DPP Challenge January by Christine Marx

Hi everyone! This was a really fun challenge. Thank you so much to Linda for picking such great subject matter!

January Challenge by Mary Beth Brath

January 2012 DPP Challenge

30x24" Chroma Interactive Acrylics

As soon as I saw the challenge photo for this month, I could not wait to get started. This painting was total joy all the way through.  It will be framed this week and ready for First Friday at the gallery.

Flash Dancers by Linda Young

copyright Linda Young Watercolors
Flash Dancers
7-1/2" x 11" 300# CP WCP

Cleaning up my studio, I found the "start" of a watercolor that was to be a painting five years ago.  I, however, gave up on it and it wasn't until the clean up today I evaluated it:  I had put an over-abundance of very bright colors in that underpainting. 
Because of the flashes of color that pond fish make in the bright sunlight, I kept most of them and attempted to paint the negative shapes.  Here's my submission for this month's Daily Painter's of Pa challenge that I call "Flash Dancers".

Linda Young Watercolors
P O Box 941
Carlisle, Pa. 17013

ANDY SMITH, watercolors ~ Lititz, PA

6"x 4" miniature original watercolor

I took the challenge!

www.andysmithartist.com
www.andysmithartist.blogspot.com

January 2012 Challenge "Paint away the Winter Blues" Hosted by Linda Young

SAY GOODBYE TO WINTER
AND PAINT AWAY THE WINTER BLUES

Welcome to the new Daily Painters of Pennsylvania Challenge Blog for January!

With the Winter's chill in the air, I look forward to the ice melting on the goldfish pond; anticipate the greening of leaves and the return of Spring.  Ah! the warmth of Springtime is on my mind!  Here's the fish in my backyard pond right after they were fed. There's a little feeding frenzy going on and there's a lot of movement to the water in this challenge; I hope it fills you with a little inspiration of the Spring that is on the way.

Rules of the Challenge:

1. This monthly Challenge is for DPP members only, but anyone is welcome and encouraged to make comments on the posts.

2. Submit your Challenge entry just as you would a regular post - with a picture of your entry and anything you would like to write about your experience with this particular challenge. You are welcome to submit more than one entry.

3. All entries must be posted no later than midnight December 31, 2011.

4. To get a larger, high-resolution version of the monthly Challenge photo, just click on the photo in this post.

5. Please put only your name in the label section of your post - thanks! (Your name should appear exactly as it does on the DPP blog)
6. Please follow the spirit of this challenge - all submissions must be created after the Challenge has been posted.

7. Have fun!