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Free Fine Art Print Friday

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Thanks for entering, here are the four winners selected for the month of October

Congratulations Ann Taulborg! You have won the October 28st Free Art Print Friday!

Congratulations Cindy George Bishop! You have won the October 21st Free Art Print Friday!

Congratulations Robert Crum! You have won the October 14th Free Art Print Friday!

Congratulations SPVAUGHAN! You have won the October 7th Free Fine Art Print Friday!

OCTOBER is a special month! It’s my birthday month and I would like to celebrate with all of you. I’ll be giving away a FREE FINE ART LIMITED EDITION PRINT every Friday of the month! That’s four random drawings in the month of October! You are not limited to any particular print and I have over 130 images to choose from. I’ve made it easy for you. Just go to my website from your phone (it’s mobile friendly) or desktop. http://www.lcneill.com/m It’s organized – PEOPLE, PLACES and THINGS. If there is something you would like for yourself, or for a friend, follow the simple submission below.

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HOW TO ENTER

The more you do the more times your name will be entered.
My Blog – Write a comment on my blog’s homepage http://www.lcneill.com/blog
FACEBOOK
Facebook [like] or [share] my artist page (I hope you do!) http://www.facebook.com/pages/LC-Neill/61095803986
Facebook comment, [like] or [share] a post anytime in the month of October.
Facebook on your wall, share a link from any page of my website you like and let me know by posting a comment here (worth 2 entries)
GOOGLE PLUS
Google Plus me – I’m new here https://plus.google.com/#116855907461432357660/posts – Add me to your circle.
Google Plus comment, [+1] or [share] any post in the month of October.
Google Plus on your stream, share a link from any page of my website you like and let me know by posting a comment here (worth 2 entries)
TWITTER
Tweet me or retweet me #FreeArt LCNeill (and whatever else).

A random drawing will take place every Friday in the month of October – 7th, 14, 21, 28. Winners will be notified via email, FB or Google Plus (depending on the entry point) and announced on all networking sites. If no acknowledgment/response is given within 8 days, a new winner will be selected. The value of a FINE ART LIMITED EDITION PRINT is up to $60. This includes FREE Shipping within the Continental US. NOTE: There may be a slight charge for international shipments once the destination is known.

Each Friday the entries are reset, so if you didn’t get the first one, try again the next week or the next.

Copyright remains with the artist unless written permission is granted from the artist. Must be 18 or older to win.

Thanks for participating and good luck!

2010 Open Studio Pictures

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Here are some pictures from our Open Studio in October, 2010. We had such a wonderful time. There were 4 artists in our home. Me (LC Neill), my husband Brian Neill who does fine wood furniture, and Dave and Barbara Ballesty another husband and wife team that are wonderful pottery/ceramic artists. We would like to thank everyone who made it out to see our new work and chat with us. It’s amazing how many new and interesting people we met, albeit in such a short amount of time. Please enjoy these pictures and make sure you get a chance to come by next year!

Goto my facebook page album to get images and descriptions of each photo.

Please email me if you have any questions.
Oh you’ll notice just a few artworks that are not our creations, but they were very difficult to move so they became part of the display.

FREE Painting

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Enter to win one of the following free original oil paintings

Congratulations to Randi of West Palm Beach, Florida

Thank you to everyone who entered this drawing.  Your comments and quips were entertaining and heartwarming.

With nearly 200 entries from various sources , Randi was selected in a random draw from random.org.  Randi has her choice of any one of the following paintings.

Thanks again for your participation, and I hope you’ll participate in my future giveaways!

Details:

Random drawing takes place June 2, 2009. Winner to be notified by email, twitter, or facebook (depending on how they entered), and added to this post the first week of June. In the rare event the winner does not respond, a new winner will be selected. Once a winner is selected, it will be posted to my bog with their anonymity preserved. Winner can select any one of the 10 paintings shown above at time of notification.

Shipment credit will also be awarded up to $13USD. Shipment will be made via USPS priority mail flat rate envelope. USPS ships to over 190 different countries including locations in, Africa, Asia/Pacific Rim, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Caribbean, Central/South America, Mexico, Europe and the Middle East.

Note: Shipping costs to most countries does not exceed $13.00 however if there are unusual circumstances where it is more, winner will be responsible for additional charges.
All paintings are 6″x6″ or 5″x7″ oil paintings on panel, with a protective varnish, unframed.

Please allow up to three weeks for processing.

Copyright remains with the artist LC Neill all rights reserved unless permission is granted in writing by artist.

While you are at my site, please feel free to look around at my other work.

Tools of the Trade II

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Tools of the Trade - II

Title: “Tools of the Trade – II”
Medium: Oil on Panel
Dimensions: 6″x6″

I have a ton of little objects around my studio. I am intimate with this knowledge after unpacking for what seems to be weeks. Every paint brush, every tube of paint, every pen and pencil. There’s just a lot of “stuff”. The trick is good organizational skills, which apparently I have to force myself to do. Several years ago I was interviewing for a job and they gave me a phone interview with a psychological exam. You know the kind where they fit you into four boxes and determine if you are a good hire based on “known” performers of that position. It was a bit nerve wracking at first, but I’ve done several of them since and I love to see the results and match them up against my own perception. One of the tests came back and said I had terrible organizational skills. I was shocked that they could determine that from a phone conversation, and never was there a direct question about my organizational capabilities – but they were dead on. They wanted to hire me anyway so I guess it wasn’t a deal breaker. Ever since then I’ve been acutely aware of my apparent weakness and compensate by making a direct effort to be organized.

While I was organizing my minutia, I found something intriguing, and this was it: A small container of medium (my own special recipe – ha ha) and a paint brush, balanced in an unnatural way. I thought it made an interesting and dramatic composition.

This painting is sold but if you are interested in something similar please let me know by sending me an email.

Blow Pop #1

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Blow Pop

Title: “Blow Pop #1″
Medium: Oil on Panel
Dimensions: 7″x5″

This is not the “classic” tootsie pop – it is a blow pop. It’s filled with bubble gum instead of chocolate tootsie roll. A few key indicators to it’s identity are:

  1. the oval shape
  2. the band in the middle runs perpendicular to the stick
  3. the bright intense color

These pops were originally manufactured by The Charms Company but in 1988 was acquired by Tootsie Roll Industries. I guess they bought out their competition!

This painting is sold.