One guy from Norway has made a bet that he will collect one million giraffes in two years. Let's help him to reach this!
There are only 512 days left. We have to hurry!

http://www.olahelland.net/giraffes/

that is really neat audrius..I shall send my giraffe when i get on my own laptop, hubbys has nothing on his but guns and bike stuff

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That is so cool! My sister loves giraffe so i'll tell her to draw some lol I'll want to draw a few if I can too.

A million giraffes? It's a tall order!

Oh Steve, how punny!

I thought I might be sticking my neck out with that one!

One more

Norma,
I love your animal portraits. You really have the knack of getting them right. Great job on the giraffe. They are odd animals, did you know they have the same number of cervical (neck) vertebrae as a human?

Great portraits, Steve and Norma
Thanks for joining!

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I made everybody at breakfast this morning, including the waitress, draw a giraffe.
Then when I got home my teenage sons and their friends added giraffes.
Twenty one in total.

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This is from the safari trade.

I think I will try a full picture too.
I will go add them.

Wow! Great idea to get everyone to draw one. I love the one you did for the safari trade, you are so talented.

FANTASTIC!!!

that is so neat paulette!

i have just added these three to the pile

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audrius, i was just cruising thru the giraffes, and i adored the one as musical notes, so i clicked on it and was tickled to see that is your giraffe art..
just thought you'd like to know that one really stands out of the crowd enough to make me actually go and click on it

I actually found three with your distinctive signature.
I think you should post them all here for everyone to see!

Beautiful work Kay!

Thank you, girls! It's really nice to hear that mine aren't just grey particles in a grey mass.

Kay, yours look splendid! Thank you for participating very much

I posted all my giraffes on my blog. You can see them here

I was just wondering if people on other art sites know about 1 million giraffes. Some of you guys are on wetcanvas and stuff like that. It would be really nice if you spread that forward. Thanks in advance

And, of course, I'm waiting all you bloggers to help me out with the Giraffe Sunday!

I blogged about mine also.

All of your giraffes stood out even the ones I didn't recognize as yours, great work!

Thank you, Paulette

Here's the only one I have at the moment from the Challenge week .. Paulette that menu made me HUNGRY.. Great stuff here.. Hope we make it.. Like a ripple in a pond .. maybe there will be many many more before too long ..

I didn't know that you can eat giraffe.....

lol!

Carol,
You make me feel so inadequate when I see your paintings. Gosh, when I grow up I want to be able to paint like you! In all seriousness, you painting of the giraffe is lovely. suitable for framing!
Best wishes,
Trish

I agree. Fantastic giraffe Carol! I love giraffes, but I couldn't eat a whole one!

Thanks ya'll.. I had never drawn a giraffe before.. I think the photo reference was so eye catching that it made it easy.. Amazing what a good reference photo will do..

Amazing giraffe, Carol!

here audrius is one i have sculpted (sculptured) not sure of the right way to say it, how bout, here i made these?

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Another giraffe. Will send you some more when I scan them.

Kay, sveta, absolutely wonderfull giraffes! Kay, you are really good at this sculpural stuff!

thank you steve, i love to play with clay too

Wonderful giraffes!
It's so nice that you all are participating!

Does it count if the giraffe is not alone?

those are really wonderful sveta, I am sure those will work.

Yes, it does count. I have seen some guys drawing more than 1000 giraffes in one page. And they all count.

Actually, everything counts until you do it yourself and NOT with a computer.

Here's another giraffe&co.

I actually collect 'stuffed/toy' giraffes - i love them to bits.
funny - i've never drawn one before... maybe it's a good time to start now
i don't have a reference photo, besides the one in Brenda's lessons.
i try that one and i'll try get more photo's/pics and draw them as well.

Paulette - good idea to get everyone to draw a giraffe - i'll get my sister and boyfriend to do one as well and post it up as soon as they are ready!!

Tania,
Why not draw one of the stuffed animals from life, as in, set it up as a still life and draw from the actual stuffed animal rather than from a picture? I bet you will do very well.

I bet so too Tania..Jeanne does things like that all the time and produces some adorable work

Come on Tania! Dig those toys out and start drawing!

My giraffes in equations became the giraffe of the day today in the "blog from behind the giraffes" --> http://www.olahelland.net/giraffes/blog.php !!!

I Have submitted my giraffe sculpture 2x and they wont post it, perhaps they think it is store bought?
I see the rules say handmade, maybe they think i purchased my giraffe, and that is why they will not post it. I will go send again..

You mean this one? http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/?id=16840

LOL..that is funny, i have searched high and low, i must have overlooked it..bless her heart..I have also sent the site to louisiana and many of my nieces and nephews are suppose to get drawing and getting some on there too.I keep checking but I dont see them,Aunt Kay will have to call and get em motivated!

thanks Siks

Oh and I see lithuania is moving into the number 1 spot..How cool is that? I love your imagination with these too, they are just too precious

You're welcome, Kay. I couldn't miss it there. It really stood out from the crowd!
Next time try using "search" button at the bottom and you won't waste a lot of time just going through pages And you won't miss a thing!

Yes, Lithuania somehow managed to reach the first place. Our country is very little so it's very interesting. But hey, almost all newspapers wrote about this project. Maybe that's why we all got giraffe-crazy Anyway, lets see how long we keep us there! (I hope forever )

and another old drawing for the mountain of giraffes she has gathered so far

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I just came from the site and they are doing Excellent! so many jraffs, so many really creative people of all ages, it is amazing how well it is doing!

Yeah, that site is doing well, although the average number of giraffes sent in per day is still too little for that guy to reach 1 million by 2011. But hey, it's increasing everyday!

Thanks ladies - that is a great idea - i think i'll give that a go!!
i have toys & keyrings and the lot... i'll take them all out and draw them

I'm looking forward to see your drawings!

These are the giraffes I have added so far ... ( I found it really exciting ... ) !!!

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Oh Garyfallia,
These are so different and so good!