The Challenge for Week #10 - Create a piece of art in response to this quote:

We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.  ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

There were just 4 entries this time (everyone is busy right after the holidays) and ever-so-perfectly, the voting resulted in a tie for third place, so all entries are officially winners!  

Don't forget to enter Contest #11 -- the deadline is Monday, Jan 14!

FIRST PLACE
"Fresh Perspectives" by Mary Franowsky
Ink drawing, digitally colored in Fireworks, 9"x12"

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SECOND PLACE
"Possibilities" by Linda Manzo

Watercolor (twinkling H2Os), 5"x7" Click the image to see the entry in full size.

THIRD PLACE (TIED)
"Blank" by Carolyn McComas
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THIRD PLACE (TIED)
"The Sky's the Limit" by Barb Starrenburg
7-1/2"x10"
"The colorful balloons symbolize a bright, creatively-filled New Year holding countless possibilities and opportunities – the sky’s the limit! The pages are blank only a brief time – the year is afresh with exciting opportunities."

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Thanks to all who voted!

Don't forget to enter Contest #11 -- the deadline is Monday, Jan 14! 

I'm having trouble with this one so I may not submit anything. I have the need to hand sketch what I have in my mind, so I worked on it this week. My focus just isn't there, or here, or anywhere. Where'd it go?

Mary  

If you get it finished before the deadline comes up, I hope you'll get it in the contest, Mary.  It doesn't have to be a digital work - all kinds of media have been represented.  And if you don't get it finished for the deadline, please post it anyways.  Love to see your work.  Yeah, focus is kind of blurry sometimes but I think that's just the workings of being a creative person.  Come next week, the focus is soooooooooooo much clearer and I have no idea why! 

Hugs from chameleon

Aw, thanks chameleon. Only you and others here would understand that creative push and pull. Strangely, I ended up getting a second wind at 10:30 p.m. Sunday so I ran with it.

Hugs,

Mary 

Yeah, Mary!  Happy to hear the creativity fairy waved her wand and voila!  Art Attack!

- chameleon

 Great entries!  Thanks to all who entered.  Don't forget to vote!

Just a reminder that voting closes at 6pm EST TODAY (Friday, 1-11)

Also, don't forget to check out Contest #11 -- the deadline is Monday.

Thanks everyone! 

There were just 4 entries this time (everyone is busy right after the holidays) and ever-so-perfectly, the voting resulted in a tie for third place, so all entries are officially winners! 

Don't forget to enter in Contest #11 - deadline is Monday.

You guys make these contests so much fun! 

Congratulations to these 4 people that entered! You are all winners! because you are so creative... I love the ideas and artwork each of you came up with!

Sandi

Thank you Sandi, for the congrats to the entrants! Voting is just as fun as creating, no matter the outcome. Don't you just love to see the unique interpretations of the same idea? 

The artists in Creativity Challenge #10 deserve credit for the energy, invention, and remarkable range of thought that was reflected in their creative works and titles as it related to the theme, "We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."  ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Mary's ink drawing, Fresh Perspectives, caught my attention for being thoughtful, a personal reflection of time represented in a landscape with names like "River of Trust", "Bridge of Confidence", and "Walk of Faith".  Linda's watercolour painting named Possibilities with its' rich, deep colours and the soft, atmospheric artwork Blank by Carolyn both captured a moment in time that is timeless. Congratulations, artists!

- chameleon