5 Day Beach Challenge Sign Up

Sounds like fun, sign me up

ok, if it means going to the beach I am in!!!

Me too, please!

My happy place!

I'll be traveling so once again I'll have to skip this one.

But the beach!

Well, maybe I'll actually get there on this road trip south!

Sign me up!

Gosh, I'm in.....sick of Winter here! Thanks, Donna!

Lol, me too Rose! That’s why this theme really appeals to me. We could all use a little time at the beach right about now. :)

Amen!

Sign me up as I like going to beaches even if it is only in pictures.

Yeah, bring me to the beach... I'm in for sure :-)

Wao that is so nice! Thanks a million, Donna! I would like to try as well!

Yes please! Anything to banish the cold winter gloom!

I'm addicted, sign me up. :)

Great! So far I have on my list:

Donna
Her Arts Desire
Nina
Gaby
Lindley
Rose
Lois
Matthias
Lucia
Mo
Shelli

Will update the list as more sign up!

Please sign me up! Am with Kathy, my happy place!!

Yes! I would love to do this one! I have missed everyone since the 365 Challenge ended!

You bet I'm in. The beach at sunrise is my favorite place to be.....

Yes! Definitely! woohoo!

Yes, I'll go to the beach :) Please sign me up!

Sounds like fun. I'll give it a try. Thank you, Donna!

Living on an Island I certainly can not pass on this theme. This should be fun!

 

Beach... it's a beach of a day day here today (mid-western Canada) @ -17 Celcius, or 1.4 F.

Yes please. I'm in :)

Yes, I'd like to participate.

Great! Here is the updated list:

Her Arts Desire
Nina
Gaby
Lindley
Rose
Lois
Matthias
Lucia
Mo
Shelli
Sandi
Roberta
David
Luther Fine Art
Tatiana
Laurie
Karen S
Carmen
Only a Fine Day

Remember, I will open the image thread Monday at 9:00 am CST for Day 1

Bring me to the beach, please!... I'm in for sure :-)

I am in for this!

I will try it. Count me in!

I’ve updated the list of participants. If you are brand new to challenges, please read the rules above. Namely the number one rule which is that Images must be CREATED the same day you submit them.

Her Arts Desire
Nina
Gaby
Lindley
Rose
Lois
Matthias
Lucia
Mo
Shelli
Sandi
Roberta
David
Luther Fine Art
Tatiana
Laurie
Karen S
Carmen
Only a Fine Day
Amalia
Cathy
Nancy

I’m looking forward to starting tomorrow. I’ll be in at 9:00 AM my time CST with the image thread link.

Can I sneak in under the wire here? I love doing these challenges! :)
(If not, no problem -- I'll watch and cheer from the sidelines.)

You’re not too late Lori! People can comment to participate any time before I open the image thread.

Donna, Thx so much... I'll forget what time it says on FAA...
I need a Beachy get away too.. Add me!
If I mess up on the time c'la vie we'll all be at the beach... GJ

Hooray!! I need some beach time too! Sitting in upstate New York in January, wrapped in sweater, hoodie, & blanket, and still chilly! Maybe making beach pictures will warm me up. LOL

Post images here please, https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=8186536&targetid=8186538#8186538

Only these people listed below may participate and post images:

Donna
Her Arts Desire
Nina
Gaby
Lindley
Rose
Lois
Matthias
Lucia
Mo
Shelli
Sandi
Roberta
David
Luther Fine Art
Tatiana
Laurie
Karen S
Carmen
Only a Fine Day
Amalia
Cathy
Nancy
Lori
GJ
Debra

Aaaah, this one will be great fun. Both to create and to enjoy the beach art from my fellow addicts :-)

I will start with abstracts and then see where it leads me.

ThxU Donna for your help... Sooo don't worry about the time on FAA what day it is...
Off to the beachy... beachcombing... pretty day. unplugging!

That's correct GJ!

Simply focus on the START time and know you need to get your piece done and submitted before the NEXT start time.

Day 1 Starts 10:00 am your time Monday. (9:00 am CST)
Day 2 Starts 10:00 am your time Tuesday. (9:00 am CST)
Day 3 Starts 10:00 am your time Wednesday. (9:00 am CST)

And so on.

