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Hello all my sweet dear ones

I want to thank you so much for all the wonderful birthday wishes. I had to work but when I got home late last night WOW was I surprised. You are all so very dear to me. I feel so lonely not being with you everyday. To show you how much this means to me here is a little feature for you.

This is a HUGE THANK YOU to those who have left me a little gift.

I want to thank   for such a thoughtful gift of 100 points to our little group
and for her thoughtful gift of 100 point to our little group. You are so dear to my heart. Little things like this really make me cry to see such generosity. I love you both so much

I want to thank for this wonderful picture You really don't know how much this means to me.

Thank you for such a special gift I love the pink balloons You are always there even when I'm not


Here is a special feature from all those that wished me a wonderful birthday

                   
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THANK YOU ALL

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Hello all my dear ones.

I'm going to be taking a small break. I have been currently working again two jobs. I'm not sure how long of a break I will need but I will be popping in as often as I can.

will be doing our next contest for I know you will enjoy what she has done.

Love and miss you so very much.
Donna

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Oh wow this was such an exciting contest. There was so many entries and so many to love. Wish everyone could win.

Here are the winners and a few items from their galleries

First Place Winner



I can not believe the detail here. You can tell really took a lot of time and thought in this wonderful piece. Here are some more from her gallery

      

Second Place Winner



I really love the creativity on this one. Color and balance very well executed. Here are a more pieces from

      

Third Place Winner



I love the colors and the imagination that was used. The model is just perfect for this piece. Here are some more pieces from

      

If you get a chance show a little love to these wonderful artists

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Happy Valentines day
I hope that you all will find love in your families, friends, and loved ones.

Today I find myself sick as can be. My wonderful husband gave me his cold and now I have bronchitis. But... I still love him.

Anyway... here is a feature of art that has caught my eye this past week.

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I hope you enjpy because I sure did

I have started again making 3D art again and i'm having a blast. DAZ  [link] is giving away several of it's Pro products including DAZ 4 Pro. This promotion will only go till the end of the month. Even if you don't want to learn a new program it is worth downloading because you never know if you will change your mind. Here are some outstanding pieces that just may change your mind.

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There are so many more but i'm just not able to put them all in my journal.


Here are some of my own pieces.

          

This is a feature to a few dear friends who have helped me out when i really needed it



        





        






        





        






        


i hope you will enjoy them

We have two wonderful winners of the "Dream World" contest at

One of the prizes was a feature and an interview. Please read and enjoy

Winner of the Beginner category:

  

Here are a few more of her wonderful work:

    

BarnCatt said the following:

1. How do you feel about winning this contest?
I was very excited to read the news that I had won this contest.  I have never won a contest in this group before so I wasn't expecting a win.  I'm very pleased that my artwork has been selected out of all of the entries from all of the great artists that this group has.
2. How did you come up with this entry?
I was coming back to feed the horses one morning and thinking about how I don't like living here so much and how I wished I could have a different world to go to.  I was also regretting not having manipulated as much lately, having been away the whole summer.  And then I figured out that I could totally manip my own planet, and it would fit the theme of this contest.  It was certainly an idea that popped into my head pretty much fully formed.  
4. How long have you been maniping?
I believe I started around March of 2010, and found dA when I was looking for a stock resource.  A few months later I joined dA.  It took be a bit before I started to participate in activities and interact with the community, but it's been a wonderful source of inspiration.
5. What is your favorite kind of manip?
I don't really have a firm favorite type of manip.  I enjoy any manip that inspires me or make me think.  I do enjoy fantasy and horse manips though.
6. Tell us a little about yourself.
I'm a 16 year old girl who lives in North Carolina, USA.  I am homeschooled, but am also attending community college with the plan of earning credits to transfer to a larger university in a couple of years.  I'm considering majoring in graphic design, but I'm not sure yet.  For the past few years I have had a business selling jewelry that I design.  I try to put profits from this towards my horse.  I've been riding ever since I was seven and in January I purchased a horse named Golly Gee.  I haven't competed at all this year, but in the past Golly and I have shown dressage.  I hope to start competing again soon and also learn eventing with him.  Erm..anything else interesting about me?  I'm vegan and I have a passion for tie-dye.
7. What got you into doing manips?
I played on a horse SIM game and some of the players would create custom graphics for their horses.    I wanted to try it too so I did!  I've also always been interested in techniques used in designing magazines and ads.  I started out with GIMP and then eventually got a copy of cs5 which is the program I use now.  Last winter I also got a  tablet, albeit a cheapy knock off brand one.
8. Anything else you would like to share?
Just that I'm really pleased with this and that this group has meant so much to me over the past year or how ever long it's been.  All of the help and support I've gotten through this community means so much to me (that means especially you Donna!)



