Welcome to the Serendipity Treasury Challenge!
The Tuesday Challenge is "Harvest."
We encourage you to make treasuries that somehow employ the term harvest ; be as literal or figurative or off kilter or conceptual as you want to be. If you want to find items with the tag "harvest" — wonderful! If you want to demonstrate a harvest of some nature — whether it be emotional, literal - such as a crop, or very figurative — go for it! Just somehow employ "harvest" in some facet of your treasury :)
I hope you choose to participate!
And if you do participate, then please post a link to your treasury as a comment on this blog : )
Please tag your treasury with "treasury challenge" and "harvest"
Happy curating!
by Cassandra Kiss:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c6a1927c7c26d919aeccf4f
by Sarah Knight
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c6a3312c7c26d91f9bfd24f
by Kimberley Morris
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c6c4f9136e36d916d35af8f
Monday, August 16, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Friday Challenge: Heart
Welcome to the Serendipity Treasury Challenge!
The Friday Challenge is "Heart."
We encourage you to make treasuries that somehow employs the term heart; be as literal or figurative or off kilter or conceptual as you want to be.
If you want to find items with the tag "heart" — wonderful! If you want to employ an adage like "from the heart" — go for it! Just somehow employ "heart" in your treasury :)
I hope you choose to participate!
And if you do participate, then please post a link to your treasury as a comment on this blog : )
Happy curating!
by Cassandra Kiss:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c652db43c4f8eefffbba50d
by Sarah Knight
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c6532d68bf46d91a65b0b1e
by pottery123
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c6591c18bf46d91959c1d1e
by Frannie's Heart
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c67025737e96d914fd95d10
The Friday Challenge is "Heart."
We encourage you to make treasuries that somehow employs the term heart; be as literal or figurative or off kilter or conceptual as you want to be.
If you want to find items with the tag "heart" — wonderful! If you want to employ an adage like "from the heart" — go for it! Just somehow employ "heart" in your treasury :)
I hope you choose to participate!
And if you do participate, then please post a link to your treasury as a comment on this blog : )
Happy curating!
by Cassandra Kiss:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c652db43c4f8eefffbba50d
by Sarah Knight
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c6532d68bf46d91a65b0b1e
by pottery123
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c6591c18bf46d91959c1d1e
by Frannie's Heart
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c67025737e96d914fd95d10
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Weekly Wednesday Feature: festive balloons by FauxKiss
This is a mixed media collage by Jean Cody entitled "festive balloons."It is available at her shop: FauxKiss on etsy. This listing can be found here.
Viewing this piece, I was struck by its color, character, and media. The color is probably the first thing that draws the eye to the piece, particularly the way the bright, vivid colors of the balloons pop in contrast to the subdued beige tones of the background. The color is bold and strong, and yet translucent in the sense that the aged page on which the image is printed shows through. Which leads to the character of the piece: colorful balloons juxtaposed on a page from the dictionary. The playful overlays the technical. It's an interesting visual and conceptual dichotomy. Which of course brings the focus to the media and a consciousness about the construction of the image: it's an image printed atop what is essentially already an image. And yet the image created by this combination acts as a whole, as one singular visual.
I encourage you to check out the rest of the pieces available at FauxKiss on etsy.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Tuesday Challenge: Happiness
Welcome to the Serendipity Treasury Challenge!
The Tuesday Challenge is "Happiness."
We encourage you to make treasuries that somehow employs the term happiness; be as literal or figurative or off kilter or conceptual as you want to be. If you want to demonstrate happiness with things that bring you happiness — so be it. If you want to find items with the tag "happiness" — wonderful! Just somehow employ "happiness" in your treasury :)
I hope you choose to participate!
And if you do participate, then please post a link to your treasury as a comment on this blog : )
Happy curating!
by Cassandra Kiss:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c6121c0290a8eeff8aa149f/happiness-treasury-challenge
by Sarah Knight
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c612d2a290a8eef815a159f
by Emmamaha
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c5e8028d2856d910d6d0faa
by gorgeouslittlegems
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c650020ed3e8eef3693bb7c
The Tuesday Challenge is "Happiness."
We encourage you to make treasuries that somehow employs the term happiness; be as literal or figurative or off kilter or conceptual as you want to be. If you want to demonstrate happiness with things that bring you happiness — so be it. If you want to find items with the tag "happiness" — wonderful! Just somehow employ "happiness" in your treasury :)
I hope you choose to participate!
And if you do participate, then please post a link to your treasury as a comment on this blog : )
Happy curating!
by Cassandra Kiss:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c6121c0290a8eeff8aa149f/happiness-treasury-challenge
by Sarah Knight
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c612d2a290a8eef815a159f
by Emmamaha
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c5e8028d2856d910d6d0faa
by gorgeouslittlegems
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c650020ed3e8eef3693bb7c
Sunday, August 8, 2010
A New Beginning
There has been a re-design here at the Plasticity of Happiness. A new format and a new purpose have taken over.
