K Bock

3 November 2009
Impressionism Café

Our group is growing! We now have
169 members, 1393 images, 9 T-Shirt designs, 6 written works, 23 journal entries.
(Editor’s Note: 6 November update on stats
198 members, 1566 images, 10 T-Shirt designs, 8 written works, 29 journal entries)
Wow, this is exciting. Impressionism Café welcomes all new members, we are so happy to have you in our group and love seeing your beautiful artworks in our gallery.

There is a lot of great interaction in our group forums. I think having more topics and subjects make it more interesting and draws our members in to share ideas and communications with each other. Our art group is a fun group, and i have received messages from members who say ours is their favourite group. this is great! we want our group to be beautiful and interesting for our group members. we encourage and invite our members to post new interesting forums and topics within forums.
we have set up our forums to organise by subjects and events, and hope our members continue to enjoy interacting in this way as a community of artists.

Our group challenges are a great success. We are getting a lot more participation by group members as our group grows in numbers of members and works in the gallery.
We would love to see more of the challenge entries added to our group, many of the entries are not added to our group, and yet certain challenges require this. especially is this important in our challenges which represent our group such as the Group Avatar challenge and the Group Membership Banner challenge. We do hope more group members will edit their works to add them to our group when entering challenges.

We love to see your beautiful paintings and drawings and having the work in our group enables a feature.

Chasing Monet
Congratulations to Ana Viktoria for winning first place in our challenge
“Copy a Master’s Impressionism Painting” with her beautiful painting. We hope you will visit our group forum Challenge WINNER to congratulate her.

congratulations to all artists who entered this fun challenge, all the artworks are absolutely beautiful. Really dynamic works!

This challenge received a lot of interest and we will launching another “Copy a Master” challenge very soon.

We have two challenges currently open for voting:

1. Landscape in Springtime
2. Landscape in Winter
   and at the time of this writing 12 Challenges open for entries!
   (Editor’s Note: We now have 14 Creative Challenges open for entries)

With a variety of themes and subjects of challenges, we hope to keep our group challenges interesting, competitive and challenging :)) Sometimes there are challenges within the challenges!

Members are encouraged and invited to post their ideas and suggestions for challenges in our forum Challenge Ideas
If you haven’t entered already, please visit our group challenges and join the fun!

12 new Featured Works were featured yesterday.
Congratulations to the artists, all are amazing and beautiful works!
what a delightful display of the diversity and excellent talents of our group members.

New Featured Artist and Pick of the Week

Sunrise.

by Mila Birger
Congratulations Mila!

We hope you all have a great week and look forward to seeing your artworks and ideas added to our group!