A to Z Challenge
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| "Zebra, Stripes and All" - acrylic painting ©Mary Montague Sikes |
Many thanks to A to Z Hosts: founder Arlee Bird at Tossing It Out, Damyanti Biswas at Amlokiblogs, Alex J. Cavanaugh, Tina Downey at Life is Good, DL Hammons at Cruising Altitude 2.0, Jeremy Hawkins at Retro-Zombie, Shannon Lawrence at The Warrior Muse, Matthew MacNish at The QQQE, Konstanz Silverbow at No Thought 2 Small, Stephen Tremp at Breakthrough Blogs, Livia Peterson at Leave it to Livia, L. Diane Wolfe at Spunk on a Stick, and Nicole at The Madlab Post. Having 1656 participants must have been a challenge all by itself!
Here is my last painting of the series. "Z" is for Zebra.
I now have a studio lined with new paintings, except for "C" is for Casey Cat which I gave to our daughter, Amy. Now, I'll have the challenge of painting another "C". I have an interesting bonus from this project. For several years, a fairly large painting sketched out on canvas has rested against a wall in the studio. It's been only a sketch. Until now. Because I hate to waste any of my very expensive paints, I started using the leftovers from the A to Z Challenge on that canvas. I now have a new painting well under way. Perhaps I'll share it here when it's finished!
Today's painting, "Zebra, Stripes and All" is 14" x 11" acrylic on stretched, deep gallery-wrapped canvas.
Goodbye to the Challenge.
17 comments:
What's black and white and red all over?
Marian Allen
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Very nice shading and colors on the strips.
You did it - a painting a day of an animal!
Oh, Marian! Thanks so much for following me through this!
Alex, thank you. And thank you for being a host and following each of my painting posts!
I've really enjoyed your daily paintings, I couldn't possibly pick a favorite. Great work! :)
I love the way you used colors in this. It looks amazing. Congrats on finishing the challenge! Simply Sarah
Thank you, Julie, for following my Painting a Day. I can't pick a favorite either!
Hi. This is one of your best yet! You took on a huge challenge. Commendable to say the very least!!
Wow...I wish I'd been here from Day 1. I scrolled down to look at other paintings on this page - and I love the tetra :)
As soon as I post this comment, I'm going to look at the previous ones.
New follower :)
Sharon, I hope I'll keep making a trip to the studio to paint a daily habit! Thanks for following this!
Carol, thank you. My husband likes the Tetra best, too. Thank you for following!
What an interesting way to do the challenge! Your zebra has LOTS of character.
Thanks, Bish. Animals are amazing!
yeah! way to go! I love zebras so pretty and you did a great job. :)
jules
A Dose of Jules
I love this zebra! Congrats. We made it through AtoZ!
Rhonda from Laugh Quotes
Was the "z" you made out of words in your post planned? It's very clever. Good job on making it through.
Hi Monti .. thanks for reconnecting with me - I've finally arrived here and have subscribed. I'm going to look through your A - Z paintings as I'm sure they're wonderful .. you paint so vibrantly ..
Congratulations on the A-Z ...
Cheers Hilary
I knew it was going to be Zebra! Actually not too tough a guess. You should be proud Monti, these paintings are excellent and you have a gallery display to put out on tour...complete with a ready-made title "The 2013 A-Z Challenge Gallery Show". Or something like that.
It was fun to watch this evolve and inspire as you went along. Very impressive.
Thank you, Julia. Zebras fascinate me!
Rhonda, thanks so much for your visit and for loving my zebra!
Samuel, I don't know. Am brain dead at this point!!!
Hilary, it's so good to have you visit!
Chuck, thank you! I do love having all these paintings. Now, I'll work on the gallery thing!
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