Challenges

Honoured, amazed, thrilled, humbled, excited, grateful for the RedBubble community support and validation for one of my photographic works!  All because I seized the moment, took the opportunity and time to study and photograph one of nature's unique wonders offered in the early morning hours, first week in April, 2011.  I took a 'few' (well many really!) photos in the early morn light over two consecutive days while 2 blooms lasted. You see one of them here.


Today I actually found out that I have won (yesterday 27.04.2011) my first entered Challenge: April Colour Challenge:  *TWO SHADES OF YELLOW or YELLOW AND WHITE* in the *ONE SINGLE FLOWER ON DISPLAY* RedBubble group with my photographic entry ~ First Light's Breath 

'First Light's Breath'

http://www.redbubble.com/people/artropica/art/7034345-first-lights-breath

 Showing work in an available RedBubble Poster Print Format

Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch

http://www.redbubble.com/people/artropica



In choosing this image I was this time very much guided by the image rules of this specific group. They didn't want just any ad-hoc flower photograph!
* Challenge results ~ http://www.redbubble.com/groups/just-flowers/challenges/33422-april-colour-challenge-two-shades-of-yellow-or-yellow-and-white.

Then, in the same RB group, First Light's Breath was voted into 2nd place in another Challenge
Featured Art Challenge 21 April 2011 (http://www.redbubble.com/groups/just-flowers/challenges/33676-featured-art-challenge-21-april-2011)

Winning a challenge
This meant I got to enter the work in the next level Challenge ~ "Simply The Best" Challenge May 2011   View here => http://www.redbubble.com/groups/just-flowers/challenges/32868-simply-the-best-challenge-may-2011

There are no actual prizes. I just get 'bragging rights' lol, for the honour and glory of winning by a fair and honourable voting system available to RB's members.

I have written an accompanying poem for First Light's Breath which may be read, along with the many community supportive feedback comments, on my RedBubble's gallery display page ~ http://www.redbubble.com/people/artropica/art/7034345-first-lights-breath.
(The image First Light's Breath may be viewed larger on RB also.)

Thanks for visiting.

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Group Challenges on Red Bubble

Layered with Texture - Challenge: Extreme Mixed Media

The work Spiritual Journey was entered into a Red Bubble Group Challenge. The RB group set the challenge of Extreme Mixed Media.  (Click on this link and you can view a total of 14 entries along with the challenge criteria and the final voting results.)

Spiritual Journey by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2006

Materials: Mixed media - acrylic, pastel, fabric, linen thread, leaf, butterfly wing, banana fibre, paper.

Canvas support. Size: 8 x 6 inches.

Techniques: painting, drawing, collage, coiling and stitching, basketry assemblage.

The original work sold through one of the end of year fundraising Cairns Regional Gallery Postcard Exhibitions. Usually up to 100 selected regional artists are invited to exhibit in the show each year.

For those not familiar with the RB group set up, there is both an entry and voting time schedule put on each of the challenges by a volunteer group host. Those with the most votes usually get a feature on the group's front page and runners up, in the top 10, are listed and displayed on the challenge page.
*Note, an artist cannot vote for their own work and there are other codes of fair conduct to be respected by all those on the RB site.


It is a wonderful way to get artists involved, actively thinking about and displaying their 'best' work in various groups and for other community members too, to get involved, meeting and connecting with others.


Another artwork Sanguine Nude was entered into the Challenge - 2 Colours with Works on Paper group. This one had a much larger total number of 58 works entered.

Sanguine Nude

Medium:  Gesso, sanguine pastel on Arches 300gsm rag paper

Size: 76×56 cm (30×22”)

Description: Worked directly from a life model in my studio gallery, this work combines both drawing and painting skills. I have a love/passion for embellishing, building up a surface with both actual and implied textural qualities.

Also Sanguine Nude earned a Monthly June feature at the home page of the group Life Session Expressions. This was achieved by being voted in the 'top ten' of a challenge for 'No. Favouritings' - see here.


It is indeed a pleasure, after many years of solitary art practice in an isolated regional rural community in Far North Queensland, to have the tools and to be able to be involved in marketing oneself directly via the internet, to show work that would otherwise probably never be seen except by a select few.

Thanks for visiting.