I have had such a wonderful month creating, sharing, being inspired, getting messy, learning new techniques, being brave, smiling, and exploring color with you all. I hope you have had as much fun as I. I have met some lovely new creative souls through this process, so I look forward to following your journeys further, connecting and creating together.
With so many outstanding creations and talent who joined in, I wanted to do one final wrap up. I put together this movie to celebrate what we have all accomplished, whether it be creating just one piece or many. (Not all 400 photos are in the movie but everyone who participated is credited at the end).
ENJOY – This is the start of the Color Challenge Revolution!
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way–things I had no words for”
Georgia O’Keeffe
Please visit the
Flickr Group and leave some lovely comments for all the new creations. I have collated all the information on the
Color Challenge Page and would also LOVE to hear your final thoughts, so please either comment below or feel free to send me a personal message at info[at]louisegale[dot]com. The flickr group is ongoing, so please continue to add related creations as you explore further with these colors.
I certainly felt energized, passionate, tranquil, growth and spirituality throughout the past 5 weeks and see the world (and myself) a little differently than I did before. So excited to explore further with new color ideas.
Continuing the Color Challenge.
Thank you for all the comments and suggestions on continuing this particular challenge. I think challenging ourselves to do this on a weekly basis really helped keep us focused, and I love the sense of community this has brought us, so I’ve decided to host a month long challenge again in February (then every 6 months if you want to continue). Now if you cant wait that long, that’s okay! I plan to be throwing an extra color challenge and holiday/Christmas ornament swap out there end of Oct/early Nov, so you wont have to wait too long to get your teeth into another fun challenge with your new found creative friends. Just ensure you are
signed up to my newsletter or a follower to get the scoop. AND, the lovely
Beth is also planning to host another one of her Stitched Postcard swaps Oct/Nov so get yourselves ready for lots of creative fun over the next few months!
Congratulations!
As promised….I put all of the participants names into a random selector and I’m pleased to announce that Judit of “
Pilgrim of the Moon” is our winner to get an extra special color related prize. Judit you have won a set of 36 oil pastels. Please send me your address (info[at]louisegale[dot]com) and ill pop those into the mail for you. CONGRATULATIONS!
Everyone: It has been an absolute joy. Stay tuned for more creative content to help us connect with each other and our inner selves over the coming weeks.
Love, friendship and Creativity my friends. Xx
“Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever… Color and I are one. I am a painter.
” Paul Klee
Hi, I'm Louise and thank you so much for visiting me here. I am a mixed media artist, who is passionate about combining the healing energy of nature and color with the meditative process of mandala making
Wonderful job on the movie! Love the music! Thanks again for your efforts in hosting this colour challenge, I too have valued the sense of community it has brought all of us!
Looking forward to February!
Cindy 🙂
This is so cool – to think all those pieces were generated by your challenge!
Can't wait for the next one. Meanwhile, the Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap is going to be even bigger and better than before!
Beth
You are truly AMAZING Louise!! I actually could feel a lump in my throat there! Yes I probably am hormonal 🙂 but to see all of our work put together like that just blows me away. Your challenge has been such a gift to me. Its given me focus and structure, the space to experiment but most importantly the opportunity to share space with this wonderful gathering of supportive and creative fellows. So thankyou Louise and THANKYOU to all the other creative color challengers!!! Roll on February :)XXX
wow, louise, thanks so much for making the brilliant video! this was so much fun, i will definitely join in with you again in february – it can't come soon enough!! thank you so much – i'm so glad i found out about this challenge. xx
Really enjoyed these colour challenges and 'meeting' lots of new artists. Thank you Louise for organising these and the utube video was a treat to view. Here's to Feb!
What joy!! It was a pleasure to participate, very inspiring.
Thanks for the fun,
and for the gift !!!!!!!
How much fun was that movie?!? So much talent and so much beauty because of your talent and beauty, Louise 🙂
Color suddenly looks different today…
Now go create with abandon!!!!!!!!!
WOW!! So much creativity from so many using the same color for each week – it is truly inspiring to see how much beauty we can create when we set our minds to it =-)
Thank you for hosting this challenge Louise! I'm looking forward to February for the Artful Journey Retreat AND the next Creative Color Challenge!
i absolutely love the video you did. thanks for including one of my pieces. Hope you'll stop by my blog and see the recap i did of all the colors! it was hard for me to keep up, but i did recap! this was fun. 🙂 thanks again so much.
Thanks for making that great video, so inspiring to see everyone's works! Sorry I couldn't participate all the weeks, but am looking forward to the next one!!
Thank you SO MUCH for hosting this challenge. It was such a wonderful experience for me. It really pushed me to be more creative. Thank you for all the time you put into organizing this. I can't wait for future challenges!
next time i have to join in. that was so much fun seeing everything that was created by color suggestions!
hugs to you for all your work on this! thanks for sharing:-)
What a wonderful movie with great music. Louise, I enjoyed this so much! Thank you for this fabulous challenge. I look forward to February!
to my miss wonderful color challenge organizing friend…THANK YOU!
i will forever be grateful to you for pushing me to use PURPLE. now i feel endearing towards that little hue.
this was so neat of you to organize and i appreciate the video you put together for all of us to enjoy!
huge love to you my dear!
sign me up for the next adventure!
xo
c
WOW! What a beautiful video! You can do everything, can't you? And I saw a lot of amazing artwork in there that I somehow missed, so I need to go through all the picts in the flickr group again.
Thank you so very much Louise, for hosting this. I wish I could've done the whole thing, but I'm so thankful that I was able to do the last 2 weeks. Yeah, who would've thought I would love artwork that was lavender, but I now do! Thank you again! I can't wait for February's challenge.
Esther
Dearest Louise, such a wondeful color extravaganza!! I had soo much fun and inspiring reading!! Gorgeous movie and i love the music too! Have a lovely merry happy week and love to yoU!
That is a great clip louise – must have taken you ages! Sorry I didn't get stuck in…next one! Love to you xx
Wow- that looks so cool, loved taking part 🙂
Hi Louise, thank you so much for hosting this event. I really enjoyed it and the community spirit! Thank you for this wonderful video too. What a great way to honour everyone's contributions! Looking forward to February! Wini xo
Hi Louise.
The video is lovely and so interesting to see all the wonderul creations.
What an inspiration!
Thank you for hosting the colour challenge.
Dear girl…want to join your next color challenge. I will be watching and waiting
even though I found this too late to join I have enjoyed seeing all of the entries. thanks for organising it and I am eagerly awaiting your next one
Lee:)