The Island of Malta
and
Art Challenges
August 9, 2012
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| Nostalgic about my two Ethiopian Abbys... |
Greetings Family and Friends,
I hope you've had a good week and that your days brought many smiles! I'm back into the swing of playing with Photoshop, art, my new camera and of course, the challenge blogs. I'd like to share some of the resulting art with you...
The piece above (my 6-word memoir for this week) is a scrapbook page I did honoring the daughters of my two dear Ethiopian tribal friends, Walla and Buno. They each blessed me by naming their daughters Abby...above are their photos. The Abby on the left is 4 1/2 and on the right is my friend Buno with her 14 month old Abby. :) Cute, aren't they?
To balance that piece, I did another scrapbook page honoring my daughter and her Hunter and Lilly... the best grandchildren (and the best daughter) anyone could wish for...T
This week, the participants of Darcy's Art and Sole Postcard Challenge 2012 traveled (virtually) to the Mediterranean island of Malta. Amazing that this little island has been entered in the Guinness World Record book TWICE...for the largest fireworks display with their Catherine Wheel and for assembling the most people dressed up as storybook characters!!! Color them happy!! You'll note, from the postcard message, that one of the correspondents...Jarrod...thinks he's met the woman of his dreams in Malta. More to come... Here is the art for the postcard as well as the book page of an old bus. In the earlier days, these colorful buses, all individually owned and decorated, were eye candy all around Malta... a source of pride as well as a dependable mode of transportation. They represent some of the island's visitors' fondest memories!
COLLAGE OBSESSION wanted us to create a piece with an oriental theme...I used a photograph I took of a young monk while visiting the Kingdom of Bhutan (between China and India.)
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TAKE A WORD was feeling nostalgic... me too!! With the theme of MEMORIES, I created the following piece...
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Finally, THINK MONDAY-THINK ATC, in the spirit of summer, asked for a piece with a boat or ship as its theme...
That's it for this week...wishing you all a peaceful and joyful weekend and upcoming week...hope to see you for the next posting of The Vivere...
Hugs,
abbyj
So delightful to read about all your work this week, the challenges are great work. Cheers
ReplyDeleteWhat a good looking family you have - both in Africa and at home. I had no idea Malta was such a colorful place. And, cool "news" about Jarrod finding romance. Also, love the monk and the sweet boy and girl and the boats. As always, it's ALL good.
ReplyDeleteWow, you have been busy, what a lot of great art! Thanks for sharing, Valerie
ReplyDeleteA beautiful collection of artworks- absolutely fascinating!
ReplyDeletelots of great art work, love the colours on your postcard.
ReplyDeleteGreat art work, such varied and interesting projects.
ReplyDeleteJen x