ART AHEAD 

JULY 28, 2016 

Because I looked ahead to some of the art challenge blog themes for next week, I'm little ahead of myself. They sounded like fun challenges, so I spent some time creating...

THIS for DIGITAL WHISPER, whose theme is Masquerade... 

for TAKE A WORD, a Games theme... I depicted both a board game...

and a sports game featuring my hometown basketball team, the Syracuse Orangemen;

and THIS, for Flicker's DIGITALMANIA who introduced participating artists to Alfredo Palmero, a Spanish painter who lived from 1901-1991.

This is my creation...here's one of Alfredo Palmero's pieces...

Thanks for stopping by. See you next posting...
Big Hugs,
abbyj

HAPPINESS IS... 

July 25, 2016 

 

Hi Folks,

Hope you survived this very hot week if you're living here in Central New York as well as soooo many places across our great USA. This week, things are heating up again...politically. It's time for the Democratic National Convention to declare Hillary Clinton the official Democratic Presidential nominee (among other things.) Last week, the Republican Party had the floor and declared Donald Trump the official Republican Presidential nominee. YIKES on both fronts!!!

When it's hot...very hot, both in temperature and in politics, my "go to place" of happiness is always a snow scene. So, when art challenge blog TAKE A WORD declared their theme to be HAPPINESS IS... I jumped on it! Happiness is...SNOW!!

My piece of art for DEZINAWORLD15's CHEEKY CHALLENGE this week centers on FOOD. I took this photo in Hangzhou, China at a family restaurant. I thought it was interesting the way the people held their rice bowls so close to their mouths... wonderful food throughout our repeat trip to China...different areas than we'd been previously. 

DIGITAL WHISPER requested a black and white creation...a wee bit political...sorry!

Finally, SUNDAY POSTCARD ART asked that participants remember the Wild West with COWBOYS and COWGIRLS...

That's it for now...thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy your week. Hope to see you next posting...

Big Hugs,

abbyj