Colors and mood continued

After I had painted the fabric for the gingko leaf I cut out the shape and positioned it onto a background fabric. My original color was a dark grey:

This is EB's comment:

- Absolutely dreamy!!    I think that totally sums it up...something as simple as this will look good with some hand stitching - maybe just sort of random all over dots or small stitches - which will reward the viewer for coming in closer...if you're not already stuck down..you might try the purple against a very soft mellow yellow sky....might have an even lighter dreamier feel to it.  The grey is really quite somber - though that could be my monitor....    

beautiful simple idea...

You can make a design complicated, but quite often a simple one is more effective :-). As EB suggested I tried the leaf on different backgrounds. Here is one a light yellow/brown batik:

And here with a green batik:

They are indeed more dreamy. I think the green one is my favorite.

Colors and mood

This month the theme for EB's masterclass is mood and the color that expresses that mood the best. As mood I choose dreamy and this is the fabric I painted for it:

The colors are a mixture of Lumiere blue and Setacolor red. Cannot say exactly which ones as I do not have them with me right now. And this is the design I am going to use the fabric in:

Yes, a gingko leaf. I admit I have never seen a purple one, but why not. After all, there is artistic freedom :-) Stay tuned to see how it turns out.