Tuesday, October 15, 2013

One Little Word - Color!


The "word up" at One Little Word this month is "COLOR."  This word opened up so many possibilities.


But in the end,  I was inspired by this beautiful quote:
http://letterladysletters.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post.html
to create this 12 x 12" canvas:


Here's how I made it:

1.  I sectioned off the canvas using very skinny artists tape.
2.  I scraped modeling paste through stencils to create a lot of texture in each of the 8 triangles.  The stencils are:
     Red: Cascading Feathers
     Orange: Squares & Circles
     Yellow:  Flowers & Circles
     Green: Ronda's Feathers (thank you Ronda for the lovely gift of this beautiful stencil!)
     Blue: Stitch a Greek Border by Maria McGuire
     Indigo: Flying Tulips
     Violet: Hebrew Calligraphy
     Neutral: Dots & Dashes
3.  Then I rubbed paint into them, using the colors of the rainbow, and one neutral.  Because LOVE is for EVERYONE.
4.  I rubbed gold paint and gold leaf to onto the raised areas.
5.  Then I added embellishments from my stash.


Here's a video of part of my process:


You won't believe the riot of color over at One Little Word.   I hope you'll check out the other creations by the Design Team, and join us at One Little Word for this versatile prompt!     

AND...  I have decided to give away on of my Squares & Circles stencils to someone who comments on this post!  So give me a shout out before midnight, EST, on Friday 10/18 to be eligible to win!


Your comments make me so happy and let me know you were here. I read and treasure every comment and will happily answer any questions as soon as I can.

PS - the winner of my FRAMES stencil from the test drive on Thursday is Jo from Anita Houston's blog:

Jo MurrayOctober 10, 2013 at 1:18 PM That's so clever....embossing twice. Worked really well...and this stencil is perfect for that technique.

Congratutions Jo - send me your snail mail address (to jessicabethsporn (@) gmail (dot) com, and I'll sent it to you!

Thank you for visiting and commenting.  I know how busy you are and the fact that you take time to leave a word or two makes me so happy!

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30 comments:

  1. Great timing. I am contemplating the colour wheel. Squares and circles is a great stencil!

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  2. Wow Jessica, I LOVE your colour wheel inspired canvas, sooooooo vibrant and cheerful. The texture is amazing, way to go sweetie.
    Huge hugs x

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  3. Wow Jessica, I LOVE your colour wheel inspired canvas, soooo vibrant and cheerful. The texture is amazing too, way to go sweetie.
    Huge hugs x x x

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  4. Fabulous Jessica!
    I love the colours and the textures!

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  5. This is amazing Jessica, I love the colors and the texture is out of this world!!!

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  6. Feeling a bit down yesterday, I escaped for some "me" time and sat in Barnes and Noble for two hours. I had the presence of mind to bring my trusty iPad along, and it was a joy to watch your YouTube video creation of this canvas. You make it look so effortless. I love riotous color and texture. Thanks for the mood lift!

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  7. What an explosion of positive colours!

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  8. Felicidades por el trabajo que has presentado. Me encantan las texturas divididas por espacios diferentes y coloreadas. Parece una caja de regalo lista para abrir.! Saludos!!!!

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  9. I love the textures and the way you applied lighter colors on top of darker ones. Wonderful color mixture!

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  10. is a wonderful job, I love everything you do Jessica, I hope one day to have your talent, it's great!

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  11. Love this and I can see the stencils you used for the texture

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  12. You came up with another great idea!

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  13. HI,

    I love the use of all the great colors and texture. A wonderful mixture.
    Yvonne/yrd@hotmail.com

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  14. Thank you for using my StencilGirl stencil Jessica :) Your project is beautiful!

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  15. Great stencil! Love the design you made! Fab color too!

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  16. This piece is so beautiful. it is me who is honored Jessica!

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  17. This is one of my favorite pieces of your art. Love the texture.

    nancy connelly

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  18. Great stencil! I love the color and texture in this piece!

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  19. I joined Stencil Girl club this month. I am so excited to get your SG stencils of the month for Oct. They are just fantastic, as all your stencils. I love the squares and circles and I can already see in my mind my creation using this stencil. thanks

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  20. p.s. Your color project is great too! What in the world would we do without color? It makes me smile!

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  21. Fantastic! Love this month's OLW... need to hop on it!

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  22. Wow, it is beautiful! And Chagall's words are so true!

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  23. It made my heart glad to see the final outcome of your rainbow piece. I was pleased how alive your interpretation made me feel and was reminded how colours are really related and even gold is said to be found at the end of a rainbow. Again thank you for sharing your creative talent and for the effect it had on me.

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  24. Nice - embossing twice and your rainbow of color....xox

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  25. Beautiful! Love the design! The canvas is bigger than I realized from the photo on the OLW blog. And I love that Squares and Circles stencil!

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  26. Fabulous colourful,and inspiring.

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  27. i LOVE this - so much texture & color! ♥

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  28. Gorgeous project and I love that stencil!! I had fun playing along with the word!

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  29. Years later, and I have just run across this post. I am pleased that my calligraphy rendering of Chagall's words inspired you! Love that stencil too!

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