# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**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, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/41 "2008-08-02T22:39:01Z")
[QUOTE=Full Metal Lotus] 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 [/QUOTE] You just be quiet. I was hoping she’d sell me \*Undercover \* cheaper because it was third. Yes, Ms. Opal, I really want it hanging on my wall. ---
**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, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/42 "2008-08-02T23:24:19Z")
It isn’t a she, just for the record. The nude is supposed to be sexless, ageless. I will start doing prints for sale probably at the end of the summer. You’re welcome to contact me (PM or email) if you’re interested in prints of any of my work. ---
**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, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/43 "2008-08-02T23:27:45Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] 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? [/QUOTE] Certainly! ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/44 "2008-08-03T01:27:12Z")
Congratulations! I just got one of my paintings accepted to an art show too. You paint in Renaissance (pardon the spelling) style. I always wanted to paint that way, but I’ve got a bit of palsy in one of my arms so I took an Impressionist bent. Anyway, keep up the good work. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/45 "2008-08-03T02:16:23Z")
Just for the record, I will likely never sell the originals of any of the paintings I’ve done of my son (which includes Under Cover). ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/46 "2008-08-05T00:55:21Z")
Dan picked up my paintings tonight and took them home. They had voting through the course of the show, and my painting “Being Art” won People’s Choice Best of Show as well as the juried Best of Show! ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462/47 "2008-08-05T14:31:03Z")
The title of your website seems especially appropriate. Apparently the world domination plan is well on its way. Today Independence, OH, tomorrow the world! 🙂 Congratulations! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-art-show-results-i-won/458462.md?page=2)