Do you like captchas?



oil on board 6"x 6"



These flowers are orchids, painted for the PADT challenge of this month.
Now, something that has nothing to do with these nice flowers:

I"ll take the opportunity to speak about my aversion to the captchas; maybe you  don't know what this strange word hides:

The word " captcha"is an acronym based on the word "capture" and standing for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".!!!!!!!!(wikipedia)

Do you want to keep those strange things that turn off your readers?

If you don't like them in commenting  on others' blogs, here are some rules to avoid them  in your own blog:
1- go to SETTINGS in the left bar.
2- Posts and comments
3-Comment moderation: always
4- Show word verification (that is the evil): No
That is!
Ces fleurs sont des orchidées, pour le challenge PADT de ce mois.
Maintenant, autre chose n'ayant rien à voir avec ces charmantes fleurs, qui me donnent l'opportunité de parler de mon aversion pour les captchas, inventés vers l'an 2000 pour nous compliquer l'existence.
Voulez vous garder ces affreux caractères qui ne peuvent que vous éloigner de vos lecteurs?
Dans la négative, voici la marche à suivre pour vous en débarrasser:
1- cliquer sur PARAMETRES dans la colonne de gauche de Blogger
2-Publications et commentaires
3-modération de commentaires ?: toujours
4- Afficher la modération des mots:Non
Voilà, c'est fait!

White lilies



oil on board 5" X 7"



This month, on PADT, we were given by Lela Stankovic a lovely picture of white lilies.

She attracted our attention on the great varieties of colours we can find in those white colours.Before sending my painting to PADT , I read several times the instructions of Lela, and each time discover something new which gives me the idea to start again a better one, that is very stimulating.

A single tulip

TOMATOES



oil on canvas paper 7"x10"

 For this painting, Lela Stankovic (PADT)asked us to be careful in this composition with the lost and found edges;our aim was to engage the viewer's mind as he gets subtle hints about what is not visible.
The advice was:
Avoid “fruit bowl effect” , having everything screaming for attention with an equal vibrancy. Slightly colored “grays” and “browns” are still very valuable balance in a painting. They allow our vibrant lights to thoroughly sing.

It was an interesting challenge, and I was happy to paint that.