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Fair Warning: This exhibit contains Art with some Nudity. There has been no effort to filter these images.

Updated: April 24, 2010

Dear Esteemed Nominees and Solo Exhibition Members,

This week, with the 2nd Juried Invitational Art Exhibition, presented by the Solo Exhibition group of RedBubble, we celebrate fifty-nine artists and sixty-two works in digital art, photography, and the traditional arts.

A panel of 3 Nominators, were challenged to each search the 25,000-image gallery, and from that invite twenty to exhibit in this show. The group hosts added a few nominations, rounding out the categories.

Fifty-nine artists-members of the Solo Exhibition group were invited by the nominators to post specific works. Three of these have two works in the show, each, having been invited to show by two different nominators. There are 29 Traditional, 18 Photographic, and 15 Digital works in the show.

Judges will award 1st – 3rd places in each of three categories. The work with the highest score will be awarded Best in Show, besides their category first place win. Each judge may also make special awards.

The exhibit is open to comments! The show runs April 26th through May 2nd, 2010.

Congratulations!! Each of you fifty-nine exhibitors are winners! Display your show ribbon that links back to the exhibit on your profile or image description page.

Respectfully,
F.A. Moore, Founder and host; and
Maxy, Reception Manager and co-host

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April 2010 Juried Invitational Exhibition

April 2010 Juried Invitational Exhibition

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Join me at the Juried Invitational Exhibition…

Ease on Down the Road
by Desirée Glanville

Digital – fractal – Apophysis, PSP

Late Shadows
by Sherrie Chavez

Oceano Dunes, California

Photography
Canon T1i
Canon 10-22 lens
11mm
f/16
1/200 sec

Got you ….
by Anne-Marie Bokslag

Sumatran Tiger made in LA Zoo

Photography
Canon EOS 40D;
Canon Zoom lens EF 90-300mm 1:4,5-5,6 USM
Exposure time 1/500s;
Aperture value f/5;
ISO 800;
Focal length300 mm;
Handheld

The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is a subspecies of tiger found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Recent genetic testing has revealed the presence of unique genetic markers, which isolate Sumatran tigers from all mainland subspecies. Currently, there are only 100-400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild.
Like most wild cats, Sumatran tigers are solitary animals that live within marked, carefully guarded territory. Hunting begins at dusk and is by no means easy: tigers may travel more than 20 miles to find suitable prey, and will successfully catch their target only one out of every ten or twenty attempts.

THE HANDS OF ALCHEMIST
by RakeshSyal

Near window of my studio

PHOTOGRAPHY
Canera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikkor 18-200 DX @ 62mm
Apperture: f4.2
Speed: 1/6sec ( Hand Held)
ISO: 100

My Little Mozart
by Lynda Robinson

Pastel on ‘Colourfix’ sanded surface burgundy coloured pastel paper
50cm x 35 cm
Year: 2010

This is a portrait of my grandson, Thomas, who is three years old. I did the painting as a birthday gift for my daughter in law. When ever he visits he wants to ‘play’ the piano, and on this particular day the light was coming through the window perfectly highlighting his features. I used Art Spectrum, Unison, Rembrandt and Schminke soft pastels.

falling
by Tom Norton

Pen and Pencils on Bristol vellum
Year – 2009

This is a self portrait conveying my self-destructive 2009, following my loss of an 18-year gig with a major musical instrument manufacturer/distributor. I am a musician/composer and artist, and through the losses and frustrations of last year, which resulted in my almost drowning myself in Jack Daniels and other assorted libations, I began to draw, paint and create new music…funny how things work out…I hit bottom in late December ‘09 and made the decision to change my life. I am 100 days clean and sober tomorrow, and have never felt better. Today was a great day, and I can’t freaking wait until tomorrow!!! Peace!

green is still hot
by salena

watercolor and watercolorcrayon
on 300g watercolorpaper
56 × 76 cm

I was inspired to give the green wave a human face in this watercolor – to inspire to take care of each other and our nature!

tangled
by frenchblue

Mixed media, pastel, ink, gouache, pencil & oil pastel on illustration board

TANGLED

twisted
together
into
a perfect
web
of
complexed
thoughts
dreams
wishes
situations
and reality

Oh….what a tangled web we weave in our creative, yet disillusioned worlds

Inevitable
by Fred Smilde

oils on stretched canvas
20 × 24 inches

The above started from a face I painted roughly a month ago. For better or worse I generally use oil paint straight from the tube- hence it was dry. I had used a substantial amount of paint in certain areas- something I have come to favor as when dried allows me to “chip away” so to speak and create texture in certain areas. Painting faces has become a unique experience as they develop a will of their own and after many transformations the above ultimately became a combination of wills- the face and that of my own- sometimes in collaboration and sometimes at odds (more often than not- at odds). So after a considerable amount of paint thinner, working, re-working, scraping, and numerous repetitions of this process a result was achieved that both could live with.

Cacoon
by Bob Bremner

Macro Photography

Landscape Hardy…Egdon Sunrise
by Janis Zroback

Sanguine, Charcoal and Pastel on Arches Not Paper

Here at least were intelligible facts regarding landscape—far-reaching proofs productive of genuine satisfaction.
The untameable, Ishmaelitish thing that Egdon now was, it always had been.
Civilization was its enemy, and ever since the beginning of vegetation its soil had worn the same antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of the particular formation.
In its venerable one coat lay a certain vein of satire on human vanity in clothes.
A person on the heath in raiment of modern cut and colours has more or less an anomalous look.
We seem to want the oldest and simplest human clothing where the clothing of the earth is so primitive…The Return of the Native..Thomas Hardy

As with all the others in this series, I paint inspired by the feelings I experience when reading Hardy’s books…I want to paint emotion and mood, not to imitate what I have seen or read…when the painting is complete, I reread the passages, and much to my surprise I find that the memory is deep seated…
I am never conscious of reproducing any particular lines, but here in “Egdon Sunrise” is the “antique brown dress” that Hardy describes…it’s apparent that is what made me choose sanguine before anything else…
I first read the book in high school, but have reread it since then, the last time over ten years ago…his prose is so powerful that it’s impact remains long afterwards…
There is a figure in the landscape…he is there on the far right so as not to compete with the heath, but as it’s barely sunrise, he is in partial darkness.

Bullrush
by DebraLee Wiseberg!

Photography – macro
Nikon D200, Nikkor 24-120mm

Abstract photograph of rust and scratches on a metal industrial container. Captured in Toronto’s west end behind a factory. I actually got caught by security taking this image and when I explained to the two gentlemen that came out to talk to me I was an abstract artist…. they allowed me to stay and I continued taking my images. I think it pays to be a mature woman somedays! hehe