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Hardware failure, but we’re back!
Bugs and errors Mon 28th Jan, 2008 2 comments
During the weekend the OMM server suffered a hardware failure resulting in the website being offline for 24 hours. We apologise for the vanishing act and hope that our loyal members weren't too disappointed by our absence! I can safely say howeve...

New December snapshot
Merchandise Thu 10th Jan, 2008 0 comments
The December 2007 OMM snapshot has just been uploaded on to deviantArt. Those of you with our 2008 calendar will already have a small version of this snapshot on the back page of your calendar. What's interesting is that the Big Collab is clearly...

Face Tutorial
Artist Tutorials Fri 21st Dec, 2007 0 comments
it's not super-amazing or anything, but I created a helpful tutorial for OMM users wanted to paint portraits, people, or faces in general. The tutorial covers colors, blending, face chapes, lighting and more! So...check it out :D ...

OMM competition for deviantArt members
Competitions Thu 20th Dec, 2007 1 comments
Our deviantArt representative Alejandra Sánchez (Black-amethyst-Rose) has organised a great art competition on the Million Masterpiece dA profile. If you fancy getting creative and bagging some prizes you need to be quick, the deadline for submiss...

Official 2008 Calendar - Available Now
Merchandise Mon 3rd Dec, 2007 27 comments
It’s finally arrived – the One Million Masterpiece Official 2008 Calendar. Every corner of the masterpiece has been scoured to find the images that make up our twelve themed montage images. This year of design team had a tough job, with thousands...

Official 2008 Calendar - Who's who
Merchandise Mon 3rd Dec, 2007 105 comments
The following artists have been chosen to feature in the official One Million Masterpiece 2008 calendar. Well done to everyone who made the cut – your picture will be proudly displayed in thousands of homes around the world! This years montage th...

Official Facebook Application launched!
New features Tue 6th Nov, 2007 9 comments
We've just taken the wrapping off our new official Facebook application and would like to invite all Facebook users to take it for a spin. So what does it do? The application links your OMM and Facebook accounts, and allows you to create a mini...

Where is the Big Collab?
Collaborations Sat 3rd Nov, 2007 13 comments
So far there are 30 members of the Big Collab group within the OMM. If you would like to join, or you have not already been moved, please comment on this news item!! ...

Ready to swap in the Big Collab?
Collaborations Wed 31st Oct, 2007 5 comments
For the past month Gracie Rafferty has been canvassing OMM members to join the Big Collab – a sub group of OMM members who want to collaborate by joining up their pictures. Her idea has been based on the fact that the OMM is about to release a n...

Spotlight : Shahtoosh
Spotlight : Artist interviews Sat 27th Oct, 2007 2 comments
Every image within OMM captures a small imprint of the artist that created it. Doodles and short messages give us a fleeting glance, whereas multi-layered pictures increase our understanding of the artist behind the art. Something really special h...

Official 2008 Calendar : Final category list
Art news Mon 22nd Oct, 2007 11 comments
Here's your chance to bag a place in our official 2008 Calendar and have your artwork shipped into thousands of homes around the world! Like last year, the twelve calendar categories will be made up of a hand picked selection of images that will m...

Foundmyself joins OMM alliance
Project news Wed 17th Oct, 2007 1 comments
We'd like to welcome Foundmyself as the latest website to join the alliance of online arts communities that support the One Million Masterpiece project. Foundmyself was established in 2003 to help artists sell their original artwork online. The p...

Spotlight : Jason Knight
Spotlight : Artist interviews Fri 5th Oct, 2007 6 comments
There are some extraordinary examples of talent within the OMM, of people who can use the simple paint tools to craft something that is more than just a picture. For an example of this we need look no further that the top of the all-time leaderboard...

New features released
New features Sat 29th Sep, 2007 3 comments
Profile enhancements 1) All users can now upload a photograph to their profile home page 2) Donors and Supporters can now create double sized images in their gallery, with a super-sized replay feature 3) Auto-login is now set by default to enhan...

Member and tagged search
New features Wed 19th Sep, 2007 4 comments
We’ve finally reinstated the member search feature after a few months absence. The new service can be accessed from the Community menu. A search can be conducted for artist name, town, country or ID number. At the same time we’ve linked up pictu...

Spotlight : J West
Spotlight : Artist interviews Fri 14th Sep, 2007 2 comments
There are many hundreds of portraits peering out at us from the depths of the One Million Masterpiece. Drawing a portrait is satisfying for any human being because, over many thousands of years, we have become nature’s face-specialists. An entire a...

Wanted : Experienced deviantArt members
Project news Fri 14th Sep, 2007 1 comments
The OMM project has always enjoyed a close relationship with deviantArt. The world’s largest arts community and the world’s largest artistic collaboration have a unique bond, not least because such a massive proportion of our members are deviant arti...

Call for 2008 calendar category suggestions
Merchandise Sat 8th Sep, 2007 9 comments
It’s that time of year to start thinking calendars. We sold hundreds of our 2007 calendar which sold out quickly. Next year we’re expect demand to be equally high, and have therefore engaged the awesome printing ability of deviantArt who will be pr...

Save the mural !!!
Project news Fri 7th Sep, 2007 3 comments
Back in May, Jeran Moore painted an OMM mural on the wall of his school in Crofton, USA. His inspiration was Qian Zhao’s magnificent mountain top building – one of the all-time most popular OMM contributions. Sadly, Jeran has reported that today ...

Spotlight : Gracie Rafferty
Spotlight : Artist interviews Fri 7th Sep, 2007 5 comments
One of the beautiful things about OMM is that everyone who submits a live drawing is forced to use the same drawing tool. OK, so some people have access to a drawing tablet which does help, but at least the tool is consistent. So how is it that s...