I turned in my homework for week three of the Conscious Creativity course late last evening and posted it on my Instagram page. One of the suggested exercises was to cut snippets from catalogs in rainbow colors to play around with.
I do love the mixture of images and words from catalogs...and I will probably continue to add strips to this stash. They will be handy for collage.
I decided to use this photo for the cover of my project this week.
If you have any interest in seeing the whole video reel summarizing my color week you can link to it here:
But in case you don't...I'll post a few of the pages here.
I made two rainbow montages from my found bits of color. The blue spiral is one of my tops and it's actually a video in the finished project.
The Unfold app has several layouts including grids with six squares I used above.
But of course I had to add some pink....so it has a page all to itself!
I also collected blue tones and hues....and this is one of two pages.
I included a few color combos...and a few pages relating colors to the way they make me feel. These two pages featured close-ups of fire hydrants.
To view the whole color project click on this link:
And speaking of color....I've SLOWLY been working on the colorful marble puzzle starting with the swath of green. It's been slow mostly because there's been a lot going on lately.
I had a little moment with these balls this morning on our walk. They were piled under a hoop on a dead end street...and I could just imagine the the sights and sounds of the kids playing. I absolutely love this unexpected variety of color!
There was such interesting texture close up....and I know the texture lesson is coming!
MaryAnn! So much color here—and most of it, ironically, given the assignment, was expected since I'd seen your Instagram post earlier today! But those rainbow-colored catalog snippets were UNexpected, and they are divine! I think I may just have to follow suit in my art journal.
ReplyDeleteAlso, something about seeing your IG post gave me just the point of entrée I needed this afternoon to "find color in unexpected places," which, for me, was not so much that I FOUND color in unexpected places as that I unexpectedly NOTICED and ZEROED in on color in places that are right in front of me nearly every day but usually pass without notice. I'll text you some photos. So grateful to have celebrated those colors, thanks to you (and Philippa).
Thanks Dotty! Yes....the snippets are fun. There is something magical about the mix of text and images...and of course you gotta love the color!
DeleteI think noticing in general is just a special thing to do. Expected...or unexpected....or right there in plain sight...it's all good for the soul. Thanks for texting me your photos....the visuals brought YOUR noticing to life. Thank you! for playing along with me during these lessons!