Hair New Era

A handmade tag in my favorite colors. I have eight of these, so there will be eight winners. Here is a close-up:

Oh, how do I love the challenges at Inspiration Avenue! Often they force me to try something new or really put my thinking cap on - anyway, they are a challenge and sometimes it's a real stretch for me. This week I was mainly pre-occupied with One World One Heart which starts tomorrow - look for my OWOH-post then - so that the IA challenge was put on the backburner - until yesterday. The last bit was done this morning before breakfast. The challenge was "broken pieces".


I took a photo of Half Dome in Yosemite and converted it to Black&White in Lightroom. I had some scrapbook paper that I tore into pieces and reassembled it by gluing it to a gessoed canvas panel. Then I attached the photo and used the paper towel technique to apply some blue acrylic paint around the edges of the photo. Unfortunately, I applied a tiny little bit too much - and the top of Half Dome was covered with paint! Not my intention! What to do? Well, it took some courage, but I finally sanded it with a small piece of fine sandpaper - and look at the outcome! I'm really pleased how Half Dome now peeks through the paint. That was something very interesting to learn. I'm glad I did it. The last few touches were applying snowflakes, a quote and some more gesso at the edge of the panel - done. Not difficult at all (honestly, if I can do it, everybody can do it).

This also has encouraged me to go and convert more of my pictures into B&W or sepia. How convenient that I am currently taking the "Photoshop - the Essentials" class with Kim Klassen!

There are many inspiring and very talented artists who participate in Inspiration Avenue - please check it out.

First, I saw it on Diana's blog, then a few others until finally I checked it out on Jennifer's blog JRU Studio itself  - Sneak Peek Friday. You just show what you have been doing that week no matter which way you express your creativity - painting, photography, cooking, knitting etc. Since I want to be way more creative this year than last, this is also a good check-in for myself. I may not have something to show every Friday, but I'll try to turn up as often as possible.

This week I've mainly worked on my "door prizes" for the One World, One Heart bloghop that starts this Sunday! I'm pretty excited!! But - I cannot show the door prizes here before Sunday. However, I've also started another project for Inspiration Avenue which you can see here:


The theme is "Broken Pieces" and as you can easily see, my broken pieces is torn paper. So far I glued the pieces on a canvas panel, the photo of Half Dome will be added as well as - hm, I'm still contemplating that. I hope that inspiration strucks and I can finish this piece before tomorrow evening.