Monday 25 June 2012

SUMMER OF COLOUR - WEEK 3

This week the challenge over at Kristin's Summer of Color is to make art based on the colours of Baseball Nut flavoured ice cream - deep red and cream for black raspberry and vanilla - yummy!
Thinking about these colours reminded me of a neighbour's garden when I was a child back in the 60's - they had tall Chrysanthemums and Dahlias in a large plot of garden, all staked out with little paths running between the rows.  
 The flowers were grown purely for cutting and they towered above me - playing with their children the plot became our jungle, hiding place, prison - or anything we wanted really!  


Thank you to the very nice gardener at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight last week, who allowed me to climb over a barrier into the non-public area, and photograph the red Peonies up close!

Still on the red and cream theme I thought this Poppy, photographed at my local garden centre, fitted the challenge perfectly - it looks like it's dripping in raspberry sauce!




And still feeling obsessed with the colour scheme this week I picked these up beautiful Alstroemeria flowers at my supermarket.



I am linking the colour palette to Color Me Weekly and the photo mosaic to Little Red House

50 comments:

  1. wow its a fabulous page Diana. Happy SOC, Annette x

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  2. Beautiful pictures / beautiful collages you show. Wishing you a good day / good new week. Hanne Bente / hbt.finus.dk

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  3. Love the imagery on your page, what a lovely momento of days gone by. BJ

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  4. Gorgeous work, the journal page is just fantastic, and the photos are wonderful I have never seen such a poppy before, just great! Valerie

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  5. Gosh that poppy really does look like some super ice cream sundae with sticky sauce and chocolate sprinkles. What a delicious shot!

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  6. ...beautiful eye catching work Diana, loVe your inky interpretation on this colour theme...your photography is super the flower shots are superb but that Poppy WOW! even as she sheds her petals and they slowly die away the beauty that nature reveals is a feast for thr eyes, just incredible, the colours the texture are simply superb...a great posting Diana I loVed it...Mel :)

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  7. Love this! :)Very clean and yet full of energy. :)

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  8. Wow that's awesome - I love how you've managed a childhood memory with your journalling - the prompt really lent itself to flowers didn't it

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  9. what a fun page and so true of childhood perspective

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  10. Oh...your collaged page is wonderful Diana ..Love your photos too!...you did a fantastic job with this weeks colours!! Jan x

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  11. Your page is so cool Diana...love each & every bit of it:)
    Poppy (hue) looks awesome too:)

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  12. I just love coming back each week and seeing your photo art! I think this one is my favorite so far!

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  13. Oh ~ What a wonderful mixed media piece of artwork and your photography is excellent ~ thanks, ^_^ (A Creative Harbor)

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  14. wow, these photographs are wonderful - those flowers just look amazing! I love your collage with the tiny child and giant flowers - brilliant!

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  15. Delicious photos like the delicious flavor of the week !

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  16. What lovely work :-) so pretty!

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  17. What a lovely piece of art - your collage is beautiful and made me think of my daughter when she was tiny and loved to make me bouquets from the yard and garden.
    I live on the edge of a forest too - I'll have to look up your part of the world to find out just where The New Forest might be.

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  18. Super gorgeous art journal page!!. I love how the composition depicted exactly what you told us about your childhood, playing underneath the towering dahlia!. Lovely. Peacefulness. Whimsical. Beauty. Hugs.

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  19. I absolutely love your journal page, and those flower pics are wonderful! The flower with the "juice" is just amazing! :)

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  20. Great page!!!
    The beauty captured in those flowers are superb. Have a great week!

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  21. Love the journal page, just beautiful. And the close up of the poppy flowers was extrondinary! Wonderful post! waving hi from the hills of North Carolina :)

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  22. Wonderful photos and love your page--beautiful!!

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  23. gorgeous photos and that peony does look like it has been dipped in something luscious... looking forward to seeing what you do with raspberry lemonade...xx

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  24. There is so much I love in your post! Your flower photos are stunning! The little one climbing up the steps to reach such beautiful flowers is magnificent!!!

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  25. Love the whole feeling of being small again in a garden. We forget how magical the simplest things can be when you're only small.

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  26. What a beautiful journal page. Just love the image of the child reaching...

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  27. Fabulous colors! I like your composition, the blooms look like balloons floating up and up. And that poppy is really beautiful.

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  28. You're right, you have a good eye for flowers. All those photos were truly yummy.I also love the first piece.Thank you for your sweet comment on My post.Denise

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  29. I really loved everything in this post.

    It truly does look like that poppy is dripping sauce. Weird and beautiful!

    I love your journal page the best.... it is so so sweet.

    Karenx

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  30. I LOVE that little baby reaching for the flowers. Just a beautiful page! Thanks for your kind comments on my page as well.

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  31. such lovely flowers. I do like your interpretation of this theme.

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  32. beautiful journal page and lovely photos too! Can't ever go wrong with flowers!

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  33. I love love love your journal page, and the memory that inspired it. Using the squares as stairs, the measuring tape, the little girl reaching - so perfect.

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  34. such a wonderful page...love the flowers and the pose of the little cutie :)

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  35. Oh poppies are such a favourite of mine at this time of year and your palette is lovely. Thanks for joining in this week.

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  36. I am in love with your journal page! Yes the poppy is exactly as described!

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  37. I love how your journal page turned out-it's so carefree and cheerful.I also love how you found the prompt colors elsewhere,I've never seen a poppy like that-it's magnificent.

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  38. Oh I LOVE this!! Everything about it. It's gorgeous!!

    Lovely photos too :o)

    See you next week at SOC!

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  39. Such a lovely memory and journal page to go with it. Beautiful!

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  40. Gorgeous takes on the theme- I LOVE them all and am AMAZED at your gorgeous poppy photos! WOW!

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  41. Love, love your colors and interpretations. I especially liked the little child reaching high for the beautiful flowers!
    xo
    lynn

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  42. Wow gorgeous pages. The poppies are beautiful.
    Lesley♥

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  43. oh I LOVE this....the colors are perfect and the image precious!

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  44. I love your flowers! Come by and enjoy a little puddin n pie.
    http://georgie-hornpuddinnpie.blogspot.com/2012/06/freaking-friday-fantabulous-giveaway.html

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  45. Great piece.. and memory... fun things.. all your photos are just gorgeous...

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