The Old Dog Presents: The Mundane as Art Round 11... Walls! 20 Steem in Prizes!

in mundaneart •  7 years ago 

This is another round that anyone can enter. We're going to focus our attention on something that we see almost everywhere; walls!

What Are We Looking For In This Round?


Please try to imagine your photograph as a painting hanging on a wall when you take your shots. Try and focus on color, shade, shape and texture.   

Here Are Some Really Interesting Examples 


I love the colors, shapes and textures in these examples! Images from pixabay.com


Here's a Review of The Galleries That You've Assisted in Creating!


  1. Art Exhibit of Manhole Covers!
  2. Your Photographs of Streets!
  3. Damaged Asphalt Gallery
  4. The Tree Bark Virtual Gallery
  5. Mundane Art: Stones
  6. The Mundane as Art: Grass
  7. The Mundane as Art: Rust!
  8. The Mundane as Art: Sand Patterns!
  9. The Mundane as Art: Moss And Lichen 
  10. The Mundane as Art  Round 10 Ice!


Here Are The Rules For The Contest


  • One submission per person
  • If you enter a photo please also up vote this post.
  • You can create a post using the tag mundaneart but the photo must be posted in the comments here as well.
  • Feel free to use processing and editing to create a special look but I also love the natural look!
  • The photo must be your original work. Please don't use photos that you find on the internet!
  • Submissions will no longer be accepted after the post has payed out in 7 days.


I'm really looking forward to you helping me to create another beautiful  Mundane as Art Gallery!   


What Mundane Object Would You Like to See Featured in Round Eleven?  


Please let me know as your comments are noted, needed and appreciated! 


I hope that you enjoyed this article on "The Mundane as  Art  Round 11...Walls!"


Until next time,


@kus-knee (The Old Dog)

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Here's my entry had a hard time choosing.

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How about paper for one of the contests??

This wall has character and bears more than weight. Lovely.

Thanks a lot!

Paper! Great idea, Deb :)

I'm going to have to come up with a plan and try something creative. I don't have all the fancy equipment you have but I figure if I purchased some stiff bristol board (thick thick paper) in black and a white I can use that as my backdrop for photos. Also, I saw somewhere to crinkle up tin foil and smooth it would again that i would make a nice bokeh background for something, like I don't know, medication? :)

Yes, thick paper works great for backdrops, but you can also use textile or pretty much everything that comes to your mind :) Are you thinking of shooting your medications now? :))

mayhaps.....:)

I thought I would give this a go, it is a wall I build last spring and I am fixing to add another one here in a week or two. I live on the side of a mountain in Tennessee. Unless one of your legs is longer than the other one, you learn how to terrace your yard in order to have some level ground. I added a few more photos in my post to this one, one is of a wall I put in for my waterfalls on my koi pond. I think it more fun going into the woods to find the rocks, but being able to see them every day is pretty rewarding.

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https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@possumworks/couple-of-walls-i-built-in-my-backyard

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Good job and glad to deduce that your legs are more or less of equal length.

All in all you're just another brick in the wall...

Pink Floyd

Fabulous band and I saw the concert in Zurich a few years back. Amazing!!

Wow, that must have been cool!

Mosaic Wall Art you will find the history of this art on my post
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Interesting!

Thank you

is there no link to your post?

I like it!

This is art.

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I love this theme! Thank you for this contest! I have so many walls that I do not know which one to choose. 🙂This is my entry. https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@ileana56/the-mundane-as-art-round-11-walls-the-fortress-s-wall
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Be sure to click on the image to view full screen!

That's an interesting photo!

Thank you, @kus-Knee! It is an old wall in my town. I liked the shadow of the tree on the wall.

Carvegno, Ticino
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Thanks for submitting this!

I like it!

This is very pretty with all the different tones and letters from the brick maker I'm guessing - I used to work for a brick company years ago and they always put their marks somewhere.

Yeah,
But here in India you can also put your own letters on the bricks by paying a little bit extra.

That's very interesting. I wonder what I would have engraved.....hmmmm.

A quiet place for a break..

I love it! Where did you take the picture?

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Zitouna Mosque from Tunisia..

Wow, so nice. I was in Tunisia once and had a great visit!

Ahh So gooooddd..welcome again, I am waiting you for the next visit..

I love this too....especially with the birds finding perch on the scroll work.

I love this!! Fantastic shot!

This is SUCH a great shot, @kouba01 - well spotted!

