During the month of October, the Idaho Watercolor Society held their annual experimental show in the Meridian City Hall’s Initial Point Gallery. The theme of the show this year was so unusual, but so much fun…”the mouse and the ELEPHANT”. It was interesting to see all the tiny, the huge and the in between works of art hanging in the gallery together, and to see who painted what!
Here is an excerpt of the Nov-Dec-Jan IWS Newsletter talking about the show…
“What a fun, exciting experimental show this turned out to be for the SW Region! Displaying…through October, the show featured a variety of paint methods, substrates and materials; some came framed … some not. Traditional acrylics on canvas showed up while some artists painted on wood. Pretty much everything was accepted, but the guidelines suggested ‘mouse’ paintings less than 100 square inches (about 10×10 inches) or ‘elephants’ needed to be a full sheet or larger. Counts for the show were 59 mice, 29 elephants and 6 in-betweens. At the Opening Reception…there was equal interest in both sizes. Some artists painted both a mouse and an elephant, painting the same subject in those two sizes. If you normally paint large, painting small was a big challenge and vice versa.
…the most interesting wall…displayed the biggest elephant and the smallest mouse side by side. The largest was by Linda Aman; it measured 40” x 60” and was a painting of “Tropical Paradise”. Next to that was a mini mouse sized painting by Julianne Runkle Pinkston, “Codiaeum Variegatum Miniatura”, that had an image area of 1.5” x 1.5”. Being a student of Linda’s, she chose the same plant (a minute portion of Linda’s large-scale painting) and the effect was quite astounding!
