#art prize winner

[lymphomalass]

Would you like to own a piece of prize-winning art…?

I created “Beach Treasures Blind” in an online art class run by Ricefield Arts in September 2020 and it won the Ricefield Arts “Express Yourself” Art Competition a few months later (https://ricefield.org.uk/2021/01/express-yourself-art-competition-winners/).

I found Ricefield Arts’ online classes really calming during the very frightening time that the pandemic presented me with as a blood cancer survivor with little immune system. They also gave me a sense of being in contact with others.

The "blind" element of the art's title refers to the fact that the still life (the static inanimate objects arranged to be drawn or painted) was to be drawn without looking at the paper or other surface drawn or painted on. The idea is to just look at the subject (the arranged objects) and then  see what your response (the marks you make on the paper) looks like afterwards. The main purpose of the exercise is to focus the artist’s attention on what they are actually seeing in front of them, rather than what they think they’re seeing. It's a way of making our art "free", "looser", less focussed on perfection and more informal, by keeping the lines drawn instinctual and unplanned. Usually it’s just the outline (or “contour”) of the items which are drawn “blind”. This technique was first used in the 1920s and 1930s, and was brought to mass attention in the art world in in the book “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study” written by Kimon Nicolaïdes in 1941.

I added watercolours after, allowing myself to look at where I was placing them. Otherwise it could have got rather messy!

I chose the little beach treasures I’d collected at Trearddur Bay earlier that week, including shells and a wooden ice cream spoon, for my still life subject for the drawing class, as it expresses how everything really is in the eye of the beholder. A little wooden ice cream spoon may look like rubbish to or act as a reminder of a blissful day at the beach. It’s all in the perception.

The framed A4 original is available to buy for £145 from the Foyer/Café at Castle Park Arts Centre, off Fountain Lane, Castle Park, Frodsham, Cheshire, WA6 6SE, 10am-4pm Tuesday to Saturday, till 26th October.

It's also available in a mix of different types and sizes of prints, and printed on all sorts of lovely things (like accessories, apparel, homewares, gift items, etc) at:

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

[house-of-dadneto]

This is a prize for @sunsetuniverse who completed a total of 20 prompts for the House of Dadneto event! Thank you for your amazing efforts ✨

Be sure to check out their awesome fic 'atlas (the stars will remember that you tried)' which this art was based off!!!

[brazen-art]

Attack on @rolex-kaard for Art Fight!

[chiff0n-echz]

★All the dtiys prizes i did for honorary mentions for my dtiys on Instagram ! I've sworn off lineless art after this /silly

★Prizes belong to _miuthetangerine, nimalfaa, lilroyalkhai and @elesmyly in that order

[montesmithart]

Sketch for Klenushka with her dragoness character 💜

[pierrelucstl]

It's Gyate Suika! Suikate or Gyaka? This is the prize for Shadow_Chevy, who won the latest gyate raffle.

[juustozzi]

for the Sports Anime Olympics week, day 3... Ina11 Superpesis AU!

pesäpallo (a mix of baseball and a local game "kuningaspallo" from late 1800s) is the national sport of Finland, and Superpesis is the highest national league here. ig started suggesting me superpesis videos a while ago, so when the prompts were up for the week, I instantly knew what I wanted to draw for the AU!

my own knowledge is mostly based on playing pesis in elementary school gym lessons, but it's said to be paced faster than baseball, and apparently the pro players dive a lot? and home runs require a bit more tactic since you can't just blast off the ball with all your strenght.

ngl, the outifts look a bit simple to my own eye since all the superpesis outfits have a lot of ad logos which I was too lazy to draw.. but it was fun turning the soccer outfits into pesis uniforms!

and now the main reason for this AU: among the pesis videos I've seen, there's a specific place with the best videos: a stadium/play field in the west called "island field" where a river parts and goes past two sides of the small island the field is on. knowing that 1) there are no fences around the field, 2) if the ball hits in on the first bouce it basically won't be out no matter how far it goes, and 3) they have cameras set specifically to the river... it tells a lot what sometimes happens there:

here is the og video (and you can also find other cool clips on that account if you want to see pesis in action! they post mainly official league stuff, but the video side is partly curated for curious people)

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[helloliriels]

Thrilled to finally share the finished cover art for @raina-at's brilliant sci-fi fic:

⚙️ SPARE PARTS 🔧🔩

Two years ago, Sherlock Holmes jumped off the roof of New London Hospital. Two months ago, he walked into John's clinic as if no time had passed at all ... John hasn't seen him since. (Post-TRF, Sci-Fi, on Titan)

If you haven't read it yet, or need a post-TRF fix, check it out!!! I absolutely adore everything Raina_at writes! It was an honor to cover this one (and again, apologies for the insane delay on posting this one!!! Think I finally got it!!!) What a long, strange year it's been! xoxo - Liri

Art of winners choice for submitting the top entry in the '2022 Year of the Crack Fic' writing challenge! ❤️‍🔥 (had a blast reading all 3!)

@johnlocky @chinike @rhasima @fluffbyday-smutbynight @totallysilvergirl @chriscalledmesweetie @sarahthecoat @inevitably-johnlocked @pocketwatchofmycroft @safedistancefrombeingsmart @topsyturvy-turtely @keirgreeneyes @myriath @mutedsilence @meetinginsamarra @bluebellofbakerstreet @loki-lock @the-nerdy-autist @sgam76 @janetm74 @a-victorian-girl @gregorovitchworld @whatnext2020 @missdeliadili @escaroles @lisbeth-kk @gaylilsherlock @impalaparkedat221b @aquilea-of-the-lonely-mountain @deelaundry @13monkton @sabsi221b @arwamachine @jamesphillimoresumbrella @dontfuckmylifewtf @kettykika78 @khorazir @youcouldcallmegus @7-percent @arabbitjohn @iwlyanmw @masterofhounds @john-smiths-jawline @kittenmadnessandtea @peanitbear @peageetibbs @solarmama @anyway-kindness @glows-n-the-dark

[julymarte]

💕✨Here comes the Valentines YCH contest winners!✨💕

I have decided to assign not 1 but 2 prizes even if the entries amount wasn't overwhelmingly high to reward both who participated with art and with picrew So the prize goes to:

@koiriin on instagram fot the art category @deathman00789 on tumblr for the picrew category as they made or adapted their ocs to theflux universe (a pretty boy and a stronk girl wow a true win for this bisexual fish)

[8hitz3n]

Thanks to all of those who participated!! Go check them out!! Honorable mentions dont get prizes, but recognized nonetheless! I had fun doing this so thanks to everyone who joined!

[aghast-comic-au]

First prize art raffle drawing for @midnightstevenau

[house-of-dadneto]

This is a prize for @dick-helmet-magneto who completed a total of 15 prompts for the House of Dadneto event! Thank you for your amazing efforts ✨

Be sure to check out their awesome fic 'How to Parent and Lead a Mutant Rebellion' which this art was based off!!!

[gaallo]

Art raffle prize from Twitter for Magnifico 🖤

[fainsdoods]

Raffle prize

[piecesofchess]

Pen pals!! 🐦🖊️

Prize art for my second DTIYS winner, and owner of Passero, @fyshb0t !

[owapobjectshow]

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