MVAL Art of the Month Contest

November Art of the Month will be in-person with two categories: Still Life and Open Theme. Please kindly bring an easel for your framed or matted artwork. 

In December the themes are Cold Comfort and Open, the show will be online; please send your jpeg files to crisgordywatercolors@gmail.com.

Click here for Art of the Month Gallery

Click here for Online Art of the Month Submission guidelines and instructions.

Contest Format and Themes
2022
            In-Person     October, Water
            In-Person     November, Still Life 
            Online           December, Cold Comfort
 
2023 
            In-Person     January, Gray of Grays
            Online           February, I See Red
            In-Person     March, Signs of Spring
            Online           April, View from Above - Mountains
            In-Person     May, People
            Online           ​June, Dreams of Summer

 

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Art of the Month

Members are invited to bring a painting to enter in our monthly general meeting Art of the Month contest. Your artwork may relate to our theme of the month, or it may be any topic you wish. The membership votes, and a prize will be awarded for each of the two categories: Best of Theme and Best of Show. 

October 2022 Contest Gallery

Congratulations to our October winners, Theme/Water: A Place We Only Know, watercolors by Cris Gordy. Open Theme: Urban Sketches by Pete  Morris

A Place We Only Know @CrisGordy

Urban Sketches @Pete Morris

November 2022 Contest Gallery

Congratulations to our November winners.
Theme/Still Life: Retro Still Life, mixed media by JoAnn Formia. Open Theme: Going North of the 110, watercolors  by April Foster.

Retro Still Life @JoAnnFormia

Going North on the 110 @AprilFoster

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Online Art of the Month ​Contest Guidelines

Help with resizing your artwork images (click one): 
​On Windows • On a Mac • On iPhone/iPad

1. Contest open to MVAL members in good standing; Use the email address in your MVAL membership application to send your image. Yes, there is a prize.
2. Email artwork submissions to crisgordywatercolors@gmail.com​. (The Art of the Month chair will send a receipt email.)
3. Files must be finish cropped, in .jpg or .png format and under 1000 pixels on the longest side. Since everyone's photo starts as a generic number these days, please change the file name to the your Name, eg; "FriedmanJerry.jpg."
4. Please include the title, media & dimensions and your name in the email, thus:
   This Painting 
   mixed media 18x24"
   Gustav Klimt
5. Submissions accepted after each general meeting till midnight Friday before the next general meeting.
6. Voting is live for 4 days, from the Sunday prior to the general meeting to noon on the day of the meeting. 
7. Results are announced at the general meeting, and posted here afterwards until the next contest.