Arte y Pico Award

This month I was selected by Karen Hargett awarding my blog The Arte y Pico Award. Karen and I met briefly while attending Susan Carlin's Ustream painting demo on Sunday. She is from Austin - and if you check her blog, an accomplished painter and a real promoter of fine art and artists! I am honored to receive this award from her.

I am passing this award, according to the "rules", to 5 artists that I feel also deserve the recognition. Some of them I have emailed with or met in person and some I haven't, but never the less, they are an inspiration to me, as I am sure others.
Melody Johnson
Karen Margulis
Lorrie Drennan
Sue Bleiweiss

eLIZabeth Floyd

The Origin of The Arte y Pico Award and Rules - just an FYI - are:

The Arte y Pico Award has arisen from the daily visits that are made to many blogs, by you, which nourish and enrich you with creativity. In them, you must see dedication, creativity, care, comradeship, but mainly, ART, much art. You want to share this prize with all those bloggers that entertain and enrich you day to day. Doubtlessly, there are many and it will be hard to pick just a few.

The Rules:

1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award through creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogger community, no matter of language.

2. Each award should have the name of the author with a link to their blog.

3. Award winners have to post the award with the name and link to the blog of the person who gave them the award.

4. Show these rules and the paragraph (above) explaining the awards origination.

I wish to thank you again, Karen, for awarding me. I enjoyed considering those who fit the criteria listed above and feel I have selected the creme de la creme!