Kate Baggott from www.Babylune.com with her entry and 9 comments.
I tried to stay neutral and not accidently comment on these post lest I tip the scales in anyone’s favor by accident.
Here’s the screenshot where I also sent payment to her!
Thanks everyone who participated. If you want to see all the entries, check them out at this link.
Dan, from EmptyEasel submitted his take on what Art means to him. Check it out below, and check out Empty Easeltoo.
Art is hard work.
Unlike some, I can’t relax when I’m painting. It’s too difficult, and to be completely honest, I don’t always enjoy it. The real reason I create art—the one thing that makes it worthwhile—is seeing that finished, perfect painting when I’m done.
I actually feel the same way about painting as I do about working on my 1976 Datsun 280z. I love that car, but it takes some serious work to keep it in good shape.
Every time I …read more
Ken Walters submitted this entry for the What art means to me competition.
In my art I try to bring together my experiences, skills and emotions. I draw on my experiences, filtered through my emotions and moods and use my skills to ‘paint’ with light on my pc. I use my own software to translate what I see and feel into still frame images, I’ve replaced the brush and pencil with an electronic pen and tablet. Unlike with paint, I can vary the intensity of light in the images to reflect my thinking and emotions. I find it far more liberating …read more
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Kate Baggott from Babylune shares what art means to her as part of the Guest post contest here at Artist Hideout:
A character in a story I once wrote, says, “The world is not a beautiful place, you have to work to be beautiful in it.”
The character lives on the same planet as the rest of us. It is, maybe, a place that we experience one way and see another way depending on the amount of news media we consume.
Art, in all its forms, makes me reconsider that gap between what I live and what I — whether consciously or not …read more
Our second submission for the contest comes from Judi Cahill:
Art is everything and anything in the world. Since I was a child I loved colors and textures of art. As I grew older I loved the sounds of art. I would paint or create. When I wanted to study art my parents discouraged me. When I didn’t finish school art was a distant memory until I was pregnant with my first child at eighteen, everything became art again. The whole creation process of carrying a child stimulated my energy for art. I began to write poetry and sketch. Now, seven …read more
Our first guest post for the contest comes from Katelyn Thomas of Stamping Mad.
For me, art is that safety valve on the furnace. If I am building up too much stress, I go art something. People laugh at me and say I’ve never grown up when they catch me with a table full of canvases and paint, (or maybe its the way the paint is smeared on my nose they’re laughing at.) but I’m feeling really mellow at that point, so I don’t point out that being an artist is actually a career entry in the Occupational Handbook. Hey, building …read more
I’ve been curious about doing a contest around here for awhile, but I hate the concept of judging a contest, so I decided to open it up and let readers be the judge through the comments.
It’s progressive because I figure, the more page views, the better the prize will be (because I get paid for page views). There will be only one winner for this contest, but the prize will just get better for each level of page views.
Let’s go through the prize list* first of all.
1,000,000 page views – Nikon d40x
750,000 page views – Photoshop
500,000 Page views – …read more
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