The Artist Challenge http://www.theartistchallenge.com A Private Art Club for Artists, Art Patrons and Fool Hardy Souls Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:04:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Art Challenge #37- Belief that Possesses the Mind http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-08-28/art-challenge-37-belief-that-possesses-the-mind/ http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-08-28/art-challenge-37-belief-that-possesses-the-mind/#comments Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:04:33 +0000 The Host http://www.theartistchallenge.com/?p=4062 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‘.

Attention Patrons: To purchase artwork in this gallery, contact the artist direct at their website link listed with their work.

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The work in The Artist Challenge is created for a mature audience. Some pieces may not suitable for children or those sensitive to adult subject matter. Viewers visit our site at their own discretion.

Ray Shuell Ray Shuell-Left Panel Ray Shuell-Right Panel Rusty Harden Mary Sonya Conti Rusty Harden Melissa Williams Katrina Estes Hill Fred Dwight Paul Pinson Yolanda Redd Sue Hull Sarah Donnellan Gail M. Allen Vikki North Vikki North ]]> http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-08-28/art-challenge-37-belief-that-possesses-the-mind/feed/ 2 Art Challenge #36- IMPERFECT http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-08-14/art-challenge-36-imperfect/ http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-08-14/art-challenge-36-imperfect/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:57:25 +0000 The Host http://www.theartistchallenge.com/?p=3992 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

Attention Patrons: To purchase artwork in this gallery, contact the artist direct at their website link listed with their work.

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The work in The Artist Challenge is created for a mature audience. Some pieces may not suitable for children or those sensitive to adult subject matter. Viewers visit our site at their own discretion.
Gail M. Allen Andrea Starkey Andrea Starkey Rusty Harden Gwen Bell Mary Sonya Conti Ray Shuell Ray Shuell Rusty Harden Paul Pinson Lisa Carney (Asil) Gwen Bell Lisa Carney (Asil) Sarah Donnellan Vikki North Mary Sonya Conti Vikki North

PATRONS- CHECK OUT THE PRICES ON OUR IMPERFECT GALLERY! They’re totally imperfect for original art and limited edition reproductions. You‘ll never see this again! Have your credit card handy?

]]> http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-08-14/art-challenge-36-imperfect/feed/ 6 Art Challenge #35- Gone with the Wind http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-07-31/art-challenge-35-gone-with-the-wind/ http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-07-31/art-challenge-35-gone-with-the-wind/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:10 +0000 The Host http://www.theartistchallenge.com/?p=3938 “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.”

The Members of the Artist Challenge proudly present a wee gallery we call                  CHALLENGE #35- “GONE WITH THE WIND”

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Gail M. Allen Mary Sonya Conti Sarah Donnellan Paul Pinson Karin Bartimole Ray Shuell Mary Sonya Conti Ray Shuell Mary Sonya Conti Vikki North Ray Shuell Vikki North ]]> http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-07-31/art-challenge-35-gone-with-the-wind/feed/ 3 Art Challenge #34- THE STILL LIFE http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-07-17/art-challenge-34-the-still-life/ http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-07-17/art-challenge-34-the-still-life/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:55:05 +0000 The Host http://www.theartistchallenge.com/?p=3859 ‘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”

Attention Patrons: To purchase artwork in this gallery, contact the artist direct at their website link listed with their work.

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The work in The Artist Challenge is created for a mature audience. Some pieces may not suitable for children or those sensitive to adult subject matter. Viewers visit our site at their own discretion.

Dana Aldis Karen Martin Sampson Paul Pinson Anthony Christian Gwen Bell Linda Apple Karen Martin Sampson Anthony Christian Gwen Bell Dana Aldis Linda Apple Gwen Bell Ray Shuell Rusty Harden Ray Shuell Gwen Bell Mary Sonya Conti Gwen Bell Dana Aldis Dana Aldis Rusty Harden Gwen Bell Dana Aldis Mary Sonya Conti Vikki North Gwen Bell Vikki North ]]> http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-07-17/art-challenge-34-the-still-life/feed/ 5 Art Challenge #33- EMBRACE http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-06-26/art-challenge-33-embrace/ http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-06-26/art-challenge-33-embrace/#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:57:39 +0000 The Host http://www.theartistchallenge.com/?p=3755 “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”

Attention Patrons: To purchase artwork in this gallery, contact the artist direct at their website link listed with their work.

