Technique Thursday

I finally have another challenge done!  I'm cheating a little, since this 4x4 was done for an ArtChix swap.  The background was a map of Paris from a 1960's encyclopedia, you find inspiration anywhere!  Thanks for peeking in!

Ophelia - TMTATC

Ophelia is a tragic character in Shakespeare's play "Hamlet". She seems to be doomed from the start, in love to a man that is on the edge of madness; being torn and taunted, loved and put aside.  She's manipulated by her father for his gain.  She loved and lost everything including her life.  She was found drowned, a victim of suicide.  It is from her character that we learn of the "language of flowers".  She says "There's rosemary, that's for rememberence.  Pray you, love, remember.  And then there's pansies, thats for thoughts.  There's fennel for you, and columbines."  In the end, she faded like the flowers she was associated with.

The image is from ArtChix Studios, the brighter pink flowers I cut out from a magazine.  The leaves are some punch outs that I have had for a while now.  

This was a more challenging prompt!  But I enjoyed seeing how I could do it!

TMTATC - Dance

Phew!  I didn't think I could get something done before the deadline!  

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Sunday Postcard Art - Children

I realized after I put this together that it reminded me of the children's story "A Secret Garden"  one of my favorite books both as a child and adult.  The images are from Art Chix.  The "lock" I had to color with the help of alcohol inks.  The flowers, leaves, and butterfly were cut out from the background paper, edges inked to help them to stand out from the background and then glued to the postcard.  After I was done and looking though my view finder, I wasn't really happy that the images weren't really "popping".  So  I took one of my brush markers and went around the images to drop "shadows" around them. 

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Sunday Postcard Art - Doors

There are a few challenge sites that I like to visit.  My problem is that after I see them all (each one begins and ends on a different day), and jot down the prompt, it is almost too late for me to create something and post it.  This time I did the smart thing and read ahead!  Boy am I glad that I did.  Sunday Postcard Art posted the prompt "Doors"  and I was all over that one.  

The picture is an original that I took at the Mission San Juan Capistrano (yes, the same ones that the swallows have flown back to on St. Joseph's Day for decades.)  And for good measure, I printed it out on a transparency.  I wasn't sure if I was going to back it with faint writing.   Not sure about what I was going to do with the background, I decided to drag out my Adirondack alcohol inks and started playing on some glossy card stock I bought 5 years ago and forgot about.  Too my very pleasant surprise what I came up with almost matched the stucco on the walls in the picture.  The words "Waiting on You"  are also on a transparency, but I have to thank ArtChix for that.

I am very please with the way that it all turned out.  

Mermaids - Gothic Arches Challenge