I was recently announced a winner in the 2012 Hunter Business Excellence Awards.
There should be a segment with the official photos on the awards night in the Maitland Mercury and Cessnock Advertiser this week.
I was the first one called up onto the stage and I managed to walk up without tripping over and made a speech so I'm happy... lol's. Even more importantly I managed to get the glass award home without tripping and breaking it!
I now have 3 winning awards and a HC from the Business Awards.I'll have to make a place to display them in the studio.
Have to think about how to do that next time..the problem with being first is you have no one else's speeches to get ideas from. I noticed everyone after me was giving their business a plug but not me..
I remember the first year I ever entered.I'd done my first ever mural 3.3m x 7m .I'd never painted anything bigger than 50 x 60cms so it would have been a challenge even if I was healthy but I was disabled at the time.
I couldn't use my right arm much ( my painting arm) as I'd get a headache so I painted it 95% LHanded .Wrecked myself on the last day using my RH but it didn't matter as it was done..
I think that's why I won but I wasn't expecting to win.I wasn't even going to go to the awards as I was too crook.Anyway I won and was the first called up..I was like a goldfish standing there with its mouth opening & closing..I muttered thanks and scrurried off..
Good on you Sue. We need to get some seabreezers to commision windsurfing pictures of themselves painted by you. It would make a great gift for themself that is for sure.
To keep it to more of a sailboarding theme here's a painting I did to remember the good old days at Nobby's in the 90's. I know I've shown this before so apologies to those who've seen it before..
Some of you might recognise some of the sailors..I deliberately got a good likeness of at least 3 and the other is just generic..
The original painting looks better than this as the image quality has been reduced for the internet and copyright. Ps - it's for sale..
I managed to get the glass award home without tripping and breaking it!.......
sounds like some one else i know...
well done sue
ME !!!! .. droped and smashed formula nationals trophy in a drunken stumble.... still got it in 3 pieces
I'm afraid Dezzas just stirring. I'm not taking the piss at all. I'm genuinely interested.
I'm a hobby artist - watercolour. I'm always impressed with anyone actually making a living from art. The world is full of hobby artists. Some of them very good, others more pedestrian. I'm a big fan of people like Charles Reid, Shirly Trevena and others. My personal aspirations are simply to do better, an achievement well within the realms of possibility
I'm impressed by your 'get it done' attitude. I suppose once you have solved a project at a convenient scale the job becomes one of just practical production - order the pant, put up a trestle, apply a grid and do it. Anyway well done.