Connie will be completing 3 originals for this event.

One will feature a landscape of the 600+ acres, Romy Property which was purchased through joint contributions from the National Wild Turkey Federation, Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation and the SD State Game, Fish and Parks Department to be preserved as "green space".
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One will of course feature wild turkeys as seen down the ravine behind Connie's home in the Black Hills.
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The other one with Mule Deer, young and old, from the front of her property.
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Follow the progress from composition photos to the actual development of the paintings online with artist's personal thoughts and aspirations for these pieces.

Connie Savage Thiewes will be the featured artist for
the Black Hills National Wild
Turkey Federation Banquet
March 8th, Ramkota Convention Center,
Rapid City, SD, 2003, 6:00pm. She will be donating one original painting for the auction and two others will be available with a percentage going to the BHNWTF. Check out the progress of the paintings updated regularly.

Check out the Black Hills Sports Show in Rapid City, SD at the Rushmore Convention Center, February 21, 22 and 23, 2003, for ticket information and to see some of the artwork in progress.

Press Release Info & Contact Info:
If Monet can paint 24 in 3, I can do 3 paintings in 3 months.
Date Sensitive: Painting at the Sports Show2/21-23/03 at the BH National Wild Turkey Federation Booth.
From: Connie Savage Thiewes, Featured Artist for the BHNWTF Banquet, 3/8/03

Begin with the end in mind! Any publication of this information you could offer, Thanks!

Try to define yourself without saying, "what you do." My response, I am a human being, busy being and doing the most I can as an individual to make the world better.

If I begin with the end in mind, I take on each moment with the task at
hand to perform. The end result becomes my focus in the present moment. At present I do web/graphic design, sculpting, painting and am married-with-children off to college and life. How then do I end up being the featured artist for the Black Hills Wild Turkey Federations annual banquet on March 8, 2003 at the Ramokota, Rapid City, SD?

Simply put, I said yes, I can do three paintings in three months.

What was I thinking, or was I? I like a challenge. After all Monet once painted 24 paintings in 3 months while visiting Holland on his way back from England at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. However, Monet filled his days painting. In this age of technology and short attention span, being "souly" a painter or an artist is not going to make it for me.

The painters of the Renaissance, Monet or Russell had the advantage of defining a time period evolving in their life time. I am not wanting to painting a "mother board" or searching online to find a way to sell a million prints.

However, the National Wild Turkey Federation is about saving green space to benefit wildlife, saving a turkey population from extinction and creating research that will enhance the environment in which young and old can benefit. I love watching the turkey, deer and birds around my home in the hills. I want to help preserve a better environment for my children and the world.

Check out at www.savagethiewes.com go to the Community Services page and click on the link about the National Wild Turkey Federation Banquet. This link shows the progress thus far of the three painting and the process of creation for my paintings (enclosed print out if mailed).

I offer my talents in the spirit of community responsibility. You could provide a platform for other individuals to learn more about this organization, their neighbors (the turkeys, deer and other wildlife) and discover a new focus they may be interested in.

Please email me for contact information.

Thank you, for any publication of this information you could offer