Monday, November 24, 2014

Diva Challenge #195- Turning Old into New

Sandy Hunter, CZT®, is this weeks Guest Host for Laura Harms weekly Diva Challenge. She has challenged us to take a Grid pattern and make something out of it, or put a pattern into a grid.. I Took a bit of artistic license and chose to use "Bilt" by Lisa Skeen. It is not really a grid pattern, but it is a bit ridgid in its construct. I liked the "M" shape that is within, "Bilt," and chose to make it an independent object that could be scattered around. It has modest possibilities. I'm very relieved that I was not asked to use my off hand like last weeks challenge.

Thanks Sandy, this was a fun challenge.




To see this and other challenges, please visit Laura's "IamTheDiva" Blog site.

Thanks to everyone who so graciously left comments on last weeks Challenge. You are so appreciated.

31 comments:

  1. Lightning bugs! ha! That's what your little free floating Bilt M's reming me of. It's a terrific piece, Dave! I like it...the black background, the little bit of flux balancing things...and the large swath of Bilt across it all...it's sort of like a back yard at night. A snake, lightning bugs, dark, some plant life.

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  2. David, I really like how you used Bilt in the free-form. It has great possibilities for a fill pattern where you need it. Nice tile! The extra little weighting on the ends really makes it. I am with you.... using my non dom had was not easy last week!

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  3. I thought lightning too. :) I like the interplay between the standard and the scattered version. I also the sharp contrasts.

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  4. What a fun tile :) I love all the movement :) the flying Bilt Ms are too cute. Have a good week! [Not sure why it does not allow me to post using my Wordpress ID today, so I am pasting my challenge url here for your convenience: _http://goo.gl/DF1RMe ]

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  5. nice explosion of bilt-forms - very creative

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  6. Very creative the way you set Bilt free!

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  7. Wonderful composition and I like the way you changed the pattern in "flying M's" ;-)
    And I'm also relieved not to use the off hand this time ;-)
    Nice week to you and greetings from germany!

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  8. That´s brilliant tile! Great and creative way of changing Bilt! I like the touch of gold, too!

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  9. I found this week's challenge to be quite a challenge. Like you, I resorted to some color. I think you pulled off your concept very nicely. (I'm also totally relived that I didn't have to try this with my non-dominant hand).

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  10. Great piece David. I like the little creatures born out of Bilt. They look like little frogs, my children had in a game when they were younger. By pushing with your finger on their tail, they jump forward. Love to see them in your tile, and making me smile because of the sweet memories it brings to me. Thanx!

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  11. Great tile, David, very creative. I like it :)

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  12. I think we all were relieved to pick up our pens in the correct hand this week. Your tile is quite imaginative so you completed the challenge! Fabulous!

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  13. I like this tile, David. The contrast is very good and the whole tile shows a lot of fun.

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  14. Your tile is great and alive with movment. Somehow I find it very masculine. Your play with Bilt is fun and turns out very surprising. I also admire the contrast between the "soft" and "hard "edged patterns. Bravo!

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  15. Great work, David! It's sort of exploding off the tile, if you know what I mean ;-)

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  16. Great tile! I like your tangleations of Bilt, really nice!

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  17. I like your floating Bilt. Creative. I would not have thought or using such a tangle as this in this way.

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  18. The way you have drawn the Bilt as free form really does look like an explosion or some sort of evolutionary Big Bang! I've been fascinated by how people have been designing this time around...very challenging too.

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  19. Great tile. I love the movement in it.

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  20. As always, an amazing tile. Love the use of the conventional Bilt and then the freeform Bilt. Great contrasts. And I love the way the conventional Bilt does its own bit of escapology, trailing out of the frame and over the edge

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  21. Cool explosions of creativity David!

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  22. Super, I like the way Bilt looks as if its exploded!

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  23. Beautifully done. "The river in the bat cave". Love the composition, love the contrast. Beautiful de-composition of the original pattern

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  24. As usual, another wonderful creation. Freeform Bilt is quite nice and I really like the dark background. Great tile! Nathalie

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  25. Great idea, David. Not a tangle I use very often but it works really well in this combination - especially like the contrast. Axxx

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  26. I like that you took one element of the pattern and made it "free".

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  27. Looks great David! I never would have approached it that way and it worked beautifully for you. Looks like so much fun going on in your tile. Great tile!

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