Glad you joined us for a day at the beach! Or in this case, five days at the beach. Sounds heavenly!

Just saw this ...Can I still join today?

Debra, you may. Just know that we've already begun Day 1 so you have until 9:00 am CST tomorrow morning to get your Day 1 piece done and submitted by then, since that's when Day 2 will start.

Have fun!

Thank you so much Donna!

Hi All, Nice to be back doing a challenge with everyone

Thx so much Donna... This is very nice to enjoy the ending of Jan w/ virtual sunrises & bahama breezes at midnight too...
This will be a wonderful 5D Retreat... GJ

Daay 1: Love to sea you soon
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/love-to-sea-you-soon-lucia-waterson.html
We all love someone. But do we say it? Well, we should.
In this watercolor painting called Love to sea you soon, someone wrote the word Love on a sandy beach, close to the ocean. How romantic!
Someone will be waiting for his love to come back again, the romance will continue...

This is SO fun!

Just the thing to chase away those winter blues!!

I’ve no plans this challenge. I usually have some clue as to what I am going to do. Not this time, lol. Just taking each day as it comes. Yesterday was oil pastel. Today Procreate. Tomorrow… who knows!!!!

All I know is I am dreaming of being on a tropical island right now. Great images everyone!

 


Thanks + + + Donna for coordinating these Challenges!

Enjoying everyone's art — fun topic, immersing myself in Day 2 musings...

CU all later :)

Darn, missed it

Brent Jacobs, you can join the Challenge Addicts Club Group. I try to alert everyone when there’s a new upcoming challenge. Here is the link, https://fineartamerica.com/groups/challenge-addicts-club.html

Welcome Carmen! Glad you are joining us!

 

Thanks Donna, fun to be here!

can't go wrong at the beach, even in California it gets cold in winter, not super freezing cold but at my house it is crazy windy, so driving to the beach it got warmer and was quite pleasant and not so cold after all....

Day 2: BY SEA MAIL
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/by-sea-mail-lucia-waterson.html?newartwork=true

The messages in bottles tell about life, maybe about love, but they are often dramatic goodbyes, like those written by people at the Titanic and found after about 100 years.

This painting, mainly watercolor, is called By sea mail.
You can see straight away that the message is quite unusual, it's words on one side and a pastel floral painting on the other side.
The artist felt nobody was appreciating her work and one day she sealed it in this bottle, it will now float wherever the tide takes it and who knows who will find it and when.

By the way, the artist first uploaded it here on Fineartamerica, because you never know, it might sell :)

Thanks a lot Donna and great works everyone, I will visit them later on

My apologies if I wasn’t specific enough on the theme. (I’m in training!). But please be sure there’s a BEACH somewhere in your actual image.

Carry on!

This has been one of my favorite Challenges! The beach brings back so many happy memories for me of my mother taking me and my sisters to Galveston island. We slathered ourselves with coconut scented suntan lotion, built sand castles and gathered sand dollars. We waded out into the murky water as far as mother would allow (she was always worried about the undertow) and always we were on guard for the dreaded jelly fish and man o war that were either lurking in the shallow water or were washed ashore and hiding under seaweed. We’d spend all day there, come home late in the evening sunburnt, and slather refreshingly cool Noxzema on our red backs and faces. Oh the FUN!

Oops - I may have to do another image - or you can take my word for it for todays (Day 3) there is a sliver of the beach below the front wave in the bottom left corner of the image. If that is not acceptable, please let me know and I will make another one for today.

Edit: Yes, the baby oil was slathered on as we went to the beach in SoCal growing up (I would never do that now!). :)

Gaby, no worries. :)

Ha! As teens we sometimes used baby oil. Sheesh. It’s like we were wanting to literally FRY in the sun! Lol. Nowadays I avoid the sun.

I wanted to contribute to how much I am enjoying this theme, everyone's art and making beach art myself... being from Colorado and now living in Oklahoma beaches are not part of my experience but I am enjoying my imaginary beach trips through creating artwork. :)

ah shucks... my memories of the beach are so often beachcombing... shells, digging artifacts, etc... that was my plan...
okay I go find some ocean waves that i usually dismiss sharing...

