The prompt for the Ultimate Blogging Challenge today was to post a picture and make it go viral. I have attempted that a few times, very unsuccessfully. I can’t make anything go viral by myself. But, if you share this blog post with your friends and enemies, maybe you can help me achieve my goal!
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The winning captions are… Balancing Act (caption by Lily Leung) It’s a tie!!!!! Here are the two captions: I miss you! (caption by Lily Leung) and What are you looking at?(caption by Martha DeMeo) Oh sure, you guys are trying to impress me with your spiky horns (caption by Kebba Buckley Button) Here are all
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when the snow is still pretty… Yesterday, it started snowing sideways and, then, abruptly, it stopped. For hours, it didn’t snow, and people started complaining online about various closures. Online complaining should be a competitive sport. Some people are getting a lot of practice saying, “Why do I have to take that detour to get
I really like stylized, somewhat abstract faces because they look like people but not like a photograph. So, because today’s blogging prompt is to share the process of creating something, I thought that I would share how this picture came about. I would have shared the process of making an acrylic painting of a snowy
Next month, I will start my second 100-day art project. The start date hasn’t been announced yet, but it’s projected to be mid to late February. The email that I received said, “For now, start thinking about ehat you might want to do this year.” This year, my goal is to create a picture book
#WordlessWednesday This month’s mediums are vine charcoal, pastels, pastel pencils, and waxy colored pencil. Variations on orange is the color scheme. The artwork is done on toned sanguine red paper. Here are some samples of my creations. I loved limited pallets, and I hope that you enjoy my creations, as well. design one design two.
The theme is… “If these critters could talk, what would they say?“ Below are three photographs. Let your imagination go wild and write a caption for one, two, or three of the photos! Your deadline to enter is Wednesday At that point, I will close entries so that my judge team is able to make
It’s contest time!! Read More »
Today, the letter is G so I went to the random word generator and came up with the word “garlic.” What can I say? Garlic is great in everything. It’s good on potatoes and on toast and in soups and in stews. It’s just a fantastic ingredient to put in your food. There’s even garlic
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is for me to offer one piece of advice on something that I know. I spent the day wondering what sort of advice I could give to anyone. As I was working with soft, not-always-cooperative pastels, it came to me. When you’re creating something, whether it be visual
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Fly high, butterfly, your eye pointed to the sky, and see no limits Today’s letter is B, and the word that I got from the random word generator was butterfly. The Ultimate Blogging Challenge prompt is “What got you started in this niche or market?” I’m not really sure. I am a storyteller and have
Of butterflies and stories Read More »