Postcard Challenge  
February 25, 2012 

"cut and paste...

Photoshop, the challenger!" 

ART and SOLE: POSTCARD CHALLENGE 2012 is a new challenge group (for me)  on Yahoo that has a fun premise ... like the book series by author/artist, Nick Bantock,  we're tasked to create two mythical characters who correspond with one another from all over the world through postcards from declared countries. I'm starting a bit late, but trying to catch up. We create the postcard, write our message as we would normally do, then insert it in a page created for that particular country. It's through the postcard messages that other artists learn what the story is between the two imaginary correspondents. My two guys met when one (from New York) was stationed in tribal Ethiopia with the Peace Corps. (The second correspondent lived in the village in southern Ethiopia.) They became friends and when the Ethiopian fellow finished his time at University, he was invited to New York to visit with his Peace Corps friend. After a stay (and an introduction and short education about first world countries,) the young Ethiopian fellow took off on his own, journeying bravely, around the world. 

These are my cards and correspondences thus far... 

 

 

I hope you'll journey with me in this new challenge... it's educational and fun! Each country supplies it's own art inspiration! Will you join me?

Hugs,

Abbyj 

ONE MORE... 
February 22, 2012 

Oops...I forgot to add one last challenge for the week. It's one declared by THE THREE MUSES calling for "art in the round..." I really enjoyed putting this together. Hope you like it as well...

 

Thanks again for taking a look at this extra piece of art...

'Til the next,

abbyj

RANDOM CHALLENGES...  
February 20, 2012  

daughter dives

I can't

depth overwhelms    

My husband and daughter just returned from a week of scuba diving...the photos are beyond awesome! It's a world I'd love to experience, but the thought of being surrounded by all that water makes me claustrophobic!! I enjoy their dive experiences vicariously... and that's okay :)

A few challenges for this week, then I'm starting a new project: POSTCARD CHALLENGE 2012 for which I'll be doing a postcard a week, each from a different country... for 52 weeks. It'll be an imaginary correspondence between two people with lots of exploration and new experiences involved in each country...sounds like fun, doesn't it?

THIS WEEK, Sunday Postcard Art's interest leaned toward GOTHIC... 

 

Both Take a Word and The Three Muses loved the color TURQUOISE...

Inspiration Avenue didn't care what we did as long as it had TEXTURE!!

I had fun with Creavil Challenge Blog's request for HEAD GEAR...

Collage Obsession was obsessed with HANDS...

...and I'm obsessed with thanking you, once again,  for stopping by to share my art. It's definitely a growing and learning process!

Hugs 'til my next post,
abbyj