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Challenge #10: SUMMERTIME

Friday, June 12, 2020 – Friday, June 26, 2020

Summer Solstice is June 20th– what does SUMMERTIME represent to you?

"Sunflower"
48 X 48 oil painting
©Jasmine Tritten

"Hydrangea"
watercolor
©Barbara Marx

"Summer Flower with Love"
acrylic poster paint
©Maisie Bell (6 years old)

"The Summer Solution"
photograph
©Ken Duckert

"Summer Hair"
digital art
©Talia (12 years old)

"Bunny, Bee, Bloom and Me"

photograph

©Katie Carillo

"Danish Garden"
24 X 36 oil painting
©Jasmine Tritten

"L’ imperatrice"
digitally enhanced photography
© D. Annette Ball

"Summer Time"
digital art
©Jack Reynolds

"Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire, England"
photography
©Adriana Foris

"Home" in progress
time lapse video
©Katie Carillo

"Home"
8" diameter oil painting
©Katie Carillo

"Summer Glee!"
Collage and iphonography
©Elaine Manicke

"Summertime 2020"
acrylic expressive art
©Diana Fisch

"Corrales Waterlily"
photography
©Adriana Foris

"Summertime as a Person"
digital art
©Talia (12 years old)

Thank you for taking part in our challenge and sharing your summertime art-

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Challenge #9: ARTIST'S CHOICE
Friday, May 29, 2020 – midnight Friday, June 12, 2020

"I love swigging insect repellent"
tongue-in-cheek essay
©Jim Tritten

click to read

"Soulmates"
48x36 oil
©Jasmine Tritten

"Afternoon Snack "
photography
©Elisabeth Foris-Hickie

"Backyard Ladderback"
photography
©Ken Duckert

"Eight Young Farmers"
poem
©Chris Allen

click to read

"Art Collaboration!"
iphone collage (EM) with painting (CB)
©Elaine Manicke and Caroline Babcock

"Squirrel"
watercolor
©Chloe Marshall (age 5)

"Coyote Crossing"
photograph
©Jim Tritten

"Honoring the Memory of George Floyd"
watercolor on canvas
©Tessa Jones-Wirth (age 11)

"Painted Flower Pots"
acrylic on ceramic
©Judy Armstrong

"Watching Paint Peel (during Coronavirus)"
12x12 acrylic
©Victoria Mauldin

"Turbulent yet Hopeful Horizon"
acrylic on canvas
©Diana Fisch

"Dragon"
photograph
©D. Annette Ball

"Dance of Life"
48x36 oil
©Jasmine Tritten

"Purple Mountains Majesty"
photography
©Elisabeth Foris-Hickie

"Bird and Blossoms"
watercolor
©Liz Marshall

"Two-headed Rex"
acrylic on cardboard
©Luka Vasiljevic (7 years old)

"Marvin the Paranoid Android"
24x24 acrylic
©Petar Vasiljevic (14 years old)

"Adobe Entrada"
18 x 24 oil on canvas
©Patricia Kruger

Thank you for participating in the Artist's Choice Challenge!

"Flamenco Pandemico
dance video
©Chloe Marshall (age 5)

Challenge #8: MEMORY
Friday, May 23, 2020 – Sunday, May 31, 2020

Definition: (noun) 1. the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information; 2. something remembered from the past; a recollection; 3. the part of a computer in which data or program instructions can be stored for retrieval

"Uncle Pete's wedding"
photo transfer on painting enhanced with iPhoneography
©Elaine Manicke

"Remembering Childhood"
photograph
©Barnali Dey

"Cosmo, Whose Roar
Shook Downtown Albuquerque"
( ABQ zoo - deceased)
8x10 acrylic
©Victoria Mauldin

"Memory"
pencil and paint pens
©Emmy (age 11)

"Last piece of art in process" by William Mckinney
photograph
©Abby Boling

"Black Opal"
colored pencil on black paper
©Sammi Carillo

"Memories 1"
watercolor
©Barbara Marx

"Sleepwalker from Landscapes of Water"
photograph
©Linda Walsh

"The Challenge"
Ruidoso winter scene
16x20 acrylic
©Victoria Mauldin

"Board Game"
digital art
©Jack Reynolds

"Paintings from my past"
acrylic on canvas
©Heidi Ames

"Memories 2”
watercolor
©Barbara Marx

"On Route 66!"
24x30 acrylic
©Victoria Mauldin

"Betty Boop"
photograph
©Ken Duckert

“El Rancho de las Golondrinas Gold”
watercolor on paper
©Patricia Kruger

"Memories of Mars #002"
multimedia
©D. Annette Ball

Thank you for sharing
your memories–
please help share the word about our challenge!

Challenge #7: TREASURE
Friday, May 15, 2020 – Sunday, May 17, 2020

Definition: (noun) a quantity of precious metals, gems, or other valuable objects; wealth/riches of any kind or in any form; any thing or person of great worth or value; highly prized; (verb) to hold or keep as precious; to value highly; to put away for security or future use

"Unforgettable"
photograph (retouched) of original poster
This treasure is a cherished memory - circus clowns. I was lucky enough to see the last of the festive circus trains pull into town, unload, set up in a nearby field and leave two days later. The clowns were always the best. This is one of my favorite circus posters.
©Ken Duckert

“New Mexico Golden Daze”
18 x 24 oil on canvas
©Patricia Kruger

"Garden Gold"
digital art
©Ken Duckert

Thank you for sharing your treasures–
Your participation in the challenge is our treasure!

"On The Alchemy of Love"
Osprey, about to share a hard won goldfish
photograph
©Bruce Hatten | The Shutter Sniper

"Tsuki's Treasure"

A rescue rabbit's surprise litter of six beautiful bunnies!

photograph

©Heidi Ames

"Treasured Jewels in a Nest"
photo from a friend
contributed by Elaine Manicke

Challenge #6: NURTURE

Friday, May 8, 2020 – Sunday, May 17, 2020

Definition: (verb) care for, encourage and/or help the growth or development of; cherish (a hope, belief, or ambition)
(noun) the process of caring for and encouraging the growth or development of someone or something; upbringing, education, and environment, contrasted with inborn characteristics as an influence on or determinant of personality (nature)

Nurture

digital design

©Jack Reynolds

"Mother and Child Reunion"
©lyrics by Paul Simon

No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away

oh, little darling of mine
I can't for the life of me
Remember a sadder day
I know they say let it be
But it just don't work out that way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away

oh, little darling of mine
I just can't believe It's so
Though it seems strange to say
I never been laid so low
In such a mysterious way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

But I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
When the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away

Oh the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh the mother and child reunion
Is only a moment away...

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for participating in Week 6 –

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