Blog Anniversary Giveaway Winners

Although I have drawn the winners of my blog anniversary giveaway below, I will be having another one next week for the "pass the book" giveaway. The book is Miss Read and is a lovely "read" and I will be passing it on to someone else along with some of my goodies. I will explain more about it next week.

Only had time for one piece of artwork this week. This is called The Daisy Chain

The 2nd blog anniversary draw was drawn tonight and these were the entrants. I decided to have six winners instead of four.

and here are the six blog giveaway winners

If you cannot read them due to my terrible photo, they are:

Silverpebble (Emma)
Anonymous (Deb)

Artpropelled (Robyn)
Crafty Green Poet (Juliet)

Nature's Cat (Amanda)
Andamento (Anne)

So if you would like to let me know your addresses and preferences ladies I will post the items off to you asap.

This lovely hare engraving by Kathleen Lindsley is very seasonal. You can find her website here with lots more gorgeous artwork. Such detailed work in such a small format is amazing. Kathleen lives and works from a studio on the Isle of Skye.

March Hare

I have been doing quite a lot of walking recently because our weather has improved a lot lately. Lots of photo opportunities with beautiful blossoms and flowers everywhere.

I had some fun with my photo of forgetmenots in Photoshop Filters the other day. You will need to click on the pictures to enlarge them and see the results better. Below is the original picture...

this one is crystallised

this one drybrushed

and this is pointillised. Lovely effects aren't they?

I have long been an admirer of UK jeweller Lyn Antley's work. I have seen her many times at craft fairs and have often had to wait a while to even reach her stall because there are so many people fascinated by her lovely jewellery. She is very inspired by myths and magic, fairy tales and animals, and distant lands. Her hares and foxes are my favourites but she produces a huge range of different work. Some of her rings have secret messages written inside. Unfortunately her website is down for the moment due to maintenance but if you go here you can check it out when it is back in working mode. You can also see three pages of her jewellery here at Iapetus.

Dancing Hare

Angel

Fox

Fernando Oliveri is an outstanding Oxacan artist who produces amazing paintings and prints. The first two below are drypoint etchings and the bottom two are woodcuts. Has paintings are beautifully naive and dramatic, often of angels. You can see lots of his work on the Indigoarts Gallery website here, here , here, here and here. Lots to view as you can see.

Mar de la Esperanza

Angelita

Mariposa

Para Mi Corazon Basta Tu Pecho

These three beautiful paintings are by Scottish artist Joe Smernicki. Joe has worked as an art teacher while pursuing his own painting. His inspiration comes from the environment around his home in Scotland. His style is fascinating - stylised and beautifully colourful, and his compositions are very balanced. I never fail to be impressed by the talent of Scottish artists, especially with the colours they use. You can find Joe's website here, but if you enter his name in a search engine you can find lots of galleries which stock his work.

Free Range

High Summer

Road End