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by Elizabeth - Betty Jean Billups
$14.95
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Our spiral notebooks are 6" x 8" in size and include 120 pages which are lined on both sides. The artwork is printed on the front cover which is made of thick paper stock, and the back cover is medium gray in color. The inside of the back cover includes a pocket for storing extra paper and pens.
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From 1986 to 1996 about 15 or 20 artists would gather on Catalina Island, to paint for a week en plein air. Before the first year, Denise Burns, who... more
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From 1986 to 1996 about 15 or 20 artists would gather on Catalina Island, to paint for a week "en plein air". Before the first year, Denise Burns, who started Plein Air Painters of America (PAPA), asked me if I would put together one ad for the following year's show. I told her I would, provided that we do a campaign that involved the entire year, since one ad would be throwing our money away. So, I set out an ad campaign, that included Southwest Art, Artists of the Rockies, Art West & Art Talk. After about 5 years, it seems that "plein air painting" started taking the country by storm. Groups were springing up all over, not just the U.S. but around the world! For the following 10 or 12 years, we would meet on Catalina Island and paint for about 10 days, and then have a gala event at the Casino Ball Room, where hundreds of creations were shown and marketed. Those years were the highlight of my art career, for creating, and for friendships made, on this awesome is...
If you are interested in any image you find on this website, and cannot get an image large enough for your liking, please contact me, and I will be sure FAA has a digital image to accommodate your order! Capturing an inner feeling, so quickly passing, that's beyond words, almost beyond thought: the nuances that dance between a mountain & the sky that embraces her, creating a symphony that the eyes perceive, but only the soul remembers. This celebration of light upon the physical & ethereal worlds, creates a love affair for the viewer. It's this special moment that excites me, that drives me to risk failure, if I but the chance to capture a fraction of what I see, feel or know, from this wonderful experience we call "Life!!"...
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Lee Piper
Beautiful work!!! f/l
Billups Fine Art
Thank you...but you need to realize: I DO NOT MAKE UP COLOR!! IT IS THERE...for everyone, who KNOWS how to SEE & Observe, what this wonderful world gives us, daily!! Hope you will also visit my web site at www.billupsfineart.com And should you want visit without "public viewing"...my email is on my web site!!! Thanks again, for your kind remarks!!
Tracy Roland
I really love your work, you bring so much color to natural environments, it's beautiful!
Pat Yager
So beautifully painted, Betty! Perhaps I'll see you in Ellensburg! My daughter lives there so I visit often. ~ Pat
Betty Billups
Thank you! It is always a great feeling when something is "created" to express feelings, so others "connect"... that someone, some where is appreciative! THEN the art is COMPLETE: for art should be a communication, to others! ALONG with expressing oneself! Really not sure WHICH of these is the most important!! With this painting, the power and strength and free, fluid-dance feeling that these trees express... was my ultimate goal! I think I actually might have even been standing in the water, in order to get the perspective so the trees became the "King Leer" of the design! (If they had been surrounded TOTAL with the background "mountains"... they would have lost their "power and dignity"!! But creating them, so they broke into the sky area...helped give them their "power"....Also, the rest of the painting kind of took "second fiddle" (by giving less detail/information)...in order for the trees to then dominate this creation!
Demeter Gui
Excellent painting!