To my own amazement, I am steaming right along with work!

I have entered the Louisana State University School of Medicine's 21st International Exhibition of Animals in Art (phew! ). This venue  always has beautiful work - Take a look at their 2007 show.

I did enter a number of years ago, got in and was very pleased with it. Unfortunately, I could never seem to get my act together in following years to have entries ready for their early January deadline. Right after Christmas, kids back at school and fresh colds and flu... I seemed to always get caught in a timeline crunch or lack of it!

But this year I planned, and you've got to love it when a plan comes together...

I sent of the following two entries;

"I See You,"  above left, a small colored pencil on Pastelbord (5"x5")

"Summer's Gold," above right, colored pencil on pastelbord (9" x 13.5")

You may recognize Summer's Gold (hint: look to my banner)
This is a subject that I have painted numerous times, as I love the back lighting on this pony.

None of these previous Summer's Gold peices has been sold or on display, but merely produced as an experiment to see what different mediums could produce in terms of showing the lovely light.
I currently have another one in progress, in watercolor this time, so when that's done I will post all the versions and readers can let me know what they think :-)

Thanks for visiting! ~Kim