LAST WEEK’S FABULOUS BLOGGERS
With all the other challenges, even public and street art, I thank all the bloggers who participate in the Photographing Public Art Challenge. Please honor these bloggers with your visits this week.
- BRASHLEY PHOTOGRAPHY – NYMANS RUINS
- EAT, PLAY, LIVE – CAMOUFLAGE WOMEN
- EKLASTIC – CARS WITH ART
- GERIATRI’X’ FOTOGALLERY – BOAT WITH AN ARTISTIC FLAIR
- MY CAMERA & I (2) – RUSTIC METAL SCULPTURES
- NATALIE THE EXPLORER – ROCK MOSAIC OF A WILLOW TREE
- PHOTOGRAPHIAS – GLASGOW MURALS AND AN ADMIRER
- SECOND WIND LEISURE – THE BEAUTY OF GLASS
- STORIES BY GIFT – KOIBOTO PARK CHOCOLATE FANTASY MMM
- TRAVEL WITH ME CONTROVERSIAL BULGARIAN MONUMENT TO THE SOVIET ARMY
- WIDE EYED WONDERINGS – JILL O’LANTERN
- WOOLLY MUSES – THE MOST GORGEOUS ELEVATOR (I THINK)
Next week, November 4 will be my last PPAC as your hostess. Although I need to step back, I love this challenge and all of you who post beautiful art from around the world. You have become true friends over nearly a year and a half – the life of this challenge. Natalie the Explorer has generously offered to continue as the host for PPAC as a part of her popular regular link party – Weekend Coffee Share beginning November 11th.
IT’S EASY TO PLAY ALONG WITH #PPAC
- There is no weekly theme even though my post has a theme with murals, statues, fountains, scrap art, graffiti, store windows, seasonal displays, car or art shows, artistic construction, or even artistic neighborhood decor. Photograph the public art that is available to you.
- Art should be freely visible from a public street, freeway, or walkway or inside a publicly accessed building like a library. If you pay, it’s not public.
- Photographers should have free access of use for their photos – no copyrights by the artists.
- The challenge starts every Friday at 9:00 a.m. Phoenix Time and it ends on Thursday at noon.
- Write a post on your blog, publish it, and include a link back to my weekly post not my page preferably in a comment. Sometimes pingbacks are missed. See how to create pingbacks here.
- Take time to visit other PPAC participants throughout the week. I recommend visiting at least two or three other participants in the community and leaving them a comment.
- Have fun! Art is to be enjoyed!
For More Ideas about PPAC…
These early-bird participants (posted by Wednesday at noon) might give you some great ideas about something you’ve never thought about as public art or how to photograph it.
YOUR BLOG POST GOES HERE
- CEE’S PHOTO CHALLENGES – ADVICE FROM A PUMPKIN – HAHAHA
- EAT, PLAY, LIVE – PAINTED BUTTERFLY BOX
- EKLASTIC – HORSIN’ AROUND WITH ART!
- GERIATRI’X’ FOTOGALLERY – ARTISTIC WOODEN BENCHES AT THE BEACH
- MIDDLETON ROAD – COLORFUL MURAL BEHIND THE BUS SHELTER
- MY CAMERA & I (2) – REVISITING THE EVER-CHANGING HOSIER LANE AND OTHER FABULOUS SIGHTS IN MELBOURNE
- MY CAMERA AND I (2) – MURALS ON THE WAY TO THE STORE
- NATALIE THE EXPLORER – 80-FOOT MOSAIC WALL ART
- PHILOSOPHIAS – MURAL OF MUSHROOMS IN GLASGOW
- PHILOSOPHY THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY – FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY PAINTINGS OF CHILDREN
- TRAVELS WITH ALI – REMINISCENT OF THE “SOUP NAZI” ON SEINFELD – THE BUTCHER NAZI (JUST A MURAL FOLKS DON’T BE AFRAID)
- WIDE EYES WONDERINGS – JILL O’LANTERN
- WIND KISSES – SHOE ART IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!
