latest updates: July09

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  2009

  Jul 27
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  Nick Powell

  

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  A 1930s type advert for Jelly.My entry for the July theme challenge of desserts. First attempt at combining photoshop and a drawing!!
  tags: desserts | July09 | photoshop | Theme Challenge | watercolour pencil
   
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  2009

  Jul 9
  1
  plasma_girl

  

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  Champagne Mango

  This is my submission for this month’s theme challenge.

  Champagne mangoes are a bit smaller (only about the size of my hand) and sweeter than regular mangoes; they are grown on only one family farm in Mexico and are very difficult to find in this area of the US (the closest place that carries them is a Whole Foods Market located about an hour North of here in Pittsburgh). While I won’t make the drive specifically for these beauties, whenever I find myself in Pittsburgh I stop in at the market and purchase a dozen or more to bring home with me. Once they ripen they can be kept in the fridge for a few weeks, giving me plenty of time to savor their sweet, ambrosial flesh.

  My favorite dessert is one of these, either at room temperature or just out of the fridge and chilled, sliced and scored and eaten one bite-sized piece at a time. If you ever have the chance to savor a champagne mango or two, I highly recommend it!

  If you want to take part in this month’s theme challenge, check out the thread here:

  http://www.skineart.com/forums/topic.php?id=65

  And feel free to share your ideas for future theme challenges here:

  http://www.skineart.com/forums/topic.php?id=64
  tags: desserts | July09 | Theme Challenge
   
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  2009

  Jul 5
  3
  Uncle Bob

  

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  Scottish Dessert – pencil with some ink in a Watercolour Moleskine

  My entry for July’s Theme Challenge which is “Desserts”. Why not give this a go? Just submit a piece of artwork based on this theme and tag it as shown below. We are also looking for more ideas for themes and urge everyone to post theirs in the Forums section “MONTHLY THEME CHALLENGE”.

  The late Sir Harry Lauder often humoured the Scots whisky culture in songs such as “I belong to Glasgow” (When I get a couple of drinks on a Saturday, Glasgow belongs to me). No one is laughing now. Many of my countrymen consume far too much alcohol and this is becoming known as a “Scottish Disease”. On average Scots drink almost ten litres of alcohol annually which means some are consuming a hell of a lot more than this considering some of us, like me, rarely drink. Scotland is eighth in the world drinking league. If my coarse attempt at humour draws attention to this then the monthly theme has had another use.

  tags: desserts | July09 | Theme Challenge