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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Brown Combo

"Brown combo" is this week´s theme for the Wednesday Stamper´s challenge.
I´m not a brown person - after all that brown and orange that I´ve seen in my youth in the 70s, it took many years before I bought brown clothes again ... When it comes to mixed-media art, I prefer other colours, too. But what I really like is combining brown with black and white, copper or gold, and with all kinds of rust and patina. So here´s an example for my favourite colour combo with blue patina on brown paper, painted with copper ground. I´ve added some green and blue accents with pens and crayons.

22 comments:

  1. Sehr interessante Kombi! Gefällt mir richtig gut!

    LG Ilka

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  2. Wow sieht das klasse aus.
    Wunderschöne Farben.

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  3. schöne farbkombi, gefällt mir sehr

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  4. Beautiful work - I love the paint. Do you use ready made paint effects or mix your own?

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  5. Rosie, I have used Modern Options copper topper with blue patina solution, then Caran d´Ache Neocolor II crayons and Polychromos pens. So the paints and pens are ready, but the mix is mine ;-)

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  6. Marion, this is beautiful and very creative. The color combinations are some of my favorites, too.

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  7. so nicely done love the frame.

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  8. oh, she's lovely! It's funny because I also hate brown in my daily life, but it is one of my favorite crafting colors!

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  9. Really beautiful card - I am opposite to you, I love browns and creams ..

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  10. Love the background and the stitches. Great combo.

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  11. This is gorgeous, Marion! The colors are like verdegris with the copper, rust, turquoise! I love it and the painterly quality it has! And I am with you 100% on the browns of the '70s! All of the movies and TV programs were brown, also! Even so, I do mix-in quite a lot of brown with other colors today. Your piece is wonderful!!

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  12. Gorgeous colours and design !

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  13. You do brown VERY well Marion, Love how your winged lady looks here!

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