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Friday, July 11, 2014

Summer of colour shimmers

Sadly the penultimate week of summer of colour for this year and Kristen gave us a bold pair of primaries with a hint of light

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as my photo starting point this week I used a fabulous pattern that I has spotted on the surface of the river as the sun shimmered off the current when the incoming tide meets the flow of the river

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and played with pixel magic until I had these two images that I love

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I will be returning to these patterns for some more play with other colours

and I had the appropriate wools in my stash so came up with this charity blanket square – showing both sides as the pattern looks different front and back

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I know there will be plenty of lovely interpretations of these colours in more mediums than I can imagine – check them out here

18 comments:

Sharon Fritchman said...

Oh wow! I love what you did with pixel magic! Your photos turned out absolutely beautiful!! And I love your blanket squares, too! What wonderful ways to used the SOC colors!

masha said...

I love the squares and your digi play is quite interesting! :)

Cheri said...

Your pixel magic is inspiring!

Maria Ontiveros said...

Those two photographs are amazing! I still need to finish my house.
Rinda

Cindy McMath said...

Wow those are great images - so vibrant! Your blanket squares turned out great too. Now I have noticed that so far you have yet to be stumped for a colour - I'm guessing your stash of yarn looks a little bit like my stash of paper... :)

joanna said...

Both your creations are wonderful! The colors in the digi pic are so bright and gorgeous!

Tracy said...

Great photo manipulation - I especially like the second one.

Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...

Pixel Magic is magic. I can't even get PS to do anything that gorgeous. You did a fantastic job.

And of course, I adore that charity blanket square. What a colorful SOC way to show a bit of kindness.

Craftymoose Crafts said...

I live near a lake, too. I have never seen the sun shine look so beautiful on the water as what you have done with your magic. Really lovely!

Anonymous said...

Hi I am new wi the color themes..

I live near a lake. Retired hubby and I.

So seeing your work your spot on with the lake.


I like to meet new people . Mine you I cannot do squares for the life of me.

I have done two entries on my blog. Too bad I came in late. I did not realize it was just for summer.

Carol Ann

Kristin said...

xo

Prairie Jill said...

Ooh, that is a gorgeous pattern! I love your digital pieces and the crocheted squares look wonderful!

Sandie said...

Helena, you make me want to get back into digital photography again! I used to manipulate photos and have fun experimenting. Perhaps I'll have more time now I am not working full time. I LOVE the beautiful effect of the surface of the water and what you did with it, and am admiring of your crochet squares. Such a clever way of linking the two.

alexa said...

You are so clever in lots of ways! I love the two contrasting sides ...

AM Zafaran said...

Love the water surface one! So very gorgeous!

Anonymous said...

great pixel magic!

Caz said...

Oh these are fab! I really love the first one, it really appealed to me! Also love your granny squares!!

Anonymous said...

Love the pixel magic - especially the second one and great idea making those charity squares in those colours.