"Nodland"
8 x 10 Journal page
{This page was inspired by the vintage sheet music - a lullaby entitled "Bye Bye Land" - which serves as the base of the collage}
Yellow fever!
Another wonderful week was had with Yellow. Although some of us initially expressed concern with the color, we tackled the challenge regardless and succeeded in producing an amazing amount of beautiful, inspirational pieces based upon the signature hue of Summer. Thank you once again for sharing your heart and art with us here and with one another on Flickr and Facebook as we continue our colorful journey together . . .
Did you hear?
The winner of last week's Yellow drawing (pictured in the post below) is . . .
Please Email your address to kdvanvalkenburghatmsndotcom and I will get your goodies right out.
Now, welcome to BROWN week!
Your color prompt for this week (Monday July 11th to Sunday July 17th) is to create anything your heart desires inspired by color Brown. Your Bonus! challenge is to incorporate a bold shot of color somewhere in your work. As always, please (A) link your work in the widget below so that others can find you, (B) leave one comment if you created a Brown piece and (C) leave two comments in you completed the Bonus! challenge.
And did you see all those vintage pretties?
This week's Brown giveaway will include a lot of 'em . . .
The Paper Company Flourish rub-ons, several (okay 6 ;) large vintage ledger pages, several pieces of vintage sheet music, Distress Ink in Pumice Stone, one distressed tag, a few sheets of mica, Stickles glitter in Cinnamon and Copper and a sprinkling of bronze Swarovski flat-back crystals
And what is next week's color prompt?
RED
(Monday July 18th - Sunday July 24th)
"Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on alert against the spectrum."
- Derek Jarman
Is there a Bonus! challenge with Red?
Yep. Should you decide to take it on, next week's Bonus! challenge is to incorporate something - anything - winged into your work. This can be taken literally or figuratively, the choice is yours.
Have fun . . .
Kristin xo
136 comments:
Great challenge this week Kristin!
I love the butterflies and the pop of color you used. Looking forward to red!
The teal eggs are my pop of color...hope they are bold enough!
your piece is adorable, i am a sucker for a butterfly and the complementing colours to your brown look beautiful...love the peeks of the faces through your work and the images you have used look wonderful...my brown piece is linked...xxx
well...i popped some turquoise into my browns...Kristen,thankyou so much for these wonderful challenges, it is forcing me to get some art into my very trying times with some family members...you sre dpoing an amazing job...hugs from me to you...i can jjjuussssttt reach if i stretch enough!!!lol...xxx
Beautiful collage Kristin, I love the little girl riding on the body of the butterfly.
In my blog I mention red probably being a problem colour for monochromatic as I had a feeling red was going to be next.
Finally I was ready with the brown challenge! I let life then procrastination hold me back. I will get the others done sometime and if not I will keep going forward from here! Life gets in the way of crafting sometimes and I just don't know how to say no! Been checking out what has been put out there and I am impressed. Maybe feel a little out of my league to. Okay...be positive. Looking forward to the next challenge. Vickie
I'm lovin' your Sleepy Song piece! He he to the 'Zz'! Great background, there's a lot happening in a subtle way (sweet little faces).
Perfect 'pop'!
I enjoyed 'brown' and I'm really looking forward to 'red'!
x
My 'pop' is a splatter!
x
Beautiful collage Kristin!! the butterfly girl is awesome!! and so is the splash of turqouise!
xoxo
My entry this week smells! (take a look and you'll see why). Maybe we should have a bonus challenge for the stinkiest art!!
your journal page is wonderful! i love blue with brown. ♥
this comment is for my submission for brown.
thanks, dani
this is my comment for the bonus splash of color ~ red.
i'm really looking forward to next week's red. have a great week, Kristin. ♥
dani
Oh, your brown collage is wonderful, Kristin! The "whimsical" background with the words and other details, and the butterfly-girl with those sweet words...! Love it all!
And my "splash" of other color is of course - the red fruit! :-))
Lots of beautiful brown creations so far. :) I love visiting you all.
And this is my first time doing the bonus challenge. :) It's the bright green background if you happened to miss it by any chance. :)
I've struggled with the brown but gleefully anticipating RED!!
x
Love your 'brown' piece. So pretty and lots of lovely details.
