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    SOC 5 week 3

    June 24, 2015 - By 

    The colors for this Week 3 of The Summer of Color hosted by Kristin of Twinkle, Twinkle gave me some trouble. I wasn’t sure how I wanted to proceed so I didn’t until today.

    1 purple + 1 purple + 1 yellow

    I happened upon an image of a little girl all in yellow in a magazine ad. I figured she’d work perfect for the yellow portion. I used gel medium to adhere the magazine image to some printer paper so she’d have a little more stability as I cut around her.

    For the background I once again decided to use gelatos…

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    So far they haven’t failed me. Although I was surprised at how pink the lavender gelato appeared on the page. I decided to just press on since the tube was clearly labeled lavender.

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    Instead of doing a straight up checker board I went with random rectangles. The blending gave a slightly dreamy quality in my eye.

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    I searched through my collection of phrase fragments until something came together.

    These colors definitely had me stepping…or perhaps leaping outside my comfort zone. That’s what challenges are for, right?!?!

  • Art - Blog

    Everything glowed

    February 22, 2015 - By 

    Yesterday afternoon while searching for my heart shaped journal….which I still haven’t found…I came across 2 art journals I had started years ago. One is almost full and the second only has a handful of pages complete.

    The large butterfly image fell into my lap as I was digging around through my stash. I decided it was high time that I used it.everything glowed

    I began with gesso and paint for the background in greens and yellow. Sort of thinking rainforest  backdrop. After it dried I was convinced that it needed more color and texture. Out came the gelatos! I’m loving them…my new favorite supply! everything glowed closeup

    I went over top with a little more paint sponged through a bit of punchenella.  I searched my bin of found text until some words spoke to me.