This isn't my submission:

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https://steemit.com/photography/@dandesign86/mundane-art-contest-walls

Wish you an awesome weekend @kus-knee

I love this. Thanks!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

This is my entry for the contest, it is a wall, of a tower from a castle in England, great contest :)

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It seems that our dear @vee2180 does a lot of travelling! Nice entry!

yes :) whenever i can ! :)

Hey I will upvote regardless!

Though I do hope to get in on more of your contests!

Look forward to seeing the beautiful mundane art!

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We now have 10 competed galleries and not one of them has an @quinneaker hanging in it?

There's something wrong with that picture!!!!

Thanks for the support and am confident that a Mighty Quinn original will one day grace our walls!

hahahahaha its time we change that!
See you soon Dawg!

Here's my entry. This wall was among the ruins of an old church in western Ireland, near Galway. The earliest records that mention the church are from 1302A.D., so we know it's at least that old.
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Are you located in Ireland. I was there for the first time last year. Loved it!

Nah, I live in the middle of Pennsylvania. We went in 2016. Some of the driving was pretty wild, but we had a blast. We stopped at every ruin we came across... which there were quite a few of!

I love this....mostly because its from Ireland and second because I can see it hung on a wall as art. :)

Thanks! I felt like this is what he was looking for as far as imagery goes. Kinda tight shots on the wall components.

I think so too. and I think I missed the mark. I had two others but was being indecisive. This is fun regardless.

Hi there! This is my entry for The Mundane as Art Round 11 :)

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Strangely interesting.

Haha, thanks!

Well Old Dog I did a post to spread the word. I trust it may have inspired a few folks to try out the contest. Seems the consensus is to enter this pic.

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Many thanks for taking the time to put together these fine contests!

Lots of interesting elements here for my twisted mind! :)

I marvel at your compilations all the time, you take your time to making sure you obtain beautiful stuffs, you are awesome @kus-knee

You are too kind! Much appreciated friend!

I'm gonna check the walls of Castelli di Bellinzona ;-)
Will let you know :-)

Go explore!

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This wall in Prague probably isn't what you were initially thinking about, but I love the color and the concept of open participation.

A wall is a wall. Lots of room for interpretation!

Would like to participate in your contest, @kus-knee.

Here is my picture of a wall that I like, personally. I like the different sizes of rock which made up the wall and the colour as well. Hope you find it interesting as much as I do.
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Yes, I like it!

Beautiful!

Oh I like the theme of this contest and therefore I will participate as well 😀!!!
The wall behind me is from the Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes!!!
A Magnificent place that I would suggest anyone to visit!!
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Good luck to all contestants!!!!

Nice!

Hi @kus-knee, this is my entry for the The Mundane as Art Round 11 -Walls Contest. I haven't write the post for this yet, just wanted to submit for this contest first.

The wall is a background of a fountain, you can see the water running down from it and actually quite soothing to just sit in front and stare at it... hahaha

Thank you for having me in this contest. Cheers!

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Beautiful!

Thank you, I'm glad you like it!

I really like it!

Old wall with red glass. Thank you for the new wonderful contest;)

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This is a real beauty @tanata! You always understand what I'm looking for!

It's not difficult, I love the same things)

I can imagine it with the sunlight shining off the glass bits.

I'm not sure if this photo qualify for this contest but I really like the fact that its a wall on the beach that used to belong to a house that was claimed by the ocean... also the little painting is another detail that I love...
Thanks!

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Beautiful!

an old Russian wall in China from before the ww2. the design is quite mundane but yet still unique for the part of the world.

I didn't notice your avatar until @kus-knee said something - very nice...I love it. Are you missing Canada? hehe

I am missing Canada. I think this will be my last few months in China if all goes according to plan. I love being in China too but I got bigger things on the horizon. I'm glad you like the new avatar. ^^

Thanks for the photo. I like your Loon avatar!

hehe, thanks, it's actually going to be a logo for something big I got coming up. Stay tuned, I think it might be something you're interested in.

Thanks!

I like this!

Thank you. I love your themes.

I like it!

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An interesting wall in Philadelphia, USA. There are a lot of interesting mosaic murals around the city. Taken in 2016.

Form the city of brotherly love!

Yes. Great city!

Hi @kus-knee! My first time entering the mundane art challenge and it was not easy choosing a wall - I have a LOT of them in my catalogue! I particularly love the texture and colours in this one, though... So here it is:

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And here's the link to my post: https://busy.org/photofeed/@jaytaylor/mundane-art-aqua-wall-with-ivy-remnants

That is so lovely!