- WOOLLY MUSES – A FOUNTAIN BETWEEN ESCALATORS
- WOOLLY MUSES – THE INSIDE OF A GLAMOROUS HOTEL IN DUBAI
My Choices for PPAC #69 Pumpkin Box Art
Here are three more pictures from my trip to the Pacific Northwest to meet up with bloggers. These are some of my favorites because of the colors. These paintings are on different sides of a large cardboard box housing pumpkins. I can’t imagine going to this much work for boxes that will be worn out and tossed by the end of the season. 🙂
I use the program Everyday Jigsaw to turn my brightest and best digital photos into digital puzzles. I just finished these two puzzles. The first three-hundred-piece puzzle snapped together in two hours and forty minutes on my small computer screen.
Side two only took me one hour and fifty-nine minutes to work 300 pieces. Wahoo! See how I spend my sleepless nights in Prescott.
This is the last bright pumpkin box I have for you today. I got distracted before I took a picture of side 4, so you will have to head up to see Terri and Hans and take a trip to Greenbluff to see the whole box.
Ongoing on Always Write
- Upcoming and ongoing topics for WQW
- October 26: Holiday: Halloween/or Writer’s Choice/ or YOUR WOTY Review
- November 2: Senses: Touch or Feeling
- November 9: Holiday: Veteran’s Day
- November 16: Travel: Memorable Trips
- November 23: Holiday: Thanksgiving, Gratitude
- November 30: Abandoned or Artistic Buildings/or Writer’s Choice/ or YOUR WOTY Review
Now it’s your turn.
I hope you are inspired to find your own unique art as you travel around with your camera this week, or rummage through your archives. Feel free to double dip and support your own favorite challenges along with PPAC. Have a wonderful weekend!
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
72 responses to “PPAC #69: Painted Pumpkin Boxes”
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Those pumpkin boxes are so cool!!!!
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Thanks, I think so too! 🙂
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Hi Marsha.
I enjoyed the one Public Art posting I shared in, but decided to keep my focus on the reason I started blogging and that’s writing. I’ve wanted to do this regularly for a long time and over the past 76 years have actually built a small audience for my hobby so I’m pleased but since I still own a lot of time to my employer, I’m going to avoid getting so busy that I do everything only half-right.
It was kinda fun running about the city collecting photos of all those characters from the Peanuts comic strip, but my sense of art gets pretty weak after writing.
Blessings.
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Seventy-six years – that’s a type, right?
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Here’s a few from me
https://travelswithali.com/2022/10/30/australian-country-towns-capel-western-australia/
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These are great, Ali. What a fun find. The town reminds me of Woodlake where we lived in CA. It probably isn’t as spotless, though. 🙂
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Thanks Marsha, I think in small towns everybody wants to get on board to show off their town to the best
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How true. This is a fun way to do it. I’m sure your chamber of commerce would love to see your post. 🙂
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that sounds like a great program, although I don’t know where you find the time!
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Truth or Dare – I don’t find the time for everything I want to do. 🙂
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Well there’s never enough time
Just means you are living life to the full 😀
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We all try, don’t we? I do spend too many hours in front of my computer, but as one blogger wrote, “My friends are there.” 🙂
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Yes me too, it’s great all these little catch ups
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Indeed! Have a wonderful rest of your week, Ali. Any great plans?
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Our little town had one wall of art, but it began to disintegrate and was taken down to be restored. It won’t go back to where it was, but will be in our new (restored) museum. Otherwise, just statues and plaques.
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I think we have found art in many unusual places and ways. Who would think public art would be cardboard boxes, but they were sure artistic. 🙂
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Love the jigsaw puzzles! I’m addicted to Microsoft Jigsaw but I haven’t tried making custom puzzles yet. Will have to give it a shot.
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I haven’t heard of Microsoft Jigsaw, but I will check it out. Do you know any way to solve a puzzle with someone?
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Although Halloween has caught on in Germany – I have never seen decorated pumpkin boxes. They are marvellous!
Here is my arty take for this week: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2022/10/29/horseheads-without-nebulas/
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Too cute, Elke.
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This is a box? I couldn’t tell because the colors are so bright. That’s too bad it will be thrown when pumpkin season is over.
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I did brighten up the box a little using Adobe Bridge, but the fact that it was so beautifully painted and it was just cardboard sitting out under a roof in a rainy climate makes me marvel.
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Wonderful pictures, Marsha, perfect for Halloween.
