Animal And Wildlife Challenge Dec 2025/Jan 2026

[pcj]

Hello Everyone,
Here's the DEC 2025/JAN 2026 ANIMAL AND WILDLIFE CHALLENGE

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ANIMAL AND WILDLIFE CHALLENGE

On the first day of each month various photos
will be provided,

Please choose from the photos provided
to create any kind of artwork that you like in any medium .
Please use only the photo’s provided.

You can post at any time time during the 2 months
[and even beyond ] and if you wish, please include any
works in progress and any comments. [ It's nice to have
a chat about the challenge ]
Cheers,
Patricia

The first 10 photos are in this post the next 10 photos are in the next post.
Merry Christmas everyone.

 

[pcj]

The next 10 photos -

 

[Jade]

I just remembered it's December! Thanks Patricia .. wonderful pictures as always.

 

[Joy]

Beautiful selection! I do have a wee suggestion for the future. Perhaps some more non mammals, like birds, reptiles, fish or insect. That would provide more color variety.

 

[KreativeK]

Nice images!

Good suggestion Joy!

 

[pcj]

Beautiful selection! I do have a wee suggestion for the future. Perhaps some more non mammals, like birds, reptiles, fish or insect. That would provide more color variety.

I usually do get several examples of birds as I know that some members particularly like
doing them. I have ten that I didn't use this time because I didn't think
the resolution was good enough to be able to do a painting from but that is just my opinion. I think I'll post some of them now
and see what you think. Fish, I have done some in the past. I will do more in the future.
Will also do more insects. I will also try to do some reptiles. [with the exception of snakes]
My main criteria is showing the 'soul' of the animal .
Cheers
Patricia

 

[pcj]

Here are some of the birds that I didn't use because of the resolution and one [the
parrot which has excellent resolution that I didn't use because we recently did a parrot
3 months ago and I try to vary the type of bird to make it more interesting.
Pixabay is a good source of free non-copyright photos but many of them are poor resolution
or unusable in some other way. I usually go through at least 700 pages before finding the gems.
See what you think of the poor resolution photos .
Merry Christmas
Patricia

 

[Joy]

Patricia - These still look beautiful to me! I know what you mean by looking for royalty free images. What one presumes to be a quick task turns out to be hours down a rabbit hole. Thanks ever so much for the time you put into these selections.

I usually do get several examples of birds as I know that some members particularly like
doing them. I have ten that I didn't use this time because I didn't think
the resolution was good enough to be able to do a painting from but that is just my opinion. I think I'll post some of them now
and see what you think. Fish, I have done some in the past. I will do more in the future.
Will also do more insects. I will also try to do some reptiles. [with the exception of snakes]
My main criteria is showing the 'soul' of the animal .
Cheers
Patricia

My husband loves snakes; he has always been fascinated by them. The ones here are (mostly) harmless and the ones we see in the yards rid us of unwanted vermin.

 

[pcj]

It's Christmas and here's a Christmas present from me to you !
Cheers
Patricia

 

[ams]

What wonderful images this time. I love them all! Thanks for hosting Patricia.

 

[Sanlynn]

Thanks Patricia! Great selection of reference photos.