Scarlet Ibis #15 50Birds in 50Days for $50Each by Barbara Haviland | Barbara Haviland - Blog

Scarlet Ibis #15 50Birds in 50Days for $50Each by Barbara Haviland | Barbara Haviland - Blog

Barbara47haviland@sbcglobal.net
Web site: http://www.barbarahavilandfineart.com

Title Scarlet Ibis
Medium oils on canvas panel
Size 5"x7"
Signed and Framed
The Scarlet Ibis is part of my 50Birds in  50Days for $50Each  
Thanks for viewing my art and if you would like to  purchase the painting, there is a pay pal button on my web site.  Barbara

Nursery Rhyme Challenge for June

This challenge is closed and I thought I'd show them all together and
Here they are:

Mary and Her Lamb aceo
By Brenda Thour aka luvs2paint

Baa Baa Black Sheep felted Ooak
by Marlene Hawkins aka Lazyhawk


Pat-a-Cake aceo
by Myrna Migala aka thanks4lookin

They are all for sale, just click on the link and it will bring you there.
Stay tuned for July's challenge and get ready to participate!

This challenge was a lot of fun.
Happy 4th of July weekend,
and be safe!

June's Art Challenge

Last month was a lot of fun, and thank you to all who entered. You can view them all in one place on the post below this one.

Welcome to our new Small Format Art challenge for June . Every month there will be a new challenge that anyone can participate in. That's right, anyone and everyone. You do not need too become a DAWG team member, no strings attached.
This is for aceo's and small format paintings, which means the painting needs to be under 14 inches. Yes, 11x14 is included, that's the biggest size. It can be any medium you want including digital. It can be from a painting you already did, or one you create just for this challenge. Sponsored by the DAWG team members from etsy.
Are you ready? The theme is "Nursery Rhymes"! So time to get your thinking caps on again, and remember, it's not hard, it's just for fun!

Here are the Rules:

1. Upload your work to your blog, shop or facebook page.

2. If you have a blog, then right click and save the Challenge Badge above to put on your blog and link back to this blog. If you don't have a blog, then don't worry about it.

3. come back here and click on the little blue frog 'add your link' button below

4. add your url, name and email address. Your email address will NOT be seen by others.

5. You can enter up to 3 pieces per challenge. Just enter each one seperately

That's all there is to it. Are you ready??? Here we go!

Movie Challenge Entries

May zipped past quickly, as always. I thought I'd show all of our May entries at once and here they are, drum roll please.......

Ann Margret in Bye Bye Birdie

by Brenda Thour

Phantom of the Opera

by AnnaMarie Cadille Armstrong

Bella Swan in Twilight

by Art by Belle

Camelot

by Joann Wheeler

The Lion King

by Brenda Thour

What Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz

by Marlene Hawkins

Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz

by Marlene Hawkins

This last one wasn't 'officially entered' but it came within the rules, they can be no bigger than 11x14, but Can be 11x14 so I added it because the artist stated that would have liked to enter it...so I did. Hope that's ok, Marlene?!?
I hope you enjoyed seeing all the entries as much as I did. Thought its kinda nice to put them all in one spot like this. Stay tuned for the June Challenge, the theme will be "Nursery Rhymes" Hope you all can squeeze in a little bit of time to join in the fun. Remember, invite all your friends to join, this is for everyone who wants to participate!!!

See ya!

This Months Challenge

This Month the Challenge is to create an ACEO representing your favorite Movie.  I must admit I have not got mine done for this month, but will use the following as inspiration.  Although I know it will not qualify because of it's size it was still fun to paint.

I did a painting of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, it is a 14X11 acrylic painting on canvas and gave it as a door prize for an Everything Oz Blog Party.

I hope to get time to work on a movie themed ACEO this week.  Remember that ACEO's can be done in any medium you choose to work in.  They can be collage, acrylic, watercolor, color pencil, encaustic, fabric, the choices are endless, just the size 2.5 X 3.5 inches is what matters.

I would really like to see all the team members get involved and would welcome any readers to jump in and join this fun challenge.  No pressure as you have the whole month to create your entry.  You can read the rules here, they are simple:

http://dawgteamonetsy.blogspot.com/2011/05/monthly-art-challenge.html

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will join in our challenge.

Monthly Art Challenge

Welcome to our Monthly Art Challenge. Every month there will be a new challenge that anyone can participate in. This is for aceo's and small format paintings, which means the painting needs to be under 14 inches. It can be any medium you want including digital. It can be from a painting you already did, or one you create just for this challenge.

This month Challenge is 'Movie Theme'. So get your thinking caps on and see what you can come up with. It Can be about any movie or song from a movie, or anything to do with a movie.

Here are the Rules:

1. Upload your work to your blog, shop or facebook page.

2. If you have a blog, then right click and save the Challenge Badge above to put on your blog and link back to this blog. If you don't have a blog, then don't worry about it.

3. come back here and click on the little blue frog 'add your link' button below

4. add your url, name and email address. Your email address will NOT be seen by others.

2. You can enter up to 3 pieces per challenge. Just enter each one seperately

Palm Sunday

"Picture from Wikipedia"

Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that always falls on the Sunday before Easter Sunday. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned by all four Canonical Gospels (Mark 11:1-11, Matthew 21:1-11, Luke 19:28-44, and John 12:12-19).

In many Christian churches, Palm Sunday is marked by the distribution of palm leaves (often tied into crosses) to the assembled worshipers. The difficulty of procuring palms for that day's ceremonies in unfavorable climates for palms led to the substitution of boughs of box, yew, willow or other native trees.

According to the Gospels Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem, and the celebrating people there lay down their cloaks in front of him, and also lay down small branches of trees. The people sang part of Psalms 118: 25-26 - ... Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. We bless you from the house of the Lord .
The symbolism of the donkey may refer to the Eastern tradition that it is an animal of peace, versus the horse, which is the animal of war. Therefore, a king came riding upon a horse when he was bent on war and rode upon a donkey when he wanted to point out that he was coming in peace. Therefore Jesus' entry to Jerusalem symbolized his entry as the Prince of Peace, not as a war waging king.