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What a great colour combination - some favourite greens with a touch of mustard! 

Add in Payne's grey and then in my head, there was a forest.... trees, grasses, plants 

After the first day  blending  some water colours, and matching  my threads. I wasn't exactly sure I might do over the next week - some leaf studies? some collages based on the bush? .... 

Luckily, I have a great stash of unfinished projects. A piece of abandoned canvas with splotches of green seemed to jump out of the drawer to be used. And then there was the piece of calico which had blank ink marks - Once it was torn into strips, brightened up with a bit of water colour, the small strips, ended up making perfect tree trunks, 

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Above moss and grass,
Nature marked towering tree trunks
Forest colours sing. 

The next few days were a bit like a Mr Squiggle challenge - making something of the  pre-made marks and splotches or ignoring and avoiding them totally and a few more  attempts at haiku, just to clarify what I was aiming for. 

Highlights and shadows
Interpret leafy shapes
Green exploration. 
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Something I don't normally do is rework a day in the project, but the colours in the first attempt were just not right . 
Against the dark tree,
Tones of mustard and green blend
Contrasts of colour

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To finish off the week, and because I was travelling in the train most of the day, I stitched a small stamped embroidery using the two colour palettes I've explored so far in this project.... I thought it was a good week ! 

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