So long SOC-wk6

Hello friends. 

I cannot believe week six of the Summer of Colour is here and this concludes the Ice Cream Inspiration challenge that our graceful host Kristin has created. It has been fun, inspiring and so wonderful to see many types of art and craft work done by so many talented artists.

This last weeks colour inspiration is....Watermelon Ice

apparently the black chunks here are bits of chocolate. Doesn't this look so refreshing.

 And here is my take on this weeks colour. It sure looks very pink here in the photo. I painted water colour paper using a mask and water colour paints. I added some brown using a sequin waste piece and acrylic paint. I found this anonymous quote over at the Quote Garden under the crayon heading. 

I have really enjoyed this challenge and it is so much fun to see some of my sketches transform from graphite to colour. 

Thank you everyone who has dropped by and left wonderful comments over the last 6 weeks and a special thank you to Kristin for organizing each week of colour prompts and the weekly prizes we are all eligible to win.

I am going to take a break from challenges now as I start to prepare for my fall craft shows. I am starting early this year.

I have also been working on upcycling an old dresser and I finally finished it today. It has been almost 2 weeks of painting but I am really happy with it. It will be part of my craft storage for all those bits and bobs that pile up and stashes you need to hide away when company comes.

It has been brutally hot and paint was drying very fast but it is now done and I can't wait to share with you the final result. 

Stay tuned.....

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SOC week 5, Wild and Reckless

Hello everyone,

wow week 5 of Summer of Colour and it will be over very soon. This has been a fun and very creative experience for me as I am working with wonderful colours and putting my sketching skills to use. I did another ice cream girl for this week. 

Look at this colour prompt Kristin chose for us to use this week...isn't it yummy?

It is called Wild and Reckless, another Baskin Robbins special.

I drew this girl in my sketch book recently and decided I would scan her then print her on script scrap paper. Well after she came out I noticed the paper was upside down, no big deal, you can't stress when things like this happen, it just makes for more interest and makes people think, why is it upside down? No reason, it just happened. So I took all these yummy colours and painted the girl and  the background in washes of acrylic paint, I more or less pounced on the colours for easier blending. into one another on the background. My lime green wasn't bright enough for my liking so I got out the watercolours and painted right over the lime green and it really made the lime green pop more. I also dripped some of my new Ditto ink sprays which have a nice shimmer . I didn't want to spray the whole background so I just took the sprayer out of the bottle and dabbed and dripped a bit here and there then smudged with a tissue. I also pounced some of the other acrylic colours on to add interest. As you can see I also had to add my homemade texture to this using a dollar store sticky back stencil. The girl's dress has scrap paper that had these same wonderful colours and I added some jewels to her neckline and painted a white flower lime green and dabbed a bit of ink on it. I really love how this one turned out. She will be going into my SOC Ice Cream inspiration mini journal. 

Thank you for stopping by. Don't forget to visit Kristin's blog for links to lovely art and creations during this very creative SOC Ice Cream Inspiration.

TTFN 

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Not sure what is going on with the white background....this has happened  before and is not intentional.

Summer of Colour Week 4

Hard to believe we are already at week 4 and here is the Ice Cream inspiration for this week for

  Summer of Colour ....

Strawberry Lemonade.

Never had this flavour but I bet it is yummy. That lemonade screams lush at me.

And here I have made 2 girls enjoying these 2 wonderful colours together, yellow and pink. When I was blending the colours together on my paper they sort of created a bit of an orange in places but I left it to add interest and a bit more splash of colour. I didn't go with a pale palette here, I chose bright bold colour and I do really like it. 

I have a little chipboard journal all ready to put my Ice Cream girls in so will be working on that after the challenge to gesso and prep the chipboard a bit.

Here I used all acrylics and drew my own faces because I am really loving my Suzi Blu inspired girls. I just did a bit of stencilling on the background, it needed something and I used my homemade texture paste and you can find the tutorial here for it. Someone asked me if it lasts very long and I can tell you I made it a week ago and it is still pliable and I did have to add a drop or two of water but it is just fine. 

And you think this week was fun....I can't wait for next week, I am crazy about this Ice Cream Inspiration for week 5....take a peek, doesn't it scream at you.....I could stare at these colours all day....

Wild and Reckless Sherbet......look at that turqouise, pink and lime colour, I even see bits of purple....

Thank you so much for dropping by and if you have a bit of spare time go take a peek at the links provided over at Kristin, our gracious hostess for this challenge, blog to see some amazing art and crafts inspired by these wonderful Ice Cream colours.

Til next time....have an ice cream and be creative.

