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My painting "Sonsoshone" has been chosen by Allie White to be one of the featured pieces on the front page of her group "Show Off" in Fine Art America. I'm thrilled! Thanks so much Allie!

This original is available for sale as of this posting. Please contact me privately at hjcarmichael@gmail.com if you are interested.

http://holly-carmichael.artistwebsites.com/featured/sonsoshone-holly-carmichael.html

Wow! "Smoky Mountain Dreamin'" got chosen as a front page feature in the group "Contemporary Florals" hosted by Studio Tolere on Fine Art America. I am so thrilled! Thank you, Studio Tolere!

http://holly-carmichael.artistwebsites.com/featured/smoky-mountain-dreamin-holly-carmichael.html

The group "Grand Greeting Cards" hosted by Karen Wiles on Fine Art America has chosen and is hosting my painting "Crazy Love Jazz" on the front page. Thanks so much, Karen! How exciting!

http://holly-carmichael.artistwebsites.com/featured/crazy-love-jazz-holly-carmichael.html

Kim Hojnacki featured my painting "'Twas by Grace" in the group "Flora" on Fine Art America. Thank you Kim Hojnacki!

This original painting is available as of this posting. Please contact me privately at hjcarmichael@gmail.com if you are interested.


http://holly-carmichael.artistwebsites.com/featured/twas-by-grace-holly-carmichael.html

Hey Folks, This is the web poster for the First Annual Southeast Nashville Music and Art Festival this weekend, October 11, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. In case you didn't see it before, Tim and I will be showing in the Fine Art Gallery there. There is going to be a stage, live music, arts, crafts, food trucks, fine art show, other talents by Southeast Nashville residents showcased. In the new Global Mall at the Crossings in Hickory Hollow, this festival seeks to be a positive part of revitalizing the area. Admission is free and all is family friendly. Bring the kids.

I was awarded the 'bronze' for third place in "The Tennessean's" reader's choice awards "Toast of Music City 2014"! What an amazing honor and prestigious award! There were about 100 categories overall and mine was in "People and Places" for "Best Local Artist (Visual)". Gold and Silver (first and second places) in my category were awarded to Holly Stokes and Aimee Stubbs respectively, who are both very popular photographers in Nashville. There were approximately 90,000 votes cast in this competition. So, I am doubly honored to have won Third Place.

The ceremony was nice hosted in the Musician's Hall of Fame and Museum in downtown Nashville. It was a business attire affair with two full wet bars, beautiful and unique self serve hors d'oeuvres provided by a good number of local food artisans, large round tables with plenty of room, and an overall atmosphere of excitement, expectation, accomplishments and pride! The announcers were upbeat, quick witted and funny. They kept things moving along at a doable pace. Large screen TV's were placed strategically around the room so everyone could see. It was a fun affair.

I want to thank each and every one of you reading along who gave me such wonderful encouragement and support because never in a million years did I ever expect to be nominated for and win this kind of award. I am truly feeling blessed and honored, and I have you all to thank.

Congratulations Winners!

I have created several new paintings this summer which I have not uploaded to my Fine Art America website as they are not "print ready". Here, where I create my blogs and sell my prints, all images that I put into my website must be perfected print ready high quality digital images. This takes a lot of time and money to do correctly and even then sometimes things can go wrong.

Anyway, this summer, I decided to so something a little different. I went to some smaller canvases, fun cartoon stuff and drifted back to acrylic on watercolor paper and mixed media. I wanted to just sell my paintings on social media sites and see how that does without all the fluff of photography and photoshop too.

So, because I can't show the new stuff on my website at FAA, I'd like to invite you to come by my Facebook page "Holly Carmichael Art" where I've got them all posted, even the ones I sold. To see all the new paintings just scroll through the main page and/or click on the button for "photos".

You should be aware that I also have a "shop" button where you can purchase prints directly from that page - but the new paintings from this summer are not in print - the prints are injected into Facebook from here, Fine Art America. :)

Any original paintings are sold by me, so just send me a private message or email if you are interested in one or want one similar to what you see on pages.

I would also love feedback about my page, my artwork or my posts. If you ever see errors or sentences that could be better and stuff like that, please let me know. I aim to keep improving my sites!

Thanks for your interest, love and support!

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I have won something in the reader's choice awards "Toast of Music City" hosted by "The Tennessean", Nashville, Tennessee's newspaper. At "worst" I have third place as "Best Local Artist (Visual). Ha ha! In truth, I am humbled and honored beyond belief. It is such an honor to have been nominated at all. I get to find out what I've won at the awards ceremony September 18th, and the winners will be published in the newspaper on September 19th. Thank you everyone for all your love and support! I will let you know what I've won.

My painting, "I Love Fall" won a "feature" among 11 others just chosen by the Admin.! It's on the front page of the "Semi-Abstract" Group on Fine Art America. The group has around 300 members and over 3,000 images:

http://fineartamerica.com/groups/semi-abstract--1-a-day.html

Results coming soon!
Thank you for your love, support and continued interest in my art and this year's Toast of Music City contest. Voting has now closed. Winners will be published on 9/19/2014.