Wow, what a gorgeous collage kristin, so many beautiful details.. I love you little butterfly girl :)
I've enjoyed brown week and have managed to do 2 pieces :)
...and *swooning* here at your fab brown generous giveaways :)
Jan x
Much to my surprise, brown turned out to be more fun than I thought! Valerie
Oh, and for this weeks bonus challenge, I've painted my girls lips pinky/red...just hope that they are bold enough?
Jan x
I did a pop of colour on each picture - the lilac earring in the first one and the green hair in the second!
Great colour this week - I love brown earthy tones! Love your inspiration for us!!
Another great week Kristin! ..plus great use of the browns in your collage with that great butterfly--wonderful focal point!
Your college is beautiful! Seems so dreamy and magical - ties in perfectly with the "Bye Bye Land" sheet music!
Half of what I created is brown without any other color (origami window stars) and the other has brown with various colors (the quilt squares I'm making each week for a quilt that will be the final project at the end).
Great page again Kristen. I've linked to my brown pieces
And I've added a splash of red to all my pieces
A lovely collage! Am so enjoying this colour journey! Thanks for hosting!
Wow, what a challenge brown was for me, but loving it just the same! I love the lullaby theme of your piece, simply beautiful! & Yay, can't wait to get started on *Red*!
I added a bold colour of blue to my *Brown Eyed Girl's* dress :)
Beautiful, Kristin! I love your brown background with your turquoise pop of bold...Brown was more fun than I thought it'd be! Thank you for the inspiration again this week! Brown is Beautiful! ~kathy
My splash of color amongst the brown is magenta, inspired by a swatch of fabric that I glued on my page, too! (Gorgeous flower stamp handmade by Ro Bruhn)!
I am going to try desperately to play with this week's color! I love working in brown tones! Your piece is absolutely STUNNING!
Brown was a tough one for me since I don't think of it as a summer color - but I managed a collage. Love your take with the butterflies!
My splash of color is the coral postage stamps from Taipei!
Oh I love everything about this piece. I'm very much into butterflies these days! I'm going to do my best to join in this week and get something posted, thanks for the invitation! ~Scarlett
I linked mine and I jus tlove your work! I love the layers and the little faces in the background. Just beautiful!
Plus I added my pop of color which is red and it's next week's color!!
Kristin - I adore your brown piece! For all of my crankiness about brown, I did manage a page which I am pleased with LOL Looking forward to popping through as many submissions as possible!
My "pop of colour" I have accomplished by adding the photo to the page. What is more of a pop than the sun!
Kristin, I love your piece. I love all the layers in it and the subtle way you have used the colour. Just beautiful.
Kristin what a challenge! I love your Brown Nodland Collage Piece with the Beautiful Butterfly! And Thanks for the Color of Brown Inspiration!
I am Much looking forward to next weeks Strong Color of Red! Hugs,Tee
this is sure been fun...i hope to get to enjoy looking at everyone's work.....
Beautiful!! The turquoise/teal is perfect with the brown and gives it that extra pop. Love it!
Loving your piece Kristin, its fab.
My entry is on now and I get to go twice...yipee...yep I managed the bonus this week. Annette x
Am dittoing above as I get 2 goes this week, yipeee
My brown entry if finally up and ready, since my internet decided to come back up for a while.
I completed the bonus with a pop of color, too.
Comment one for Brown Work-Insert here "Blah blah blah"
http://art-a-day-keeps-the-crazies-away.blogspot.com/2011/07/summer-of-color-downtown-brown.html
ROFLMAO
Comment two for doing the challenge for a change-Insert comment here "yodeleeeooowhooo"
http://art-a-day-keeps-the-crazies-away.blogspot.com/2011/07/summer-of-color-downtown-brown.html
(Falling off chair laughing at myself)
I always forget to look at the challenge and I don't think you do it on the FB page so I ended up missing it. :( Poo. But this week I GOT IT! and so now I get to do TWO!!! YAHOO!
please please please Number Generator, pick me! That brown giveaway looks totally awesome!
Yep! This week I did the bonus! even twice! Go check here : http://nathalienayer.blogspot.com/2011/07/brown.html
I got my brown collage posted - had fun with the faces.
The bonus for me was the pop of orange acrylic paint.
