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Below is a list of the artwork nominated this year, with links. If I've missed anything, or if anyone has better links to the art, please leave me a comment.

( Artworks )

Below is a list of the artwork nominated this year, with links. If I've missed anything, or if anyone has better links to the art, please leave me a comment.



( Artworks )

ETA: Blue Plate Special

Below is a list of the artwork nominated this year, with links. If I've missed anything, or if anyone has better links to the art, please leave me a comment.

This year I'm also making a series of comment threads, one for each art fandom, and I encourage anyone who is interested to do a quick bit of fandom pimping in the relevant thread. What sort of prompts might you be interested in? What interests you about the art?

1947 Heidelberg Photographs series - Walter Sanders

Two american girls sauntering...
Girls' dormitory on the Schlossberg...
American teen-agers drink toast...
Characters:
Girl lying on bed in Schlossberg dorm and drinking a toast in the inn
Sauntering American girl in checked shirt
Sauntering American girl in sweater and necklace
Staid German Woman

Beautiful Losers II - Jack Vettriano

Beautiful Losers II
Characters:
Seated Man (Beautiful Losers II)
Standing Man (Beautiful Losers II)
Woman (Beautiful Losers II)

↓↓↓ New Addition ↓↓↓
Blue Plate Special - Jeff Lee Johnson

Blue Plate Special
Characters:
Blind Man with Newspaper
Point of View Person
Smiling Waitress with Knife
Tentacle Monster Under the Counter

Dixit (Card Game)

Pinterest
Small thumbnails identifying all the cards
Google search

This is a card game, but I think it probably more or less counts as an art prompt - the game involves a pack of cards with interesting illustrations, and unless the nominator turns up to say they had something different in mind, I think it's most likely the requests will be for stories inspired by the art on the cards. I can't find one perfect site to link to showing all the art: if you have a pinterest account I think you can probably see all or most of the cards at the first link. The second link has very small thumbnails allowing you to identify which card images you've found elsewhere belong in which pack. The third link merely saves you the time of typing dixit cards into google image search. If anyone requesting this has direct links to better quality images of cards they particularly like, please comment with the link and I'll add it in.

Elements - Experiments in Character Design - Kaycie D.

Beryllium (Elements Character Design)
Chlorine (Elements Character Design) (sorry, couldn't find a better image)
Helium (Elements Character Design)
Technetium (Elements Character Design)

Europe After the Rain II - Max Ernst (Painting)

Europe After the Rain II - Max Ernst

Flodskörden || Things from the Flood - Simon Stålenhag

Things from the Flood Part I
Things from the Flood Part II
Characters:
Annika (Flodskörden)
Annika's Boyfriend (Flodskörden)
Female police officer (Flodskörden)
Stimulus Roadworker (Flodskörden)

Simon Stålenhag is perennial yuletide art favourite, but you could easily miss this one, since it's found under Books & Literature - quite correctly as it was published as a book, but it is indeed art, and the art is available online at the links above.

Le Fruit Defendu - Auguste Toulmouche

Le Fruit Defendu
Le Fruit Defendu (b&w)

The Garden Door - William Bruce Ellis Ranken

The Garden Door
Characters:
Man in a Grey Suit (The Garden Door - Ranken)
Man in a Hat (The Garden Door - Ranken)
Man With Flowers (The Garden Door - Ranken)

Hedgehog and Polar Bear - Nami Nishikawa

Artist's Tumblr
Pinterest board of nominator's favourites
Characters:
Cat (Hedgehog and Polar Bear)
Hedgehog (Hedgehog and Polar Bear)
Polar Bear (Hedgehog and Polar Bear)

Lisa Frank - Works

Dancing Dolphins (Lisa Frank)
Dancing Dolphins (Google image search)
Hunter (Lisa Frank)
Hunter (Google image search)
Playtime Kittens (Lisa Frank) (Google image search)
Rainbow Chaser (Lisa Frank)
Rainbow Chaser (Google image search)

These all seem to be recurrent characters in Lisa Frank's art, so I've linked fact sheets for the three that seemed to have them, and otherwise just general image searches where you can find the nominated characters in a number of different pieces. Frank's Facebook also has many images.

Night Sun Tarot Deck

Knight of Wands (Night Sun Tarot)
Page of Swords (Night Sun Tarot)
Three of Swords (Night Sun Tarot)
Three of Pentacles (Night Sun Tarot)

Omar Rayyan - Works

Lady in Furs (Omar Rayyan - Works)
The Morning After (Omar Rayyan - Works)
Spanish Mackerel (Omar Rayyan - Works)
Tea in the Tempest (Omar Rayyan - Works)

Another perennial favourite making a reappearance.

Shadowscapes Tarot

The Emperor (Shadowscapes)
Knight of Wands (Shadowscapes )
Nine of Swords (Shadowscapes)
Page of Swords (Shadowscapes)
Queen of Swords (Shadowscapes)
Seven of Swords (Shadowscapes)

Sino-Soviet Propaganda Posters

Sino-Soviet Propaganda Posters

Something I Must Do (Woot T-Shirt)

Something I Must Do

Space Cats - Bronwyn Schuster

Orange Tabby Space Cat (I think this is the right one - I'd have said this one was the orange tabby and Space Cat I is brown.)
Purple Longhair Space Cat
Rocket Pack Space Cat
Rocket Ship Space Cat