Different Strokes Challenge: August 2021

[ozeanbay]

Maureen, yes, maybe stop for dinner! Glad you were inspired and had the time to paint though. I’m looking forward to seeing what you came up with!

[tuscanny Moderator oil pastels]

It’s 6am here already, 21 August   so here goes:

A google search on guitar and flowers turned up some well known songs like Bed of Roses, Flower era, Classic Rock,etc

I decided to focus on Nothing but Flowers  by Talking Heads from Naked 1988.

It’s easy to pay lipservice to recycling but how many are willing to replace Pizzahut or their favorite grocery store with a field of flowers??

My version is focused on a bougainvillea with the guitar symbolizing the classic rock in the middle of a field of flowers, many of them tiny white flowers

Dd I interpret the challenge correctly?

Christel

[ozeanbay]

Christel— Lovely picture! I really like the shadows and the white flowers contrasting with the red.

I think you both interpreted the challenge how I was thinking by using the metaphor from the song to spur you to add more flowers as well as interpreted it opposite by having the subjects in your painting be metaphors! Whew! Not easy. I’d say you did great. Thanks for participating.

[Merriweather]

So nice tuscanny… you did a great job.

 

Painting is a complete distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body, more entirely absorbs the mind. Winston Churchill

[Charlies Mum Administrator (Maureen)]

Managed to finish this morning, though I know I could add and improve but here it is! It’s about 7 x 10” on mount board.

My title (the metaphor) is Star Crossed Lovers and the subject is …….. no, you supply it!!!?….. then I’ll know if it works!

Thanks for the challenge Ozean …. I did get my idea very early in the month, should have started sooner, but I did enjoy the idea and trying to portray it.?

Cheers, Maureen

Forum projects: Plant Parade projects in the Florals/Botanicals forum , WDE in the All Media Art Events , Different Strokes in Acrylics forum .

[Charlies Mum Administrator (Maureen)]

Christel, that’s a lovely painting and I like your handling of the bougainvillea particularly.

Cheers, Maureen

Forum projects: Plant Parade projects in the Florals/Botanicals forum , WDE in the All Media Art Events , Different Strokes in Acrylics forum .

[Anfair]

I focused on music outdoors. Called Summer Concert. Acrylics on heavy paper

[ColinS, Moderator, Victoria British Columbia]

Here is mine. 16 x 12 stretched canvas. I have entitled it “Sound Waves”.

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[Charlies Mum Administrator (Maureen)]

That’s a sweet little painting Anfair.

Colin … love the sound waves … your brush strokes portray them well!

Sidenote ….. when I was looking at the ref, for mine, I kept seeing a face in the guitar …. couldn’t ‘not’ then see it! …. In Sound Waves, I think his expression is a touch ‘painful’! ??

Cheers, Maureen

Forum projects: Plant Parade projects in the Florals/Botanicals forum , WDE in the All Media Art Events , Different Strokes in Acrylics forum .

[ozeanbay]

I wish you guys could see the smile on my face as I look through all these! I love seeing how you have all interpreted the reference in such varied and wonderful ways. Thank you for playing along with my challenging challenge idea!

Maureen–Lovely! I like how you transported the reference to the sunny sea and created a story here. Is the subject something with Romeo and Juliet? I see the knife. Glad you enjoyed the challenge!

Anfair–Glad you could join us! I like how you created your music outdoors with this! The dog singing is especially sweet.

Colin–I can definitely see the “Sound Waves” happening here! The swirly strokes make it have great energy.

[ozeanbay]

Here’s mine! I was wanting it to have a dramatic feel and chose the metaphor of colored stage lights. 5″x7″ on paper

[RoadLessTaken, Sheila in Philadelphia]

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
-Henry David Thoreau

[Charlies Mum Administrator (Maureen)]

Ozean…… a rainbow of colour…. beautifully done, I love those colours!   …. and ‘Correct!’ …lol!!

Cheers, Maureen

Forum projects: Plant Parade projects in the Florals/Botanicals forum , WDE in the All Media Art Events , Different Strokes in Acrylics forum .

[tuscanny Moderator oil pastels]

Thanks for the comments on my work!

Maureen – love your interpretation! Great palette! My bougainvillea colors have changed to motherof pearl red due to lack of those beautiful pinks/purples

Anfair – very innovative!

Colin – great waves   Lovely choice of colors

Ozean – Super palette! Well done!

Christel

[Merriweather]

Maureen,  Star crossed lovers,     loving over the ocean… I don’t know,  I am well lost with this challenge,  but you have depicted a beautiful painting as always.

 

Anfair,  very nice,  and summer is certainly the time for outdoor concerts.. Love your scene, especially the puppy…

Colin,  Love the waves and the colours you used..  It really works neat.

Ozeanbay,  the colour staged lights theme works beautifully.

 

Ok… I like bouganvillea.. so I sorta thought,  The flowering creeper disguises its thorns as it heads towards the guitar who will wail when pricked.

Cheers

Merri

 

Painting is a complete distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body, more entirely absorbs the mind. Winston Churchill

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