I am taking the liberty of changing my mind about posting here. Why not? I'm separating out this award post from the painting I originally posted with it. I was in too much of a hurry to post the award business while currently in the midst of considering changes in this blog. Just for the sake of order...
Nancy Standlee kindly passed the
Arte y Pico award from Uruguay along to me. With this award, come the stipulations that each recipient:
Pick 5 blogs that deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and contribution to the international blogging community and list the names of those artists with links to their blogs.
Post the name of the award creator with a link to her blog and, finally,
Show the award

with the name and blog link to the artist who has given the award (in this case, me).
This is a slight variation on tagging but, what the heck, it's fun to get an award and the tagging game always seems to lead to new friends and admirers!
So here are the 5 artists I am passing this award to *with a caveat:
Mineke Reinders in Illinois who brings us watercolor jewels (mostly) from Turkey
Sarah Wimperis in England now, who's watercolors from Brittany and England continue to bring me great joy and inspiration
Werner Pfarr who's fabulous drawing posts (and gaming ideas) from Nice, France are always worth waiting for
Casey Toussaint, also in France, who's colored ink drawings are always a delight
Robin Purcell in California who makes marvelously unique and gorgeous watercolors
and wait ... I can't leave out
Dawn at
The Vulture Café who brings us remarkable photographs of details from our natural world although I see she's already received the award.
* These awards and tags can be sometimes overwhelming, so none of the 5 of you are in any way obligated!
Furthermore, I've really gone along with this blogging game to help promote some fine blogging artists I truly enjoy. There are more in my sidebar and I encourage you to click on their links, too when you have some browsing time.