I won!! Thank you Kira!

                   

                                                                                   I WON!!!

Kira selected my entry about Operation Turtleblog. Of the three paintings she is giving away as prizes, I am to receive one of them. There were only thirty-five entrants... I counted them.

I am thrilled! ... I don't win things very often, but then, I don't often enter contests so chances of me winning anything are nearly nil.

What a surprise to come home today and find an email congratulating me that mine was the winning entry... Thank you, Kira!! And in advance, a big thank you to little Koopa who will be painting the piece. I have a liking for abstract art, as well as for realism, impressionism, and cubism. Some of my work has been realistic, some has been abstract. There's a place for just about any kind of art work in my house... the only criteria is that it appeals to me (and/or my husband).

The energy and color in Koopa's and Kira's collaboration is appealing to me.

I've got to send in my color preferences, some design patterns, or words that Kira will draw or write across the canvas... I need to choose a few color combinations that won't make muddy brown when Koopa crawls across the canvas, his turtle toes imprinting scratches through the wet paint, mixing and blending them with a final touch of his turtle tail, leaving a wake of turtle twists and swirls of tempting tones.

Kira is a color theorist, so I may leave some of the color decisions up to her. She asked me to consider the room I would be hanging the painting, and send a picture of it to her to help her make the decision.

She wrote:

"The first thing I need from you is the background color so I can get the canvas primed and sanded for Koopa to use.  After that, you can decide on the layout and colors you want Koopa to paint with.  Names, words, dates, phrases, simple symbols, etc. are all fine as long as they fit on the canvas.  You can also leave the layout up to me if you want.  My area of expertise is color theory so if you have a set of colors you want to use, I can lay them out strategically so Koopa won't blend them to form brown."

Here is a link to one painting that Koopa created with all of his little self, and lots of paint, called Procrastination:

http://www.turtlekiss.com/procrastination_63.jpg

 

                                 

Here is a link to one of the Galleries of sold paintings (there are four of them):

http://www.turtlekiss.com/gallery3.htm

 

And just to show you that the artistic duo have a great sense of humor, I'm posting one of their videos from YouTube. Well, I thought it was cute.

                                     

Now, let me go think about my prize and what colors I want Koopa to mix and blend via Turtle toes and tail!

 

                            

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