Hello from Washington State

[Bill Rietveldt]

I haven't visited the site or painted for way too long. I'm starting two new paintings and getting back to another - I hope to share them soon.
Any other members from Washington State out there? I would love to hear from you!
I work at a museum in North Central WA and have contacts with some other venues to display work. It would be great to get together an exhibit of Washington Egg Tempera Painters!

[Alessandra Kelley]

Hi and welcome. This is a pretty slow and quiet board (niche medium, I suppose). People do check in, but there don't seem to be that many of us worldwide. Good to have you here.

[Bill Rietveldt]

Thanks for the welcome or re-welcome I guess.
Do you know of any Washington Egg Tempera painters?
I've sort of been winging it with et painting - would love to watch someone who knew what they were doing - or take a workshop.

[MatG]

Bill: Welcome!
I look forward to seeing your work, and hope to stay encouraged enough to get through the paintings you've started. There's a huge amount of great information here.

Silver Lining recently posted a link to a Seattle gallery that focuses on Northwest artists, and three of them work in tempera.
Silver's post:
http://www.eggtempera.com/forum/show...t=tobey&page=2

The gallery (artists are Cummings, Graves, and Tobey):
http://www.woodsidebrasethgallery.co...lliam-cumming/

I'm not previously familiar with these artists, but it looks like Cumming is the only contemporary, still-working artist in this group of three.

As mentioned, things here are slow, but extremely supportive and there's an enormous amount of knowledge available.
All the best.

[northwestegg]

Hi, Bill! I'm Beth, from Bellingham. Nice to see another WA stater on here :)

[VK]

Hi Bill,

Welcome. This board is a complete treasure trove and helped me tremendously.

I'm from Seattle and used to do more pure egg tempera before but the last few years have been all over the place. I do not show my work anywhere (not anywhere near as good) but you can check the ET works here (http://likefallingleaves.blogspot.co.../egg%20tempera).

[mona]

Hi Bill, welcome! Hi VK, I'm a follower of your blog. Nice to be able to connect the dots.

Mona