Life...The Vivere

ART and SOLE CALENDAR CHALLENGE 

July 1, 2015 

 

Happy July 1st...we're smack dab in the middle of our all-too-short summer in Central New York... enjoying it while we can.

Today marks the beginning of Art and Sole's Calendar Challenge for July. The requirements for altering our calendar picture this month are as follows:

1) Keep part of the original picture and incorporate that into the design of the finished piece

2) Use some "bumped up" stenciling for texture

3) Add our own face as a photo or drawing...or a face from a magazine

The original calendar art is a piece by Claude Monet (1840-1926) called CHILD in the ARTIST'S GARDEN.

This was a difficult task for me because I had never done "bumped up stencils" before. I added the texture sparingly...not too obviously...in the flowers, on the woman's skirt, and used a different stencil on the back of the bench. I'm looking forward to seeing how other participants in this calendar challenge handled the technique in their art pieces. I'm not sure it added anything to the art (in my case.) Here's my alteration...

Two more challenge blogs inspired me to play... DIGITAL WHISPER's theme of barefoot sounded like fun...

and TAKE A WORD was looking for the HOT colors of summer...red, orange and yellow.  I turned to my love of graffiti for this one.

That's it for this post. Hope you're enjoying your seasonal days, wherever you are.
Please join me for my next posting...
Big Hugs,
abbyj