Blooming Complimentary

You may recall that I joined Louise Gale in her Blooming Complimentary challenge and exchange a while ago.  The idea was to pick to colors from opposite sides of the color wheel (complimentary) and create something using just those two colors, plus black and white if desired, with the main theme of the piece being flowers/fauna (Blooming).  I have long been an admirer of Angie Hogan's (AKA Artangel) work, particularly her little painted wooden hearts.  Having carefully shipped three plain wooden hearts all the way from the UK with me I felt it was about time I actually used them.  Not a patch on Angie's beautiful work but not bad for a first attempt at painting on wood, or on something that wasn't flat for that matter!  I also tried my hand at a bit of collage too, giving a paper doily a coat of iridescent white paint before sticking onto the painted heart with gel medium.  I then attempted to paint small violets with acrylic and drew some swirly 'vines' with 'waterproof' Faber Casttell Pitt Artist Pens (they weren't totally waterproof but i think I just got away with it!).  Finally I gave it a few coats of matt varnish and tied some pretty voilet organza ribbon to hang it by.

 

 

I so enjoyed this challenge!  Can't wait for Louise to think up another!