October Color Challenge

Blogtoberfest Day 28...I fell off the wagon for a few days.

I'm linking up with Louise Gale's monthly Color Challenge.
This month color challenge was woodgrain. I love browns so I enjoyed this and found that I wanted to use brown often.

If you've been following along this month you may have noticed that I'm a little obsessed with leaves lately. I am having so much fun drawing, doodling, painting, stamping, etc.

I was inspired to use a large oak leaf and my watercolors to stamp.

I painted the back of each leaf with  watercolors and pressed the leaf to the paper. Depending on the look you want you may want to dry each one as you go.

I then created an abstract painting using the same technique. 

                     

I love how the abstract turned out. The lines, the pattern - it reminds me of aspen trees in the snow.

During a walk in Central park yesterday I collected very small leaves and will be creating more leaf art today. Be sure and visit and see what else I create.

Visit Louise's website to see all the wonderful art that was created with this color combination.

Creative Color Challenge - July

I am linking up with Louise Gale and her Creative Color Challenge today.

She challenged us with 4 colors and asked that we use letters in our piece. I chose to play with a new stencil that I recently purchased and my pan pastels.

 

I think that I might add more tangle patterns to the piece then send it off to my Mom.

Make sure that you hop over and visit the other artists who played along this month.

 

Roses, Red and Markers as Watercolors

If you've been following along the past few weeks you may be aware that I am taking Color Love with Joanne Sharpe. Now, I'm a photographer and a jewelry artisan who loves to doodle and sketch.

A friend asked me, in the kindest way, if I was playing with markers and taking non-photography e-courses as a diversion or avoidance. See, I am also working on creating my own e-course and focusing on taking more pictures. I thought about it, because it's a good question, and the answer is no. What most people don't know is that I've known for the past few months that I was going to be getting injections in my knees (an alternative to surgery) and I also knew that this would probably mean that my taking picture expeditions were going to be limited while I worked through physical therapy. And, I was right, PT has been more intense than expected and just my normal walk everywhere in NYC, assigned exercises and climbing the 3 flights of stairs to my apartment has been enough.

Color Love has given me a diversion in the evenings after my long 'day job' days to stay creative and to release stress. I cannot write after my day job, I am just too spent.  It is why I wake up every morning early to write before I go to my day job. So, this week I played with markers and painted.

So, Tombow Bloom was an assignment in Color Love and this month Louise Gale's Creative Color Challenge color and theme was red and roses. I didn't quite follow Louise's full color palette of inspiration because I added blue but there is red and I did create roses.

I used Tombow markers, blended and painted with water.  I'll be honest here... I had no idea that Tombow markers existed until I saw them on Joanne's supply list. I also didn't know that I could turn them into watercolors and paint when using them. So much fun!

For my first Tombow marker, water painted piece...I'm quite pleased.

So, I'm not only going to link up with Louise Gale and her Creative Color Challenge I am also going to be brave and link up Paint Party Friday for the first time. Which is totally inspired by the lovely Tracey Fletcher King. You have to be brave sometime, right? Ok, I'm pressing Publish now so I don't change my mind.

Day 1: May Flower Challenge

Welcome to Day 1 of my May Flower Challenge. 

Thank you for joining in, I'm so glad you are here.

I am a little flower obsessed, this isn't a secret.  

I take photos of flowers ever week...live flowers or flowers that appear in the architecture of NYC. I also create paper flower bouquets our of paint chips and wire. I doodle flowers while in day job meetings. This month I am going to also get a little creative and try a few new ways of making them - you'll have visit to see more.

Today, I've created the yummy yellow sunflower doodle and some swirly lettering to share with you.  I really do believe that flowers are nature's way of smiling.

What flowers do you want to share today? 

By the way, I'm also linking up with Louise Gale today for her Creative Color Challenge. Hop on over and check out her blog...May's color is pink just in case you wanted to play along with her too.

Participate by linking your blog post to my blog post. Each day during May, starting on May 1st, on my blog post I will have a linkytool available so that you can link your specific blog post (not just your blog but the post itself) to my blog post.

Participate by linking to the flickr group - May Flower Challenge- and adding a photo of your flower creation. 

March Color Challenge & WOYWW

I'm participating in Louise Gale's Creative Color Challenge during 2012 and this month's challenge is Tranquil Blues.  

I had a lot of fun creating this tangle/doodle. It was relaxing, especially while watching tv after my crazy day job, so this probably won't be the last one that you see.

 My favorite part is this last picture of the sailboat with the bird on the top of it.

Hop on over (by clicking the logo below) and check out the other tranquil blue color challenge participants.

I'm also linking up with Julia at Stamping Ground's weekly WOYWW.

Color Challenge: Lavender & Green

The Color Challenge this month is all about lavender and green.

Two colors that automatically make me think of flowers; crocus, violets, and tulips and this makes me want Spring even more.

I combined the color challenge along with an inspiration deck swap that I am participating in, read more about it here on my post last week.

Louise asked us to combine texture in this month's project so I literally took a leaf from one of my house plants, painted it and stamped my cards.

On the back I added my blog address and one of my favorite photos.

Hop over to Louise Gale's blog to see what the other artists created this month with lavender and green.

Also, feel free to hop over to WOYWW at stamping ground and stalk a few desks.