Summr of Colour completed

Each year I find that the 6 creative weeks of Kristin's Summer of Colour whizz past and again the 6th palette seems to have come around so fast.  We end with a lovely vibrant complimentary pairing of 2 oranges with a blue.

 

and here is my completed page with all 6 combos

Thank you Kristin for another lovely creative party and to everyone who has inspired me with their wonderful pieces across a range of mediums and thank you to everyone who has visited and left comments - see you all next year.

Summer of colour–green and pink

another lovely complimentary palette from Kristin – two greens and a pink and I went for some soft versions and circle patterns

which means my page is nearly complete

I didn’t look at my previous colour choices before I started but was glad to see that I had chosen a different kind of pink and bluer greens than for weeks 2 and 1

so much wonderful creativity in a lovely range of mediums being sparked by the palettes each week – as in previous years I’ve found new people I want to follow once the challenge is over. Thank you Kristin for the whole creative package that is Summer of Colour.

Summer of colour is fiery

Kristin chose a fiery palate for us this week of 2 reds and a metallic – if I was using pens I’d be loving this, especially with my new metallic sharpies – the best metallic pens ever.

But metallic in digital creation, not so easy.  I did manage a bronze as a background from my bright red paisley patterns

and the page is filling up nicely with great colour combos

What a wealth of creativity being shared each week and looking forward to seeing how everyone used the metallic element.

Summer of colour purple and yellow

a lovely rich combination of purple and yellow for summer of colour this week (a nice traditional colour wheel opposites combo).

I decided to play with squares inside the circle segment and like the contrast of bigger squares in the smaller space.

And with half of the segments completed my final piece is looking good

Another amazing array of pieces last week – visiting all the different participants and seeing how one colour palette is interpreted by so many creative people is my favourite part of this annual fest organised by Kristin – you can find them all on her blog TwinkleTwinklelittlestar.

Summer of colour – pink, pink, orange

I’m enjoying Kristin’s colour palette approach this year where she gives us free range to choose the exact tone of the specified colours – this week we have to pick 2 pinks and an orange and I’ve enjoyed seeing how some people go for the hot versions and others have a softer range.

I went with 2 hot and one soft for my new star segment and was thinking of the atmosphere around a strange planet – perhaps prompted by the news that the robot on the comet woke up 

and here is how the 2 segments look together

thanks to Kristin for a fifth year of wonderful artistic sharing around a colour palette

Summer of colour, blue, blue, green

It must be summer because the lovely creative challenge - Summer of Colour - in underway.  I've enjoyed it in each of the last 4 years, both participating and seeing the range of ways people use the set colours.

Thinking back over past years I realised that the ones I enjoyed the best were when I set myself an overall project which meant that each weekly item was part of a whole.  So I decided to create one finished piece which is divided into 6 parts which I will fill in each week - all digitally.  I created a simple design using a 6 point star so that I have 6 segments to work on.

This week Kristin set our colour palette as 2 blues and 1 green - giving us a free choice of tone etc. The three I chose made me think of fun and movement and airiness so I created this

I will fill in one segment each week and hope that the 2 solid circles will provide a connection across the segments.

To see what everyone else has done visitt Kristin at Twinkle Twinkle