Imagine a world without colour!

Morning, hope you are all enjoying your weekend. I am thrilled to announce that I am now a member of the Premium Art Brands Design Team, showcasing some of their fabulous products including PanPastels and mixed media products. We have a fabulous challenge taking place at the moment over at the Love to Create Challenge Blog where the theme is Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes.

I decided to go for a bright bold colour palette this time around using PanPastels Diarylide Yellow, Permanent Red and Permanent Red Shade. I adore these colours, so vibrant.

PanPastels are saturated with colour and very vibrant, you can lay down a lot of colour in one swipe; you can blend colours and add one colour onto another to make more colours with no contamination. Simply remove the second colour with a clean applicator. You also get very little dust with the PanPastels too and you can also erase areas with an eraser, great technique to use in mixed media pieces. When I am using several colours I tend to wipe away the first colour onto a piece of kitchen towel before going to the second colour. You can also mix colours directly onto the pastel, these are so versatile.

I created a card and an Artist Trading Block which could also double as a coordinated gift box. I lay down a layer of Diarylide Yellow PanPastel onto my card and then blended Permanent Red around the edges then going back to the yellow in some areas blending as I moved around; where the two colours blend this creates an orange tone, love it!

I then stamped the Visible Image (flower INKognito) onto the background using VersaMark Ink and then applied Permanent Red Shade over the image. I also stamped the Visible Image Imagine onto the background and once again applied Permanent Red Shade over the top. I adore the layers of colour you can achieve.

To add a further layer of interest I added delicate splatters of black paint to the background and matted the design onto black card.

The Artist Trading Block has been cut using Eileen Hull's Block/Cube die cut from black mountboard. I have then decorated each side with PanPastels and imagery from Visible Image.

Again my aim was to add layers to my design. I also love applying PanPastels to the background and then simply pressing a stamp firmly onto the background to leave a shadow/watermark in the background.

I also added delicate black splatters to the backdrop to coordinate with the card.

I also added a further layer by applying VersaMark through a Tim Holtz Layering Stencil and then adding PanPastels over the top.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope you can join us for this fabulous challenge. Tracy x x

Permanent Red Shade

Diarylide Yellow PanPastel

Permanent Red

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