LOVE your collage Kristin! Your journal is going to be so fabulous :) Got my brown done and posted on the first day this time - what a nice surprise :)
Congrats to Linda for winning yellow! What a fun blog she has - definitely going to visit there often.
Looking forward to red and wings!
Lovely butterfly Kristin. Hope you enjoy my post.
AND... my leaves have some zingy greens and pinks added.
Love brown! Beautiful creation! Hope I did not use too much of my color pop!
I had a hard time with this color I had to many ideas. Hope you like the one I came up with.
OOO lovely piece Kristin. I love that POP of turquoise. Great minds think alike!!!!
Hmmm Red, that might be a challenge for me but I am no quitter.
My POP of colour is Indian Turquoise.
Soooo love your gorgeous creation Kristin... just beautiful... Brown was so much fun...
Jenny x
And I included a big pop of RED...
Jenny x
I love this piece, so much detail! Every time I look at it I see something else~ Great addition of Turquoise; I love that color and it looks fab with brown~
This is my first entry into your Summer of Color challenges. I have brown sand at the beach--thought it would work for a summer theme. Love what you created.
I had so much fun making my brown inspired project today and my splash of color is blue food coloring! :)
~Scarlett
Gorgeous collage with the b-fly!!
I posted a brown tree with beige-ish
colored ground.....not very brown in the whole sense of the word but I just used less brown than I guess most did today............
Hi, Kristin. So glad I found you and your art challenge. I just finished a brown piece so I linked her up! She has a bit of yellow but nothing bold or intentional so I will stick with one comment. I love the layers you have created in your journal page. I'm looking forward to your red challenge. I'll try to make some time this next week between work and home. Looking forward to getting to know you better. Take care!
me again:) i just realized I qualify for the bonus. xoxoxo. let me say again what a great idea you had for this summer of colour, Kristin! it's so inspirational and plus I've met all these new artists :))
Beautiful work. I'm on vacation but still checking in. Thankfully I was able to finish red before I left.
here's mine
http://blissangels.blogspot.com/2011/07/summer-of-color-brown.html
enjoy the music
and the pop of color an green butterfly
Brown was more fun than I thought! AND I actually used the additional prompt this week, and used a punch of red to highlight things here and there - thanks, Kristin
OOPS! FOrgot to say that I posted my brown to our Flikr site!!!! But I used the bold color, so guess this is my second comment!!!!
I love your piece Kristen, you are so talented. That color of blue is sooo gorgeous with the brown too. Thank you so much for hosting this, it's really been a fun and inspiring experience. I am so happy to have the chance to meet some many fantastic artists too.
I did add a pop of color to mine. I really loved doing brown, I actually did two, I was so excited about it. haha! Have a fantastic week. Thanks!
Very Pretty Art work, Kristin!!!
I'm so behind in my colors - Sorry!
YAY - I get to leave a Bonus comment. My shot of color is the large, brown mushroom.
I think I would like to join in.I just found your blog today so I'm just learning about your challenge.Sounds fun,Off to do my brown page.Is the next one red with wings?Your new follower.Denise
Another beautiful piece, love the layers. I always enjoy seeing your creations!
My shot of color is a magenta sun.
Hi...
I adore that butterfly, it is popping from your SUPER background...I adore...you have easily realise a nice brown page and that's inspire me a lot...let's go for the red page if I have time this week, I have to prepare my travel and I think I will stay quiet for the next two weeks and I will complete the other colors when I will come back probably at the end of July...have a nice week..xx
I have my pop color with orange circles...
Hi Kristin! I just love seeing what you create each week. I love this! I think the blue butterfly/girl is brilliant. I am still working on my brown...but, I hope to finish today. :)
I have created my brown piece and not at the last minute!
I also used a pop of color ;)
Hi Kristin- I had to add my link twice again. I'm doing something wrong. I think I've finally figured it out. I need to slow done and learn to spell!
Hi Kristin,
Your brown journal page is beautiful, I love blue and brown together, love, love, love!
enJOY a beautiful week,
Kimberly
Hey-o! Just wanted to say that your picture is quite lovely. Thanks for hosting this super event!