Thank you! I was very happy when I found it (and glad that I had my camera with me)!

after a very long search, here is my submission
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https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@camillius/found-it-at-last

Thanks a lot. Love you hat by the way!

Hey Old Dog! i love the idea of the wall art gallery. I snapped this wall in Salvador, Brazil. i was fascinated by it. Probably it is too artificially?! let me know what you think. Regards, Ivan from Switzerland.

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Hey @ivansnz! Very cool wall indeed!

At last i found something interesting hehe:) This is my entry:

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OK great! Nice. You made it by less than 1 hour! :)

Ohhhh yeahhh i was afraid to miss this round out:)

I might be too late for this one, but I'll post a shot anyway. This is a detail from a house in Venice, Italy. I love the beauty in the layers formed by decay.
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Thanks for sending it in!

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A small taverna in Thassos, Greece. Because is Greece, the walls must be white. Looks interesting to me. I've seen great photos in this contest, I think it's hard to pick the winner. My post is not so spectacular but I like this contest very much and that's why I'm attending, thank you Old Dog!

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WOW! Beautiful!!! :-D

Thank you! I had to choose from several options but none is spectacular.

Thanks for sending it in!

With all my pleasure, wait for another contest to post something competitive, for this one I wasn't so inspired.

It was a hard pick but then I remembered how I should not complain since you have much harder picking to do every week :)
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Thanks for sending it in!

Hello, my participation. Photo in my trip to Madrid

Thanks for sending it in!

I love what you do, I discovered it recently. I will be waiting for more contests like this greetings

The ordinary is actually extraordinary!
So glad you've put out the call again @kus-knee.
Grateful to particiate with you!

https://busy.org/mundaneart/@everlove/rich-with-rot-the-mundane-as-art-round-11-walls-with-kus-knee

That's a colorful beauty of a wall!

It is indeed @kus-knee. These buildings were full of some of the most abstract, amazing textures and colors I have ever seen in stages of deterioration. Grateful to share this with you.

Nice one @everlove. I love what you did with it....very colorful and creative.

Thanks for the comment @countrygirl. It was a really amazing wall!

Strikingly beautiful, works especially well if you rotate it 90 degrees with the red on top.

I love how we can all see beauty differently--a simple twist and it brings on a whole new meaning! Thanks for the comment @roused. I appreciate your bringing forth the consideration.

Beautiful wall

This wall was built in 1622 and is at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
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It's really cool!

is that shaded brick or two tones of brick? really nice Mel!

It is shaded. I was rather afraid you wouldn't be able to tell what was happening there.

I can se it!!! It's a really great entry for sure!!

Women’s Dormitory at the Centre for Development Studies, located in Ulloor, Trivandrum.
This building features some of Baker’s most vitruosic brick work.

Very intetesting!

I like this very much. I'd be curious to know what and where it is.

aha.. thanks @kus-knee if you click the link, I wrote a post all about it and the influences from art which inspired me to capture it. (it's a wall on the London Underground Network (the Tube) and it's odd simulacra is the effect of many advertising posters, constantly removed but never quite 100% removed. It's something which I find quite beautiful in it's mundane, abstract formation and I've even recreated some of my own !

heh... well what a coincidence to meet you here @outerground :D I just posted a wall here, too

great minds - it's a small world (to mix aphorisms) ! mundane art.. almost as universal as GP !

Very cool! I LOVE it!

🚀 🚀 🚀

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Wall of St. John's Fortress , Sibenik, Croatia.

I like it!

fun fact: One scene in Game of Thrones was filmed here and I was present ;)

ooh ! :-)

it looks like there is nothing in between that is holding it... wow!

Nearby is St.James Cathedrale (Unesco site), indeed made without any binding material.

I like that! :-)

Thank you @kus-knee for initiating the #mundaneart photo contest
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I like it!

And that's the bank wall of River Thames in Central London:

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Good to have it. Thanks!

Your contests are an example and stimulating the whole community!
Here a few shots of walls in my Village:
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This is an old fridge for meat.

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This is are old walls next to my home.

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These are more recents.

Very nice. Thanks!

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The mundane as art. xo

Very cool!

yes, and so many amazing entries mundane isn't really so mundane!

Thanks!

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A wall with a splash of color!

: )

this one is soo beautiful dude i like that

thanks @jassi

That' an amazing wall. How big are the blocks?

They are of random size.. mostly around 2-3 sq feet. some are really big.

