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Friday, June 27, 2014

softly, softly with 3rd colours of summer

Kirstin’s trio of colours in summer of colour this week offer a contrast from previous weeks by not being contrasting and instead are nearly 3 shades of purple – the grey is a warm one

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subconsciously I must have been thinking soft with these colours as I was drawn to my photo of a feather covered in raindrops.  After extracting the image and colouring it in grey and lavender I played with several ways of displaying the feather against a plum background

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I had some wool in a similar set of hues so was able to make another charity blanket square too

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I’m really enjoying the different types of colour trios Kirstin is giving us for this challenge and look forward to seeing how others have used them.

26 comments:

Sian said...

Lovely heathery colours today

Anonymous said...

lovely...especially all the intersecting layers
I am having real trouble with these colours for this week!!

Linda Kunsman said...

LOVE your digital work with the feathers-wow! Lovely use of the colors on the crocheted square too.

Kristin said...

xo

Craftymoose Crafts said...

Beautiful work with the feathers and the square!

Miriam said...

Your feathers are amazing Helena and that square looks so soft...

Šolanje na domu-Waldorf said...

OMG this is wonderful! Love the feathers! :)

stefanie stark said...

Fantastic artwork with the feathers! It's such a pleasure to look at it!

Anne said...

Lovely feathers :)

Virginia said...

Oh my that is fantastic

Sharon Fritchman said...

Your square looks beautiful and wow! Those feathers are simply amazing and so creatively stunning! Thank you for sharing this post with all of us at SOC!

Unknown said...

Absolutely beautiful.

Becky Dunham said...

Love the feathers! So gorgeous. I also love that you create squares for the charity blanket! What an amazing idea :)

sue :) said...

The feathers are intriguing, the detail and the water droplets are fab.

joy said...

Love these pretty feathers!!

TwinkleToes2day said...

Gorgeous feathers and the water drops look fabulouson them. The crochet is lovely too. :D

Prairie Jill said...

Oh, Helena, I don't know how you did it, but your digital feather is wonderful!! Love your crocheted square, too - the colours are so soothing.

joanna said...

Gorgeous feather!! you did such a great job! and of course love the square too!
xoxo

gma said...

Love your feathers. One of my favorites this week.

Cindy McMath said...

Beautiful picture! Your square is lovely as well! Great use of this week's colours on both.

Claire said...

Ooh, those feathers look fabulous.

Annie Claxton said...

Wow those feathers are beautiful, gorgeous colours and I love the water droplets on them. Great idea to make the. Hearty crochet squares too :o)

Maria Ontiveros said...

Love the feather!
Rinda

Caz said...

Oh lovely! I love your granny square too :-)

alexa said...

Your are very talented in so many ways, Helena - you can do digital to such great effect and make pretty things with your hands too!

Anonymous said...

Love the colour combination in this one and love that second grouping of feathers.