Kevin's Painting Blog

Everyone hates rejection, but for some reason I think I must hate it worse than most. Damn. Anyway, as I mentioned in the previous entry, there was a city contest held at the local art museum. The problem I had was that the painting I had wanted to enter was too small – they insist on huge painting that are completely unrealistic. What can one do? They make the rules, stupid though they may seem. So I kind of rushed out “Kristy” down below, and entered it.

Turns out there were like, 160 entries and they only had room for 120 (well, there would have been room if only that had not insisted on Louvre sized paintings, duh. ) Regardless, while 40 paintings had to be cut, I wasn’t too worried. While I didn’t expect to win it, I have in the past usually got at least an honorable mention. After entering, a few days later a card came in the mail telling me that my painting, “Kristy, had been one of the 40 dropped. Rejected? Huh?! So I headed over to the museum to pick her up and upon arriving was escorted into a separate room, the one just for the rejects. While searching for Kristy, naturally, I just had to look at what else got rejected and I must say, there were a few good paintings amongst the bunch that really surprised me. “There must be some really high level paintings in this contest”, I thought to myself.

So the next day, I decided I needed to head over there again and see for myself exactly what was making it into the contest and what wasn’t. I’m kind of doubting the artists who’s photos I’m about to show you will ever read this blog (if they can read english at all) but if they do, “sorry.” I only took two photo’s on my cellphone, I could have taken a lot more just like these two. Anyway, these were the first two I came across as I enter the museum and with a few exceptions this is pretty much what the other 120 looked like. These two paintings were not rejected.

( not mine)

(not mine)

I really don’t know what else to say about this, I guess it just comes with the territory.  Call me biased, I’m sure I am, but “puh-lease!!!”

Turns out this contest had one judge who came up from Tokyo. Not sure what he didn’t like about Kristy, hmm.  The next contest in May will be for the entire prefecture and will involve five judges and have normal sized paintings in it so I will focus my energies on that one.

Whatever!