Award for Excellence at the Colored Pencil Society of America

In August, Lisa Miller Mills '88 of Colleyville, Texas, received the Award for Excellence at the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA) International Exhibition in Covington, Ky. The award was for her artwork titled "Reflections in Heavy Metal," shown above. The piece appeared in the exhibition at the Carnegie Center for about six weeks.

"Just being juried into the show would be a HUGE deal for me, as I failed to make the cut last year," she wrote on her Color Me Here blog, colormehere.wordpress.com.

The piece, which depicts her son's Fender Stratocaster, was done in colored pencil and drawn on Art Spectrum Colorfix Suede paper. "I loved how the paper, which has a velvety surface, combined with the wax and clay in the pencils creating a very painterly effect," she wrote.

The piece also went on to win Best in Category (Professional Artist) at the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of CPSA earlier this month.

Lisa owns Lisa Mills Fine Art - Color Me Here Studio in Colleyville.

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