Winner of our Advance category:

  

Here are a few more of her wonderful work:

    

Meropa said the following:

Oh my gosh! Thank you so much!! That's amazing! I'll do my best to answer those questions

1. How do you feel about winning this contest?
It feels AMAZING. I can't even describe how happy this made me. Seeing the note where you notify me about my achievement got me literally out of my chair jumping up and down! Thank you for that!
2. How did you come up with this entry?
Well, I think it all just came into place. Only looking for the right stocks took me forefer, after that was the fun part. To be honest, I wasn't sure what I wanted it to look like when it's finished, I just knew that I wanted a peaceful looking landscape, so I just went with the flow.
4. How long have you been maniping?
I believe I started when I was 12, so that's about four years. It was the most primitive kind of manipulation, of course. I began with changing colour tones, hues, then adding more objects to the picture. It took me a long time before I learned how to blend it all together so it looks as natural as possible.
5. What is your favorite kind of manip?
I don't think it matters what's on the picture, more important is that it gives you a feeling. But to answer the question, I don't have a favourite kind of manip. It all depends on the artwork itself.
6. Tell us a little about yourself.
I am a sixteen years old girl from Bulgaria. I just came back this summer from a year long scholarship program in the United States that really got me liking this country as a place to start my career (which I am still not sure about). I am *slightly* indecisive, as you just found from the last sentence, but also really ambitious. Apart from my love for Photoshop I also enjoy photography and I'd like to get into digital drawing as well (after I buy my first tablet).  
7. What got you into doing manips?
DeviantART, definitely! Other people's works have always been inspiration to me. I just wanted to learn how to do things the artists out here were doing.
8. Anything else you would like to share?
I want to give one HUGE thanks to the organizors of the contest and also to the people who have been sticking with me, following my works and commenting. I wouldn't be here without you! So thank you!

OMGosh!!!! I can't believe how wonderful you are. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

This is such a wonderful gift you have given me. As some of you know my husband and I are having major financial problems. Because of the rescission, or in my words depression, our nursery has taken a huge tumble. We have lost our home to fore closer so I have been working on finding us another place for us to live. We rely heavenly on our florists. Our main business is supplying the florist with quality plants. We went from having over 300 florists down to about 30 and more of them are going out of business or trying to sell. I'm now working on planting spring plants for spring. I hope we will be able to sell them.

I'm taking a day off today to thank you all for such lovely gifts. You can not believe how dear to my heart each and every one of you are to me. As I'm looking at the wonderful pictures tears are flowing down my cheeks. I'm having a hard time typing so please forgive any typing errors.

I want to show you my love back. This is for you all my dear ones

                        

Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!



Light and Dark Contest


This has been a very hard past two months. We are getting ready to go back to school, college, university. Many of us are trying to find new jobs or another job. And many of us are moving. Trying to find time to do a contest is very hard. I totally understand So I'm not going to announce the winners of  this contest, but I'm making a feature for those who did find time in their busy days to participate.

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Hello all my dears

YAY!!!! is going to have a big prize contest!!! Yep Yep Yep we are!!!!

This contest will take one month for you to get in. It will be a very hard one. On this contest there will be two judges only!!! It will be and

Only two winners will be announce. One for beginner and one for advanced.

The judging will be on a point system. Each entry will be judged on how well the rules were used, light, shadows, cutting, blending, over all flow, creativity.

We will have three folders available Beginner, Advanced, Non-competitive.

Each entry will be critiqued and at the end of the contest given their points.

The theme on this contest is "My Dream World"

Rules:

1. Must be a manipulation.

2. There will be NO human or humanoid placed anywhere in the piece.   Animals or birds are OK as long as they are not the main subject.

3. You must have a link to the stock itself and not just to the stock provider. Points will be taken off if not to the stock itself.

4. You must thank the stock provider for the stock used. Points will be taken off if not done.

5. Absolutely NO pre-made backgrounds allowed.  

6. You must have this icon (type :icon manip-contest: with no spaces) with the name of this contest "My Dream World".

7. Must up load to the largest size. (this is for judging. we need to see the detail)

8. Have fun.

YES!! You may submit more than one.


You will be able to start uploading to the My Dream World folders Beginner and Advanced starting August 1st till Sept 3 2011.




Point System: (points will be given or taken away)

1000 points - given to each entry.

300 points - completing all the rules.

250 points - light. Is the light source seen and does the light fall according to that light source.

250 points - shadows. According to the light source, does the shadows fall correctly.

250 points - cutting. How well the cutting was done and how well it blends.

