Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Detached. Some of you have seen this couple saunter on an Evening Stroll and also Window Shop. Tonight they must be fighting because they are Detached from each other. Also the globes of light have Detached from the light pole that often illuminates their evenings. Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings! I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by!
Today I worked on the AWE (Artists Window Exhibit) … it is coming along but a LOT of work. We are increasing the number of artists involved in putting their work in the windows and adding stores and offices too. I will be showing you photos of past windows shortly. I have made a spread sheet with the stores and also one of the artists for this exhibit - September 15 - October 15. Pretty tired from all the calling and detail work … so keeping things short today. Susan Elkin posted on her blog today if you want to go visit her!! Hope you like this new image … and Thank YOU for coming by!!
I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by! There are some of my regular readers who are away and I want to give them a chance to enter. Hi - thanks for coming by!!
I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Window / Shop. This is my entry for Window & Shop - the couple who were out for an evening stroll are now out window shopping. … Here are the entries for last week’s Over / Under. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.
Last Monday was post 500!! I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by!
I have a friend who has started featuring her favorite items on sale at Etsy … she included mine today … She is Sharon K. Shubert at Red Lady Art. She is a dynamite artist and I LOVE the digital work Sharon has been doing lately!! Every day tsome items change out so I am showing you today where mine are included. I encourage you to go on over and look at this great exhibit!
Sharon K. Shubert’s Feature
I am sure regular readers have already identified my favorite painting. Besides being in the online exhibit, this is also listed as an ACEO in my Etsy Shop. Here is my Etsy Shop. If you would prefer this in a different size, let me know and I will do one up for you!! Each of the paintings or items in the show can be purchased. Thank you for looking at my being showcased!!
I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by! There are some of my regular readers who are away and I want to give them a chance to enter. Hi - thanks for coming by!!
Each month Worldwide Women Artists Online (WWAO) have an exhibit (online of course) of members’ work based on a theme. This month is Fly Away. I encourage you to go on over and look at this great exhibit!
Getting Away From It All, August WWAO Exhibit
I am sure regular readers have already identified my favorite painting. Besides being in the online exhibit, this is also listed as an ACEO in my Etsy Shop. Here is my Etsy Shop. If you would prefer this in a different size, let me know and I will do one up for you!! Each of the paintings or items in the show can be purchased. Thank you for looking at my being showcased!!
WWAO on the site says “Worldwide Women Artists is an international collective of women artists showing and selling our work through the worldwide web. As women artists, we give birth to our ideas in a variety of styles and media. We embrace the diversity of each other’s work, celebrating the joy of creating our art and sharing it with the world. We welcome female visual artists from all over the world who create and sell their own original art.”
I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by! There are some of my regular readers who are away and I want to give them a chance to enter. Hi - thanks for coming by!!
.Do you like this image? It is different from many of my others … I created it when I was working on the Two Things Challenge for Apples and Zebras … (or was it A to Z for the challenge)? I am making some definite progress on getting my life more manageable … except for all the emails I am waaaay behind. Something had to give so I could get caught up on some other work.
I read the other day that email is overwhelming the work place and some people are deleting their whole In Box. This new brand of spam pretending to be real email is quite annoying. I wouldn’t like that if someone deleted my important (to me anyway) email … but I also know I have been too much on overwhelm. I am glad things are feeling more manageable. Are YOU on email overload? If so, what are you doing about it?
I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by! There are some of my regular readers who are away and I want to give them a chance to enter. Hi - thanks for coming by!!
This image is for the Pet Monologues which is the blog which I directed you to showing that incredible video about the lion hugging the woman who rescued him. Here is that other lion video I told you about the other day. This video is absolutely amazing!! If you loved that lion video I showed you before - and who didn’t? Then you will LOVE LOVE LOVE this video … it is utterly amazing … some of us have cried from the beauty. I know I could put the video here … but it slows things down more - so I wanted to link you to it. It will open in a new window.
