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!

Blooming Complimentary

      This week I signed up for another challenge with  Louise Gale,

I have to choose a pair of colors that are of “opposite” hue (complimentary) in the color wheel. This is quite open, but of course, the challenge is just to create using those 2 complementary colors (we can also use black and white).  We will be creating with the theme of Blooms, Flowers, Fauna (Blooming).  Hence Blooming Complimentary, neat eh?!   Each of us has a 'swap buddy', which means basically we complete the piece and then send it, via snail mail, to our swap buddy to keep,  and I am just so honored to have Louise as my swap buddy!  I have already chosen my colors and have a little idea or two but I can't share until a few days after I mail to her otherwise it will spoil the surprise!  I am just so excited!  Watch this space toward the end of February when I will not only be able to share what I produced but also what I received from Louise!