Summer of Color Week #4

As I mentioned in the post below, this week's Summer of Color colors are pale pink and charcoal gray, neither of which are colors I use much. In fact, I was thinking of doing something with the Copic pens I have and came to find out I had neither pale pink nor charcoal (or any) grey colors! So I went for another plan...

And yes I know, in theory one spells it "GRAY' in America, and "GREY" in Europe, but I just like to spell it with the E so there! Anyway apparently so did Kristin for the challenge because that is how she spelled it!

So I started with the Moleskine journal which I had gelli printed some pink using bubble wrap (see photo from HERE on Wednesday -- it's the journal on the lower right of the photo). Then I decided to attempt drawing a face and the comment just came to me after staring at my wonky face for a while! I had added a bit of turquoise for the background (which looks a lot greener in the photo) and used a combination of various grey-ish pens and pencils that I had for the hair.

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Summer of Color Week #4
Paint Party Friday
Art Journal Everyday

Summer of Color Week #3

Well here it is Sunday and I had not worked on my choice for the Summer of Color challenge. This week it is LIME GREEN and PURPLE! I do love these colors but have not done much with them together. And as you may have read in the last post, this week has been a busy although non-arty week for me.

So what better place to look for purple and green than in my garden... granted it has been over 100 degrees lately and a lot of flowers are very dead and wilted, but I did find these 2 purple lovelies this morning.

My lovely foxgloves are in full bloom:

And what is left of my hollyhock, which had a very poor showing this year:

Perhaps I will play with those photos in Photoshop Elements 11 this next week when I teach myself about filters and image manipulations...

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Summer of Color Week #3

Summer of Color Week #2

Well it was a lazy summer's day and I was listening to some Taj Mahal... and finally got my entry finished for the Summer of Color Week #2 challenge! I could probably do a lot more doodling and maybe I will later but I wanted to get this one in before I go to my art play day tomorrow in Fremont. More about that after it happens, but it promises to be another fun day in Fremont making paste papers this time!

So remember, this week's challenge was to use orange and hot pink. I already showed you my gelli prints from the other morning. Next I cut a bunch of circles from some of the prints on deli paper, stamped letters on other parts of the gelli prints, and glued them all down. Then I did a bit of doodling around everything and added a little more color. I didn't want to get off the color palette too much this time so I limited my additional colors to mostly pinks and oranges. I love the turquoise background, which is color over another collaged page that wasn't going where I wanted it to go.

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Summer of Color 2013
Art Journal Every Day
Mandarin Orange Monday
Paint Party Friday

Summer of Color Week #2 Gelli print prep...

This week for the Summer of Color challenge (orange and hot pink for this week) I thought I would start earlier and actually USE the gelli prints I make for it...

So this morning I started gelli printing some papers to use for collage or a journal page. Here are some of the prints. I have discovered my camera doesn't want to give me as bright colors as the real thing, as well as making the photos all have a more yellowing tinge even though I am using fluorescent lights and not regular light bulbs. I am sure there must be a setting on my camera for that but I have to figure that out once I download the manual since I no longer have any documentation (it's an old Panasonic Lumix). There really IS some hot pink in there!

Here are some closeups:

and some music and old book pages too:

Now I have a few days to make something for the challenge and will post it here by the deadline on Sunday!

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Creative Every Day
Carolyn Dube's Colorful Gelli Party
Pink Saturday

Summer of Color Week #1

Getting this one in under the wire here! I had forgotten the entry had to be posted by noon on Sundays so since I am not quite back to doing art (as in painting) yet I decided to make a few background gelli prints from this week's colors (which happen to be among my total favorites!): citron and turquoise.

So at 9:15 am I dashed out my gelli plate and quickly made a few deli paper prints -- one can never have too many deli gelli prints right?

I won't worry about what to do with them now, but I have a feeling a few of them might end up in a new painting idea I have... more later!

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Summer of Color
Colorful Gelli Print Party
Inspire Me Monday