Edit My Art 2025

EDIT MY ART 2025.03 – UNDERGROUND (Optional)

This is a REAL TIME contest open to all FAA artists and members who can read directions.

To give you time to create, it runs two weeks for submissions with a one week voting phase.

The Suggested THEME is OPTIONAL. Just an added element to challenge yourself or focus your thoughts. Images won't be removed for not being on the optional theme, but all images MUST INCLUDE some element from my own work.

PLEASE READ DIRECTIONS AND FOLLOW THESE ABSOLUTE RULES FOR A VALID ENTRY:

1: SOURCE
You MUST CHOOSE AND EDIT any one or more image/s from art in the ONLY A FINE DAY portfolio.
Reference sites:
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/only-a-fine-day or
https://only-a-fine-day.pixels.com/galleries.html
Just select something found ANYWHERE in my ONLY A FINE DAY images or collections and modify it, however you want. You may submit up to four (4) images.

PERMISSION to modify EXPIRES with the conclusion of the contest; however, once made and notated, the resulting image is yours although it and any offshoots MUST retain proper credit and notations (SEE Rule 2).


2) DESCRIPTION REQUIREMENT

Your description should include the following text:
Image “[Name of source image/s goes here] used with permission of Only A Fine Day.’’


3) STYLE REQUIREMENT

Any traditional and digital methods are allowed except 100% A.I. (Artificial Intelligence).
You may use AI, but only as tool or assistant. Your final image must have your human input. I want to see YOUR imagination, not a computer construct.

4) GO TO THE CONTEST DISCUSSION “FOOTNOTES” TAB.

-Post my original work using EMBED Codes and URL link.
-Post your derivative work based on that original using EMBED Codes and URL link.
-Add comments.

OKAY, Rule 4 IS NOT AN ABSOLUTE RULE, BUT IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. but it's fun, educational, and you'll get my vote provided all other rules are followed.

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BE AWARE – Causes for removal of entry.

***Any artwork not rooted in one of my images WILL be removed from the contest. (Rule 1)
***Any artwork that ignores Rule 2 will be considered either plagiaristic or a breach of Fair Use or both and will be removed. I will comment on all valid entries with a “Best of Luck” statement, which supports my written permission.
***Any artwork uploaded before the start of the contest date will be removed from the contest, except on occasion, for cause, and by request. (Previous entries are always welcome if not first place finishers.)
***And overall, IF IT MAKES MY MOTHER BLUSH, IT'S NOT ALLOWED.

***NO Soliciting!

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Be inspired. Be creative.
Draw it, paint it, modify it, collage it, deconstruct it, blend it, whatever and however you are moved.
I'm pretty flexible on what you do as long as I can recognize that you started with MY art.
If you distort it beyond recognition, you definitely need to tell me what you did in the contest discussion tab, or risk deletion.
If an image has or needs to have privacy settings... well, don't submit that one.

Looking forward to seeing what YOU do with MY artwork.

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About the Theme: UNDERGROUND (THEME Optional)
UNDERGROUND can be construed with many meanings. It can be beneath the surface of the earth, or into hiding or secret operation. It can be a subterranean space or channel, an UNDERGROUND city railway system, a movement or group organized in strict secrecy among citizens especially in an occupied country for maintaining communications, popular solidarity, and concerted resistive action pending liberation. Perhaps even a clandestine conspiratorial organization set up for revolutionary or other disruptive purposes especially against a civil order. It could be an unofficial, unsanctioned, or illegal but informal movement or group (especially, as in usually avant-garde group or movement that functions outside the establishment).
So, for this contest, use your imagination to illustrate anything related to being, growing, operating, or situated below the surface of the ground; conducted by secret means; existing outside the establishment (as in the UNDERGROUND economy, UNDERGROUND movies, UNDERGROUND railroad, etc)

Also, you can use an underground image to bring things to the surface, or you can use surface images to bury something.

Maybe you can think of other UNDERGROUND things.

HAVE FUN MAKING ART and GOOD LUCK!

Contest Image: “UNDERGROUND Hole'' by JRL (2014) in my unposted archives. Thanks JRL.

Each participant may submit 4 images.

1)   You must be a member of Pixels.com in order to cast votes in this contest.   Your account must have been active at least 30 days prior to the start of the contest in order to vote.

2)   You may only vote once per image.

3)   You may vote for as many images as you like... but only once for any given image.

Status: Now Accepting Submissions (9 Days Remaining)

Submissions Begin

Saturday, March 1st, 2025 - 5:00 PM

Submissions End / Voting Begins

Saturday, March 15th, 2025 - 6:00 PM

Voting Ends / Prizes Awarded

Saturday, March 22nd, 2025 - 6:00 PM

Current Time (Eastern United States)

Thursday, March 6th, 2025 - 4:42 AM

This contest will be awarding the following prizes:

Click here to submit your artwork to this contest.