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Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Voice of the Sea

I'm quite surprised! It's only Thursday, and I'm already done with my piece for this week's Creative Color Challenge. The first time I barely made it by Saturday, then it was at least Friday - so does that mean next week's piece (the last one for this challenge) will be done by Wednesday?

Seriously...

This week's color was Sea Green, and to put a little twist to it, it's been combined with Cathy Nichols' theme "To the sea" of her Found Art Friday. And the deadline pretty much is today (now you know - I obviously need the pressure).

Here's my "Voice of the Sea":



The color looks almost like last week's turquoise, right? Well, blame it on the camera. I couldn't for the heck of it get even one picture in which the color was reflected correctly. This one - after zillions of photos - is the one that comes closest. The color is "laguna green" and really looks like that including all the shades that I mixed with it. But - the camera didn't recognize that. So please imagine a beautiful laguna green in three different shades...

I painted on a 8x10 canvas, stamped the starfish with antique white and wrote the quote by Kate Chopin - I really love this quote. I inked the stamped image of "sunsource" (Stampington & Company) with Distress Ink and sprayed the torn page with Glimmer Mist and also inked it with Distress Ink. As a final touch I adhered several treasures I found at the beach.

Working with this color was real fun. First, I really like the color, and Cathy's theme "To the sea" helped a lot since I love to create anything ocean related. No wonder I was done so quickly!!!
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5 comments:

  1. Carrie SchmittAugust 26, 2010 at 7:26 PM

    You are so creative! I love that you explained what you did. I'm always trying to figure out how artists create their work. Great quote and love the girl figure and the torn page. Well done!

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  2. voodoo vixenAugust 26, 2010 at 8:17 PM

    I love the colours the way they seem and the girl standing in the sea breeze is just beautiful.

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  3. NEEDLEWINGSAugust 26, 2010 at 11:08 PM

    Wow, this is just gorgeous and so is your photography! BTW, how do you get your photos posted so large? Even set on large on blogger, it doesn't look that large on mine. Any tips?

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  4. DianaAugust 27, 2010 at 10:56 AM

    You really do well under pressure, Carola, nice piece and I can see the color is different from last week. Your on a roll...my friend! Looking forward to next week's by Wednesday!...;}

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  5. Christine E-EAugust 28, 2010 at 8:55 PM

    I love that you share your creative process! for those of us who are interested in various forms of "journaling" this is such a treat! I will continue to come back to your blog for new techniques!

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