Sunday Weekly Wrap-Up

This past week I have continued with a number of challenges:

the August Break, which encourages you to take a photo a day.

I have been doing a photo of "What I Love" and "Who I Am". It is has been fun and challenging capturing a photo for each, each day. (Check in past posts for each day last week - you might be surprised at what you learn about me!)

Louise Gale began the Creative Colour Challenge last week and the first colour was "Yellow".

This was my entry:

I have yet to add to it, but I have bought different shades of yellow paint as I am loving the brightness of the colour yellow!

The new colour for this week is Raspberry Red!

I also took part in the GPP Challenge for this month: Text Messaging.

Since my last post about these 2 challenges, I have completed a second text page. I have enjoyed this challenge and again I will do something with these as backgrounds.

1st one:

2nd one:

I have also been creating more ATCs - the swaps are so varied and fun.

Jellicle Cats - from the musical "Cats"

Mystery Challenge - Green, sparkly and Textured!

I have been photographing a lot this week -

from cats (my daughter and her boyfriend's)

to hibiscus (which just bloomed yesterday!)

to skies

This week I will continue with the challenges and the ATCs - have a wonderful creative week!

Creative colour Challenge and GPP #43

There are two challenges that look at stretching your artistic abilities which I am participating in:

Creative Colour Challenge hosted by Louise Gale

and the GPP Challenge hosted by Michelle Ward.

With the Colour Challenge, a new colour is posted each Sunday. This past week the colour was Sunflower Yellow. Although I love sunflowers, I do not wear or use yellow much. So it was fun to splash away with yellow paint and work with texture as well. Here is my entry for the first week.

I hope to use this as a base for more artwork.

I can't wait to see what the next challenge colour will be on Sunday!

The GPP Challenge this month was "Text Messaging" (C#43) , using text, words or phrases to create a collage. I enjoyed this as I love words. I went through several magazines and had lots or words to choose from. At first, I tried to place them randomly but words seem top fit together so there is a bit of working together of the words.

The phrase at the became 2 poems playing off each other!

Using text is a lot of fun and can be the base of a journal page. I aim to photocopy my page, gesso it and build up!

Sunday Weekly Wrap-up + August Challenges

This past week was a busy one. I loved the art course I took and learned a few new techniques. I ended up creating a mixed media collage of memories - of my Mom, Grandma and Great Grandma. I met some lovely women and had fun being immersed in creating all week.

Using photo transfer onto a canvas and using many different mediums on one canvas was new. Also using a large canvas was quite different as well. lately I have been working small - on ATCs.



I finished my July collage-a-day cards, using mostly collage techniques. I enjoyed those very much. Here are a few of the last ones I did:










I also completed a couple more ATC swaps. I have a few to do this week as well.

Here is one that was interesting - "Forms of Beauty"





Another was one word collages:













Connie of Dirty Footprints Studio posted a journal a day for 30 days. On the 31st, she encouraged anyone to post their own interview about their own art journalling life. My interview is here.







August has begun and we are half way through the summer! Still so much to do!

There are a number of challenges being offered this month. One that I am really looking forward to is taking a photo a day - "The August Break" being offered through Susannah Conway's blog .



I am going to take the challenge but alter it a little. There are 2 projects I want to undertake through photography:



1. Ever since reading about Lis' project of self-portraits, I have wanted to try something similar. So for this month, I want to present aspects of myself through photography.

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I decided to start with my hand. As I look at it I see my mom in many aspects of it. I also see my married life. I use this hand a lot but take it for granted.



2. In the "101 in 1001 days" Challenge (which I am continuing with somewhat slowly!) one item was to list 5o things I love (which I have done) and take a photo of each of those things. So for August I want to start taking pix of those 50 things.

Here are the first two:



* Flowers





*Skies:











The second month-long challenge is being offered by Louise Gale. Each week she will post a different colour and that is all you can use, plus black and white.


This week's colour is YELLOW!

As she says:

"So this weeks color is inspired by those pretty petals of sunshine. Brighten up your week by creating in all those shades of yellow under the sun. (Remember you can only use shades and add black and white to your creations if you wish)"



I am looking forward to this colour challenge. Watch for my entry next Sunday!

I will continue with my usual challenges but try to add a couple more this week!

Have a great week!