Dear Art in The Park

I have lived in Richland, Washington, for three years now and Art in The Park has been a highlight every year. It's rare that I get to share my art with so many people and once they step into my booth they are all ears. It's different from an exhibition in that i really get to explain the inspiration behind pieces.

Felicia Follum Art at Art in The Park
Richland, Washington

I have never attended the event as a local but have had a booth all three years. My first year I found nearly everything for my set up on the side of the road marked "free" or from dumpster diving, yet somehow you saw potential in my application. My second year I bought a couple pieces at Goodwill and a couple used easels from other artists. This year was my first year with panels for walls and it made a huge difference!

I'm thankful for an arts event that involves the community and has been willing to let me learn as I grow. Art in The Park, you have pushed me to create new work and to engage with the community.

I'm already looking forward to next year and am thinking of some of the changes I will make!!!


Thank you Art in The Park, Allied Arts and Tri-Cities for being pretty stinking amazing!

<3 Love,
Felicia Follum

PS, If you would like to learn more about the work in the image, here are some links below.

My Women & Sisters (Redemption and Stories)

Boats & Bombs (Working with refugees locally and abroad)

The Lily Pad Project (Raising awareness about human trafficking and sex slavery)

Travel Your City (Exploring and Promoting Richland, Kennewick and Pasco)

some digital art

I've been working on a couple of digital pieces the last couple days.  I combine 2-4 of my images with a texture (usually free created by someone else), use my blending modes and erasing and lots of trial and error to come up with abstract pieces that I find interesting.....

Photos of a ceiling, a stalk of wheat and a closeup of leaves made it into this one.

I used a dahlia (the yellow swirls on the right), a foo dog closeup from our China trip, and a stack of plumbing pipes from a construction site as well as a texture (the words) from Bonnie at PixelDustPhotoArt in this image.

This image only uses two photos - a ceiling and some tree branches and then 2 Pixel Dust textures.

Not all my digital art experimentation is so abstract - I just find these interesting and fun to do.  But a lot can be done with a single image as well...

I love how the texture added a more vintage feeling to my photo of Gasworks Park in Seattle.

The problem is, as with any form of art, I start sitting in front of my computer and before you know it, hours have gone by and I have files open everywhere, my back is aching, but my creative brain is still churning.  I have to say, I thoroughly enjoy this kind of art-making as well as the hands on kind.