...and I mean the color green---that's the color for Kristin's Summer of Color this week, and it just so happens that green is one of my favorite colors. Most often you'll see some kind of green in my artwork, and there is such a wide spectrum of this color to choose from. So I went through my papers and picked some of my favorites--I have lots and lots of green papers--
As soon as she told us the color for this week--an idea just popped into my head instantly, and I knew that I was going to cut narrow strips of these papers to do this--
And then I knew that I wanted to add a big flower onto this with texture, but I wasn't quite sure of what texture I wanted, and within no time I thought of corrugated cardboard!
...and for the center of the flower I wanted more texture again, but this time I decided to use some Liquitex glass bead gel.
It's very very hard to get a good photo of this, but in real life, it has a crystal-like finish to it when it's dry because of the tiny glass beads in the gel--it's great!
And then I just added the finishing touches--
This piece came together so easily for me--it pretty much told me what to do with each step--I love when art comes together like this!
And don't forget to head on over to Kristin's place to see all of the other green art--it's always inspiring to see what comes out everyone's creative minds.
And on a final note about Leo--thank you, thank you, thank you everyone for all of your kind words---they REALLY helped me. I said goodbye to Leo last Wednesday, and I brought him back home with me (OH-- that was tougher than going to the Dr.'s) and he's now in a special place in our backyard---his most favorite place in the world when he was alive and healthy. I'll miss Leo--he was such a sweetie!
And on a final note about Leo--thank you, thank you, thank you everyone for all of your kind words---they REALLY helped me. I said goodbye to Leo last Wednesday, and I brought him back home with me (OH-- that was tougher than going to the Dr.'s) and he's now in a special place in our backyard---his most favorite place in the world when he was alive and healthy. I'll miss Leo--he was such a sweetie!