# Local art show results: I won! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462 "2008-08-01T04:48:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/21 "2008-08-01T22:58:39Z")
So, where is the price list? Because you can’t start the world tour without one, right? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/22 "2008-08-01T23:40:29Z")
Fantastic, **OpalCat**! I’m so very proud to be associated with you (however obliquely)! ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/23 "2008-08-02T02:27:33Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Fantastic, **OpalCat**! I’m so very proud to be associated with you (however obliquely)! [/QUOTE] Kaylasdad may be cool, but I have cash. I really want to buy your work! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/24 "2008-08-02T02:49:23Z")
Good going. The hard work paid off, and you’re famous. Sort of. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/25 "2008-08-02T03:49:53Z")
I loved these when I saw them in a previous thread and I love them now. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/26 "2008-08-02T03:54:50Z")
**OpalCat** , you rock, as always. You need to get your stuff into a big city gallery. Have you sold anything, or are they like your children? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/27 "2008-08-02T04:00:30Z")
Opal, congrats! Both are excellent, but, for my eyes, Being Undercover is friggin’ stunning dripping drop dead gorgeous and eloquent. You’ve always amazed me at your mastery of visual art; in the traditional sense, and seamlessly adapting new technology. Dunno how ya do it all, but ya rock it so well! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/28 "2008-08-02T04:32:17Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] Have you sold anything, or are they like your children? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Nothing yet. The stuff I have done to date is largely stuff that is too personal to sell (mostly paintings of Dominic) though I can sell prints. They can do Giclee prints on canvas and put it on stretcher bars and you really can’t tell the difference between that and the real painting until you’re nose to nose with it. I hope, soon, to start doing more work that is not so personal so that I can sell the originals without tearing a hole in my heart. I am also going to try to get into doing commissions if I can. Thanks, everyone, for your very kind words! It means a lot. I’m very excited about this whole painting thing. I have found my soul’s wings, so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/29 "2008-08-02T04:34:10Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] Opal, congrats! Both are excellent, but, for my eyes, Being Undercover is friggin’ stunning dripping drop dead gorgeous and eloquent. [/QUOTE] Thank you! Though I’m not sure which one you mean. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/30 "2008-08-02T04:46:59Z")
Wow, I morphed them… Under Cover is what I meant… It’s really great, and calls up photographers Edward Steichen and Imogene Cunningham in stark great composition. So gorgeous. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/31 "2008-08-02T05:44:42Z")
I am planning at least a series of three of those that go together, btw. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/32 "2008-08-02T06:08:23Z")
Conga rats, kiddo! It’s terrific work well worthy of those awards. Spoken as a guy who has learned from his wife the art history major how to distinguish between “It’s pretty” and “It’s pretty good.” Completely despite our friendship, which would push me towards the noncommittal, I’m stuck with the latter. Clarification: That means I think, as a mildly acknowledgeable critic, the pictures are Pretty Good, which means, as a Midwesterner, more than “pretty good” might imply to Outsiders. Jesus Lord, I need to move someplace where I can make a compliment without an explanation! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/33 "2008-08-02T12:16:36Z")
Holy cow, **OpalCat**! Those are both simply stunning! Congrats! The awards are well-deserved. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/34 "2008-08-02T12:34:37Z")
Congratulations! For some reason, my work blocks your site as “pornography” :rolleyes: so I couldn’t click on your links until I got home. I do hope you’re going to gloat a bit in front of your art professor? Just a wee bit? You deserve it! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/35 "2008-08-02T16:10:21Z")
Wow! Just wow! I’m no art critic by any stretch of the word, I just know what I like. And wow! I like. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/36 "2008-08-02T16:17:53Z")
You do impressive work. Congratulations on your prize! ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/37 "2008-08-02T19:12:28Z")
Well done! Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/38 "2008-08-02T19:48:08Z")
Ivylad asked me to send him the link to Being Art…he wants to set it as his background on his computer. He said it was absolutely gorgeous. Is that okay? ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/39 "2008-08-02T20:19:28Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] Congratulations! For some reason, my work blocks your site as “pornography” :rolleyes: so I couldn’t click on your links until I got home. [/QUOTE] Maybe because the site has the word “domination” in it, with all of it’s sexual subtexts, even though that’s not how she means it. . .just a guess, really. **Opal** , I have known for several years now that you, as a person, rock. Now I know that you, as an artist, also rock! Congratulations! Oh, and when you do your world tour, surely you’ll need to take someone along who understands the DS lifestyle? Just sayin’. . . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/40 "2008-08-02T22:35:03Z")
Congratulations Opal! Both your submissions have a visionary aspect the override the initial image. In other words, they make you both feel AND think, like any “good” art should. I do disagree with the judges. I felt that while not as “flashy”, “Undercover” had many elements that demonstrated your depth and talent more subtly. The image of the nude seems to be almost “crushed” by the drapery, but at the same times the tones and curves of the drapery resonate with the tones and curves of her body suggesting a unity, a co existance, a recursivity of purpose and placement. Your use of black and white apmplified these aspects and empasized the soft, sensual textures of the piece. Well done! FML [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462.md?page=3)