DuckTape Poppies in Blue

Congratulations Laura on your feature in the Bold Colours group. Bold is beautiful! fav

Lovely creative art! v

Such a lovely 3d effect! v

Fun image! v

Keep going! v

Sheer joy! Love your duck tape flowers! They are full of beauty and delight!

Shhhhh....don't let everyone know all my secrets....

And I am not in NY NY!!

You, my friend, are amazing! What a fantastic outlet the Lord has given you and the expressions of colors are "hue"tiful!! I'm proud of your talents and mostly proud to call you friend !!

Very beautiful art.

Laura- These beautiful blue duct tape flowers would make a beautiful fabric print! Reminds a bit of the "Vera" days!

Hi, again, Laura! There must be a name for it that REAL artists use -- your blurring of the colors of the pair in back that makes such immediate, realistic depth! How beautiful these are! How REAL to me (a MAN!), the shades and shadows! Absolutely and superbly REAL managing of the light. (Didn't I read that light REALLY is what graphic art is all about?) I spent a good while figuring if the back to flowers were reflections of the front one before I REALized that they obviously were not! But most of all, I can't figure out how you handle either orand the figurative vs literal meaning[s] of "duck" orand "duct" tape. You see, I can't REALLy manage much to use any kind of tape without making a mess all tangled up in my hands, etc. Christmas is a REAL challenge for me! There should be a song about it -- you know: Brucie the tape failure dreading every December until one night an elf sneaks in past his cat and wraps all the presents beautifully, even getting the names attached correctly! Then, she turns her attention to old Brucie, who is still snoring fitfully about a giant tape dispenser wrapping him in yards of tape in the shape of a Christmas tree, all except head which the Giant was musing out loud about whether to shape a tape star around it -- and Bruce surely would suffocate before morning, OR to saw off poor Bruce's head and fasten it to the side of the tree as an ornament! Ah, but just then our Bruce was wakened by the gentlest touch immaginable and the elf was soothing his perspiring forehead. And suddenly beautiful Christmas music filled the room and the elf turned into a beautiful princess who promised startled Bruce the gift of fearless, fair, and fantastical tape handling with a flair forever. Also that she would be his loving wife forevermore! Well, Bruce was so excited that he wished every day of the year could be Christmas! And to this day, they work, whistle, and sing with wrapping the presents that Santa brings little children. Now, I have a major request, friend Laura, even though you have such a nifty knack with flowers, I challenge you to construct two REAL-looking items of tape. One would, of course, be a DUCK created solely of DUCK tape; the other, a DUCT fashioned of DUCT tape. And then, as you might expect, to paint the two, in some fashion together. This all must be done by Christmas Eve, 2012, Have at it! Peace, etc., Bruce

Thanks so much for featuring my "DuctTape Poppies in Blue" in the group, FOR CHILDREN. If I was still teaching art in the public school system, this is one project I know every one of my students would enjoy.