Earth Day Challenge - Diva's weekly challenge #164
I'm really enjoying participating in these weekly challenges; it forces me to do something every week, and also post consistently on the blog :). You can see this week's challenge and all the wonderful submissions from other participants here.Because the challenge was for Earth Day, I decided to use recycled paper - used tea bags - and because the Earth is round, I went with the round tea bags. I used Sakura gel pens, Inktense, and colored pencils.
The challenge for me was then to create nature inspired art with tangles. Some are very obviously organic in nature, but I enjoyed using others which may not be so obvious. I definitely could keep going, it was so much fun!!!
Top:
- Left - Sedgling Forest
- Center - Angel Fish Tree
- Right - Isochor Flowering Trees
- Left - 'Nzeppel Flowers
- Center - Rain trees
- Right - Tipple, Printemps, Amaze, and Flux Mountains
Bottom:
- Left - Aura-Leah Plant
- Center - Flux Plant
- Right - Eke Plant
Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine Reader Challenge
Cloth Paper Scissors is one of my favorite magazines; I absolutely love it. Last year they had a challenge to create a mixed-media stitched square (6" x 6" - around 15 x 15 cm). I decided to enter and submitted my piece below, which was then published in the January/February 2014 issue.So, here is the finished piece and some of the in-progress pictures. I hope you enjoy them.
Finished Piece |
Finished Piece - close-up |
Background - started with a piece of my husband's old jeans and layered old book pages, stamped and drawn-on tea bags, gesso, and inks. |
Drew and stitched a tree, and then started adding flowers |
Close up of the tree branches and flowers |
It was so much fun to open up the magazine and see my art in it :)
Thank you so much!! I did have a lot of fun!
ReplyDeleteThat's a wonderful and inspiring idea - the teabags. They look so pretty.
ReplyDeleteThanks!! I really enjoyed creating them.
DeleteI love your Earth Day collection - very creative. Thanks for sharing the Cloth Paper Scissors project as well. So nice!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Susan! I really appreciate your comments.
DeleteLove your take on the Earth Day challenge - I especially love the Sedgling and Flux ones! And the CPS piece is gorgeous - it's no surprise it was published.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Leslie; I had a whole lot of fun with both challenges. It was hard to stop :)
DeleteAll are very nice :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lily, I really appreciate your comment.
DeleteYou did a great (and original) job on this Earth-Day challenge! Very beautiful, like the rest too.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anne! I had so many ideas for this challenge, but decided to go with the teabags :). I'm glad you enjoyed them.
DeleteYour work is so beautiful. You came up with such a unique way to do the challenge. And, I had to go run and find my copy of the CPS magazine. I am impressed. Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jean! I'm so glad you enjoyed the challenge and seeing my entry in the CPS magazine :)
DeleteWow, everything is amazingly beautiful!!!! Nice, nice work!! :0) Share Humanity
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Annette!
DeleteMarta. I think your teabag tangles are stunning. Thanks for sharing them with your lovely stitched piece.
ReplyDeleteThank YOU!... for your wonderful comments :)
DeleteWhat an original idea. All of them are super and love the way they are arranged.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Chrissie :)
DeleteVery creative ot use the teabag paper. Look great.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, Donald!
DeleteSuper, stunning and very original work, Marta! Axxx
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Annie; I really appreciate it.
DeleteYour teabags are beautiful. A stunning idea, and so well executed. I could look at them all day!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your wonderful comment; I really appreciated it!
DeleteDear Marta
ReplyDeleteYour little works of art are beautiful!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your piece from the magazine ... did you embroider those blossoms?
~ Diane
http://www.dianeclancy.com/blog/2014/04/amanda-earth-day-challenge-entry/
Thank you so much, Diane!! You are always so supportive; I really appreciate it.
DeleteYes, the tree and the blossoms were hand-stitched; each blossom is a French Knot :)
Wow!! I've yet to try tangles on coloured paper and here you are using tea bags! They look great and perfectly suited to this challenge. Linda x
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Linda. It did take me a while to tangle on colored paper, it is different as the shading doesn't show as much, so I tend to use white as well. I did have fun with the teabags, though :)
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