~ Peggi Kroll Roberts ~
“I have always loved painting the figure. And it's worked so conveniently participating in the LPAPA Invitational. Ray would go out and paint the landscape and I would stay at the hotel and paint the kids. One year my sister joined us with her kids, but I was a bit panicked because none of the kids were up for posing. So I sheepishly asked my sister if she could do it, and I promised to position her in a way that would allow her to watch the kids at the water’s edge. I placed her under a favorite yellow
parchment umbrella with her head propped on a floral pillow. It wasn't a large painting, but I decided anyways to include this with my other entries. During the awards ceremony there was a glitch with the slide show and the painting of my sister popped up just for a second. I was standing with Ray thinking that was some sort of a mistake, but how lucky I'd be to win even an Honorable Mention. As the awards continued I thought there had to have been some mistake. I thought amongst all the great works entered there was no way I would earn 3rd or 2nd, let alone 1st Place. As they announced that I had won Best in Show I was dumbfounded and so grateful. But, the greatest reward of this was upon returning to our hotel, everyone was in one room, and Ray said, "Your mom won first prize!” Everybody screamed with joy, and I know how happy this made my sister, Tammi.”
2001 Invitational Best In Show ~ “A Nap on Laguna Beach”
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