Right now there is a post about Preniptutuals and dog weddings - check it out! This is those great photos with the bears. There is a funny story about a bear today. Also they highlight art, poems and more that showcase animals every week. You can see their blog here. And this is the post for this particular challenge. I hope you enjoy the images there!! Here is a wonderful post about Polar Bears being designated endangered - check it out! Anyone can join in this fun here too!! They put up a few of the images and then have links to the rest of the sites … perhaps you will feel moved to participate!
I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by!
I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by! There are some of my regular readers who are away and I want to give them a chance to enter. Hi - thanks for coming by!! I am just giving you a new image and keeping things simple today.
I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by! There are some of my regular readers who are away and I want to give them a chance to enter.
I have made some progress toward catching up …. the next AWE (Artists Window Exhibit) in Greenfield is picking up steam - the next exhibit is September 15 - October 15. Time to get cooking again!! Thanks for coming by!
There is a breather about the Orphan Works Bill but we may not be out of the woods yet - read the details below! We need to stay alert because “hotlining” has been used to pass bills without public input on short notice.
I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by! There are some of my regular readers who are away and I want to give them a chance to enter.
FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP
Senate Orphan Works Bill Put “on Hold”
We’ve just received word that the Senate bill has been put “on hold.” In fact, there appear to be multiple holds on it. Senators who “hold” hotlined bills do not have to identify themselves nor give their reasons for holding it. Holds are temporary. We don’t know how many of you contacted your Senators on such short notice this afternoon, but many, many thanks to all of you who responded so rapidly.
Most people are unaware of the process called hotlining. In the past it was used to pass non-controversial legislation, but increasingly, it’s being used to pass bills whose sponsors don’t want to see debate. An excellent article in Roll Call explains the process. Here’s an excerpt:
Senate conservatives are upset that the leaders of both parties in the chamber have in recent years increasingly used a practice known as “hotlining” bills - previously used to quickly move noncontroversial bills or simple procedural motions - to pass complex and often costly legislation, in some cases with little or no public debate. The increase was particularly noticeable just before the August recess, when leaders hotlined more than 150 bills, totaling millions of dollars in new spending, in a period of less than a week.
The practice has led to complaints from Members and watchdog groups alike that lawmakers are essentially signing off on legislation neither they nor their staff have ever read…
In order for a bill to be hotlined, the Senate Majority Leader and Minority Leader must agree to pass it by unanimous consent, without a roll-call vote. The two leaders then inform Members of this agreement using special hotlines installed in each office and give Members a specified amount of time to object - in some cases as little as 15 minutes. If no objection is registered, the bill is passed.
- From ‘Hotlined’ Bills Spark Concern
By John Stanton, Roll Call Staff
September 17, 2007
To read the full article, go to: http://tinyurl.com/3p8×2u (link isn’t working correctly in their announcement)
This is the second time the Senate Orphan Works bill has been hotlined this summer. The previous hotline came on June 5, the same week artists descended on Washington to urge lawmakers to oppose this controversial bill. The bill was put on hold that time too.
Since bills can be hotlined without prior notice, we’ll all have to stay vigilant throughout the rest of this legislative session. Thanks again to all of you who responded so quickly.
Over 60 organizations, representing more than 250,000 creators, are united in opposing these bills in their current form. Illustrators, photographers, fine artists, songwriters, musicians, and countless licensing firms all believe this bill will harm their small businesses.
Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Sail. This one is Sail into the wild blue yonder. I sure hope you like it - it is different from many I have made …. a bit of a stretch. This is a tall dignified ship sailing off in case you can’t tell - <grin>. Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings! I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by!
I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Over / Under. This is my entry for Over & Under - related but different from last week’s entry. … Here are the entries for last week’s Up / Down. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.
Last Monday was post 500!! I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by!
Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Poof!. This one is Poof! Poof! and you never know what happens!! Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings! I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by!
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