Anyone for half a pear?
Michelle Ward’s GPP Street Team Crusade No 28 is about “portion control” – using part of an image to create interest and mystery. Last month we were challenged to really explore a shape, I chose the pear. You can see some of the images I created here, here and here. I have kept using last month’s PEAR shape, and have been making new images on watercolour postcards. This way, I get to do the Crusade, and keep up my stock of postcards for sending off quick notes to people. Win win! For these three I used acrylics, gesso and Stazon ink pads, acrylic stamps and handcut stencils and masks.
Cath – these are fab!! I especially like the middle one, with masked pear, filled with text. Very cool at a series – all of them. Thanks for sharing your explorations with the team – fun to see you continuing with the pear!
Michelle Ward
February 8, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Love the way you used several different techniques with the same image…but, each an individual art piece in and of itself! Great job!
Debi
February 9, 2009 at 3:42 am
Never had a pear I didn’t like! These continue to look really cool!
Julie Prichard
February 9, 2009 at 5:39 am
These are great. I love the masks.
Judy
February 9, 2009 at 9:13 am
LOOK at you! continuing the pears and making them look all yummy!
Love the white flower on top of the blue one. But the whole thing’s neato.
Chris
February 9, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Oh I love your pears!!! Great colors , Too!! Who ever is lucky enought to get your notes should frame the cards!!!
Hugs!
elizabeth
Elizabeth
February 10, 2009 at 2:36 am
Your pears look great – the postcards idea is something I hadn’t thought of what a great idea! thanks for stopping by my blog!
Megan Warren
February 10, 2009 at 5:38 pm
This series of Pear cards is so lovely, Cath ! Loving the control you used. Beautiful job on the challenge !
Cheers !
kim mailhot
February 11, 2009 at 5:11 am
Your pear cards are really lovely, all delicate and sweet!
Lynette
February 11, 2009 at 3:46 pm
wonderful images! I’m almost jealous of your pears. I really like the shape a lot, but I haven’t done anything serious with it since my college days.
I like that you’re making postcards with your shape. I should do something like that with mine. Thanks for the idea.
Regina R
February 14, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Hi Cath
lovely pears and a your style is very special, maybe a little pop art? And i mean special here as nice, beautifull as opposite to usual/common. WOULD love to have such pear in my snailmail box LOL.
Thanks for sharing!
Hedwig
belle2create
February 14, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Lovely pieces!
Michelle Brown
Melbourne Australia
aztecmichelle
February 18, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Multi-tasking at it’s best! I love your results and how your play can be shared. The pear is an awesome shape ~ thanks for playing and sharing.
Kathryn
February 19, 2009 at 2:55 am
Hmm… I can’t decide which one is my favorite, maybe the one to the right… or the one in the middle because of the white almost invisible pear… nice work! and what fun to recieve in the mail such cards!
iHanna
February 19, 2009 at 10:09 am
Really lovely work! I like seeing what you’ve done with one stamp, practicing portion control… great challenge, right?!?
Kathy McCreedy
February 24, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Such lovely pieces of pears. Love the overlay effect.
Lay Hoon
February 27, 2009 at 6:37 pm
[...] long found I had become thoroughly hooked. Some of the work I did round pears can be seen here and here. There’s something really valuable about exploring the same shape, over and over and over. [...]
Back to the pears « Cath Sheard
April 11, 2009 at 2:48 pm