Thursday 20 October 2016

mellow leafiness

This week's Diva Challenge took a turn for the autumnal - always a welcome area for me to explore.  Love the colours, love the shapes, love the poetic opportunities of the season.

I remembered seeing a tile on my Leftovers Pile that I'd previously drawn some leaf-strings onto.  Time to work some life into that stalled square...  

I challenged myself not to over think this one.  So just picked three tangles that I'd been playing with over the last couple of weeks and used those to fill the three leaves.  I added some colour - which came out a bit more muted than I planned, but now I'm done I really like the subtle tones.  There's a time for vibrancy, and a time for something a bit more misty.  It needed a border to stop those leaves looking lost on the tile.  Plus some shading of course.  And there you have it!

A trio of leaves - Florez, Claws and Verve

11 comments:

  1. A beautiful tile, I love the layeringeffect and the wonderful colors!

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  2. Gorgeous autumnal colours, loving the twiglet border too :)

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  3. Gorgeous! I really love the dimension you've created with your shading and the colors are wonderful:-)

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  5. This is stunning and the border really adds a whole new dimension to the leaves. Wonderful color and shading...thanks for sharing!

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  6. That's a beautifully balanced tile. Love your choice of tangles and the anchoring with a frame. Great sense of depth too.

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  7. Beautiful colors and great composition.

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  8. Your composition is so beautiful!!!

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  9. Thank you to everyone for their kind and encouraging comments!

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