The Artist Challenge

It is all we know and understand to be true.
It shades perceptions of the world and.. even you.
But dear friend, be not be cheerless,
Because one true belief is that the artist is fearless.
The Members of the Artist Challenge are proud to present a wee gallery we call  ‘BELIEF THAT POSSSESSES THE MIND‘.
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im·per·fect [im púrfekt] adj -   flawed, defective, deficient, damaged, lacking, faulty, unsatisfactory, inadequate, insufficient, limited, unenforceable
Oh really???? Well you’re absolutely perfect for me.
The Members of the Artist Challenge proudly present a perfect gallery we call
‘IMPERFECT’- CHALLENGE #36
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“What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is going to start any day now, ……”
“Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream.”
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‘Be still my heart so I can treasure this one moment in time …in life ’   Yahooooooo!
The Members of the Artist Challenge proudly present
CHALLENGE #34- “THE STILL LIFE”
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“My screams rang out in the ungodly darkness as I was being pulled into a great black mass of bloodly tendrils that embraced…  WHAAAT!!!?? Let’s start over.                          Em·brace [em bráyss]= To hold you lovingly  in my arms.
The Members of the Artist Challenge present 
CHALLENGE #33- “EMBRACE”
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When thou wakest, … Thou takest … True delight … In the sight of thy former lady’s eye:
And the country proverb known, That every man should take his own,
In your waking shall be shown:
Jack shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again,… and all shall be well.
(Pucks words while putting the [...]

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Although portraits are a challenge that every artist does,
to create a ‘Portrait of an Artist’ creates a mental fuss.
Do we a portray ourselves or portray our brother?
And if we don’t flatter will we find angry fervor?
Well, accepting this challenge yells out for a visage,
So with our brushes we  hold our subjects hostage!
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Way, way out in the garden, in a place where nobody goes
with the help of old mother nature a tiny blue flower grows.
Absorbed in her wind blown dance only nature’s voice she’ll heed.
She’ll live her live in fullness without knowing she’s only a weed
Excerpt from — by Robert C. Murray, Ode to A Flower.
HAPPY SPRING!
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Can you see me,  my little one- under the sea and beneath the sun?
Davy Jones Locker on a mermaid’s bust, inviting the foolish who so unwittingly trust.
A sirens’s laughter that turns your head, “Come  join me, dear,  in my watery bed.”
Sink down to murky depths with me, amidst the fishes where dead men be;
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Ahoy Wandering Art Patrons with Gold in your pockets! Check out our Pirate’s Feast de Resistance!
IT’S AN AUCTION! Our theme is Illusions. “Art is but an Illusion, kind Sir?”
We have works from the Master Artists around the world for a pittance. MAKE A BID RIGHT HERE AND THE ARTIST WILL RESPOND. For your viewing pleasure, STARTING [...]

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