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Scott Krohn Wins Cpsa's 22Nd International Exhibition

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This is an interview amongst American coloured pencil creative individual Scott Krohn who has won the transcend prize at the 22nd International Exhibition of the Colored Pencil Society of America. 

More details later the interview - which includes images of the operate inwards progress - about
Winner of the CIPPY Award & CPSA Best of Show $5000
"Stone Faced; Self Portrait" yesteryear Scott Krohn
25 x nineteen inches, Prismacolors on Mi Tientes paper
The exhibition tin currently live seen at The Ormond Memorial Art Museum together with Gardens until 25th August 2014.

An Interview amongst Scott Krohn


Scott Krohn is a coloured pencil creative individual living inwards Minnesota.  I wanted to interview him because his artwork drew a spontaneous together with vocalised facial expression of my appreciation every bit presently every bit I saw it online - together with that doesn't occur a lot!

Fortunately Scott was real occur to respond my questions!  He's also provided me amongst some pics of this drawing every bit a operate inwards progress together with these intersperse the answers to my questions.

Scott Krohn 
with his prizewinning colored pencil drawing - inwards the exhibition
It has been real exciting since I learned I won Best of Show. It is a dream come upward truthful together with 1 of the highest goals I had laid for my professional person career.

How long conduct keep you lot been using coloured pencils? What practise you lot similar nearly them? 

I conduct keep been a high schoolhouse fine art instructor for the yesteryear xx years pedagogy mainly Drawing, Pottery, together with Graphic Design together with began seriously using colored pencils inwards 2006.

I've ever loved drawing every bit a medium, but colored pencil is my favorite because of the abundance of possibilities it allows. It also gives the creative individual such potential to practise realism, which I've ever been interested in.

Which are your preferred brands together with surfaces to operate on - together with which did you lot role for your prizewinning work? 

I role Prismacolor pencils on Canson Mi Tientes newspaper almost exclusively, although I of late purchased Faber Castell Polychromos together with then I'll live experimenting amongst those inwards the coming months.

"Stone Faced; Self Portrait" was done amongst Prismacolors on Mi Tientes paper.

How long did it convey you lot to practise the operate which won? 

It took me half dozen months together with to a greater extent than or less 150 hours to complete. 
"Stone Faced; Self Portrait" yesteryear Scott Krohn - operate inwards progress #1

How long conduct keep you lot been drawing rocks? 

I got into drawing rocks at the same fourth dimension every bit I discovered the potential of colored pencils. I was on the northward shore of Lake Superior, which has give-up the ghost my sacred infinite inwards the terminal several years. I am fascinated yesteryear the rocks at that spot together with the diversity of their shapes together with sizes. I tin pass hours on the beach at that spot simply looking at the rocks together with taking inwards the silence the house offers. Much of my yesteryear operate uses rocks every bit dependent acre matter.
"Stone Faced; Self Portrait" yesteryear Scott Krohn - operate inwards progress #2

Have you lot previously won whatsoever prizes? 

This was my eighth twelvemonth entering the CPSA Exhibition together with my fifth twelvemonth getting accepted (so I also earned my five twelvemonth merit abide by this year).

The prize coin is incredible. I conception to invest some of it into my fine art (supplies, prints, a novel spider web site, things similar that). I'm also remodeling my bathroom, together with then some of the coin volition give-up the ghost towards that.

I conduct keep won diverse awards at local shows this yesteryear year, including commencement house drawing together with 3rd house drawing inwards the Savage Arts Council Competition, best drawing together with quaternary house overall inwards the Elk River Alliance competition. Before that, I had won the abide by for excellence together with instant house overall at the Burnsville Art Fete 3 unlike times. And I was simply accepted into the Minnesota State Fair contest for the 3rd time.

"Stone Faced; Self Portrait" yesteryear Scott Krohn - operate inwards progress #3

Do you lot conduct keep a website?

My only spider web site right instantly is www.mnartists.org/scott_krohn although I am working on getting a novel spider web site upward together with running.

Images yesteryear the other prizewinnersCPSA 22nd International Exhibition
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CPSA Awardwinners - 22nd International Exhibition, Florida

This is the listing of the awards, the championship of the plant which won together with the names of the artists.

