Celebrating 10,000 views giveaway!

To celebrate the 10,000th view of this blog, I will give away one of my art bookmarks to every person that replies to this post in the next 24 hours. You may leave your mailing address here or email it to me at black_unicorn11@yahoo.com.

Giveaway ends at 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 20!

You will receive a random bookmark of the three designs pictured.

This may be your last chance!

As you can see, he's getting close to being finished. Suggest a title for this drawing now for a chance to win a free print! I'll choose the winner as soon as I finish the drawing, so don't wait!

Name the drawing and win a print!

I'm still hoping to have the draft horse drawing done to enter in a contest before the end of September, and I don't have a title for it, so I need your help.

If you come up with the best name for the drawing, I'll send you a free print of it. The name will be chosen solely by what I like the best and what I think best fits the drawing.

The contest will remain open until the drawing is finished.

Here it is in its current state:

And the reference photo to give you an idea what the finished face will look like:

You can post your name ideas here or email them to me at black_unicorn11 (at) yahoo.com.

Giveaway! And a special offer for today!

Sorry for the weekend absence. Put some new fence up and got my horse moved to a new pen so I can work with him. Happy to see him up close again instead of from across the pasture!


I've been talking about my upcoming 2 year anniversary of selling online... well, today's the day! In celebration, I've marked everything in my ArtFire shop 10% off. Today only!


Also, it's time to kick off the giveaway I promised!

$25.00 credit to be used for whatever your heart desires at my shop on either Etsy or ArtFire. The winner will have to let me know which shop they prefer to shop at as the set up is different for each (a coupon code for ArtFire, a special listing for Etsy).

To enter, you must follow my blog and leave a comment with the following:

Name: 

Email address: 

Your favorite item in my shops: 

Something you would like to know about me, whether personal or art-related, or something you'd like to see me blog about: 

You can earn additional entries by sharing this giveaway on Twitter (mention @melissalynndart), Facebook, or your blog. Comment here with a link to your tweet or blog post or copy and paste the text of your post on Facebook. Make sure you leave a separate comment for each way you share and include your name and email in each comment.

You may also earn an entry by making a suggestion for my "Name the Drawing" contest on that post and commenting here that you did so.

Entries will be open through Monday, Aug. 22, and I will randomly pick a winner on Tuesday, Aug. 23.

Good luck!