UPDATE
Thank you very much for all your kind thoughts and good wishes, to save a bit of work I won't go through and answer all comments individually...forgive please?

Some wanted to know about the blackout...I have no idea what caused it...I have never even fainted before. I am now going to have to have heaps of medical tests done because until I get the all clear from the doctors, I am not permitted to drive. I still feel a bit under the weather so it will still be a bit hit and miss here for the moment.



Yep...no joke folks, I blacked out driving my car yesterday on my way to do the shopping, hit a tree and ended up in hospital overnight....I am OK only minor injuries and a bit of shock but will need a couple of days to rest and recover...so please forgive if I leave notes and messages unanswered for a bit.

I shall be back...behave while I am away!

A round of applause for the Pumpkinites of deviantART!

Well aren't you all wonderful and amazing PixelArtists! What an impressively resounding success this has been. You have created some top rate PixelArt here and a whole lot of fun as well.

Check it carefully, make sure I haven't missed your name or work on the list or your pumpkins before I sign off on this collab.

I counted 154 links to pumpkins on the list...I know there may be a couple extra because some were twin pumpkins on a single link.

The awesome final piece, I wonder if I should make it into a print?





Seeing we have so many pumpkins I thought I would add my very own Pumpkin Soup recipe so they don't go to waste!

Pumpkin Soup (Serves 6)

1.5Kg/3lbs pumpkin roughly chopped
1 large red onion roughly chopped
2 cloves of crushed garlic
Walnut size piece of fresh Ginger grated
1 Massel chicken stock cube
1 tsp nutmeg grated
115 grams/1/4pound butter
1 litre/2pints of water
Sour cream for garnish on top of soup

Into a large saucepans combine the onion, pumpkin, garlic, ginger, nutmeg and butter and stir it around over a medium heat until the pumpkin and onions are well coated in butter and slightly softened. Add the water and stock cube and simmer for about an hour until everything is soft. Allow to cool slightly and add to a blender or food processor and liquefy in small batches.

Reheat gently, add to soup bowls or large mugs and serve with a spoonful of sour cream on top to garnish. Crusty bread is a nice accompaniment.


Have you got a pumpkin recipe? Add it in a comment so we can all share your taste sensation for Pumpkins!



You tell me you thought this was fun, I think you want more...well I am off now to do a bit of a background and start off the next collaboration, which I will post in a day or so...get ready to begin the next exciting PixelArt Collab....can we beat 154? Tough ask!

May I officially welcome *jalonso, PixelArtist extraodinaire to deviantART!



I hope over the coming months, PixelArtists at dA will have the opportunity to see more amazing art from *jalonso, artist and gentleman. Much of his superb work is Isometric, in a marriage of perfect detail and stunning beauty.

The first piece of work he has uploaded to dA is my all time favourite piece of PixelArt, for me it is a heart stopper of sheer beauty in colour, form, design and execution.

Yes it is a DD already! It is way too tempting not to be a feature. If you aren't watching *jalonso and faveing his work, you will be missing out on some amazing PixelArt.




Magnifying PixelArt

PixelArt is something which needs to be savored and inspected closely as the work is laid on a pixel by pixel basis and the normal view often hides the secrets of the Pixel work, too hard to see without magnification.

If you love PixelArt and would love to inspect it closer, Firefox offers a download which will allow you to zoom in on PixelArt at the click of a mouse button. However I have heard there is a problem with FF3.3 =Shadowwwolf suggests to get Firefox 2, not 3.3 as 3.3 has a built in blur function. Useless for anyone interested in looking at PixelArt.

Image Zoom [link]
This will take you up close and personal to all the PixelArt on dA or elswhere with just a mouse click or two.




Pile 0' Pumpkins is drawing to a close

What a resounding success it has been too! Don't miss out on the fun, get your pumpkin to me by the 30th October and be a part of this awesome collaboration of PixelArtists.



Be watching for the next fun PixelArt collaboration coming your way....






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Is this Pile o' Pumpkins a kick-ass collaboration or what?

Everyone who has added a piece of their wonderful artwork to the pile...or who is about to have their pumpkin added to the pile, or those who are still working on your pumpkins, how about helping grow this pumpkinitis by doing a journal about the Pile o' Pumpkins.

There must be a huge amount of people who watch you all and would love to know about the pumpkin collab...it would be a real shame if people want to join and it is too late to do anything and they miss out....so how's about spreading the word now before it is all finished?

Those who have a sub, how about showing your watchers the thumb of the collab and the thumb of your contribution to the collab or those who don't have a sub, add a link to the collab and a link to your pumpkin, so those who haven't caught up with it can get on board and have some fun as well, let's make this the collab to beat all collabs!



...and the one I did!




...and who knows, if there are enough comments on this Journal it might get to the 'Today' page and it could be an EPIC WIN for pumpkins! Show me your favourite plz accounts and bump this sucker to first place!

The Gold Nugget Award for November *jalonso









What an amazing piece of Isometric PixelArt this is! I was blown away when I saw this arrive on dA in my watch list. The work in this is just unbelievable and the sheer beauty just touches my heart like no other.

Congratulations and thank you for sharing your work with us!






What is a Gold Nugget Award?

This is a monthly award for a piece of PixelArt uploaded into the PixelArt Gallery during the previous month. I will announce the recipient of the Gold Nugget Award at the beginning of each month. A free 12 month subscription to dA will also come with the Award.

I will be the only judge and it is going to be purely subjective. To be in the running to receive the Gold Nugget Award you will need to be watching me. The work may at some stage get a DD feature or it may not. It may have already been a feature. No work from a current contest challenge I am running will be eligible, for the sake of fairness.

Let me find those little nuggets of gold scattered in the PixelArt gallery.


The Gold Nugget Award for October *FrostTLU

The first ever Gold Nugget Award goes to *FrostTLU for this wonderful piece of Text PixelArt. C64 restrictions, 10 colours. The sheer beauty and gleaming vivacity of colour together with the highly appealing graffiti style, lifted my spirits when I first saw this uploaded in September.

Congratulations and thank you for sharing your work with us!