Brenda Stichter, artist

Prayers & Promises (click here to view on my website)  Last week, I mentioned that I had news to share, and before I finished telling you what I wanted to say, all of a sudden it was time for my newsletter to go out, and I had missed my chance. The big news that I wanted to share is the my painting Prayers & Promises is in this year's The Best of Acrylic magazine, part of Artists Magazine and American Artist . I decided to purchase a digital copy of the magazine (paper copies should be available in bookstores later this month) and found that my painting has A WHOLE PAGE! (p. 111, if you're looking for it) Wow, what an honor!  You may remember seeing this one a time or two before. It was also in  the inaugural Acrylic International Biennial Juried Exhibition, 2022 in Kenosha, WI;  Fort Wayne Artist Guild Ventures Competition 2021, (2rd place oil or acrylic painting); and the  92 County Art Show 2022, (Honorable Mention painting) in Wabash, IN. It is definitely a favori

Free Falling My Beloved Husband and I are recently home from a trip to Colorado, where I am privileged to have paintings included in an abstract exhibition. The trip itself was a welcome change of pace for us, and I feel like I have JUST gotten home! I hardly know where the time has gone since we returned, though I have had some more good things happening since then. $48.00 plus shipping and handling 6" x 4" x 3/4" deep Painted with the finest quality acrylic heavy-body paint on cradled panel Click here to view or purchase on my website. While we were in CO, we had the opportunity to drive up Pikes Peak (which I found both terrifying and thrilling) and on the way back down, our brakes were found to be too hot for us to continue so we were instructed to pull over for a time. My Beloved Husband helped find a place for me to set up my plein air painting kit, and I started painting the beautiful mountain landscape! I was just well into the painting, and ‘in the zone’, whic