Weekly Art Challenge: Play with Pink and Brown!

The Art Challenge for this week: Play with Pink and Brown!

For this week, get out your pink and brown pens, crayons, pencils, papers and bits and make a little something.

What I did: I decided to have fun making a pink and brown mosaic in my art journal. I started by making grid lines and then filling in the squares with pink and brown watercolor crayons and pens. I had fun doodling, scribbling and not worrying or thinking about what I was going to do with all of this. This photo above shows what my page looked like after my first layer of just watercolor crayons, pens and rubber stamps.

My finished mosaic, yay! : )

Lucky for me, I recently made up pink and brown goodie bags for a swap that I'm in. So, I had a little baggie filled with pink and brown papers, images and tid bits...all ready to go.

I would recommend that you give yourself a time limit of about 15 minutes or so to pull all of the pink and brown paper and bits that you can get your hands on. This challenge will be so much easier if you limit yourself to just a little pile of pink and brown goodies to play with on your art desk.

Once you've got all of your pink and brown stuff together, start ripping, cutting and playing. I had so much fun layering my pink and brown papers onto my grid. I just played and tried not to think too much. I found that I had to get quite creative since I only had a small amount of goodies to play with. But that's what I ended up loving about this art challenge. I find that I'm always more creative when I limit the supplies I can play with.

Once I had everything cut and torn out, I glued everything down with my trusty UHU gluestick and Tacky Glue. Then I added some more dots and details with more watercolor crayons and pens.

I really enjoyed this challenge and can't wait to do it again! By the way, there are 10 glorious ARTchix products incorported into my mosaic: Art Blast Playing Cards, Winged Cuties collage sheet, Chixies Valentines Collage Sheet Collection, Sepia Guys collage sheet, Key to My Art Collage Sheet (which is our special for this week), Pink Flowers, Chocolate Wings, Pink Wings, Dazzling Doorways Collage Sheet and our Spoil Me collage sheet. WOW!

How to play in this art challenge: Make anything you'd like using only a pink and brown color scheme. Bonus points if you make a pink and brown mosaic! Then scan and post it to your blog, flickr account or website. Next, click on "comment" at the bottom of this post and leave a note with a link to your art challenge post so I know where to see it online.

If you don't have a website or blog or anything, feel free to email me your submission with "Blog Art Challenge" as your subject line. (helga@artchixstudio.com)

Deadline: Tuesday morning, February 17, 2009.

Prize: I will pick my favorite from those entered in this challenge...and the winner will receive a fabulous pink and brown goodie bag from me. I will announce the winner on Wed, Feb 18.

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ARTchix Bonus Gift of the Week: A Pink and Brown Super Fabulous Goodie Bag

Great news! You can get a pink and brown goodie bag like the one I used to make my pink and brown mosaic above. All you have to do is type "spoil me" in the comments section of your order and we will include this awesome collection of pink and brown papers and goodies with your order.

Or order our blog special below and we will automatically include this bonus gift. Hooray!

Note: I've made up 10 of these special gifts so offer good only while supplies last. Get 'em while you can! : )

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ARTchix Special of the Week: Key to My Art Collage Sheet

Get this magnificent collage sheet for half price for this week only! Go to this special link to purchase it.

Key to My Art Collage Sheet - Inspiration:

I'm totally in love with this ATC on the left by the talented Stephany Zerbe! You'll find a Key to My Art image in the lower right....along with images from our Butterfly Butterfly collage sheet. Did you know that you can get a copy of this stunning ATC along with matching buttons?! Hooray!

On the right are two lovely ornaments made by the wonderful Elaine Fong! What fun! She has made mini collages with our Key to My Art collage sheet, Tell Me a Story transparency sheet, Large Antique Copper Memory Frames and Glass.

Comments

[Jennifer]

Your collage is so pretty! I was inspired by it and created one in pinks and reds just to see what I could come up with!

However for the contest I did create a post card in pinks and browns. It's posted on my blog:

http://theprettypekingese.blogspot.com/

Best wishes and high hopes to you!
Jennie

[Lori Nowak]

Helga:
Love your kitties. I notice you have two females and a male. How do they all get along?
My cats both died recently and as I contemplate getting more, I'm trying to decide what combination to do. I've had 2 males before and one of each, I was going to try two females this time. Did you get them all from Kittens?

Just curious, from one cat lover to another.
Lori

[Helga Strauss]

Hi Lori,

I'm so sorry to hear about the loss of your kitties. My sympathies. : (

My kitties get along okay now but it was a struggle for awhile there. We got Inca and then Bruno as kittens and they got along wonderfully. When James' Mum passed away, we took in her cat, Uma. It's taken many months for them to all get along...and Inca and Uma still get in fights sometimes. I think I would probably avoid getting 2 females if at all possible.

Please send me photos when you get your kittens, I'd love to see! : )
Helga