Make Something: Bleached
“Work with bleach to make something by taking away color.” I applied a few letter stickers to a swatch of brightly colored fabric, then spritzed the whole lot with a 50/50 […]
Tag Archives: color
Make Something: Finger Paint
All day the challenge loomed. Today’s make something assignment was to finger paint. How would I make time for something so out of the ordinary? So juvenile? So messy? Finally […]
Make Something: Brown
Today’s challenge was to work entirely with brown materials. The result is a photo and a poem. As soon as I publish this post, I’m going to eat the chocolate […]
Make Something: Markers
“Use only markers as your material or inspiration today.” This is the only acceptable way to use Sharpies on the carpet …
Make Something: Crayons
I have always loved to color. Show me a brand new Crayola box, all green and gold and sharp-cornered and tidy, and my fingers will twitch at the possibility of getting […]
Make Something: Purple
Purple is not my favorite color. It does rank well ahead of yellow, which I hate. It edges out blue and red, which are other people’s favorite colors (my mom’s […]
Make Something: Paint Swatch Samples
Make something took me to the hardware store today, to snag a few paint swatch samples so I could make something new. Short on time, I needed a rapid project. […]
Make Something: Under Water
On the surface, if you ask me what I made today, I would say my daughter and I made a mess in the kitchen sink. We put a few inches […]
Green
Day 356 prompt: Green just ten more days in this poetic year and today’s prompt seemed perfectly clear ripe with symbolism both con and pro renewal, life, envy, earth, money, mold, […]
Primary Painters
Day 319 prompt: Primary Colors primary colors may be few only red and yellow and blue even five-year-olds will hush given just these paints and brush mixing up these basic three […]
Grapefruit Sky
Day 230 prompt: Pastel suburban evening running errands driving toward the sunset small, clear voice from the back seat observes the sky brushed in broad strokes of pastel at the stoplight […]
Black
Day 221 prompt: Black Mommy? Yes … Why don’t you wear any colors bright? Why are your clothes as dark as the night? Why don’t you choose neon pink or green? […]
Eye
Day 214 prompt: Eyes round rim of gray-green trades width with black center whose span responds to sun and shade
Understanding Aqua
Day 29 prompt: aqua I never understood “aqua.” That color in the crayon box didn’t match the waters of my childhood. The creek on our farm runs clear. The […]
Beth Nyland 