Wishing you a wonderful Holiday Season, and many renewing celebrations…

Each one unique…

Image: Transience by Julie Falk

With reassuring familiar scenes…

Image: Open Stream 1 by Richard Woo

And changes you haven’t yet seen…

Image: Frozen Cherries by Sergey Kushnarev

New memories…

Image: First Kiss by Wendy Edelson

A few surprises…

Image: Holiday Zapp! by Dominique Heffley

And a…

Image: Partridge in a Pear Tree by Patty Baker

Rake Art Gallery  325 NW 6th, Portland OR       

If you haven’t read about it here before, COLOURlovers is a thriving community of color fanatics made up of designers, decorators, artists, and many other color fans looking for inspiration and serious palette making tools, or just trend spotting.  We’ve recommended their web site before as being neatly useful and fun, and the word has spread.

Around this time last year they released a first major version update (version "Coup.0") full of new tools and features to keep the love flowing.  Darius Monsef, the COLOURlovers founder, celebrated this growth by taking what he could from the virtual world and letting people experience it firsthand.  Well, it’s one year later and the community has swelled, and along with it came a clamor of new ideas, so now the color loving gang is back with another major revision.

With this newest release, lovingly code named "Version Weee.0", they’ll showcase some incredible new ways to create with color.  We share their enthusiasm for taking a virtual creation, making it real, and putting it right in your hands (or right on your walls).  So this year we offered to help Darius celebrate with another gallery event – but this time Imagekind is creating all the physical pieces, on demand – as is our usual style, for the crowd of color gawkers to interact with!  We think it’s a great way to showcase what Imagekind can do, and celebrate with some very ambitious and creative people down the road.

That particular road is a bit harder to travel these days, but rest assured we’ll be there, so join us at Rake Art Gallery for an evening of creative and fun color interaction, music, drinks, edibles and an artwork raffle. Event proceeds will benefit HODR.org, a volunteer staffed disaster relief non-profit.

We hope to see you there!

We all hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family, friends and loved ones.

Just wanted to share some of our amazing members’ artwork. You know, in case you forgot what Thanksgiving looks like.

Keep up the great work!

We are truly thankful for all our wonderful artists.

So, let’s eat!

Imagekind is happy to announce the results of the joint cooperation with EBSQ in their online juried art show, Art of the Equestrian. We want to thank EBSQ for this amazing opportunity to help expand, encourage and promote a genuine arts community. You can check out the winner, read about the jurors and find all the amazing artwork here, in Imagekind’s Newsletter. And of course, all submissions are available as museum quality art prints right here, at Imagekind – offered, as always, at the artist’s own price. Thank you to all the artists for doing what you do best! Keep creating, showing and selling that work!

If you happened to miss any of the information about the show, you can read about it in Imagekind’s Blog. It turned out to be an amazing show and we are truly grateful for the opportunity to partner with EBSQ to showcase the happenings.

We are happy to announce Debbie Lincoln as the grand prize winner of the event. As the winner, Debbie will receive:

• 100 Dollar Gift Certificate, good for anything you can create or buy on Imagekind.
• A free one year membership for Imagekind at the Platinum level.
• A free Media Kit of Imagekind’s fine paper samples and one free print on her choice of paper at any size.

Debbie will also be an upcoming Featured Artist for one week on Imagekind’s homepage. Congratulations Debbie and a huge thank you to all the artists who participated to make this juried show a huge success and great adventure!

It’s a Scary World Out There

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I’ll Be the Bunny, You Be the Bear

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When Scarecrows Sleep

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Trick or Treat

BOO!  from Imagekind.