This site will now be the home to the Serendipity Treasury Challenge.
The purpose of the challenge is to engage etsians in the act of making treasuries, and to unite them in checking out the treasuries fellow participants have made.
Every Tuesday and Friday a new topic will be introduced for the Serendipity Treasury Challenge.
As a participant you are challenged with the task of creating a treasury using at least 1 item based specifically on the topic presented. Obviously, we don't want to restrict your creativity :)
I sincerely hope you choose to participate!
This site will now be the home to the Serendipity Treasury Challenge.
The purpose of the challenge is to engage etsians in the act of making treasuries, and to unite them in checking out the treasuries fellow participants have made.
Every Tuesday and Friday a new topic will be introduced for the Serendipity Treasury Challenge.
As a participant you are challenged with the task of creating a treasury using at least 1 item based specifically on the topic presented. Obviously, we don't want to restrict your creativity :)
I sincerely hope you choose to participate!
Monday, April 20, 2009
20 April 2009
etsy:
“Falling” by Kathy Panton, etsy seller KathyPanton
This is a print of a gouache painting by Kathy Panton entitled “Falling.” The composition acts on three main elements: color, shape, and movement. The color is quite striking. It’s bold, bright, and saturated. The red, magenta, orange, yellow, and green are present in their purest most saturated hues. And these colors pop because they are presented against each other in the context of how they mix as colors. The muddier, duller, earthier tones that occur when saturated colors mix cause contrast. Another form of contrast is shape: the globular dot-like clusters of color that occur on the top half of the picture plane. They are organic and almost cellular. And they morph into a plane of a different and more abstract presentation of color at the bottom half of the composition. This morphing of shape and simultaneous change of color creates movement within the piece. It’s a device that directs the viewer’s eyes from one end of the composition to the other, from top to bottom.
available at:
KathyPanton: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6554486
On a technical note for those of you wondering what the difference between gouache and watercolor is: gouache paint is like watercolor paint but has a chalk substance added to it so that the paint is more opaque as opposed to being transparent.
song:
“Roam” by the B-52s from the album “Cosmic Thing”
artist: Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky 16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a famous 20th Century artist, known primarily for his abstract paintings, he was also a print maker and art theorist. He was born in Moscow, Russia. He studied law and economics at the University of Moscow. He became a professor at University of Dorpat, but had become so fascinated by art that he left for Munich to enroll in Anton Azbe's private painting school. He went on to study at the Munich Acedemy of the Arts. He formed Der Blaue Reiter (translation: The Blue Rider) with Franz Marc and other German expressionists. He is best known for his expressionist works, focusing on color and abstract patterns, and for the theory he postulated in his published book “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” about the relationship between music and painting.
artcyclopedia
artchive
wikipedia
wassilykandinsky.net
Kandinsky
Glyphs
random:
surprise…
“Falling” by Kathy Panton, etsy seller KathyPanton
This is a print of a gouache painting by Kathy Panton entitled “Falling.” The composition acts on three main elements: color, shape, and movement. The color is quite striking. It’s bold, bright, and saturated. The red, magenta, orange, yellow, and green are present in their purest most saturated hues. And these colors pop because they are presented against each other in the context of how they mix as colors. The muddier, duller, earthier tones that occur when saturated colors mix cause contrast. Another form of contrast is shape: the globular dot-like clusters of color that occur on the top half of the picture plane. They are organic and almost cellular. And they morph into a plane of a different and more abstract presentation of color at the bottom half of the composition. This morphing of shape and simultaneous change of color creates movement within the piece. It’s a device that directs the viewer’s eyes from one end of the composition to the other, from top to bottom.
available at:
KathyPanton: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6554486
On a technical note for those of you wondering what the difference between gouache and watercolor is: gouache paint is like watercolor paint but has a chalk substance added to it so that the paint is more opaque as opposed to being transparent.
song:
“Roam” by the B-52s from the album “Cosmic Thing”
artist: Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky 16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a famous 20th Century artist, known primarily for his abstract paintings, he was also a print maker and art theorist. He was born in Moscow, Russia. He studied law and economics at the University of Moscow. He became a professor at University of Dorpat, but had become so fascinated by art that he left for Munich to enroll in Anton Azbe's private painting school. He went on to study at the Munich Acedemy of the Arts. He formed Der Blaue Reiter (translation: The Blue Rider) with Franz Marc and other German expressionists. He is best known for his expressionist works, focusing on color and abstract patterns, and for the theory he postulated in his published book “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” about the relationship between music and painting.
