SOC week 3 lime and purple

I will say this for SOC so far - the colors have been BRIGHT! This week it's lime green and purple. I seem to mostly be making backgrounds for these challenges, and will use them up in various things eventually.

I started out with a lime green painted background, then scraped some heavy gel medium mixed with purple paint thru a stencil but it bled and oozed. :-(  Ugh. But I'll use it for a postcard with something over the smeared areas.

Unhappy with the oozing, I painted a piece of watercolor paper with purple paint, let it dry, then scraped modeling paste mixed with line green paint thru a stencil. Very cool textured background and no bleeding. The thicker modeling paste is the trick.

You can see that there is a bit of color difference between the green squares on the upper 2/3s of the card and the bottom third. The top was done with Liquitex modeling paste, the bottom with Liquitex coarse texture gel. They both have a lot of  texture but obviously absorb the paint differently.

I also scraped a bit of leftover green modeling paste onto the lime card and pressed a stencil into it. That has possibilities.

Great colors, ones I don't use much, at least the purple, but I like them and will use them again. Maybe gelli prints this afternoon??

SOC week 2

The colors for week 2 of Summer of Color are orange and hot pink. Perfectly good colors which pack a big punch when used together. I had absolutely nothing to work with in those colors so I got out the gelli plate for this one. I may do something more with them before the next colors come out, but for now, this is it. 

Actually I drew the first image with Neocolor IIs and oil pastels. Vaguely inspired by various Mary Ann Moss blog posts featuring this design. The others are gelli prints using stencils, a comb, large bubble wrap, various circle making things, etc. Each has 3 or 4 pulls on it, enough to be interesting without starting to cover up the first layers.

As usual, I like the one on the telephone book page. It'll become a couple postcards I think. Maybe wake up those postal workers a bit.

On a side note - it's been major windy here for like 3 days now and I'm in such a vile mood because of it. I can totally see how those poor Kansas housewives lost their freaking minds from the ceaseless prairie winds. Unripe fruit is being blown from my trees, my hair looks like crap constantly, everyone's allergies are killing them. We live in a wind tunnel here and I hate it! Calgon, take me away......

(rant over)