Welcome to May ...

 Welcome to May and another challenge for everyone.

This month our inspiration comes to you from this gorgeous ceramic piece by Jill Foster called Country Ladies.

CRITERIA - Featuring girls only please

A little about Jill Foster

I was a beach kid of the 60s and my drawing has been influenced by the bright lively colours and “fun” lifestyle. Thrown functional clay pieces become my canvas, clay and brush my tools of trade. From a trip to France I observed the “cool style” of the French women and developed the “funky lady” decorated ware. Much overseas travel and a lasting interest in Japanese culture and brush painting filter into my very Australian themes. I design, make, photograph and teach in today’s Arts Industry.

And now some inspiration from our team ...

(in no particular order)

Dale Tiernan - (Australia)

Sharon Bishop - (Australia)

Black stitched circles and my circle of friends....

Karen Guy (Australia)

Fun with circles and two Beautiful Girls in my life!

Karen Brierley - (Australia)

I purged my scraps box for this layout! I punched a bunch of circles and glued them down in overlapping rows to create my background. Photo from a girls weekend away with my daughter.

Jane Howden - (Australia)

Used the bright orange circle as inspiration for the paper choice and added bits and pieces in the other colours and highlighting the circle aspect of the piece.

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 Jane Howden

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.