Friday, April 14, 2017

Circle Square


I went crazy with ideas for the circle/square string challenge this week. There are many ways I could have varied the sizes of the shapes but I decided to use only a 2"square and 2" circle. I did 3 tiles with  technique variations. All the backgrounds are done with watercolor paint. I used colored pens for the tangles and colored pencils for the shading on all the tiles. I couldn't decide which one I liked best. Which one is your favorite?\

On the first tile, the background was colored a light violet first. I did the entire square with pink and let it dry. Then I did the entire circle with blue. The tangles are Zenith, Paradox, Cadent and Diva Dance.


On the tile above I started with a tile colored pink. I then cut out the square shape from paper colored purple and the circle used a blue paper. I glued them onto the pink paper and tangled away. Tangles are Bales and Hurry Holli.


I started here with a tile with a lightly mottled pink color. Then I put a circle shape and a square shape on top. With a spray bottle I spayed additional pink paint. I carefully removed the circle and square. When it was fully dry I added the tangles and shading. Tangles are Ditto, Raddox and Tripoli.


These are the tiles before the tangles were added. I photographed this late at night so the color isn't very good. I started adding tangles to the one tile before I remembered to take the picture but hey, that happens!

6 comments:

  1. Really fun way to do this challenge and such lovely results!

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  2. All your tiles are beautiful. The second one is my favourite.

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  3. WOW! I love your colorful compositions! They are so beautiful!
    Happy Easter!

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  4. Wow Sue, these are all beautiful! My favourite though is the middle one because I love how the shapes in the background tie in the coloured orb and square! And they are great colours!

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  5. Your tiles are always splendid, I love these colors and compositions.

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