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bOOOOOOO 🙂 That’s Halloween for “Thanks!”
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💀
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Colourful Marsha.
Unique.
Thank you.
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Thanks, Philo. They really were unique. 🙂
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You are welcome Marsha.
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So much fun, I hope they’re kept. I’m glad PPAC will continue, I enjoy this little community of street art lovers, always interesting and different, and I hope you continue to join, even if just now and then. Thank you for the jigsaw idea, Marsha, I will put it to good use too 🙂
Here is mine:
https://photographias.wordpress.com/2022/10/29/ppac-glasgow-20/
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Thanks Sofia. We are moving and dealing with too many other things in our life right now. So I am grateful to Natalie to take it over. I love the challenge, and will continue to participate, including visiting the other blogs, but it takes the pressure off. Glad you like the jigsaw idea. 🙂 It’s a great timewaster! LOL
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Like you, I can’t imagine investing this much time and energy and talent in painting a box!! But I am glad the artist could and did!! Scarecrows are so much fun. I used to create/build/put together one every fall. Love the sweet face on this fellow and the use of that great aqua or turquoise color mixed with all the traditional colors of fall.
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I think the color choices are magnificent, too. Thanks for the lovely comment! 🙂
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What a fun post for this week.
Here is my entry together with other challenges. https://mywanderings.travel.blog/2022/10/28/things-to-see-in-melbourne/
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You always make me smile and these are great, Marsha. Turning them into jigsaws is a great idea- these are ideal candidates.
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I am honored that I always make you smile. It is not a hard task, though. I picture you ALWAYS smiling, Jo. Have a great weekend, my friend. 🙂
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I do try 🤗🌺 Have a great weekend too, Marsha 💖
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🙂
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You were snapping away that day we went to GreenBluff, Marsha! These turned out so cute and colorful! I continue to be so impressed with your penchant for puzzles! I’m sure these were fun yet challenging!
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They were lots of fun. I’m processing my puzzle pictures to be more vibrant now. That makes them even more fun. 🙂 Have a great weekend. Wait till you see next week’s PPAC. 🙂
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omigosh Marsha… these pics are amazing and so colorful!
Wait, do you really make these into puzzles? Seriously…. do you have a special machine that does this?
What a great gift!!! love these. 🎃
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The puzzles are digital, Cindy. When I taught kindergarten I did make physical wooden puzzles. I wish I had had these pictures then! Google Everyday Jigsaw. You download an app for your computer and it creates any number of puzzles from your photographs. Not that you have time to waste, but they are so much fun – I’m addicted. 🙂
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Wow Marsha! This is so cool!
They seem fun for doing things yourself but not to share as a group or can you “play together?’
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If it is possible, I don’t know how to do it. 🙂 I’ll have to research that.
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Don’t worry your pretty lil head… it’s all good. 💗
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My pretty lil head just dropped off… LOL Happy Halloween – to sleep worry free.
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🤣 a rolling pumpkin head or a skull.. now you can choose what to be tomorrow.. lol
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Fabulous colours 💜💜
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Thanks, Willow. I love them, too! Glad you do too. xxx Happy Halloween!
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Thank you and a happy Halloween to you too 💜💜
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Thanks, Willow. 🙂
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A pleasure 💜
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Oh what fun photos you have to inspire us.
I’m double dipping with you today.
https://ceenphotography.com/2022/10/28/pumpkins-and-quotes-ppac-and-wqw/
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I am especially fond of these photos. They were such a fun find.
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Hi Marsha, I love the bright colours on the pumpkin boxes. They make me smile right away. Well done with your digital puzzles although sleep is so important. I’m sad to hear next week will be your last PPAC for a while and maybe permanently. Is it because of time to manage the PPAC in addition to your other challenges? I’m interested in taking over PPAC, perhaps include it in my weekly Weekend Coffee Share linkup, as I wouldn’t be able to run two separate linkups every week. Let me know what you think. Have a great weekend!
I have a mosaic mural for PPAC this week: https://natalietheexplorer.home.blog/2022/10/28/loving-life-in-october-2022/
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I’ll email you. 🙂
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Marsha, Thank you for your weekend coffee share. I look forward to your next PPAC post and November 11th start date. Have a great weekend!
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Thanks again, Natalie! 🙂
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