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8.00" x 6.50"
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2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
13.50" x 12.00"
The Red Door - Catalina Island Framed Print
by Elizabeth - Betty Jean Billups
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The Red Door - Catalina Island framed print by Elizabeth - Betty Jean Billups. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
From 1986 to 1996 about 15 or 20 artists would gather on Catalina Island, to paint for a week en plein air. After the first year, Denise Burns, who... more
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Artist's Description
From 1986 to 1996 about 15 or 20 artists would gather on Catalina Island, to paint for a week "en plein air". After 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 suggested that we do a campaign that involved the entire year, since one ad would be throwing our money away. The campaign involved 3 to 5 publications: Southwest Art, Artists of the Rockies, Art West, Art Talk. Within about 5 years, it seems that plein air paintings started taking the country by storm. Groups were springing up all over, not just the U.S. but around the world, as a result of these 22 ads per year, '87 thru '96!
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 year!!! This painting was one tha...
About Elizabeth - Betty Jean Billups
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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Betty Billups
This painting is shown merely to show a close up of the quality of paintings shown in the 10 PROJECTS BOOK offered from Billups