I decided a year ago to join the experimental group, ISEA — seemed like a good fit for me! And I noticed I could join as a lifetime member. So I took the plunge :) and started entering. Nothing the first year — you know how it is.
But this year I am one of four Oregon artists whose work made the show in Traverse City, Michigan — I recently packaged my painting and sent it off. You might enjoy seeing all our accepted work. How diverse each piece is!
  
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Geoffrey McCormack 
"Science for a Changing World / Blue Water."
This painting is created digitally and printed.
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Susan Greenbaum 
"Tactile"
Yes! Look at that texture... it is so beautifully layered. And the color palette
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Rene Eisenbart 
 
"Reincarnation"
Marbling, of course, for me. 
This piece helped me get NWS acceptance. It was the painting that was NOT used for the Home & Gardens poster (the original poster art was a gift for editor Sandra Rowe). 
You can see it before marbling 
HERE.  MUCH better after!
 
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Airi Foote 
"Rustic"
It's "painted" with rust and coffee — no actual paint! How cool is that?!!!