NASHVILLE and MORE...

May 31, 2013

 

What  great fun we had visiting Music City... Nashville, Tennessee... with our friends, Gene and Joanne! It's not only a place where you hear all kinds of music spilling out of every honky tonk... day and night... but it's also a place for great deals on cowboy boots!! We went into a place that had a "buy one pair...get TWO PAIR  free" deal!! These were all high quality boots... don't know how they can do it- must be based on  pure volume sales!! Needless to say, the place was PACKED!!!

Here are some shots I took here and there during our Nashville visit...

 

 

 

Opryland Hotel Resort...gorgeous

 

Nashville skyline

As for this week's art challenges...

SUNDAY POSTCARD ART was in the mood to "party." I'm always up for a party... 

TAKE A WORD had us blowing "bubbles..."

 

THINK MONDAY- THINK ATC  participants were  feeling the art in their "hearts..."

 

the Flicker group, DIGITALMANIA, had artists examine the style of a Lisbon-based illustrator and designer, Christiana Couceiro. These are pieces I did in her clean collage style...in honor of the World War II pilots who painted their planes with a variety of nose art...and in honor of childhood days!

And finally, at the CRAZY AMIGOS challenge blog, we were wrapped up in "cars..."

 

 

Enjoy your week...thanks for stopping by. I hope to see you for my next posting!

 

Big Hugs,

abbyj

POST THANKSGIVING

LOOKING AHEAD TO CHRISTMAS 
December 2, 2011  

Future's eye sees peaceful fantasy world"

With the holidays upon us, I'd like to imagine a world filled with peace and good will...if everyone does just a few good deeds for others during this time, at least for a while, the world will be a better place for us all!

Winter is fast approaching...I welcome it as I always do. But for those who are less enthusiastic about it, challenge blog 4X4 FRIDAY invited artists to create a piece of art with the theme: WINTER BLESSINGS...I'm hoping that this will work...

Holiday time is often party time. In that spirit, CRAZY AMIGO's challenge was to create party-themed art:

INSPIRATION AVENUE chose a most unusual subject for their art challenge this week... English Literature. In keeping with the holiday spirit of good will to all, I chose Charles Dickens' OLIVER TWIST as my inspiration...

SUNDAY POSTCARD ART chose CANDLES for their weekly theme... I created a piece inspired by and in honor of the female religious community we met in China. There, they light candles to send messages to the spirits...

 I combined the themes of the PAPER TRADERS ART BLOG and TAKE A WORD even though they're totally different. For the PAPER TRADERS BLOG, our task was to create a piece of art about the vintage working woman...and TAKE A WORD's theme was simply, blue! I combined them into a blue working woman piece in the hopes that it'll satisfy both challenges...does it?

I guess it's not surprising that the vintage working woman I selected was a photographer working with a model for a music sheet ...loving photography and music as I do! I really enjoyed doing this one!



Finally, the last challenge has NOTHING to do with the holidays either... Issued by the challenge blog  THINK MONDAY-THINK ATC, another unusual theme request: FURNITURE!!! I remembered that in the capital city of Ethiopia... Addis Ababa... I noticed that many of the furniture shops had their furniture displayed outside, on Mother Earth!! THIS is what it looks like: 

Have fun as you prepare for the holidays...remember those good deeds...and please come back and visit me!

Holiday Hugs,
abbyj