2020 COWS Fall Show ... Virtually
Below are the 38 paintings submitted for the 2020 COWS Fall Show. There were seven awards for the show, judged by Tom Sorrell, President of the Ohio Watercolor Society. The winners are as follows:
Best of Show - "Storm's A Coming" by Ed Kitchen
2nd Place - "A Walk in the Park" by Jeff Stahler
3rd Place - "Mackinac Begonias" by Linda Coe
Honorable Mention:
"Edsel's Crew" by Kevin Buckland
"Petrified Yellowstone" by Susie Schreiber
"Wabi-Sabi Work Shed" by Charles Rowland
"A moment white" by William Masters
Here are Tom's comments about the show and the award winners. The show follows these comments. Enjoy!
"Thank you for the opportunity to choose the awards for this virtual COWS exhibition. I thought it might be difficult to narrow the choices to a manageable number, and I was right. Limiting the field to seven paintings required setting aside several others that were nearly as good and perhaps better in a specific aspect such as skillful drawing, instinctive use of the medium or compositional design.
The chosen paintings combine the aforementioned features—at least as needed for the particular subject and artist’s style—and therefore earned the awards. Congratulations to all who entered, especially during this time when it is sometimes hard to get motivated to pursue our normal routines and activities.
Tom Sorrell November 7, 2020
Best of Show: Ed Kitchen ’Storm’s A Coming’
The expert handling of wet-in-wet techniques augments a well-suited, natural color palette to provide depth and impressionistic realism in a landscape with an outstanding portrayal of sky and clouds.
2nd place: Jeff Stahler ‘A walk in the park’
A distinct center of interest, combined with direct and expressive brushwork and strong complementary colors, creates a scene that resonates with many people’s memories and experiences of simple everyday events.
3rd place: Linda Coe ‘Mackinac Begonias’
The combination of compatible and complementary colors, varying edges and values and the realistic drawing of living forms produces rhythm and movement in a pleasing composition.
Honorable Mention : Kevin Buckland ‘Edsel’s Crew’
A dynamic composition along with skillful renderings of people and machines are amplified by the confident application of paint to fashion a colorful worksite scene.
Honorable Mention: Susie Schreiber ‘Petrified Yellowstone’
The use of inventive and consonant colors in a rhythmic composition creates an excellent abstraction of real forms and place.
Honorable Mention: Charles Rowland ‘Wabi-Sabi Work Shed’
The rich and saturated color and loose painting of forms work together to illustrate ‘beauty of the imperfect and impermanent’ declared in the painting's title
Honorable Mention: William Masters ’A moment white’
A soft, abstract background of harmonious colors reinforces an adept handling of the explicit, delicate forms of the flowers."
Best of Show - "Storm's A Coming" by Ed Kitchen
2nd Place - "A Walk in the Park" by Jeff Stahler
3rd Place - "Mackinac Begonias" by Linda Coe
Honorable Mention:
"Edsel's Crew" by Kevin Buckland
"Petrified Yellowstone" by Susie Schreiber
"Wabi-Sabi Work Shed" by Charles Rowland
"A moment white" by William Masters
Here are Tom's comments about the show and the award winners. The show follows these comments. Enjoy!
"Thank you for the opportunity to choose the awards for this virtual COWS exhibition. I thought it might be difficult to narrow the choices to a manageable number, and I was right. Limiting the field to seven paintings required setting aside several others that were nearly as good and perhaps better in a specific aspect such as skillful drawing, instinctive use of the medium or compositional design.
The chosen paintings combine the aforementioned features—at least as needed for the particular subject and artist’s style—and therefore earned the awards. Congratulations to all who entered, especially during this time when it is sometimes hard to get motivated to pursue our normal routines and activities.
Tom Sorrell November 7, 2020
Best of Show: Ed Kitchen ’Storm’s A Coming’
The expert handling of wet-in-wet techniques augments a well-suited, natural color palette to provide depth and impressionistic realism in a landscape with an outstanding portrayal of sky and clouds.
2nd place: Jeff Stahler ‘A walk in the park’
A distinct center of interest, combined with direct and expressive brushwork and strong complementary colors, creates a scene that resonates with many people’s memories and experiences of simple everyday events.
3rd place: Linda Coe ‘Mackinac Begonias’
The combination of compatible and complementary colors, varying edges and values and the realistic drawing of living forms produces rhythm and movement in a pleasing composition.
Honorable Mention : Kevin Buckland ‘Edsel’s Crew’
A dynamic composition along with skillful renderings of people and machines are amplified by the confident application of paint to fashion a colorful worksite scene.
Honorable Mention: Susie Schreiber ‘Petrified Yellowstone’
The use of inventive and consonant colors in a rhythmic composition creates an excellent abstraction of real forms and place.
Honorable Mention: Charles Rowland ‘Wabi-Sabi Work Shed’
The rich and saturated color and loose painting of forms work together to illustrate ‘beauty of the imperfect and impermanent’ declared in the painting's title
Honorable Mention: William Masters ’A moment white’
A soft, abstract background of harmonious colors reinforces an adept handling of the explicit, delicate forms of the flowers."