EMG-Zine Retrospective - July 2011 - December 2011

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The theme was 'Butterflies', with a cover by Kristina Gehrmann. My big, BIG personal news was released.



Gallery

Columns

EMG News:
News for July

Behind the Art:
Butterfly Wings

Artist Spotlight:
Interview with Melissa Findley

Features

The Art of the Insect Wing Jenny Heidewald

Fiction

Poem: The Secret of Green Butterflies Stanley M. Noah

Fiction: A Spot of Colour Anke Wehner

Poem: The Butterfly Rumjhum Biswas

Fiction: Morpho sanguinalis Julie Jansen




The theme was 'Owls,' cover by Kate McCredie.

Gallery

Columns

Artist Spotlight:
Interview with Jenny Dolfen

Behind the Art:
Owl in Mixed Media

EMG News:
News for August

Features

The Wonderful World of Owls Jenny Heidewald

Appreciating Speculative Art Part 1: Types and Tools Elizabeth Barrette

Fiction

Poem: Moon and Owl Karen Neuberg

Poem: Harbinger Sarah Stasik

Poem: Owl Baby Rising Richard Schiffman




Theme of 'Mushrooms', cover by Sara Burrier. This month forward, Ask an Artist was taken over by Ursula.

Gallery

Columns

Behind the Art:
Camouflage

EMG News:
News for September

Artist Spotlight:
Interview with Inge Vandormael

Ask an Artist:
Ask Ursula!

Features

Mushroom References (50 Photos) Ellen Million

Mushrooms Jenny Heidewald

Gaits of the Quadruped Erica Liszewski <- some seriously WOW animations.

Fiction

Poem: Mike the Meek Truffle David Glen Larson

Poem: Mushroom Magic Angelica Dawn and Deirdre M. Murphy




Our theme was 'Scandinavian Mythology' (I tried to do one 'cultural' theme each year) and the cover was by Mitzi Sato-Wiuff.

Gallery

Columns

Ask an Artist:
Light, Drapes, and Pen Names

EMG News:
Happy Birthday and other News

Behind the Art:
Map of Worlds

Features

Scandinavian Mythology Jenny Heidewald

Appreciating Speculative Art Part 2: Parts and Layout of a Picture Elizabeth Barrette

Fiction

Fiction: At the Gates of Valhalla Ellen Million (WOW, I'd forgotten I wrote this. It was one of those 'we have no fiction!' moments and I tossed this together, then found out we actually did have some fiction after all... heh.)

Fiction: Mother Never Spoke About the Sea Sorrel Wood

Fiction: To Love Loki Gerri Leen




November's theme was 'Frogs', and the cover was by Nikki Burnette.

Gallery

Columns

Behind the Art:
Painting Using Negative Shapes

EMG News:
News for November

Features

Frogs and Toads Jenny Heidewald

Fiction

Poem: When Frogs Call C. B. Anderson

Fiction: Tadpoles Deirdre M. Murphy

Fiction: The Kiss Regan Macaulay

Fiction: More than Just a Kiss Mary Katherine Starnes




The theme was 'Ships' and our cover was by Jessica Morgan-Chase. We made a big (and successful!) fund-raising push this month to finish funding EMG-Zine through to the end of 2012.

December 2011 -- Ships
Gallery

Columns

EMG News:
News for December!

Behind the Art:
Red Moon

Ask an Artist:
Media, Sharpening Colored Pencils, and Sketchbooks

Features

Shipping Your Art Tiffany Toland-Scott

Fiction

Fiction: Growing Derelict Anke Wehner

Poem: Penelope Vonnie Winslow Crist

Fiction: Wile Away Ellen Million (This is actually one of my favorite Torn World stories...)