Digital Whisper Blog Challenge - Turquoise

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I Love Turquoise!

Digital elements from kits by Tangie Baxter.

Turquoise Fantasy

Watercolor with digital elements

Create Your Own Beauty

Three Muses Challenge - Lime and Turquoise

Hmm. Maybe it's turquoise and lime. Either way, I think I have it covered!

"... you drink them both up!" Chimpanzee from Marta Van Eck's kit "Apes." Background by Studio Berna.

Marguerite's Flowers and Rust

That's the name I gave to a mixed media painting I just finished today. I'm very excited about the way it turned out! Marguerite sent me a wonderful piece of rusted metal that fell off of her favorite trunk. She thought I could use it in some kind of art work. It just so happens I love rusty metal. She also happened to send me a picture of the trunk it came from.

The trunk certainly is a treasure!

I recently downloaded a class presented by Seth Apter through Cloth, Paper, Scissors. It's Lesson # 6 in a series, and the price was very reasonable. The lesson was called "Dimensional Stenciling." I decided to try this technique in a mixed media piece that I could also include Marguerite's gift of the rusty metal.

I first tried to paint a background using acrylics to try to simulate a piece of copper that had turned turquoise. I didn't quite get the look I wanted, but I was still happy with the results.

I used gesso to fill in a stencil to get a dimensional branch on the background. I then painted the top of a bronze colored tin candy box the size of an Altoid box with a turquoise color paint so it would also look antiqued. I glued the rusty metal from the trunk on top of that. Here is the finished result:

I have to say that after creating a piece of art like that, I finally feel like a real artist! Thanks Marguerite and Seth for the inspiration.

Three Muses Challenge - Turquoise

Take A Word Challenge - Turquoise