GJ, when I was a kid I always wished I had a metal detector so I could discover buried treasures on the beach!

My image today rather sucks. I did half of it with my dog Tootsie in my lap. Not a good plan. But I tried! And that's what matters most (right??)

Shelli, I grew up a short distance from Galveston Island and loved the beach. It wasn't until I was 20 and had married and took a Carribean cruise that I discovered SOME beaches had crystal clear water, as opposed to the gray murky waters in Galveston. In Galveston you can be ankle deep and not even see your feet! But I didn't know any different, so I was happy. Now I'm spoiled at having visited numerous islands with crystal clear water and I do not think I would be happy with the murky waters of Galveston island. :-)

I grew up in Southern California and went to the beach often with friends when I got my driver's license at age 16. When I got married, we moved to Texas but almost every year we went back to CA to visit family and the beach. I always picked up a few rocks and shells to put in my big glass vase in our living room. So many memories!

Day 3
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-mediterranean-rose-color-beach-lucia-waterson.html?newartwork=true
The Mediterranean rose color beach
Who said that old is ugly? Look at this breathtaking beach: it's made up of thousands of broken pink shells, they are so old that actually they are fossils that date back even 500 million years!

The result is a rare, unique pink beach. If you think it's all in my fantasy, then you are wrong, it truly exists and it's all natural.
This magic pink stardust can be found in Greece, near Crete, it's the Elafonissi beach, which offers you an authentic fairy-like experience!

I'm always the last one!

Donna, your image is so beautiful!

Well, I missed day three... but I still will enjoy seeing what everyone else posts.

I'm sorry Shelli, I got mixed up with your day 2, that's why I didn't notice it! But it's true what you say, all the entries are inspiring!

Lucia, You pink Mediterranean sand plus the whelk shell is just magnificent... shared more on your page... I hope to travel from Gibraltar along the coast over to Italy, wind around to Greece on over to Turkey some day... There's a Santa Claus cruise every couple years, maybe I'll land a licensing and splurge, dreamy... Thanks for sharing your pink sand (a kin to mineral rich pink Himalayan salt)... GJ

Donna, Okay... I went CAC cruisin through beach w/ ocean photos... I have so many that I dismiss, never seem to post... Thinking there's so many beach, ocean... no one wants to see my captures... well it took hours & hours, had so much fun looking back... new muse, seeing new things... Well I stuck w/ my Beach CAC plan transforming into Teapot Salty Sea Tasting... Tho the original photo as well as 3 teapots & another version of Native Sunrise wide pano processed & uploaded today in my Images & Creativity that flows gallery.

Shelli... That happened to me too... and this is the 1st time I've been back in a challenge... I love the CAC & being in each other's daily virtual studios whether in/out of the challenge... I get messed up w the times, not managerial... It's really hard to work in the middle of the day. It somehow throws me off when the clock doesn't begin at my happy hour 12:01 AM. See you in another challenge!!! Thx for your clicks & views!

ps Sorry to CACers that share via Pixels... I have so many tabs open that I monitor & admin here in FAA, I just never seem to get over to pixels to log in so it doesn't let me click or comment... Tho I'm enjoying everyone's beach images this week. Uplifting! GJ glorijean

How kind, GJ, thank you very much! And great works as well!

Day 4
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/mediterranean-white-pebble-beach-lucia-waterson.html?newartwork=true
Mediterranean white pebble beach
Not all beaches are the same.
Mediterranean white pebble beach is a contemporary artwork featuring the famous Kefalonia Island, in Greece, with its beautiful Myrtos beach.

WOW what a crazy day... JOLTING BANG against my house...

Discovering a 20ft garage was flying through the air landing in my yard,
taking down my cable... Calling the police to come to help...
Knocking down wires across the street, then continued blowing across
three properties, knocking over Joseph at my Nativity...
Thankfully calling the police able to clear away w/ road dept & wire safety.
Even the officer couldn't get thru to the cable company about the outage.
I figured I'd be without internet til next week...

