Welcome to April ...

Welcome to April and a very happy Easter to everyone.

This month our inspiration comes to you from Evelyn Chapman with French Ruins with Poppies.

CRITERIA - Remembrance plus the colour RED

This doesn't have to be about ANZAC Day unless you would like it to be - just a layout remembering someone, somewhere or something that was near and dear to you.

A little about Evelyn Chapman ...

Evelyn Chapman studied with Dattilo Rubbo in Sydney and travelled overseas to paint in Paris, where she exhibited at the Salon. A few weeks after the end of World War I she took up the opportunity to visit the battlefields of France with her father, who was attached to the New Zealand War Graves Commission. Thus, she became the first Australian female artist to depict the devastated battlefields, towns and churches of the western front. Chapman remained overseas with her father, an organist who played in Dieppe, Venice and elsewhere, and married a brilliant, though domineering, Australian organist herself. After she married, she had to give up painting, but she encouraged her daughter to pursue art. For the rest of her life, Chapman lived in England, only returning to Australia for a visit in 1960. The art gallery of New South Wales has her 1911 portrait A Dattilo Rubbo, Girl in Red Hat c. 1918, and a number of her paintings of France, Belgium and England. The Australian War Memorial, too, has several of her key French scenes.

And now some inspiration from our team ...

(in no particular order)

Karen Guy (Australia)

Sharon Bishop - (Australia)

Remembering Great Grandma's vintage toys ...

Karen Brierley - (Australia)

I tried to ground my page with cream and muted colours like the painting, so the red would pop. I created a page in my art journal, using up scraps.

Dale Tiernan - (Australia)

Dale took the photo before she added her personal journaling about her Grandfather.

Jane Howden - (Australia)

I did vintage style using some of the colours from the artwork and added pops of red. In remembrance of my Aunt who was a very large part of my childhood.

Our main prize winner is selected by random draw - so anyone could be a winner, no matter your style or your level of experience or your country of residence. If there are more than 8 entries in the month a second prize (donated each month by one of our team) will be drawn from amongst our Australian entrants.

Main Prize

Second Prize

(drawn if more than 8 entries)

Donated by Karen Brierley

Now over to you ......

 Please upload your entries directly to the monthly album in our Facebook public group (ARTastic challenges) by midnight on the last day of the month - please remember we are an Australian based challenge so do check your day and time. For anyone not on Facebook, simply email us your entry and if you have a blog, a link to that too so we can still pop past for a visit. You may combine your entry with 3 other challenges. You may enter more than once in any month as long as each submission is with a different creation. International entries are very welcome.

  We hope you might find time to play along with our challenge.