Monday, July 6, 2015

Summer of Color 2015, Week 5: Green, Green, Pink

Summer of Color is back.  Click on the "Summer of Color" text link to the left to view entries or to participate yourself.

See my image and others on the Summer of Color 5 Flicker page:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/thesummerofcolor/pool/

This year, instead of giving us three specific colors, Kristin is giving us two basic colors and we are supposed to choose our own shades of those.

For Week 5, we are supposed to choose two shades of green and one pink.
If you post your images to a blog or to Flickr I can see them. (If you posted to Facebook, sorry, but I don't have a Facebook account.)

I was playing around with a design a few days ago and knew I wanted to use it this week., but I didn't know what colors would be chosen. So I just used two random colors and figured I could easily change them digitally once the colors were announced. Amazingly, I chose two greens and one pink! I must be clairvoyant.


"The Squares Within"
This design was created from several photos I took at the Portland, Maine art museum. There were 

large openings in the second floor walls that looked down onto the lobby area of the first floor.  
Designs made from varied colored squares were painted on the lobby walls so I positioned myself
so that the painted squares would be framed by the openings upstairs. I knew when 
I took the photos that I would eventually use them to create an abstract design. I overlapped and   
rotated parts of my images until I had a composition I liked. Although the colors were originally
quite different, I changed them to greens and pinks even before I knew this week's colors.


27 comments:

froebelsternchen said...

just great!

debs14 said...

Amazing!

Sharon Fritchman said...

Wow! Your creation is amazing! Such a creative way to use this week's colors!

sue :) said...

Love this piece.x

Kristin said...

xo

peggy gatto said...

Love the movement and the colors!!

Tammie Lee said...

wonderfully fun piece!

Lori Saul said...

A visually brilliant piece!

Christine said...

oh wow! So glad I stopped by! I'll post mine on Thursday.

Wanda said...

Wow, it's so perfect in it's squares and angles...looks like something you would see hanging in an Art Museum.

Valerie-Jael said...

Love how you made this. Beautiful work for SOC, Valerie

mandysea said...

this is so graphic and I love the colours with its angles - it kind of has a wonderful arty sketchy feel!

Laila said...

Stunning piece of art. I really like the architechtual feel to it.

johanna said...

great graphic layout!

SCarol said...

Wow, stunning!

Virginia said...

I think the word 'wow' comes to mind!

Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...

I'm always impressed with your digital art, and these squares remind me of an M. C. Escher print. Lovely.

ULKAU said...

...a magnificent graphic work, love it! Ulrike

Linda Kunsman said...

clever use of this week's colors and a fabulous design!

Mary Ann Potter said...

This reminds me of an Escher work. Really cool!!!

Electra said...

Very cool!

Krisha said...

WOW! I LOVE what you did and the story behind it all.....good guess on the colors....*grin*

Ayala Art said...

Visiting from SOC. Very dynamic art!

CJ said...

Thanks for all the great comments, everyone. I used to do mostly drawing and painting, but when my carpal tunnel got bad, I switched to digital art. Although I have been taking photos all of my life, I'm much more interested in photography now and my photos are great places to begin my digital work.

wulfie said...

Fun and tricky!

Jennifer Rose said...

nice job :) and what a lucky guess for the weeks colours :)

Caz said...

This is amazing, it bends my mind but I love it!