Art Challenges - Week 2

Well, I managed to do my week two challenges OK, but as I post this I am behind on week 3 and at the moment, without inspiration.

Colour Me Positive Week 2 - BE BRAVE

 So CMP will offer two challenges each week in the form of a quotation to use and some other challenge. We can do both, one or none!!

This week's quote was "She took the leap and built her wings on the way down". As my garden has been visited every morning by a pair of rainbow lorikeets, feeding on the grevillea flowers, I thought I would try my hand a drawing one. I used Dylusions distress stain and it acted a bit like watercolour/ink on the gessoed page. I blended two greens, two blues, two reds and a yellow to get suitable colours.

The alternate challenge was to use a silhouette in your page. I kept this very simple with gesso, tissue glued down, painted silhouette and sign. The words around the edge are from Miles Davis, and read "I'm always thinking about creativity. My future starts when I wake up every morning ... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."

Journal 52 Week 2 - YES & NO

The two pronged approach is also being done by Journal 52 with Effy Wild and Sarah Strumpp both offering challenges.

Effy asked what will we say YES to in 2016, and Sarah asked what will we say NO to in 2016? So first, I had to make my list, then I had to find suitable images to go with each aspiration. After gessoing, painting and stencilling, I used letters from scrapbooking supplies, glued my pictures cut from magazines, and played with paint - literally, as I used my fingers to move paint around the pages.

Messy but fun.

Alphabet Collages - B

So today, I finally got around to completing this collage in my little journal. I've had the idea in my head for a couple of weeks. My B-word was going to be BIZARRE, but it sounds like BAZAAR and I had all these great images from an old calendar - so I combined the words.

I had trouble (as usual) with the glue and gel medium not sticking very well, but overall I am pleased with it.

As for the week three challenges - three of them involve song lyrics and I have no idea at all for anything to go with this week's CMP quote. Wish me luck - I'm going to need it.

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