250 points - blending. Does the entire piece blend together. In other words does everything looks like it belongs. We have worked very hard on learning this.

250 points - over all flow. Eye movement is very important. Look to see if the eyes continue to flow around the piece or do the eyes fall off the page.

250 points - creativity. I love to see something different. Be creative. Look in side your imagination and come up with what you dream a wonderful world would look like.



Prizes so far:

We are going to use some of those wonderful points that were so graciously given


To each winner

a 6-months subscription from

500 points from

500 points from the both of us   and

250 points each  from

An exclusive stock pack from

Your choice of three stock items from

An exclusive stock pack from

An interview and feature on

A feature by

A feature by

A feature by

A feature by



If you would like to add to the kitie prizes please note me


Here are a few of the entries so far:

Beginner

  

Advanced:



Non-competitive:



If you are interested in joining in please follow the rules. You are welcome

OMGosh thank you so much for the birthday wishes. You are all so sweet. I had a great birthday so far. My husband and my sons took me out for lunch and i think i ate my brains out. They are going to take me out for breakfast this Sunday too.

I want to thank all my dear friends who have given me such wonderful gifts:

from my dear friend    from my dear friend    from my dear friend     from my dear friend    from my dear friend    from my dear friend    from my adopted DA daughter    from my sweet diva  

I want to thank all my dears who have wished me a happy birthday:

                                                                                        

I was given wonderful drawings on my profile from      and i got a wonderful song [link] from   and i got a beautiful poem from and a birthday feature from i have receive two wonderful cake badges from   



This is my thanks back to you all my dear friends:

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We have just finished up our second Photoshop Ping-pong at . We had so much fun doing this. We were to use the theme a "Midnight Walk". What would we find if we took a walk at midnight. Each person that signed up was paired up with a partner. We were to pass the project to each other four times. This is what we came up with. Enjoy

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Happy Easter all my dears.

May God bless each and everyone of you

I was tagged a week ago by    and I had posted it but for some reason DA farted and lost all of my work. So now that I have a little time I thought I would try it again. I will not go by the rules and tag 10 more of my friends. They all have gotten tagged as many times as me if not more.

1. My name is Donna (for those who don't know) and I am 52 years young. (Oh by the way my birthday is June 2. hahahaha).

2. I have been married to my ultimate best friend for 20 years. We have been together for 26 years.

3. We have two wonderful sons who are the apple of my eye. Jon our oldest is going to the University of the Pacific. He is just finishing his first year. Nick my baby is finishing up his freshman year in high school.

4. I have an adopted DA daughter whom I love dearly.

5. We have currently five outstanding dogs of whom we can't get enough of. I had two wonderful cats that recently passed from old age.

6. My dear husband and I own our own nursery business. We are currently growing indoor houseplants and topiary. We had a very hard winter and lost about 85% of our houseplants.

7. We live in the worst city to live in called Modesto. It was rated the number one worst city to live in the second time in a row. (that is so sad)

8. I have done all kinds of art from watercolor, oil, ceramic etc... but my all time favorite art is manipulations. (I think is the hardest art to learn so far)

9. We are going to have a BBQ if it doesn't rain for Easter.

10. Sad. My sons are to old for Easter Egg hunts.

Here is a feature of some Easter art by my dear friends:

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Here are some more of my dear friends:

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One of the nice things we do at is have fun things to do. This is our Inspired By Literature fun thing to do. We had some very wonderful participants. Please enjoy

All these wonderful works were inspired by wonderful poem called "To A Passing Butterfly". to a passing butterflyin storage  Please read the poem and then enjoy these wonderful pieces of art.


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Please share with them your love

Good Sunday morning all my dear friends.

Wow what a fun time we had with this contest at .



Here are the winners of our wonderful fabulous Beginners:

We have three wonderful First Place Winners
(in no particular order)



We have two Second Place:
(in no particular order)



We gave two Third Place:
(in no particular order)

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And now for our unbelievable wonderful Advanced:

We have three First Place:
(in no particular order)



We have two Second Place:
(in no particular order)



We have three Third Place:
(in no particular order)





Each of you are wonderful stars.

 

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Hello all my dear friends

I want to share with you some artists that deserve a little love.

The "Fun Fun Fun Thing to Do" for is now over and these are the participants:

    

    

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These are all inspired by wonderful piece

If you have a little time today please give them your love

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OMGosh I can't believe this!!!!!!!! I just got home and found that had given me such a wonderful gift of a 3 month membership. OMGosh!!!!  OMGosh!!!!!  OMGosh!!!!! Oh you are sooooo sweet my dear friend. I will give you a great big feature when I learn how to do this.