teacher, Pat Undis, from Ramsey, MN.
We all grew with the experience!
The Community Center took good care of us with delicious meals in the same building.

I am now a new member of this group and will participate in events that they promote. They are ramping up for a big show and sale on Labor Day weekend and offer the guests a great assortment of work and actual painting demo's on site.
My home is approximately 60 some miles south but artists do get around! and Art groups are worth traveling for......

It has been a great week! Our Central Minnesota Watercolorists club partnered with the Paramount Arts Center in St. Cloud, MN to bring the artist Lian Quam Zhen to give a 4 day watercolor workshop.
He was great! Lian uses a special camera that can bring the image much closer or move out so the whole painting shows..... and the images of what he is demonstrating is shown to us on a big television screen.
We progressed in stages and worked on blue heron landscapes, koi fish underwater scenes and peony floral arrangements.

We all knew ahead of time that Lian talks with his paint brush, so we were able to view the pile of paintings gathered of questions or problems - be answered successfully with color, value, pattern, light or dark. We also discovered our problems can be seen from a distance and it is good to contemplate the painting for awhile, then jump in and do it!.

Lian also had us use just 3 colors of paint and we mixed all our colors from them. Some were made as pure liquid colors in little cups to pour into our paintings and other places needed a thicker paste of color and mixing, and we needed to keep the pure ones separate. The color Black was encouraged also... by mixing!

Since we are a far flung group, we had fun in fellowship, had a large group dinner out, and found other opportunities to visit in small groups during lunch and get to know each other better.

I highly encourage artists to take art workshops. Regional artists will cost less then nationally known ones who teach more frequently, but they all teach you important lessons that help you jump start to a higher level of expertise. Unique time saving processes and thoughts about art are freely shared / discussed. Your energy thrown into the mix will stir you to improve your current painting pathway and excitement to paint.