The structure was from a tree company & the owner actually came by to see
what was going on that I called to alert his crew... I said thankfully contained w/
on minor damage but will be unable to work for a few days due to this Arctic Blast
& high winds expected to get worst in the NE USA overnight... The owner said oh
I can climb my ladder and restore the cable line.. Really!!! OMG!!!

So I am working sort of primitively repurposing my beach scene from yesterday...
Ruby slippers, whirling wind, news streaming some mysterious surveillance balloon
the size of 2 school buses over Montana... No I'm not in Montana or Kansas but the
garage canopy whirled through the air like Oz...

So I offer up lantern w/ rabbit, peace dove, asian woman w/ protective parasol
bring prayers, healing, gesture of solidarity set on Red4 background for love.

Thankful for many, many gifts from this 5D Off to the Beach Challenge.
Light a LANTERN for PEACE!!!
Prayers for Common Good for our planet, GJ glorijean

It looks like our days at the beach are just about done. Great work from everyone here. This was another fun challenge. Thank you Donna.

Glad you are ok, GJ! What a scare!

Yes, thank you, Donna for another great and fun challenge!

Fun and beautiful images from everyone!

Thanks, Donna! Great work, y'all!

 

Thanks for this 5 Day Challenge, Donna & Abbie — always a fine sense of camaraderie as we share our imagery.

Thank you for hosting this fun challenge, Donna! Abbie, thank you for these challenges! I have enjoyed everyone's uplifting, beautiful creativity, and the beach has been a very happy place to be in especially today with our temps this evening of 30-40 below zero Fahrenheit!!

Wow, GJ, that sounds scary! Glad you are safe.

An incredible challenge. Many thanks to Donna and Abbie.

So, what do we do next? ;-)

Thx for Gaby & Matthias, Yes it was scary as the loud noise also rocked the house...

Now my independent Aunt (turning 99 next wk) is enduring the ME Arctic Freeze; of course w/o any complaint!

I think a next CAC Challenge could be ART around the mysterious balloon floating...
How do we artist take courage every day in our art to embrace, resonate & make a different in our world.

Tho I also think this mindful beach escape could be a regular practice, challenge...
Thank YOU, I received MANY GIFTS having taken this challenge. Turning pt was the need to add ocean.
While it was grueling to go back & plan my work for the week, blessings came overpouring...
Now I am so busy w/ my creativity... working almost nonstop I can't seem to get enough time to keep up w the flow...

Thank YOU for this VIP CAC fellowship & the beach vibes despite the Arctic Cold (5 degrees overnight) here.
Grateful Joy! GJ

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/loving-red-starfish-lucia-waterson.html?newartwork=true

Loving red starfish

Nobody loves you like your mum. She always keeps an eye on you. The search for new adventures is always so tempting for the baby ones, they are not scared of anything because they know that if they loose an arm they can reproduce a new one just like that.
They don't yet understand that outside the water they can suffocate. And what about if they meet a human who wants to touch them or take them home to display on their shelves?

So their mum has to monitor them all the time, at least she can count on more than 2 eyes, one at the tip of each arm. Not that they can see that much, just enough for what they need: to take the baby back home safely.

I'm so sorry for your disadventure GJ!

Thanks a million Donna and Abbie for this great challenge! And well done everyone!

Well done to these 23 participants who completed!!

Amalia
Carmen
David
Debra
Donna
Gaby
GJ
Her Arts Desire
Laurie
Lindley
Lori
Lois
Lucia
Luther Fine Art
Karen S
Matthias
Nancy
Nina
Only a Fine Day
Roberta
Rose
Sandi
Tatiana

This was loads of fun! Thank you to everyone for all the wonderful beach images! Just the thing to chase the winter blues away!!

Glad you are safe GJ!!

So glad you all is well, GJ!!

Donna, really great job hosting this awesome challenge. Thank you so much. Abbie, appreciate your doing this one for us, really enjoyed it!

Just checking in now. Sorry to hear the news GJ.. Good to know you are ok now. Fingers crossed for you.


Thank you Donna for your work in this challenge. You too Abbie

Great work everybody, will get round to looking at all the fab submissions tomorrow.

Take care all