artcyclopedia
artchive
wikipedia
wassilykandinsky.net
Kandinsky
Glyphs
random:
surprise…
Sunday, March 29, 2009
30 March 2009
etsy:
“All Life is An Experiment” by Blenda Tyvoll, etsy seller blendastudio
This piece is a limited edition print of a mixed media painting by Blenda Tyvoll, etsy seller blendastudio. The piece depicts two birds on the plane of a 4 X 5 grid of squares which is presented with collage elements and lettering that reads “all life is an experiement.” Color is one of the primary active visual components of the piece. The viewer’s eye is drawn to the pure cerulean blue and crimson red hues of the birds. The clarity with which those colors are presented contrasts with the overall tone of the background grid of squares, which while is contains many isolated areas of pure color is mostly a combination of beige, gray, and ochre tones. The background, while it has blips of bright color, is duller and more subdued. However, those bright blips of color in the background, many of which are floral patterned elements of collage, act in concert with the color of the bird to keep the composition active, drawing the viewer’s eye throughout the entirety of the piece. Further directing the eye of the viewer is the contrast presented between light and dark color through the use of black outlines or the visual suggestion of black outlines. The selective use of black draws the eye towards certain areas; were every square of the grid or every contour of the birds outlined with the same intensity, then the outline would be less effective in drawing the eye to certain shapes with a certain emphasis. In other words, black outline is presented in the form of intellectual line. Black or dark color is also presented in a limited fashion, which makes it visually emphatic, like the presence of sepia tones at the top and bottom of the piece (more so than in the middle of the composition). The application of emphatic colors is very selective and capricious; it’s intentional or intrinsic without being patterned or clichéd. It also contributes to the emotional tone of the piece, which is capricious and whimsical, but also mature and sublime.
available at:
blendastudio: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5748726
song:
“True Colors” by Cyndi Lauper from the album “True Colors”
artist: Henri Matisse
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French painter known mostly as a Fauvist. He was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. He studied law in Paris, and worked as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis. He became interested in painting while convalescing from a bout with appendicitis. In Paris he studied at the Académie Julian. He painted in a style that emphasized color, line, and two-dimensionality. And exhibited with artists using a similar style; they came to be known as Fauvists through the critique of an art critic, referring to the work of one of their shows as "Donatello au milieu des fauves!" (translation: Donatello among the wild beasts). He is best known for such works as “ The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)”, oil on canvas 1908, and “The Dance” oil on canvas 1909.
National Gallery of Art
Matisse Museum
artcyclopedia
artchive
wikipedia
artelino
Matisse.net
random:
surprise…
“All Life is An Experiment” by Blenda Tyvoll, etsy seller blendastudio
This piece is a limited edition print of a mixed media painting by Blenda Tyvoll, etsy seller blendastudio. The piece depicts two birds on the plane of a 4 X 5 grid of squares which is presented with collage elements and lettering that reads “all life is an experiement.” Color is one of the primary active visual components of the piece. The viewer’s eye is drawn to the pure cerulean blue and crimson red hues of the birds. The clarity with which those colors are presented contrasts with the overall tone of the background grid of squares, which while is contains many isolated areas of pure color is mostly a combination of beige, gray, and ochre tones. The background, while it has blips of bright color, is duller and more subdued. However, those bright blips of color in the background, many of which are floral patterned elements of collage, act in concert with the color of the bird to keep the composition active, drawing the viewer’s eye throughout the entirety of the piece. Further directing the eye of the viewer is the contrast presented between light and dark color through the use of black outlines or the visual suggestion of black outlines. The selective use of black draws the eye towards certain areas; were every square of the grid or every contour of the birds outlined with the same intensity, then the outline would be less effective in drawing the eye to certain shapes with a certain emphasis. In other words, black outline is presented in the form of intellectual line. Black or dark color is also presented in a limited fashion, which makes it visually emphatic, like the presence of sepia tones at the top and bottom of the piece (more so than in the middle of the composition). The application of emphatic colors is very selective and capricious; it’s intentional or intrinsic without being patterned or clichéd. It also contributes to the emotional tone of the piece, which is capricious and whimsical, but also mature and sublime.
available at:
blendastudio: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5748726
song:
“True Colors” by Cyndi Lauper from the album “True Colors”
artist: Henri Matisse
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French painter known mostly as a Fauvist. He was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. He studied law in Paris, and worked as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis. He became interested in painting while convalescing from a bout with appendicitis. In Paris he studied at the Académie Julian. He painted in a style that emphasized color, line, and two-dimensionality. And exhibited with artists using a similar style; they came to be known as Fauvists through the critique of an art critic, referring to the work of one of their shows as "Donatello au milieu des fauves!" (translation: Donatello among the wild beasts). He is best known for such works as “ The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)”, oil on canvas 1908, and “The Dance” oil on canvas 1909.
National Gallery of Art
Matisse Museum
artcyclopedia
artchive
wikipedia
artelino
Matisse.net
random:
surprise…
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