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Monday, June 18, 2012

Summer of colour–minty rockpools

for our second week of colour inspiration Kristin gave us a cool mix of blue-greens and dark brown from mint chocolate chip.

summer-of-colour-2

Interesting how much blue there is in the mint ice-cream colour.

I used rockpools as my summer inspiration to create my piece this week, which features the 2nd letter of ‘create’. [I described my overall project goals  here]

I’m enjoying having two pieces to work on, using different techniques, the background and the letter.  Also enjoying pure digi creation with no photo as a starting point.

summer-of-colour-2-final

Check out all the wonderful creations on Twinkle, Twinkle – last week there were over 100 pieces linked in a wide range of media.

37 comments:

  1. Wow...it looks great...lot of detailing which gives it a sculpture effect :)
    Thanks for your visit & lovely comment :)

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  2. Love it Helena, especially the circly bits. BJ

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  3. Lovely work - this really looks like chocolate. Great use of the colours! Valerie

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  4. Wow. The R really looks like a chocolate and the background just like ice-cream. COOL texture!

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  5. Stunning contrast..... I liked seeing your palette colours. I hadn't realised how much blue there was in the minty colour. Interesting!

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  6. Loving piece two of your overall project. Ca't wait to see them all completed and together.
    x x x

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  7. DIGI YOU SAY...GREAT TEXTURE..LOVE THE TWO COLOUR YOU PICKED...XXX

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  8. Lovely palette isn't it. Great piece.

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  9. Fantastic - I love the colour palette on the first pic, it really zings, and I love the texture and sculptural look to the second.

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  10. Just love what you did here!!

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  11. Great interpretation of mint/chocolate! Love your R.

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  12. This is a wonderful interpretation, great texture to the piece!

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  13. I also love the textures that you came up with here..I kinda want to eat that letter R. ;)

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  14. right on....
    colors and texture!!!!

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  15. Mmmmm, looks JUST like chocolate!!

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  16. beautiful detail work. can't wait to see all the letters come together at the end.

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  17. Wow I am so impressed!! I love what you did last year too! A great theme ending with something functional!!
    Really good ideas!! I love your letter! Just fabulous....I had to keep staring at it. At first I thought maybe you weaved it, so intricate, then I realized it was digital. But you can't tell....love it!!

    Hugs Giggles

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  18. I also noted how much blue was in the mint colored ice cream that Kristin showed. I'm glad you also pointed it out. I'm so impressed with digital. I have only played with digital once and probably wouldn't remember how I did it, anyway. Yours is always so realistic!

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  19. It really looks like chocolate. It's making me hungry.

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  20. Absolutely wonderful Helena... it surely does look like delicious chocolate... incredibly fabulous!!

    Hugs
    Jenny x

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  21. Oh thats looking really good!!

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  22. Great plan! This is a wonderful piece. All that lovely texture and bits of colour!

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  23. Wow this sure looks like chocolate, in fact I thought it was.
    Wonderful digi.
    Great colours so far, it just gets yummier.
    Lesley♥

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  24. oh this is so neat!!! love the texture bits in the letter!!!

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  25. That looks so much like chocolate... awesome work... it is going to be fun to see the finished product at the end of the six weeks...xx

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  26. this is amazing! I also love how you put all the colors in that grid. For next week's prompt, I'm first going to have a look here so I'll know exactly what colors to use ;-)

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  27. Such beautiful textures and such a great theme you are using. I too was also amazed at how much blue I had to add to get the mint green colour.

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  28. Wow love this... great texture and love the circly bits.. color is gorgeous.. xx

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  29. Gorgeous textures and hues - live it!

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  30. Fab work...and I agree it does look like chocolate!! :)

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  31. Wow, you catch the colors so well!!!

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