Summer inspiration

Last year my favourite creative challenge was Colours of Summer where we had a single colour prompt each week and participants were invited to create a piece in the medium of their choice.  I created digi art (not photo based) and added a Dr Seuss quote to each.  I like my pieces so much that I had 5 of them printed onto coffee mugs that I use everyday.

This week Kirstin launched the new Summer of Colour with ice-cream flavour colour inspiration giving a colour palette each week – the first is vibrant orange and pink.

I’ll be creating digitally again but I wanted a theme to tie them all together and give me a starting point for each week – having the quotes last year really worked for me. 

I saw the fabulous, vibrant colours on Monday but still had not come up with a uniting theme.  So I went for a walk because I’ve found that I often have good creative ideas when I let my mind wander on a walk.  The recent rain and sun means everything is looking lush beside the river

And the idea emerged – there are 6 colours across the summer so I’ll feature one letter from the word ‘create’ on each of the pieces and end up with a word art creation to add to the wall in my craftroom alongside the one I created using different crafts.

Invigorated by this new plan I set to work on Photoshop Elements as soon as I got back – ready for the reveal on Kirstin’s blog next Monday (see button on left panel).

Anyone else playing along with the ice-cream colours?  And what do you do to prompt creative ideas?