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  • Custom Portrait Winner & Call for Entries – Open Subject : Week #30 (7/20-7/26)

    July
    20
    2009


    custom dog portrait yellow lab pencil drawing by Leanne Wildermuth
    Today begins Week #30 of my 2009 weekly graphite portrait giveaway! Each week, one winner will be selected to receive one 5×7 graphite (pencil) drawing from their photograph.

    Last week’s winner was L-Squared, who shared her working dog named Willow. You can read her entry here.

    A note on framing for portrait winners: I recommend
    Nielsen Bainbridge Archival Gallery Frames

    available through Dick Blick.
    Sox & BJ (below) are framed using this frame:

    cat portrait drawing by Leanne Wildermuth

    Weekly Contest Announcement!

     

    WEEK 30 : CALL FOR ENTRIES
    Theme

        : OPEN SUBJECT (single subject – dog, cat or any other critter – person, place or thing!)

    Deadline

        : Friday, July 24, 2009 (around 5pm CST)

    To Enter

        : Leave a comment (your chances are greatly improved if you share something about your subject), include a link to your photo. If you do not have a photo uploaded online, please indicate that you are e-mailing the photo and e-mail the photo to: gallery *at* intricateart dot-com.

    Your entry must be left below, or it will not be considered.

    Note: *G* Rating only

    Each Monday, I post the weekly Call for Entries along with the previous weeks completed portrait (above). I may change the subject theme each week, or leave the theme open, so please pay close attention to the details in each announcement.

    Entries will be accepted through Friday afternoon around 5PM CST, at which time I will close comments and select one winner from the entries received. I’ll publish the completed winning portrait with the following week’s Giveaway announcement. If you’re a fan on Facebook, you might just get a sneak peek at the winning portrait before I publish it here!

    Qualified entries will include a valid e-mail address, and the comment should include one link to a photograph owned/taken by the entrant. If you do not have a place to upload photos to link one, you can e-mail it to gallery *at* intricateart dot-com. Your entry, however, should be included in the comment section below, with your story – should you choose to include one.

    The Selection Process: In case you’re curious, I’ll share my little artsy process in selecting the winner. First – I do not read any entries at all during the week. I do not read them because I don’t want anyone’s entries to have any more time than any others to settle in my creative brain. At the end of the week, I close comments. When I sit down to go through all of the entries, I read the story first, and open the photo link in a new window. When I finish reading, I flip over to the photo and my initial reaction is what I go by.

    If your entry is not chosen, you may enter again. I encourage you to include a short story with your entry.

    Once you have won a portrait, I ask that you refrain from multiple entries, to give others an opportunity to win one as well.

    Your challenge? To inspire me! Choose your photo wisely – I will select a winner based on how the photo and/or story moves me.

    Good luck!!

     

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    {10 Comments}

    1
    L-Squared said,

    Wow, thank you so much Leanne!! :yahoo: This news totally made my day and your drawing of her looks great. :thumbsup:

    I’m emailing you my address now. Thanks again! :wave:

    7.20.2009 @ 11:44 am
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    Pam said,

    Awww… Willow is gorgeous!! :clapping:

    7.20.2009 @ 2:49 pm
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    Da Goddess said,

    and of course those are the dogs I always want to pet.

    7.20.2009 @ 9:24 pm
    4
    Ken Mass said,

    Samson was very protective of our house. Visitors, even frequent ones, would see him standing on his hind legs, pawing at the front picture window with his fore legs, and barking loudly. That kept most door-to-door salesmen away from us.

    On one occasion, a salesman continued to knock on the door, despite Samson’s best efforts. I went outside, being sure to close the door, so Samson wouldn’t follow. When I got outside, the man identified himself as someone who was going door-to-door selling home security systems. He then said “But I think I’m wasting my time here.” I smiled, agreed, and the salesman went on his way.

    7.21.2009 @ 8:18 am
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    Tricia Z said,

    Hi! This is a great idea! I am emailing a photo of my cat, Oro, my depression-relief cat! He is a good boy who never leaves my side. Thank you!

    7.21.2009 @ 6:35 pm
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    Joni Hockett said,

    I not sure if this is where I am to enter contest #30. I would like to submit the photo from Leanne’s portfolio titled “Not Happy About The Snow”. I went through all the pictures last night to find one that would that would remind me of home. Many did, but this one I kept coming back to. Over the past four years I have lost much, my mom, my job, my home and my cats. Finally, I have had to make the choice to leave what I have left ~ all that is safe and familiar, my family, friends and the midwest to move in with my Dad in Nevada. It is not a choice I make lightly really not a “choice” at all. I chose this picture for three reasons:
    1. It reminds me of all the times spent with my best friend Toni (and our families) watching birds at her house and in Door Couny and all our laughter. :cloud9:
    2. Snow. Although we all complain about the winter, it is so hard to imagine that my winters won’t have snow anymore. I will miss that. :chill:
    3. That bird is inspiring ~ facing the hardships of finding food and shelter in the winter. It’s a survivor. I want to be a survivor too through my hardships. :clapping:
    Thank you,
    Joni Hockett
    P.S. I did not attach the photo, I did not know how and it is copywrited. :squirrel:

    *update* here’s the link.

    7.22.2009 @ 11:10 am
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    Summer Henderson said,

    I am e-mailing you a photo of Grace. My husband and I were on vacation celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary when we heard about Grace needing a home. We were traveling on a Murder Mystery trainride through the Carolina’s to see the Biltmore. Someone from work phoned me about a family that was being transferred and had a small dog that they were just going to drop off somewhere along the interstate on the way to their new location. I cried for an hour just thinking of someone doing that. My husband and I got off the train on the next stop, rented a car and drove all the way back to Tennessee to pick up Grace. My life has not been the same since. Having never had a dog before, I am amazed how much happiness and love can come from helping and loving something other than yourself. I never got to see the Biltmore, but I did get to see a side of my husband I had never seen when he teared up just like me and got off that train knowing we’d miss the final 3 days of the vacation, miss the Biltomore, and have to leave not knowing who the “murderer” was on the train to get a dog we had never even seen. That will always be my favorite vacation! We recently participated in a Dog-a-Thon where we wore T-shirts printed for the event. Our T-shirts said “I rescued a Chihuahua”. Grace’s T-shirt said “I rescued a Human”. How true those words are… She has made us a family. Thank you, Summer Henderson

    7.22.2009 @ 3:13 pm
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    Leanne said,

    Thanks so much for your entries this week! I’ll post the winning portrait on Monday with next week’s announcement. Become a fan on Facebook for a sneak peek on Sunday!

    7.25.2009 @ 6:55 am
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    7.27.2009 @ 7:23 am
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    7.27.2009 @ 9:19 am

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