You tin read nearly who were the donors of the real generous prizes on the CPSA spider web log post 22nd International Exhibition Award Winners Announced

CIPPY Award & CPSA Best of Show $5000 - Stone Faced: Self Portrait 
Scott Krohn, CPSA (MN)

CPSA District Chapters Award for Exceptional Achievement $2000 - Fran (Artist)
John Smolko, CPSA (OH)

Dixon Ticonderoga Award for Exceptional Merit $1000 - Falling Into Place
Arlene Steinberg, CPSA, CPX (NY)

Prismacolor Award for Exceptional Merit $1000 - At Face Value
Lori Garner, CPSA (TX)

Award for Outstanding Achievement $800 - Homage to Leonardo
Dennis Angel (NV)

Award for Outstanding Achievement $800 - Adrift
Shawn Falchetti, CPSA (PA)

Award for Outstanding Achievement $800 - The Best of Friends
CJ Worlein, CPSA

Award for Outstanding Recognition $600 - Elise
Holly Bedrosian, CPSA (NH)

Award for Outstanding Recognition $600 - Looking Good
Suzanne Hunter, CPSA (TX)

Award for Outstanding Recognition $600 - Holiness
Rhonda Nass, CPSA (WI)

Award for Excellence $400 - Mermaid of Table Rock Lake
Deane Ackerman, CPSA (SC)

Award for Excellence $400 - Noesis
Tanja Gant, CPSA, CPX (TX)

Award for Excellence $400 - Canned
Jeff George, CPSA (CA)

Award for Excellence $400 - Whisker to Whisker
Sheila Theodoratos, CPSA, CPX (WA)

Award for Excellence $400 - Mass Appeal
Paul Van Heest, CPSA (MI)

Awards of the same value are equal inwards rank, together with artists are inwards alphabetical guild inside each abide by group.

NOTE: I was a picayune surprised when looking for websites to banking concern complaint that:
  • very few had an private URL for the page their artwork was on
  • rather a lot had had their artwork pinned to Pinterest - BY OTHER PEOPLE.
The moral of the floor is that if you lot conduct keep an identifiable URL for private items of artwork you lot tin tell where the visitors are coming from if you lot role a decent statistics service - together with thus tin tell when your artwork has been pinned. Some people don't heed - together with others heed a lot. Just a thought.

Selected Artists


Below is a listing of the artwork together with artists selected for the exhibition - from all over the USA together with countries together with continents - organised yesteryear the location of the artist.

This provides something of an indication where coloured pencil fine art together with CPSA branches are active inside the USA every bit the numbers beingness selected practise non correlate amongst the population of those states.

Alabama 


Susie
Garrett
Lady of Lowe Mill
Arizona 


Barbara
Dahlstedt
El Blanco
Elliott
Everson, CPSA, CPX
Fragmented
Toni
James, CPSA
Vintage Allure
Jane
McCreary, CPSA
Raindrops inwards Ireland
George
Shively
Ruby Crystal Geometry
California 


Mikela
Cameron, CPSA.
Roundup Ready
Janki
Chokshi
Reveal
Jeff
George, CPSA
Canned
Gemma
Gylling, CPSA
Hear Me Roar
Denise
Howard, CPSA, UKCPS, MPAS
Tree of Stories
Buena
Johnson
Deliverance
Andrew
Purdy
Morning Sun
Mike
Purdy
Reaching for the Sky
Barbara
Rogers, CPSA
Surf at Sunrise
Megan
Seiter
Sophie
Christopher
Swetlin
39th together with Hacienda III
John
Tolomei
Kauai Palms
Phillip
Zubiate III
Un"BEE"lievably Dahliacious
CANADA 


Vickie
Lawrence
Before together with After
Colorado 


Cynthia
Haase
Peaches together with Green Ribbon
Florida 


Jeffrey
Baisden, CPSA
Decadence - Broken Promises
Donna
Caputo, CPSA
Southwestern Silver Dance
Anda
Chance
Time Keeper
Patricia
Lentine
Summer Dreams
Agnes
Manganelli
Just Add Water
Suzanne
Marcil, CPSA
Crystal Clear
Mari K
Moehl, CPSA
Matriarch of the Crop
Melissa Miller
Nece, CPSA
Skimming Past
Glinda
Pennock
Healthy Choice
Faye
Wilkins
Rhiannon2
Georgia 


Kim
Hamby
On the Lookout
Nancy
Suffolk Guerine, CPSA
Three Old Friends...Crusty, Rusty, together with Trusty
Debra
Yaun, CPSA
Swan Reflections
GREECE 


Titika
Faraklou
Born inwards the Land of the Gods
Idaho 


Dava
Dahlgran
Making Salsa
Sonja
Johnson
Out on a Limb
 Illinois


Andria
Burchett
Trencadis
Gail
Collier, CPSA
Finding My Niche - Almost Home
Barbara
DeWaard, CPSA
Autumn's Interlude
Tracy
Frein
Jason: The Fighter
Priscilla
Humay, CPSA
Reptilian Goddess
Alfredo
Martinez
Portrait inwards G Major
Linda
Palmer
Peek Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Boo! Whoooo!
Joan E.
Robertson, CPSA
Looking for Gold
Amy
Turner, CPSA
Season of Remembrance
 Indiana


