Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe a woman artist par excellence created the most amazing paintings of flowers especially poppies ... I love poppies, lost of them are growing in my garden. And I never remove the seedheads so that they spread quite freely ... Based on her art the new Gingersnap Creations Color Challenge is: red and black ... I love this colour combination but it was still a difficult challenge for me. I decided to make a card with a more modern look and feel ... something which really got me out of my comfortzone (lol)
The back and front of the card is acetate which is folded. The front part is adorned with poppy images, photos taken in my garden and then printed onto photo paper. As soon as I had attached them to the acetate I knew I am in trouble ... of course, you see the foam pads and white back of the images through the acetate! Could I not have thought about this beforehand?
I repeated the little photo squares on the inside of the acetate ... whilst the image on the main card inside is a portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe by Philippe Halsman mounted on black card. The text is one of Georgia's quotes ... and I found this is so true
For the back of the card I layered white and grey slightly textured card. The poppy image is part of the digital poppy stamp from Sweet'n Sassy which I coloured with Copics.
This is my last piece as August Visiting Artist for Gingersnap Creations ... I loved every minute of it, thank you so much for giving me the chance!
This card was a real challenge for me because of the not so usual style ... but using the colours black and red, my favourites, and having the inspiration from Georgia's paintings made it also great fun. Have a look at all the other wonderful art from the Gingersnap Creations team and Linda. The creations are truly amazing and inspirational. Petra.