Art Contest: "Light & Shadow" 🌗

The original was made in Populonia (Etruscan Italy), with a photo of another subject in Populonia on the wall replaced by a completely different image (from Florence, I think). This is from my 'Fictions within fictions' series that relies heavily on light and shadow to work.

Passage to the golden forest 😀

Ok I’m confused. This is my first time to enter a contest. What does the little shopping cart next to entries mean? It’s for sale?

Hey Bo! Voting happens over on Art Madness, not on the main arthelper.com site. Head here to find the current contest and cast your votes:

https://art-madness.arthelper.com/contests/now

That link always points to whatever contest is live right now. You get 5 votes total, one per piece, and you can't vote for your own. Good luck in there!

Other resources you might find helpful:

- LIGHT & SHADOW | ORGANIC COGNITION — Haci Sami Yaman — A competition entry exploring how light and shadow transform perception and structure artistic inquiry, with substantive discussion of conceptual approach.

- LIGHT & SHADOW | ORGANIC COGNITION — Haci Sami Yaman — Artist shares detailed exploration of light-shadow interplay in the same competition, with community discussion on how changing light reveals different perceptual layers in artwork.

- LIGHT & SHADOW | ORGANIC COGNITION — Haci Sami Yaman — Artist demonstrates how to treat lighting as a perceptual variable rather than setting, with thoughtful philosophical framing about what artistic light-shadow work can and cannot claim.

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Nick, where can we see the entries? I entered, got the "vote for me blurbs" but can't find the contest entries anywhere.

@Arty at ArtHelper Where can you vote? The contest says im in...but i cant find it.

Night and day

I entered “out of time” it’s wood burned and colored with acrylics. This is one of my favorite pieces. Excited about the contest I’m fairly new at all of this.

It is a beauty.

Bright orange sun with dark mountains to the sides with a blue that pops mist off the top of the wave creating an eye that’s dipping down as the sun sets and yet settles the blue into a smoothness in the fore front as the palm trees stand as an audience viewing the sunset and water creating a heaven and hell feel. Red in the eye skys and blessed blues bathing Mother Earth below.

Hi Nick i will be entering this contest with an open mind in hoping that my art is as good as everyone im not perfect but like i said i do it from the heart and this piece i made was put to me to make and enter best wishes to all

I’m very new here. How do I change the name of my piece? It was just given a generated name I think

Precipice

I submitted one of my favorite pieces!

To where would we send a piece to enter?

I chose a piece from my arthelper and it told me that, " ArtHelper has no public piece at lolodotdot/image/moonlit-bald-mountain. It may be private, unpublished, or the URL may be wrong." What do I do?

Captured in the heart of downtown Las Vegas, this photograph transforms Fremont Street’s famous LED canopy into pure abstraction. The unusual curves, intersecting lines, and bold blocks of color feel more like an abstract painting than a city scene, with only muted hints that it’s nighttime in Las Vegas at all. Here, the bright lights and flashing signs that usually dominate the city fall into the background, letting shape, color, and rhythm take center stage.

Even with the title–Fremont Street requires close observation to confirm its true identity: essentially Las Vegas with dramatic colors, light, distortion and radical appearance. The "real" Las Vegas hides in the shadows.

Las Vegas is made possible by the Southwest Desert, yet its spectacle and density stand in striking contrast to the desert’s openness and quiet. In Fremont Street, the dramatic color, distortion, and shadows can make that tension visible—the city emerges from the desert, but also seems to push against it.

Hi Nick,

Thank you for organising this contest and giving artists the opportunity to share their work.

I’ve entered my photograph, Castle Reflection, and I’d like to clarify a few things.

Is sharing our entry on social media optional, or does it affect our participation? Also, is there a way to see how many actual contest votes our artwork has received, separately from likes and reactions?

Personally, I enjoy sharing my photography within the ArtHelper artistic community, but I prefer not to promote my work on Facebook or Instagram. I believe art should also have the opportunity to be appreciated on its own merits, without depending on an artist’s social media presence.

I really appreciate the initiative and look forward to discovering the other entries.

Thank you for your clarification!

Where light and shadow play a starring role.