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Posted on 5/21/2018 11:55:11 AM
By Coraly Hanson
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Carmel Art Festival 2018, 2 awards
I am thrilled to say that I won both Honorable Mention and Peoples Choice Awards this year at the Carmel Art Festival! John Burton was the judge, and he chose my painting "Garrapata Cliffs" for the award. Then, lots of people chose the same painting for People's Choice, which was awarded late Saturday afternoon. (The staff said I got twice as many votes as any other painting...so astounded and very grateful!) There were so many gorgeous paintings this year by so many the very talented artists! I still feel like it's miraculous that I'm listed among them, much less winning these awards. Thank you Lord for you grace and kindness to me! I sold the award winner to a couple who watched me paint in the rain in Pt. Lobos, also the "Big Sur Blues" piece to a lovely couple from Monterey who are both cancer survivors, and also my Quick Draw piece, "Pink Rhodies", to a woman from Carmel. While out painting in Pt. Lobos, one of the volunteers picking weeds in the meadow watched and wants me to do a very large commission of China Cove and six or seven others! We'll see if it really works out. If so, it would make this the very best ever Carmel Art Festival in all the years I've done it! so very grateful!