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Summer of Colour 2 Week 3-Baseball Nut

Sounds yummy doesn't it? Well Kristin has done it again with the flavour or colours of this next week. Here is a peeky at what the colours look like together in an ice cream cone....

Baseball Nut

"A smooth, vanilla flavored ice cream swirled with a black raspberry ribbon and loaded with cashews"

-Baskin Robbins

 And here is my girl wearing her raspberry beret with cashew hair and swirly raspberry and vanilla background done in watercolours, acrylic paint and paper. 

Her dress looks more purple here but it is more of a black raspberry and I gessoed over it a bit to tone it down. I used my fingers to paint the watercolour background with my new watercolour crayons. 

Next week's prompt is Strawberry Lemonade Punch....oooo can't wait to do something with these colours. 

Thanks for dropping by. Don't forget to go to Kristin's blog to check out all the links to those who are participating in this wonderful colour challenge. You will be amazed at the beautiful artwork that is around the web.

Til next time......I have a wonderful frugal art technique to show you....you will want to make some and try it out yourself. I will be supplying a recipe and you more than likely have all the ingredients, all 3 of them. 

TTFN♥

Summer of Colour Week 2

So last week I did  a butterfly but didn't plan on that because I was unsure as to whether I would do the challenge or not, but, after seeing so many of my blog friends joining in. I jumped in full tilt. 

From here on as a practise and a challenge with colour I am making a mini journal with faces of each week's colour prompts from Kristin's SOC 2 Challenge.

So here is week 2's flavour- Mint Chocolate. 

This colour looks more blue to me but I used greens in my piece as mint is green and not blue. I hope everyone else is recognizing the colour as I do.

 If not then I must be coloured blind. Here is my take on this weeks prompt. I painted this watercolour paper with all acrylics, layers of homemade stencils and gesso with Bittersweet chocolate Delta acrylic and Americana Hauser light and medium greens. I didn't have any small flowers in my stash so I used a die and cut my own then painted them, I put polka dots on them, loving dots lately, I even used alcohol ink on a pearl embelly on the center of the green flower. And if you look close enough you may see a little cone hanging in her hair. 

I have been trying to visit the artists doing this challenge, I hope I can stop by most of them for a visit and see their takes on this event. 

Thanks again Kristin for a wonderful and playful time over at SOC 2.

TTFN ♥

No help from my assistant

Hey there everyone

hope you are having a great Friday. It has been beautiful the last 2 days after much needed rain and it is warming up again. After a natural watering the garden is really coming along nicely. Can't wait for those green beans on my plate and tomatoes sun ripened right off the vine. Oh summer is almost here.

Well today I did a bit of creating, I decided to work on my 2nd week of the Summer of Colour. I had some trouble at times completing it because Rosie decided she wanted to paint as well. I told you before she isn't really a photogenic cat, I try to catch her straight on but she usually moves just as I am taking her pic. You can see here she is showing some attitude. I think she was trying to pretend she wasn't going to drink from the paint water, she tries when I am not looking and if I cover it she takes the cover off and has s drink. As you can see the paint and brushes are out and she got her whiskers painted, she loves when I do that. 

Needless to say I had to wait til she moved before I could settle into my chair which is to right where she is looking.

 Then after she got her whiskers painted at the spa she decided to settle in the sun at the other end of the table and take a nap. She wasn't snoring today but sometimes she makes quite a racket. She didn't know I caught her cat napping. Oh the life of a cat.....=^..^=

 And I completed this for the Summer of Colour week 2, Mint Chocolate but I am just showing you a sneak peek. Can't show you the whole thing til Monday...I painted everything you see, even the paper flowers. 

I also worked on a canvas today and it is coming along nicely.

Hope you all have a great weekend. 

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The Summer of Colour 2

I debated on doing this challenge since I just finished the 29 Faces challenge but after visiting some of my blog friends I had to join in. The colours are really going to be spectacular and I am really into bright colours.

The basis of the Summer of Colour 2 is Ice Cream Inspiration. 

So I am one colour behind but it has to be posted by Monday and I know I can scramble something out by then. 

So the first weeks colour is.....Rainbow Sherbet. Our delightful Hostess Kristin is choosing a colour each week and we can make anything we like, cards. altered art, paintings etc but we must use the chosen flavour for that week. 

So here is my butterfly  I just blogged about in the post before  this one. I love the orange, pink and yellow combined. Just so yummy and you can feel summer in these colours.

Thanks Kristin for hosting another great Summer of Colour challenge and I can't wait to see more artists blogs and see what everyone is creating.

Take care everyone and thanks for dropping by.

You can still join in, just click the button on my side bar or click on Kristin's name and it will take where you need to go.

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