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The work in The Artist Challenge  is created for a mature audience. Some pieces may not suitable for children or those sensitive to adult subject matter. Viewers visit our site at their own discretion.
Dana Aldis Sarah Donnellan Ray Shuell Rusty Harden Paul Pinson Ray Shuell Gail M. Allen Keith Thue Karen Martin Sampson Pauline Adair Ray Shuell Ray Shuell Vikki North
]]> http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-06-26/art-challenge-33-embrace/feed/ 1 Art Challenge #32- A Midsummer Night’s Dream http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-06-12/art-challenge-32-a-midsummer-night%e2%80%99s-dream/ http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-06-12/art-challenge-32-a-midsummer-night%e2%80%99s-dream/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:36 +0000 The Host http://www.theartistchallenge.com/?p=3669 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 magic flower’s juice in the eye of Lysander.)

The Members of the Artist Challenge present

CHALLENGE #32- “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT‘S DREAM”

Attention Patrons: To purchase artwork in this gallery, contact the artist direct at their website link listed with their work.

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Mary Sonya Conti Ray Shuell Gail M. Allen Paul Pinson Sarah Donnellan Ray Shuell Rusty Harden Ray Shuell Vikki North

Original plans were to launch a major ad campaign for  this theme. In light of such a wee gallery – we‘ve made an appropriate little change of course.

*AHOY-  YOU BRAVE & WILD ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream Participating Artists’ - We will be running an online advertisement of YOUR ART and YOUR INDIVIDUAL ARTIST WEBSITE. (Your ad will run for 90 days)

 And- to add to your art reserve -you will ALSO be receiving 2 Giclees (canvas prints) of your work  in the next 2 weeks.

Happy art sales,
The Crew of the Challenge

]]> http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-06-12/art-challenge-32-a-midsummer-night%e2%80%99s-dream/feed/ 6 Art Challenge #31- Portrait of an Artist http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-05-22/art-challenge-31-portrait-of-an-artist/ http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-05-22/art-challenge-31-portrait-of-an-artist/#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 00:03:56 +0000 The Host http://www.theartistchallenge.com/?p=3573 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!

The Members of the Artist Challenge present
CHALLENGE #31- “Portrait of an Artist”

Attention Patrons: To purchase artwork in this gallery, contact the artist direct at their website link listed with their work.

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Linda Apple Karen Martin Sampson Anthony Christian Dana Aldis Marian Fanny Christian Stacey Aasved Arti Chauhan Pauline Adair Peta Woolley Gwen Bell Rusty Harden Ray Shuell Kathleen Shetler-Pegg Paul Pinson Mary Anne Cary Mary Sonya Conti Gail M. Allen Vikki North
The Spider as an Artist

The Spider as an Artist
Has never been employed –
Though his surpassing Merit
Is freely certified

By every Broom and Bridget
Throughout a Christian Land –
Neglected Son of Genius
I take thee by the Hand –
         by Emily Dickinson

]]> http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-05-22/art-challenge-31-portrait-of-an-artist/feed/ 3 Art Challenge #30- The Floral http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-05-08/art-challenge-30-the-floral/ http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-05-08/art-challenge-30-the-floral/#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 23:50:01 +0000 The Host http://www.theartistchallenge.com/?p=3486 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!

The Members of the Artist Challenge present to you-

CHALLENGE GALLERY #30- “THE FLORAL”

Attention Patrons: To purchase artwork in this gallery, contact the artist direct at their website link listed with their work.

The Artist Challenge is a website for Mature Audience. Some images may not be suitable for children or those sensitive to adult subject matter. VIEWERS VISIT OUR SITE AT THEIR OWN RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK. The Artist Challenge bares no liability.