This reminds of the earthquake proof walls in South America. I am amazed by this ancient technology!

oh is it!!! Hampi is a historical place in India... It has been destroyed and now they are excavating... so many such monuments can be found here...

really nice! imagine how heavy them stones are! amazing.

An amazing feat to build this wall....makes you wonder how.

Ok, this is pretty challenging to decide for someone who´s collecting textures for composings. But here is my entry, a wall I found close to the Footdee Fishermans Area in Aberdeen during our Scotland trip. Unfortunately I missed the rust contest...

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Beautiful!

Thanks :) I'm glad you also see the beauty in rotten things

It’s a gift that we have but it does need to be developed. I was in art school for 4 years and it really changed me.

I love love this one. A wall is a wall....!!

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Hadrian's Wall - Wall Fort (England Side) - Unedited Contest Entry

I like it!

Oh noooo, I have TONS of wall photos, I don't know which one to choose! Big wall fan here :)
Here is one I particularly like. I took it in Wuzhen, China:
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I'm liking the colors in this one. I'm hoping the white stuff is mortar and not bird poop. :)

Haha, could be a mix of both! Thanks @countrygirl

I love this one!

Cheers @kus-knee :)

Aaaah! A new round! I'll be on it ;)

Great!

Walls Walls Walls!! I suspect this might be your most popular yet!

Nice and easy! And the boomster original? We're 11 galleries deep now and still waiting for one from the master!

One day I swear I will see something that is worthy! For even if it is mundane it should be truly worthy. Of course that is code for me saying I am afraid to submit something rubbish!

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Thanks for your entry!

I will always follow your contest.
let me know if i pass ..

Thanks for playing along with us!

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I'd love to participate. I'm not sure if I have to post 'a wall' or something that people walk by every day that I at least found beautiful. So I'm going to guess and post this. I took this in Shanghai when visiting my son a couple of years ago.
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Thanks for entering!

Superb I love your contest,can we create images using a photo editor

Yes, the idea is to make art.

@kus-knee
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100% like and resteem

Nice wall.

Great idea. Walls can be so different and often people don't see the beauty.

Here my entry:
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Nice perspective!

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Shigar Fort, Skardu. Taken with my smartphone.

Very cool!

Galle port in sri lanka
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Upvote Resteem

Thanks for the photo!

Here's my entry:

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This isn't in Canada is it?

UK.

It has something so curious, it tickles to explore :-) like it

Stones from the biggest castle in UK Dover castle find my blog with loads of walls here :
https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@janine-ariane/visiting-dover-castle-the-old-dog-presents-the-mundane-art-round-11

click to see this pic big. :-)

Thanks for entering!

It's a fence near my house. It was in January and at that time the chrysanthemums were still in bloom!IMG_0716.JPG

Thanks for your entry!

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Mundane Art is a great theme. This is a detail from an ancient wall of a villa in France. I loved the range of textures and subtle colours and the way the rough stone and mortar are revealed under the plaster ...

#mundaneart #photography #contest #art

Very nice example!

Thanks for sending your picture!

My pleasure because I want to part spate this contest

This is my entry:
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Not a classic brick wall, but a part of a half-timbered house in Marburg, Germany. I managed to find a part of such a house that almost looked like a checkerboard.

Very interesting. Thanks!

Hello! Here is my entry to the contest. Thank you so much for it, it was really fun.

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https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@mbell/the-old-dog-presents-the-mundane-as-art-round-11-walls

Lots of character here!

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Here is my entry to the contest. This photo was taken in Argentina at the Jesuit City ruins which we visited last year.

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R u sure that you included the photo? I don't see anything!

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@kus-knee, I can see it, anyway I did a quick edit and added some spaces so hopefully you can see it now! otherwise I will post it in steepshot and put a link here!

here is the link to the post I did now and hopefully its ok!
https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@claudiaz/20180311t000415995z-post

Ok great. Thanks!


Abstract architectural photography. A fragment of the wall of an ancient Roman city of Salamis in Northern Cyprus.


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Be sure to click on the image to view full screen!


https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@axeman/the-mundane-art-round-11-walls-the-walls-of-kyrenia

Hey sir, this is my entry

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Pretty cool!

Here's my entry for this weeks contest.

https://steemit.com/nature/@gillianpearce/mundane-art-walls

Thanks for entering again!

