Over at Twinkle Twinkle there is a celebration of color, The Summer of Color.  This week’s color is orange. There are links to so many great pieces of orange art there!  This really pushed me because this is a color I have not used much in many months.

I didn’t have any orange paint with me on vacation, so I made some using red and yellow.  There was an added bonus – I had so many little shades of orange.  I think I may mix more of my colors just so I can have the color variations!

I started with the white gelato cirlces, added yellow, and finished with black gelato.  I brushed the black with a wet paintbrush to soften it.   I really liked how the yellow looked on the white so I went back and added to the white so the yellow would pop more.  Then the jouranling was added.

The art journal pages I worked on while on vacation are souvenirs.  Why?  Because I added some of the beach to my pages.

I started with a glob of white paint and mixed in sand.  A few squirts of water – but not much because the paint is the glue that holds the sand to the paper.  It takes a while for this to dry – so I just left in the sun to speed up the process.

I colored the page with watercolors.  The colors of the water were my inspiration.

I had plans for this paper but I am so in love with it that it will just be for now.  Maybe later I’ll use it for the collage I thought it was destined for or maybe not…