Saturday, 13 June 2015

Summer of Color #1

After the "30 paintings in 30 days" challenge that I did in January I didn't expect to take on something similar but the "Summer of Color" sounds like fun, so here I go again!

For some reason, I thought I was registered but I never received my instructions so I guess I wasn't. Fortunately, I am on the SOC group page on Facebook and got a notice yesterday about posting our work so I was able to go the blog (below) and find out this week's orders.

The organizer of the Summer of Color is Kristin Van Valkenburgh and you can find out how the whole challenge thing works on her blog - http://www.twinkletwinklelikeastar.blogspot.com 

(I admit that I find the posting instructions for this challenge a bit confusing: you get the chance to win something if you do some other things but I don't know what those are or how to do them. It really doesn't matter as I am in it for the painting not for prizes, although I won't refuse if I should win) 

At any rate, this week's instructions were to create something using 2 blues and a green. As Faeries have been on my mind recently that is what I started with and here is where I ended up.

Magick Garden
Magick Garden is an 8 x 10 mixed media on a gallery wrap canvas. I used some painted paper towel to make the flowers, my own hand-made stamps, some sliver glitter glue, silver thread and finished the piece off with a pottery piece by a friend -  http://bluemoonpottery.blogspot.ca/

I look forward to participating in this challenge and, hopefully, next week I will get notification of the colors we are to use early enough to actually plan a painting - lol!
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18 comments:

  1. sue :)13 June 2015 at 14:07

    Your magic garden is lovely, well done for using your own stamps too. x

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    1. Mellowood Gallery13 June 2015 at 14:21

      Thank you Sue. I have a couple of small tubs of my own stamps and usually forget to use them. I am glad I thought of them this time as they. worked well.

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  2. Win Dinn, Artist13 June 2015 at 15:26

    Lovely colour combo, Val!

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    1. Mellowood Gallery13 June 2015 at 16:29

      Just following orders Win but I admit they are favorites.

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  3. Kristin13 June 2015 at 20:37

    So happy to have you play along! Thank you for linking this beautiful piece to the blog - that's all you need to do to be entered in the random drawing each week! Good luck and have fun :) Kristin xo

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  4. Mellowood Gallery13 June 2015 at 23:14

    Thanks Kristin. I certainly had fun today doing this painting and I expect that I will have fun with the rest. I imagine that some of the color choices will take me out of my comfort zone but that will be good for me. I am very glad that Win Dinn shared your blog about this challenge.

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  5. mariasangel14 June 2015 at 05:37

    beautiful work!

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  6. Mellowood Gallery14 June 2015 at 08:58

    Thank you Marais

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  7. Caz15 June 2015 at 04:15

    She's so sweet :-)

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    1. Mellowood Gallery15 June 2015 at 08:00

      Thank you Caz. I have been doing a few faerie pieces to display at a local art market and this one wanted to play in the blue and green - lol.

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  8. Jackie PN15 June 2015 at 04:55

    What a beautiful Magick Garden! And your Fairy is adorable!! Love your color use and look forward to the next challenges as well!
    Thank you for your visit and kind words- ")

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    1. Mellowood Gallery15 June 2015 at 07:57

      Thanks Jackie. It looks to be an interesting, creative summer of color for all of us involved in the challenge - good luck!

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  9. Kristin Aquariann15 June 2015 at 18:59

    Fabulous fairy! Adding the pottery piece was the perfect touch.

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  10. Mellowood Gallery15 June 2015 at 20:17

    Thanks so much Kristin. I only had one piece of pottery from my friend and it was the perfect color for the SOC week 1.

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  11. Sheila15 June 2015 at 20:52

    This is very sweet Val, I love the way the colors are mixing and melding. Dreamy effect :)

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    1. Mellowood Gallery15 June 2015 at 23:06

      Thanks Sheila. It was fun to do. And the mixing effect? - love that spray bottle - lol

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  12. Nelvia18 June 2015 at 03:54

    Oh faries, I love faries. Like this one too with the beautiful colors. So fun Val and will be looking for more. Just makes you smile.

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  13. Mellowood Gallery18 June 2015 at 08:46

    Thanks Nelvia. This is the 4th fairy I have done and one of my favorites. I don't know how many I will do as I like to keep changing things - lol. This SOC thing is making life interesting.

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