Fridays are fun on Twitter. The process actually starts the Saturday before, when the Colour Collective (@Clr_Collective) posts a color for the week. The idea is for artists to create a piece using that color, or to find a previous work that has the color in it.
On any given Friday, at 19:30 GMT (that would be early afternoon, here in Texas), everyone posts their work, tagging #colour_collective, and the name of the color for the week. It’s a fun challenge, and my Friday afternoon Twitter feed is just beautiful!
Lots of illustrators join in, which I love, because I have been fascinated by illustration since childhood. However, artists in all media are welcome to take the Colour Collective challenge.
Making textile art takes me a while, so I had to go back to Puzzling Pinks, a piece from 2015, to find Cherry Blossom Pink for our May 11th challenge.
After working (and being distracted from working) on a large, complicated piece for quite a while, I needed a break. Usually, creating something small and relatively quick helps me feel like I’m accomplishing something, and I can go back to complex work with renewed enthusiasm.
So for the next two weeks, I made mini-quilts especially for the Colour Collective challenge. For May 18th, the color was Dioxazine Mauve, a dark violet. I put together previously-knitted purples with old and newly-crocheted stars in Stellar Perspective, a 10 x 14″ knitted, embellished mini-quilt.
In February of this year, my friend Donna was giving away some rainbow-striped-with-black fabric. I took it home. Later, when I was organizing(ish?), I piled a bright and happy doily with red, yellow, and green accents on the rainbow fabric. As the young people would say…OMG! This was clearly a match made in heaven! The happy doily and rainbow fabric were absolutely made for each other!
I posted on Instagram about this wonderful discovery, then put the doily and fabric carefully away, to work on later.
The time came in May, when the Colour Collective challenge was Gamboge. Of all the fabric I have accumulated, the rainbow fabric was the only one with any gamboge in it. Yay! I happily tweeted Fiesta Flower in the Rainbow Jungle on May 25th.
