This month our inspiration comes to you from Robert Hagan with Big Guns.
CRITERIA - BOYS ONLY and please use this sketch (courtesy of PageMaps). Feel free to rotate, flip, change out photo sizes - just so long as we can see the basic premise of this sketch in your entry.
A little about Robert Hagan ...
Robert Hagan is an Australian television personality, author, impressionist artist, and producer. He is best known for hosting the Discovery HD/Discovery television show Splash of Colo. His painting depicts western, romantic, decorative, adventure, portraiture and maritime scenes.
Hagan's approach to painting is to translate scenes of everyday life into romantic, nostalgic and blissfully peaceful visions of the world. His subjects include the figure in a moment of reflection, animals, children fishing on the beach with their father, sailboats, rainforest birds, cowboys on horseback rounding up cattle or hunched over a campfire after a hard day's droving and dusty outback scenes of Australia.
Although self-taught, Hagan's style is impressionist using a limited palette of oil to impart a sense of tranquility and play on light to make the painting come alive. His brushwork is loose with final strokes of impasto.
And now some inspiration from our team ...
(in no particular order)
Karen Guy (Australia)
This little Man loves fishing, and Boat life!!
Sharon Bishop - (Australia)
Dale Tiernan - (Australia)
Karen Brierley - (Australia)
I noticed a dog in the foreground of the painting, so my layout features both the man (and dog) in my life.
Jane Howden - (Australia)
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.
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