Turquoise

I work quite a lot with these colours as I live in St. Ives, Cornwall and I'm inspired by the colours of the sea



I'm using this photo as the banner for my blog at the moment

Carolyn ♥

Cornish Turquoise

We have just spent a wonderfully sunny week in Cornwall and my overriding memory is that of a turquoise sea, cerulean sky and the contrasting red and yellow surfing flags. This will be the basis of a summer project for me.
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Lady Turquoise

She's stencilled onto a wall round a corner, and I pass her on my walk home nearly every day. Can't remember when she appeared - at least a couple of years ago. She's about 8" high.

Turquoise seas

I am another new member.  I live in Seal Beach CA and have been admiring Sandy's work since I first saw her Queen Elizabeth I Journal Quilts at the Chicago Quilt Festival.  I am doing my City and Guilds Patchwork Certificate with the Kemshalls by distance learning.

These two photographs were taken in Fiji last year.  The first one was taken on an aerial flight in a 4-seater plane (my first trip on such a small plane) going across the main island from Nadi to Paradise Cove, which is on the same side of the island as Suva, the capital.  In the right light the ocean was really turquoise, enhanced by the reefs.

The second picture was taken from the boat dock of the resort we were staying at called Royal Davui---a 6 acre island in the Bequia Lagoon.  As soon as one brought out stale bread from the kitchen, the small fish went crazy.  The water was a clear turquoise blue and so clear that one could photograph the fish.

Turquoise

When reading Sandy's post on what colour would be the next subject I immediately knew what to use as the inspiration. I spent several hours each week for more than 10 years standing/sitting in the public gallery of our then local swimming pool watching my children learning to swim and saw them get their badges right from the first 5 m one to the finishing badge of 2000 m. The pool was tiled with turquoise tiles and through the seasons the light reflected in the pool changed from large strip lights to bright sunshine coming in through the windows high up under the ceiling. The constant changing reflections were mesmerizing and the brightly coloured swim suits of the children looked like flower petals and made the whole scene a pleasant escape from the outside world.
Not having small children anymore nor having a swimming pool close-by my idea this time is even more artificial than the swimming pool as it is made from scratch in GIMP starting with a bucket fill turquoise background then adding to that using paths and effects.

I have problems now and again posting to the blog and also commenting on other entries so I want to take this opportunity to say that although I may not comment on your posts I love seeing everything posted to the blog and am very grateful for all the ideas you share.

Greetings from Yet Another New Member

My name is Karen Musgrave and I'm thrilled to be a new member. I live in the far west suburbs of Chicago in the city of Naperville. I also have a blog
that is called Connections by Karen which deals with my teaching, making art, thoughts, etc.

My cement leaf was a gift from my friend Debi. When I decided to paint it, I channeled two gardeners and artist that I admire--George Little and David Lewis. It truly makes me happy and since it fits with the color theme I'm even happier.

I look forward to being a part of this wonderful community. I'm already blown away by your talent.

Hello from another new member

Hi everyone, I'm Linda McLaughlin, the Linda that Kathy(see yesterdays post) was separated from at birth. I live in a small town in Idaho and love wandering around with my camera, taking pictures of odd things. I have a daily photo blog that Sandy has featured in the past,thank you Sandy. I also have a blog that I created to feature my textile work, life keeps changing and getting in the way so it now has a bit of everything. Kathy obviously got the writing genes when we were separated because she writes long wonderful, thought provoking posts on her blog, mine are not.

I've gone thru some of my photos and picked out a few with turquoise.

Turquoise

is my birth stone –  although I always find the stone a bit wishy washy.
This is more like it.
Holly leaves from the garden and some playing with Picasa.

Teal/Turquoise

Wasn't hard to find a few photographs in my collection.  I am always drawn to these colours.

Turquoise

I was looking through some old images and came across this one which was created in picnik

Hello from a new participant!

Greetings, everyone!  I'm Kathy Loomis and I live in Kentucky, USA.  I have just been invited to join this group and am looking forward to sharing and learning. I have been a fulltime fiber artist since retiring almost ten years ago from a career in journalism and corporate communication. People used to ask politely whether I planned to do creative writing with all my free time in retirement, and I would say heck no, writing is what you do when they pay you.

But this year I embarked upon a performance art project in which I resolved to take a photograph every day, and it seemed like a good idea to start a blog to post the daily photo.  About that time I discovered Linda's blog of daily photos (I'm so happy that she's in this group too) and have decided that we were obviously separated at birth because we seem to gravitate toward the same kind of places and the same kinds of photos.

Since then, to my own surprise, blogging has become an important aspect of my art life, not just for posting photos, and I invite you to visit me there.

In keeping with the turquoise theme, here are some photos I’ve taken this year as part of my daily art project. 

Turquoise

Okay, I am partial to dragons. So, these turquois and gold ones blew me away. I don't know anything about them, but they were at the British Museum right across from the main entry a few years ago.

Teal/Turquoise

The colour for June runs the range of teal green and turquoise blue. It is sometimes referred to as Cyan and sometimes as sea green.

I think verdigris is one of the most wonderful colours of decomposition you could ever think of!

a modern sculpture in Lyon

But I think Turquoise must be my favourite colour, so I will probably post something for that tomorrow.