Wednesday 26 June 2013

Mary and the Thistle




Mary and the thistle
The summer of colour challenged us this week to combine Lime green and purple.
This is Mary, she has had a little digital colour change, she started off as a Gelli plate page.


Can you spot her outline on the page?
Sometimes a little face peeps out just waiting to be found.
She looked like a 'Mary '
So Mary she is.
I used bronze and purple colours on my Gelli plate page.


I painted her outline in in Gesso.


Added her features, she has a wild hairstyle!




Added a little more colour and the bright spiky thistles.



And her is Mary in her true colours, still lots of lime green and purple, but with a splash of scarlet and burnt sienna thrown in.

Linking to The Summer of color
and Paint party Friday
Also just in time for Mary to join Junes Gelli plate party

41 comments:

  1. I could see her in the print! I love it when the art talks back and guides what it wants to be! Thrilled you made it for the party!

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  2. Beautiful work - I love both the colour ways, although I always lean towards red! It's great seeing how your work developed.

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  3. Just wonderful!! And very expressive. I'm glad that you found this Mary in your page and helped her to come out!

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  4. Loving your lady for SOC, Annette x

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  5. Oh my gosh...this is so beautiful.

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  6. Your Mary is stunning, I looove her hair and the thisles! Gorgeous page.
    xx

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  7. Isnt it amazing when a figure or face appears out of nowhere. Love your Mary in both colours.

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  8. Ooh, I love her! I really like how you just found her on the page before you knew she was there. Gorgeous colors and texture and movement, and I like that celtic medallion looking thing.

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  9. I love your Mary, with her orange dress in this expressive painting. Her face is so delicate and does not seem out of this world :) Hugs - Erika

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  10. Love your peeping Mary, in both colour variations! Valerie

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  11. Wow...beautiful work...love what you did with the SOC colour combo :)

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  12. A stunning color combination and I love seeing her evolution. So inspiring!

    Lori

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  13. Love your painting, your brush work and colors! Beautiful! <3

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  14. Oh I love your painting, Wonderful.

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  15. Mary is beautiful lady!!. I LOVE her mysterious, dwelling or garden :). The sacred knots is gorgeous!!. How wonderful to see you 'create' Mary from the beginning, so inspiring :).

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  16. She is gorgeous. I love it!!! Beautiful work. Thank you for sharing

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    1. This is a cool color transformation of the lady's dress and hair! It would be great if this would work for my dresses as well ... a little digital klick and voila .... I am prepared for everything ... your artwork is beautiful!

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  17. Very sweet, I did see her outline and the more closely I looked I could find another girl too!

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  18. I saw her on my side bar and just loved her...the orange sweater is fabulous!! I wish I could wear orange. I can't so I surround myself with it!! Beautiful work!

    Hugs Giggles

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  19. Wonderful composition. I like that pensive look on her face.

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  20. She's beautiful, I just love this! HPPF!

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  21. Love that wild and big hair and your use of the colors for the Summer of Color, works so well. Happy PPF xox

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  22. This is beautiful. I love Mary she resembles you.
    Nicole/Beadwright

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  23. Absolutely lovely! Love her! Love the red and her face. Also love the texture. Beautiful!

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  24. Yes, I could see how she came about. Beautiful painting of Mary. Love the Celtic bit and the Scottish thistle :) Happy PPF and SOC!

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  25. Such nice rich texture and color. This is lovely!

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  26. I love how you have shown us the steps you took to get this marvelous painting of Mary.

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  27. beautiful painting! I love that you started with a gel print.

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  28. Thanks so much for commenting on my blog and helping me find yours. I am now following. I love your creative mixed media pieces. They look like such a delight to create.

    Bob and I spent some time last September in Edinburgh and Scotland and were so taken with the beauty of the area. Bob is Scottish descent and even owns a kilt in his clan colors (Anderson).

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  29. Fabulous take on this weeks SoC. I love Mary and her garden, it reminds me of the nursery rhyme:) The background is awesome Thanks for sharing the process, its always interesting to see the painting 'come to life' HPPF

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  30. Yes she's definitely a Mary, and even has the look of determination that made her insist on emerging from the page. I like the way the shadowing behind her and her red dress make her jump off the page, and highlight the lime green and purple. Another beautiful painting.

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  31. I love coming here! She's great, with such splashes of color and such a great hair style, thanks as always for sharing with us!

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  32. She is wonderful and i loved seeing her appear in the print! Sort of like giving birth to her! HPPF

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  33. this is so creative! I agree that at time I see faces while I paint randomly. Love your process!

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  34. I love it great work! Super talented nice meeting you :)
    ManonX

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  35. Mary is beautiful in her surroundings! Isn't it the magic of art, when you find something in the jumble of colours and forms? :-)
    She looks great both in green and in red!

    Happy PPF
    Ilona xx

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  36. Mary's fab. I could really see her outline in the page-I love intuitive art like that. She looks good in the green-I like how you changed that digitally so you could paint her red in reality.

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  37. Loved seeing the process, great use of the colours as well this week. :)

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  38. Your art work is absolutely amazing and oh so beautiful!!! I love how you used this week's colors, SO MUCH!

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  39. beautiful! I especially love your thistle! warm wishes, Susanne

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