JANUARY CHALLENGE
An Interview with Winner Roni Hennen
An Interview with Roni Hennen, Winner of the January Challenge Cont. Time may have been a limited commodity before, but that was nothing compared bringing a product from conception through development, production, and into the market place, and unfortunately the first thing left off of my to-do list was creating stuff. Then about six or seven years ago, I realized I not only had the time, but perhaps for the first time in my life, the resources, to just make art for the heck of it, and painting went to the very top of my to-do list! Except for a couple of drawing courses in college, I'm selftaught, well, self-taught with the help of at least 100 art instruction books, almost every instructional
Gary Jones’ Original Photo ‘Elephants’
magazine printed in the last six years, and more hours on YouTube than I really want to think about! I started working with colored pencils and moved to watercolor, which has become my favorite medium. Although I've painted many watercolors, I feel I'm just beginning to know this beautiful, but temperamental "partner" in art. I hope to be painting for as long as I am breathing, but I don't ever want to be a "professional". I have a job, and have had many others, so painting for the sheer joy and wonder of it is more than enough for me! Roni’s Winning Entry - ‘Getting To Know You’ 3) You entered our January painting challenge, "New Beginnings" and it was your first ever on PMP....were you surprised to find out that you had won, and what was your first thoughts? Well, it was kind of funny really. You see, I had posted a note to the discussion on the last day of the month saying that working with the limited, three pigment palette had been such an eye opening experience that whatever the outcome, I felt like I had already "won". So, the next morning when I got an email congratulating me on winning, I thought it was a reference to that post. Then I got another, and another, but it wasn't until quite late in the day that I actually checked to see if the results had been posted and if the judges had picked the ones I had. I almost fell of my chair when I read my name..actually I had to read it about five times before it sunk in!
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