~Zade
Also, I did do a picture, and did complete the Bonus! challenge. Tah!
whoops, I commented under yellow...here's my brown entry. Hope you like the story I tell.
I added a pop of blue!
this has been so much fun. really enjoyed the brown challenge! Thankyou
My pop of color for my piece is Green!
Hello Kristin,
Your brown is fantastic..love the butterflies of blue!!!
I love the feel to it..I feel young..seeing the mother and child and bird is gorgeous.
I don't think I did well with Brown..but
Here is my submission for this week..
http://heartnsoul-amy.blogspot.com/2011/07/twijnkle-twinkle-summer-of-color-wk-6.html
I added orange to my brown for the bonus challenge.
Thanks again for hosting this wonderful art challenge.
Next week red? Yee ha You should see the scarlet apron I am making!
I love your brown piece. It was a difficult colour for me, looking forward to the next one. x
hi Kristin :)
this is my first time here! very excited i am :) thank you for hosting this challenge!!
HUGS!!
Luthien :)
Hi Kristin.. entered my brown journal page.. love the butterfly on yours.. great piece...
Kath
I do have that red on mine.. not sure if it's bold enough to make the cut though...
Kath
loving this challenge - just posted my brown piece
and I used a pop of colour on my text
Hope this counts, because I forgot to mention my pop of color is pinks!
Hi!!! I linked up when Ella told me that you were having this Summer of Color challenge. Sending (((hugs))) your way!
XO
Cindy
Yay! I finished my brown and you inspired me to use a pop of turquoise in my lettering! :) Hope you are having a happy day!
Another awesome challenge!
Have just posted my brown effort - a collage on cardboard, with cyan dash of colour :)
And the dash of colour for my brown piece is cyan blue in the corners :)
My brown challenge entry is uo
And I've added a dash of hot pink (on the journal blocks and crystals
added my link for my attempt at this week's colour! :D
Wonderful journal page! The butterfly girl is, of course, my favorite part. :D
Love your page Kristin.
I've posted my brown experiment, and was very glad it was an experiment as it didn't really work.
My shot of colour is green.
Brown and green are my favourite colours.
Ok, trying this again. I love brown week, please all enjoy the gold & brown low boy chest of drawers. I am so proud of you my love. 'ol mom'
I am loving your work of art.. The collage work look fab... and that butterfly tops it off.. Thank so much for doing this challenge I am just loving it..
Hugs, Linda
I didn't manage the 'pop' of colour!!!
Hi again,This is my second comment.I posted my brown drawing with a slash of teal.Put your button on my sidebar also.My only problem is,since I've been blogging I'm not real good with widget.It never takes for me?I'm at http://knuckled54yahoo.com.blogspot.com I would love a little help.
Love the art work for this brown!
Brown can be lovely and rich!!!
Hey Kristin I am finally getting around to posting this week. I had fun creating with brown. I like your art for this week. I like the vintage feel of your piece. The blues in the wings really spice it up as well.
It was interesting adding a bold color to my brown art. I do like many colors with brown. The varied hues go so well with many colors. Now I am off to create with red.
oops left a linky but forgot a comment, silly me!
and again for the splash of colour
Beautiful pop of color in your brown piece, Kristin!
Ooh red is one of my favorite colors, I can't wait to look through everyone's pieces for next week!
Ok, I really need to get my butt in gear and get my art and posts done earlier in the week. I keep barely sliding in here!! Another good week my dear! Had fun!! Thank you again and again for doing this!!!! Love your piece of course!! So many great layers!
xoE
And I added I pop of aqua, but hopefully it's enough of a "pop" for you! Didn't show up great in the photos, but I promise it's there!! I want to win this stash!!! : )
xoE
Again I am very late posting my colour challenge, but here it is.
Those fuchsia square beads are my bold colour to the piece.
i am very behind on my challenges...i've posted my pink and will have yellow up tomorrow!
Forgot to mention that my sign photo is my added 'wings' for the bonus.
http://jomurray-art.blogspot.com/2011/07/summer-of-colours-red.html
Hi everyone! I'm way late posting my brown color challenge as well as the rest...I have them done, I've just been so busy I haven't had time to photograph them all...here is the link to my brown challenge!
http://www.anitavanhal.com/2011/08/the-summer-of-color-brown-color-challenge.html
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