Tony's Journey
by Lois Bryan
Title
Tony's Journey
Artist
Lois Bryan
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
The beautiful award shown here is the Fine Art America Artistic Merit Award (also known as the Tony award ... originally created by Tony Murray) ... which is awarded to one artist each month to enjoy and display ... and is then handed from honoree to honoree as a token of appreciation for their art or their contributions to Fine Art America or to their fellow members or all. Tony's worldwide adventures can be viewed in the following link "Here Are The Winners" :
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=4780088
This is my fun representation of the journey that artists ... and everyone who works hard to achieve ... make as they wander their way into the unknown realm of their goals. The steps can be many and they can be steep ... the future and our rewards can seem far, far away ... sometimes shrouded in darkness and uncertainty. But if we remember to enjoy the journey as we travel ... live within the light, the shadows, the colors ... then the journey itself becomes the reward.
I like to think of "Tony" moving one step further when I was nominated by Sharon Cummings, and will move another step as he goes to our next honored recipient, Mia DeLode. The beams of light are our inspiration ... the tiny sparkles represent those magical moments when we get into "the zone" and ideas come dancing around us, leading us onward!!!
I have enjoyed the honor of this month, September 2021, to my core ... and as a previous awardee mentioned ... when I signed my name to the scroll, and my fingers ran along the signatures of the Greats before me ... I felt the spirit of you all.
And I thank you.
Background painted freehand digitally from my imagination, with the addition of one of my photos of The Fine Art America Artistic Merit Award (also known as the Tony award) painted up and added in. Created in Corel Painter with a Wacom tablet and art pen stylus, utilizing many beautiful brushes.
Not created using Artificial Intelligence / AI.
Fine art purchases of this image will not include a watermark, and if I may make a recommendation ... this image will look its very best on the fine art paper choice of "picture rag."
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September 30th, 2021
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Comments (17)
Sandi OReilly
Congratulations, Lois!! Awesome presentation of the Tony's Journey in your artwork!! F/L
Lori Pittenger
Lois this is so fabulous! Congratulations once again on your FAA Tony award win! I love your beautifully written description for this artwork of the award as well! All the best, Lori
Lois Bryan replied:
Lori thank you so much ... I'm so honored to join the group which YOU are a member of as well!!!!! And thanks for reading the little description ... and for your kind words!!!!!
Kathi Mirto
Gorgeous, cool work, Lois, love the textures, depth and emphasis of the award! Awesome description and thoughtfulness it all represents! Wonderful! FL
Nancy Kane Chapman
How lovely to read your description and see this lovely Tony award moving forward to honor and award artists. Am so proud of you and of your achievements! And what a nice way to say thank you! F/L+++
I'ina Van Lawick
Lois, a wonderful presentation of Tony's journey through the corridors of artistic expression. And congrats on receiving it for September. Your work is stunning and I so enjoy your imaginative way of expressing what you see and feel. LF
Lois Bryan replied:
Thanks so so much, I'ina!!! Love the way you expressed "corridors of artistic expression"!!! Very visual!!!
John R Williams
Your presentation and awesome image make this to me one of your very best Ms. Lois, you are a real star. this has such class, the theme alone.
Lois Bryan replied:
Hey Jack ... thank you, thank you!!!!! So glad you connected with what I was trying to express ... that means the world!!!
Scott Kingery
Again, Lois, a well deserved congratulations. Your narratives are as beautifully written as your art is executed. Great depiction, transformative experience. L/F
Lois Bryan replied:
Dear Scott, thank you so much ... and kind of you to read the description as well!!!!
Jeff Burgess
Not so sure I understand this work....but well done.
Lois Bryan replied:
Jeff I'm so glad you wrote!! I really am going to add a little more information in the description. I don't know if you're aware but we have a monthly award here at Fine Art America ... it's for The Artistic Merit Award (also known as the Tony award) and I was the award winner for the month of September ... and I passed it on this month to Mia DeLode ... and made this little image up to honor the physical award itself, which goes from honoree to honoree.
MM Anderson
This composition has a wonderful narrative about the journey.
Lois Bryan replied:
Linda, thank you!!!!! Funny how sometimes the more we play with / work on / create these things, the more sense they make!!!
Mary Lynn Giacomini
Gorgeous digital art Lois.....beautifully written Tony's Journey. I like your play with light and shadows adding depth and beauty in this stunning digital art and journey! Congratulations!!! L/f
Lois Bryan replied:
Thank you very much Mary Lynn!!!! I think Tony represents us all ... represents everyone, really. It was fun to create the image. I'd actually painted the steps and columns from my imagination several months ago. Then plopping Tony down there and the story just sort of wrote itself!!!
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