Challenge 7 & 8

 I won't go into great detail on these two challenges because I don't have photos to support the process and it's really not that important.

The prompts for #7 were:

1. A flower

2. A receipt with a printed logo

3. Something with metallic ink

4. Something with wings

5. Something stapled

6. A coffee or tea stain

I chose to use a tea stained bag for the background. Bonus item covered.

 The second item I found was a girl with wings. Even though I had "something with wings" covered, I later added a couple butterflies just for interest.

I happened to have a small piece of translucent paper with leaves that had flecks of metallic gold. When they catch the light they are beautiful.

Next came the flower. Finding something small enough to work here was an issue. I finally settled for the purple flower although I would have preferred something with a stem.

With two prompts left, I was stymied. I did not have a receipt with a logo and even if I found something, I wasn't sure where it would fit without covering something I didn't want covered, My decision was to let the Bonus item serve as a stand-in which is legal. That left me with something stapled. I thought this over long and hard and experimented with overlapping staples to form a six pointed star but that did not go well. Aligning the staples perfectly was a disaster. So I pulled the staples out of my practice sheet and glued them randomly on the circle. Then I dabbed them with Art Alchemy Matallique in vintage gold. I took some liberties with that prompt and it probably won't be the last time I do that either.

Here is the final product. The sun was setting when I took this and I was trying to pick up the fold flecks on the leaves. Not the most polished shot. It does look much better in person but I couldn't seem to capture that on camera.

 

 Moving on to #8, we have the prompts as follows:

1. A pattern texture that looks natural (e.g. woodgrain)

2. Something that makes a noise

3. A menu or a part of one

4. An image of a face or portrait

5. A page from a children's book

6. Bonus: Something transparent or translucent (e.g. tracing paper)

I began by looking through some children's books. There was one that was a take on nursery rhymes. I chose a weasel for the image of a face and that dominated the project. 

First I chose a patterned piece for the background but that turned out to be way too busy so I flipped the circle over and used a page from the book as the background. I covered that with a slightly tinted piece of vellum to reduce the contrast between the white page and black print and, of course, to satisfy the Bonus prompt. The weasel is also meant to serve as something that makes a noise. The theme of the book was that the weasel kept popping up whenever the rest of the characters least expected it. So "POP Goes the Weasel !" was repeated throughout the story with exclamation points each time. Unfortunately I could not fit an exclamation point onto my circle. Believe me I tried. Then I took the patterned paper and cut it to fit the "O" between the two Ps. The last thing I needed was piece of a menu. Since I had used the Bonus prompt I really didn't need it but I made a feeble attempt anyway. 

I cut a little cap out of the same book and put it on the weasel's head. I also colored in the heart on his overalls. I tried to up the yellow on the two Ps to show like they do in person. However that darkened the blue as well. In reality it is a gray blue. 

I remembered I took a picture before I colored in the heart. This one is pretty close to the true colors on the finished piece. I took the other one way too late in the day as the sun was setting, thus the distortion with the colors.

That's it for now. I may ease off on posting this challenge and just do so when I have one I really like or think is interesting enough to warrant a post.