Pamela
Clements
Spring Forward
Kansas 


David
Fonseca
Larry, Moe & Curly
Kentucky 


Vanessa
Lawrence
The Golden Girls
Louisiana 


Carol
Scott
Crystal #29, Dome
Melanie
Wallace
Turf Wars
Massachusetts 


Deborah
Friedman, CPSA
The Transparency of Summer
MALAYSIA 


Sharon
Kow
To Have together with To Hold...
Maryland 


Deborah
Maklowski, CPSA
Relic
Maine 


Elizabeth
Patterson, CPSA
Reclining Onion
Michigan


Bonnie
Auten, CPSA
Robert the Bruce
Travis
Erby
Ronnie's Tears
Erwin
Lewandowski
Streamside Cove II
Linda
Lutze
Interloper
Gail Borgman
McGuire
Bass Harbor Lighthouse
Wendy
Mersman
The Twins
Dean
Rogers, CPSA
Tired of the Hunt
Rita
Skoczen, CPSA
Sunny Day
Paul
Van Heest, CPSA
Mass Appeal
 Minnesota


Scott
Krohn, CPSA
Stone Faced: Self Portrait
North Carolina 


Liz
Guzynski
I Am Lylah
Kate
Lagaly, CPSA, CPX
Dousing
Donna
Slade, CPSA
In My Eyes
New Hampshire


Holly
Bedrosian, CPSA
Elise
New Jersey 


Paula
Madawick, CPSA
Ward-Ryerson-Patterson House: Spring
Andrea
Placer
At Rest on Rusted Metal
 New Mexico


Melinda
Beavers, CPSA
The Race Begins
Jean
Thurow
Spring Cactus Garden
Martin
Vela
Molto Moto
Nevada 


Dennis
Angel
Homage to Leonardo
Anna
Hammer
Amused To No End
Holly
Siniscal, CPSA
Dancing Shoes
New York 


Kurt
Altschul
Bookended
Carol
Maltby,CPSA
Fairgrounds I
Arlene
Steinberg, CPSA, CPX
Falling into Place
 Ohio


Cecile
Baird, CPSA
Tear Jerker
Barbara
Byram, CPSA
Frankie
Marsha
Gilger
Ellie Divided
Jonavon
Herr
Killing Time
Margaret (Margi)
Hopkins
Waiting
Jamie
Hosler
Abarat
Amy
Lindenberger, CPSA, CPX
October Morning, Fog Receding
Sharon Frank
Mazgaj, CPSA
Chipper
Cheryl
Metzger
Closer to the Light
Lee Ann
Novotny, CPSA
Winter Time
John
Smolko, CPSA, CPX
Fran (Artist)
Katherine
Thomas
Souvenirs
Oregon 


Susan
D'Amico, CPSA
Counterpoint
CJ
Worlein, CPSA
The Best of Friends
Pennyslvania  


Shawn
Falchetti, CPSA
Adrift
 Rhode Island


Kendra
Ferreira, CPSA, CPX
Discovery
South Carolina 


Deane
Ackerman, CPSA
Mermaid of Table Rock Lake
Gretchen
Parker, CPSA
Fallen Stars
Faith
Wheeler
Them Basses
Tennessee 


Carla
Sexton, CPSA
Carmen Takes a Sip
Dena
Whitener, CPSA
Nellie's Gift
 Texas


Nika
Cranmer
Farley
Tanja
Gant, CPSA, CPX
Noesis
Lori
Garner, CPSA
At Face Value
Merri
Hanson
Kaleidoscope
Linda Lucas
Hardy, CPSA, CPX
I Am Not What I Seem
Suzanne
Hunter, CPSA
Looking Good
Lisa
Mills
Reflections on Cool Jazz
Irma
Murray
Do Not Disturb
Christi
Tompkins
It's a Dog's Life
Cathy
Ward, CPSA
The Terminator
Vermont 


Karen
Coleman, CPSA
Hope is the Thing amongst Feathers
Sherry
Smith
Reflecting on Spring
Suzanne
Vigil
Teal the Coes Come Home
Washington 


Elizabeth
Dobes
Country White
Junkyu
Lee
Rest a While
Paula
Parks, CPSA, CPX
Plum Delicious
Iris
Stripling, CPSA
Tipping Point
Sheila
Theodoratos, CPSA, CPX
Whisker to Whisker
John
Ursillo, CPSA
Woman of Rovinj, Croatia
Ranjini
Venkatachari, CPSA, CPX
Omne Trium Perfectum
Wisconsin 


Jody
Beighley
December Morning
Rhonda
Nass, CPSA
Holiness
Wyoming 


Eileen
Nistler, CPSA, CPX
Riches together with Honor
Dorothy
DePaulo
The Gate Keeper
 

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