First juried entry, 2nd Place and thrilled!

[Tim Rinehart]

I received my first award (2nd place) at a juried gallery show at Mint Hill Arts this past Friday, and actually, the first gallery art show I've entered...so I'm pretty excited. I'll get some other pics from the gallery perhaps, but here's the piece.

I called it "Licking Flames" because of the way the radial trunk lines came to a flame like point on the inside. It's a piece of Norfolk Island Pine I did last year, about 10" tall and 10" across...one of my favorites.

I really didn't expect to win anything, as I entered in the 3D category and I had seen a lot of very creative and well done sculpture, pottery and fabric work there as well, so I'm grateful and honored. Having LOML, as well as my sister (an artist in her own right) and her daughter there was a treat, especially since I had no clue I had anything coming.

My other piece entered, Black Sundae, was my more recent piece, but no award. I appreciate the comments from everyone on that piece towards how I'll do a similar piece in the future.

This piece is about 10" diam x 10" tall and finished with rattle can satin lacquer. A very soft finish but still reflects a bit!

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[Quinn McCarthy]

Congratulations Tim. You should have gotten first with that one. I really like the grain and knots in that piece.

Quinn

[Steve Schlumpf]

Tim - Congrats on your first juried show and also on your award! How cool is that? Beautiful turning - form, wood and finish! I can see why you won! Nice work! Hope this leads to many more shows & awards!

[Scott Hackler]

Congrats Tim. Its a great looking piece.

[Harvey Ghesser]

Beautiful piece, Tim! Congratulations on your award!

[bob svoboda]

Way to go, Tim. Well deserved award.

[Jim Burr]

Well done Tim!! That piece was worthy to be sure!

[James Combs]

Add another "Well Done" Tim. A deserved honor for sure.

[John Keeton]

Tim, you took an excellent piece of wood, made a beautiful form, with a very nice finish - the makings of an award winning piece!! Well deserved - CONGRATS!

[Tim Thiebaut]

Hey Congratulations on this! That is a very beautiful piece you have, and the name fits!!

[Ed Morgano]

Congratulations, that is a very beautiful piece and you deserve to win an award for it.

[charlie knighton]

congratulations Tim, well done

[Nate Davey]

Congratulations Tim, wish I would have known about it. I would have come down for a personal viewing.

[David E Keller]

Nicely done, Sir! Congrats on the recognition!

[Rich Aldrich]

Congrats - nice work.

[Michael James]

WOW, congratulations Tim! I have a big chunk of that stuff and I hope mine comes out 1/3 as nice as that one. That is just too beautiful.
mj

[robert raess]

Tim, great job! I like the form,and the finish doesn't overwhelm the beauty of the wood and grain.

[Robert McGowen]

I can see why you did so well. Very nice job!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Congrats Tim. Great job.

[David DeCristoforo]

Congrats! Very nice piece of work. I really like the figure in the wood and the form you chose makes excellent use of it.

[Toney Robertson]

A well deserved honor.

[Cathy Schaewe]

Wow, that is cool! Way to go!!!

[Kathy Marshall]

A well deserved congrats on a beautiful form out of some fabulous wood!

[Michelle Rich]

CONGRATS! super little HF

[Greg Ketell]

Beautiful piece! And you did an awesome job making the most out of the knots. They really do look like flames!! Congrats on the win!

[cal thelen]

Really nice piece! love the wood congrats on the contest too!

[Tim Rinehart]

Thanks everyone for your feedback and congrats. I have a few much smaller pieces of this stuff out in my wood storage area, but really got lucky with the degree of spalting in this piece. Couldn't have asked for much better colors.

[Karl Card]

You must be very proud and you definitely have a right to be. Congrats.