Featured Work

  • Come Rest by Linda Callaghan

    Watercolour on Arches Cold pressed paper 8” x 10”. An inviting chair awaits for you to come sit and rest and enjoy the beautiful, colourful flowers in the garden and enjoy the stillness of the day!

  • Fall by Angi Baker

    MUSIC

  • Puppy Love Smooches by Taylor Sawyer

    Flowergirl giving the Ringbearer a smooch! They were little partners in crime and ended up spending the majority of the day/night together! What a pair! Featured in Freedom to Shine Jan 5, 2009 Featured in Bits and Pieces Jan 4, 2009 Featured in Soul Mates Jan 3 2009 Featured in Weekly Theme Challenges Dec 30, 2008 Top Ten in New Years Kiss and featured in Bubblers’ Weekly Challenge Dec 29, 2008 Featured in The Eyes Have It Nov 6, 2008 2nd place in Sweet Stuff in Challenge Cafe Sept 08 Featured in Portraits in Natural Light Aug 08 Little Flirts /

  • Grey Day~ by WJPhotography

    Taken from the bridge at Whitby North Yorkshire / Best viewed large

  • GEISHA - SHE WAITS FOR HIM by ANNETTE HAGGER

    Charcoal and watercolour painting on Bockingford Watercolour paper. /

  • A good friend by Gabriele Swanson IPA

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  • discarded by Lorraine Creagh

    Uploaded 4th January 2009

  • Drifwood and Stones by Richard George

    The interesting things you find on a walk on the beach… Olympus SP510 / ISO auto / Exp auto / p/w elements6

  • Ode To Joy by Connie Thomilson

    As I was looking at this photo, I began to think about the trust a baby has in it’s parents. Oscar here trusts because he does not yet know the possibilities of what could happen. All he knows is that it is a a great place to sleep. He trusts because he has to trust. This is the way God is wants us to trust him. He wants us to babes in His hands. After all, “he has the whole world in his hands”. My son’s hands look strong and capable, however, I cannot see the Lords hands. So like this babe, I have to just assume that His hands are too. There is one big difference. The lord promises us that he will “Never leave or forsake us.” Man cannot say the same, because even if my son wanted to never leave or forsake his son, there may come a time when he might have to. My hope for my life is that I will trust the Lord the way Oscar trusts his daddy. Simply with blind faith, to believe that I can trust that I can..

Recent Work

  • A Mute Swan Busking by AARDVARK

    The raised wings and the head and neck pulled back is termed “busking” and is a sign of agression, pehaps the title should be “Big Guy In A Bad Mood”.

  • Marvellous Marrows by Enivea

    An ants view of a vegetable marrow flower. I had no idea that there were tiny hairs on the petals until I saw this photo.

  • Framed by Old Tree Stump by Judy O'Neil

    This old tree stump makes a great frame for the tree and manfern fronds. On the right side of the frame, you will notice some cobwebs showing. I wasn’t sure if they would show but was pleased the result. / Another Allendale Gardens capture.

  • Breast Giving Life by Pip Gerard

    Life Giving Breast (My Sister providing Lunch for beautiful Ruby). .

  • Dahlia Heart by MarianaEwa

    A Dahlia heart made from a picture I have taken. Manipulated in Photoshop.

  • Happy Valentine´s Day by MarianaEwa

    A Valentine´s card I made from my Dahlia Heart /

  • For The Love Of Dogs!! by rasnidreamer

    This fire hydrant looks as though it’s been there for the dogs for a long time! I love the rusty worn look! (Notice the chain as well!) As is from the Lumix DMC-FZ18

  • Purply Soft by Dave Lloyd

    Or, maybe, Mauve ?

  • Water Carrier by Judy O'Neil

    Statue has been in the garden for so long. She has gone green and blended in so well with the undergrowth. / Another shot from Allendale Gardens – such a wonderful place to spend an afternoon. Wandering through tranquil gardens, fairy land and then in rain forest.

  • Monks At Holy Pond, Angkor by Dave Lloyd

    This image was actually taken by lovely wife. We went to Angkor Wat about six years back and I had bought a digital camera for her birthday. Little did I know she would become so enthusiastic about photography. She has had work published and we have exhibited together several times. Now, she is arranging her own exhibition for later this year. Me, I’m pleased as punch to have a partner who shares my photographic passion.

  • TrespassersWillBeWelcomed by jennyfnf

    FE Talis var.I formula Thankyou for your time. Trespassers really are all welcome in the Talis woods. We never turn anyone away, just incorporate them into our fractals.:-))

Featured Members

  • redcow
  • DanaMS

About This Group




The desire of this group is to give beginners, amateurs, and professionals a chance to shine side by side; in their own respective art forms! There is no limit to the type of work; painting ~ photography ~ writing ~ drawings ~ sketches ~ digital creations…
We desire to see the beginners grow and be helped by the pro’s… we also desire to see the pro’s excel to new and greater heights… as well as to see amateurs come into their own and really discover who they are as artists! This is a place where artists can appreciate artists and have the FREEDOM TO SHINE!!
PLEASE HAVE A LOOK IN THE FORUM!!!! WE WANT IT TO BE A PLACE FOR YOU ALL TO LEARN AS WELL AS TO TEACH!!!!
You are more than welcome to send a bubblemail to Julie or Roger if you have any questions!! We will do our best to help you in any way that we can!!




MAKE THE UGLY SHINE CHALLENGE WINNERS

ready to shop BY: redcow AKA Robert

AND

Beautiful Ugly Hands BY: DanaMS

I don’t remember too much from my childhood,
but all the memories I have
somehow are taking me back to my grandma
and her old, overworked hands.

Ugly and wrinkled with many dark spots,
nails yellow, hard, often sharp,
blue veins showing through dry, thin skin
they weren’t as soft as mine..

But once

those were the hands of a child as well
discovering world by the touch
scared squeezing tight their grandma’s hand
during the World War One…

Those were the hands of young wife and mother
holding a baby and waving good bye,
while their beloved man, husband, father
was called for the country to fight.

They worked so hard through all those years
of the most difficult time of life,
feeding and caring and building home
for my aunt and my father to come.

For me those hands were bringing pure love,
always ready to give,
wiping my tears when I was sad,
stroking my hair when falling asleep.

I don’t remember much from my childhood
but I do remember them
the most beautiful, missing to this day
my grandma’s loving hands.

THE NINE RUNNERS UP ARE…

OUR SECOND PLACE WINNER FOR THE WRITING CHALLENGE

loramae with her piece beautiful scar

often life leaves ugly scars,
engraved in body and mind.
leaving a certain remembrance,
of another place and time.

it is a most natural thing,
to look and turn away.
not many scars are beautiful,
left by the hands of fate.

but there resides misconception,
when looking at an ugly old scar.
for if time and thoughts are taken,
they remind you of where you are.

not there anymore but here in the now,
looking back a smile memory gives.
for that ugly old scar is a beautiful reminder,
that today you are blessed to live.

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