Creative Tuesdays - Thank you

The challenge this time for Creative Tuesdays is to have the words Thank You or Thanksgiving in the piece.  All I knew is that I wanted to have a detailed flower with the words included.  The following (done over a good few evenings) was what gradually evolved.

It will be really interesting to see other peoples take on this, so check out Mr T's blog on Tuesday.

Summer of Color - Purple

Purple was the color for this weeks Summer of Color challenge.  We only have three more weeks left after this one, so a great big thanks to Kristin for taking the time and effort to make this group so cohesive and such fun. I have discovered some wonderful artists along the way and recieved some great and funny comments from them. Thank you all.

This young buck of a seahorse is again a monochromatic 5x4 acrylic painting with one pot of paint. Purple is another funny colour to scan and can look more of a bluey shade and  I don't have the graphics packages to allow me to adjust the colour.

Go and check out all the other entres on Kristin's blog from Monday onwards. You will find some fabulous work there.

Summer of Color - Red

The Summer of Color red challenge was a hard one to keep monochromatic, but I think I managed it without turning the red into being too pink.  I felt that my soppy dragon needed some help to look fearsome, hence the red for danger.  Not sure where this character came from but I do like him and think I may develop him further (not necessarily in red though).  

Again size 5x4 inches with one pot of red acrylic paint and black pen.  Also below a red watercolour flower.

Thank you Kristin for these challenges, am so emjoying them. Four more colours to go, I can think of orange, purple, possibly magenta or black and white. Why not drop by her blog over the next few  days and weeks to what the colours are and also to see other artists lovely interpretations.

Summer of Color - Brown

The Summer of Color challenge this week is brown.  Again I stayed with my monochromatic painting using one pot of brown acrylic paint together with white.   I have also painted a brown watercolour drop flower for fun.  Brown is not a very good colour to scan, so this may look so different on everyone's screens.

I think that so far, yellow has been the biggest challenge for me, but am not looking forward to red, as this I think it will be a really hard one just using the one colour.  Writing this post prior to Kristin putting up the next colour, I bet it will be red! Am also trying to think what the remaining five colours are going to be.

Thank you so much everyone for taking the time to visit my blog and also commenting, it makes all the difference knowing what people think.

Catch everyone elses posts on Kristin's blog from Monday onwards.

Summer of Color - Yellow

Yellow was the colour this week in the Summer of Color challenge. As I had decided from the first colour of blue that I would keep to a mono-chromatic scheme using only one pot of paint  in the required colour and all the same size of 5x4 inches, yellow has proved the most difficult colour for me so far and I know there will be others to come!  So I think I may have overcompensated with too much detail.  

It has made me learn a lot more about the colours that I am using and how they can change quite a bit sometimes with either water or white added. I am normally the type of gal who has to buy all the paint pots in all the different shades going !

Looking at the two together now on scheen, I think now that the black pen is possibly too heavy for the yellow fairy, as I used a brown biro to outline the flowers, which recedes a little.

There is some amazing work being done by every one, so on Monday hop over the Kristin's blog to check them out, and also all the challenges todate.

Summer of Color - Pink

The next color of the Summer of Color party is pink. I would like to thank everyone for taking the time to leave me such wonderful comments over the past few weeks and also to my new followers.  All your comments are such a joy to read and give me so much encouragement to keep expanding my art.  I always try to reciprocate, but am sorry if I miss anyone.

My pink mermaid is painted with acrylics (size 5x4 inches) and the pink colordrop flowers in watercolours.  A few people have asked what pens I use, these are usually the Pilot Pigment drawing pens and Sharpie's fine liner pen.  I also usually use DecoArt Americana acrylics (when I can get them, not so easy now in the UK).

Go check out all the other wonderful interpretations done by so many talented people on Kristins's blog.