My pleasure! 😊

Thank you for hosting these fun photo contests @kus-knee. This is my first time entering with this photo/post of the rock retaining wall along the road by my home:
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https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@ninahaskin/rock-retaining-wall-for-the-mundane-as-art-round-11-walls

Thanks!

Thanks!

Hey @kus-knee. It's not the candidate i first wanted, because i wanted to do a much closer photo of a wall and i had the perfect candidate for it. Sadly some illness and bad weather this week stopped me for taking the shot. So i browsed my photos collection and picked some of the oldest walls in the world for your contest. The walls in the city of Rome. Interesting fact about this particular photo is, that it's actually a cat sanctuary now. So these old walls are home for around 150 cats. You are welcome to check some more photos in my blog.

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Thanks for the effort and I hope that you feel well soon!

Thanks man. I am alright now and looking forward for your next round! :)

Here is my ENTRY

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@kus-knee, I think “Doors” would make an excellent subject for one of your virtual exhibitions.


This is such a cool idea. I especially like the online galleries you put together at the end of each contest.

Thank you for hosting this. ☺️

Thanks for sending it in!

My entry for mundane walls :-)

You really like making it hard for yourself don't you @kus-knee. You're going to get hundreds of entries for this one! 😁

I'm a glutton for punishment!

Here's my entry. Belgrade Fortress

https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@zoricatech/zidovi

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Thanks

This is about as interesting/mundane as I can get being cooped up inside, working all day and staring at my walls. LOL

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I present my entry to the contest friends. This picture is great ... https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@etnique/the-mundane-as-art-round-11-walls-colorful-walls-of-valparaiso
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Walls rock! Here’s my submission:

This is for you :-D

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Hope you like it ;-)))

I liked it very much, although I'm not the one you were expecting. I love the flowers hanging on the walls!

Thank you sooooo much! I follow you ;-)))

With all my pleasure. I also like the second photo, I think is very good for the contest. Hope to win! Thanks a lot for following, I also followed you and wait to see your posts.

Thanks a lot :-))) And good chance for the contest!

Here's my entry. Cool contest! Do I need to create a separate post or the comment area entry is sufficient?


  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Oh... how nice... I stumbled over this by accident and I actually posted a very mundane red brick wall on steemit just this week (click for full view):

Red Brick Wall


bonus material

but then I realized it's not that mundane after all:

because Otto lives there and dreams of being a fish:

...

here are the two original postst:

#TakeMoreWalks: Red Brick Wall [incl. high-res wallpaper]
#GooglyEyes: Otto on the Edge

I guess "one submission" means just ONE photo, obviously I would intend for that to be the 1st one with the little shrub... the rest is just my goofy googly eyes hobby but it should at least be mildly entertaining.

This is my entry :)
The Wall of Life


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wow... that one's effin awesome!

thank you!! :)

I would like to participate in this contest, this is my entry..

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This is a wall of Qutub Minar which is the tallest minar in the world..As you can see in picture the walls are carved and Arabic language is written there..It was build around 1192 and it is just wall but is 73 meters tall minar..It is located at Delhi, India..
Hope you like it..Thanks for this contest..@kus-knee

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Here's my entry:

It's part of an old farm's wall in The Netherlands, made of oak beams partly filled in with bricks, partly with loam clay on woven willow branches. Slightly Mondriaanesk 8-).

This is really nice @ocrdu. Lots of different textures. I love those oak beams.

This is my entry for this contest,

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this beautiful and artistic wall of jaipur india .... jaipur also called orange city because there every wall and houses are orange , this picture i had click last year when i went for vacation , it was amazing experience...

hope you will like this wall @kus-knee

Hello Old Dog :) Fists of all thank you for running this contest, it's a great opportunity to see some great photos.
Here is my entry. https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@erikah/back-to-the-17th-century-the-mundane-as-art-round-11-walls
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What a cute cottage !! Love the brick work on the walls.....good find @erikah!

Thank you @coutrygirl! I have a whole series :)

I’m a little bit obsessed with this wall - the brick and tile contrast makes me so happy. And it pops out of nowhere in Bromley, London.

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This is my entry, a very unique wall:
https://busy.org/mundaneart/@kalemandra/mundane-art-walls

Interesting topic! I'm joining your contest
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Wow this is a very useful contest for all of us to showcase our artwork
I will try, thanks regards from @mr-taleb

"The Wall" Crook County Jail, Chicago, IL.

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Nice. That is THE wall.

this post very nice..and great photography...i appreciate your contest..carry on my friend!!!!!!!!!!
@kus-knee