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Anthony Christian Marian Fanny Christian Sarah Donnellan Gail M. Allen Karen Martin Sampson Gwen Bell Mary Sonya Conti TJ Lev Mary Anne Cary Lisa Carney Rusty Harden Linda Apple Gwen Bell Paul Pinson Vikki North
The Orgin of Flower Names:
Iris – A flower that always looks you in the eye.
Gardenia – The name of ALL flowers in Italy.
Peony- From the familiar quip meaning ,“Please don’t pee on me.”
Geranium – A radioactive flower.
Carnation – A flower that can transform itself into instant milk mix.
Jasmine – Literally means “a flower bearing no resemblance to Michael Jackson”.
Tulip – A flower with a hair lip
Poppy – Bullwinkle’s cousin.
Lilac - A flower first discovered by a liar named ‘Lac’.
Chrysanthemum -A word you can say with a lisp real fast to entertain your friends.
Daisy – A flower that drives old people crazy.
Chlamydia – Lets not go there.

For more in depth educational definitions of Floral names please visit  http://www.meaningofnames.biz/meaning-of-flowers.htm

]]> http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-05-08/art-challenge-30-the-floral/feed/ 5 Art Challenge #29- Under the Sea http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-04-24/art-challenge-29-under-the-sea/ http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-04-24/art-challenge-29-under-the-sea/#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:02:06 +0000 The Host http://www.theartistchallenge.com/?p=3392 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;

And say goodbye to the world above,  for under the sea you will find true love.

The Member of the Artist Challenge presents to you a worthy seaward tale…
CHALLENGE GALLERY #29- “UNDER THE SEA”

Attention Patrons: To purchase artwork in this gallery, contact the artist direct at their website link listed with their work.

The Artist Challenge is a website for Mature Audience. Some images may not be suitable for children or those sensitive to adult subject matter. VIEWERS VISIT OUR SITE AT THEIR OWN RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK. The Artist Challenge bares no liability.

All verse & Artwork protected under ©2010 The Artist Challenge

Candle Artist Jfay Gail M. Allen Ray Shuell Gail M. Allen Anthony Christian Gwen Bell Marian Fanny Christian Deb Lacativa Pauline Adair Gwen Bell Rusty Harden Mary Sonya Conti Paul Pinson Ray Shuell Vikki North Gwen Bell Gwen Bell


I am a place of calm tranquility,
where colors dance and the fishes play.
I am a place of pirates tales and sunken ships;
a mysterious place where monsters wait…
Come to me… under the sea, under the sea, under the sea.

** If you’d like to do a poem or short verse for the top, bottom or side of  one of galleries, let me know! Would love your help and will link your website.

]]> http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-04-24/art-challenge-29-under-the-sea/feed/ 1 Art Challenge #28- ILLUSION- the AUCTION http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-04-10/art-challenge-28-illusion-the-auction/ http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-04-10/art-challenge-28-illusion-the-auction/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:35 +0000 The Host http://www.theartistchallenge.com/?p=3322 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 BID AMOUNTS TITLE EACH ART WORK

BTW leave your sword by the door, Sailor. We wouldn’t want you to fall on it and get a nasty cut, now would we?

This Auction will ONLY last until Saturday, April 24th. Bid prices will not be available on these works after that time. SO PLEASE MAKE YOUR OFFER TODAY.

Winning bidders will be contacted directly by the artists for purchase and shipping information. Leave your contact link on the artist’s individual pages in this gallery. (Just touch down on the artwork below -on this page- and magically you will arrive on the artist’s bidding page.)

THE MEMBERS OF CHALLENGE PRESENT GALLERY #28- “ILLUSION- THE AUCTION”

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STARTING Bid- $35!! Limited Edit. Print! STARTING Bid- $400 - ORIGINAL! STARTING Bid- $60! LIMITED ED. PRINT STARTING Bid- $145! ORIGINAL STARTING Bid- $10!! ORIGINAL STARTING Bid- $100!! ORIGINAL! STARTING Bid- $400 - ORIGINAL! STARTING Bid- $70 - Limited Edit. Print! STARTING Bid- $99!! ORIGINAL STARTING Bid- $100!! ORIGINAL! STARTING Bid- $60 !! LIMITED ED. PRINT STARTING Bid- $75 - Limited Edit. Print! STARTING Bid- $100!! ORIGINAL! STARTING Bid- $10!! ORIGINAL STARTING Bid- $100 - ORIGINAL! STARTING Bid- $100 - ORIGINAL! STARTING Bid- $55!! LIMITED EDIT. PRINT! ]]> http://www.theartistchallenge.com/2010-04-10/art-challenge-28-illusion-the-auction/feed/ 6