“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from…
August Monthly Challenge
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This month’s challenge artwork is amazing to me, because even though it’s over a hundred years old, Winslow Homer’s Fishing Boats, Key West feels like it could have been painted yesterday;…
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Fishing Boats, Key West, 1903 by Winslow Homer Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper 13 15/16 x 21 3/4 in. (35.4 x 55.2 cm) About the Art Few of Homer’s…
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Congratulations to this Months winners! We have 3 winners chosen randomly from all the challenge entrants. Bo Hulley is our first winner this month. She has won a $50 gift certificate from Jill McKay! Our second lucky winner…
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“Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.” ~Grant Petersen Such a lovely inspiration this month! The colors, the motifs, the lines, the textures. There is…
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“Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ~Albert Einstein Our challenge this month is a lovely art nouveau advertising poster with…
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Illustration for American Cresent Cycles, 1899 Frederick Winthrop Ramsdell About the Art Ramsdell was an American painter who studied in both New York and Paris. While in Paris he became heavily…
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ABS Art for August Inspiration Sunrise, 1964 by John “Jack” Savitsky (1910–1991) Lansford, Pennsylvania 24 x 48 in. :: Oil on Masonite American Folk Art Museum, gift of David L. Davies,…
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Congratulations to JennJuddRocks! You are the winner for this month’s challenge. This entry was randomly chosen from all the qualifying entries this month. Jennifer has won handmade Stoneware Beads and Toggle…
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The inspiration for this month’s challenge is a beautiful woodcut print, Kanagawa oki nami ura (Great Wave off of Kanagawa) by Hokusai Katsushiki. This print is one of the series of…