Help I'm drowning in green. :-0
What I'm doing now looks so deceitfully simple. It's a wolf in sheep's clothing. It's the hardest thing I have done in my life with all my green shading. There are seven shades in the trees' foliage. I must admit that I don't mind it. It's good with a challenge.

All the shades don't come out in the photo......eight....to be used beside each other aargh.

I figure that I have two days left in my green world and then I'll move down to the flower pots.
Posted by: MaryJoDenmark on 02/21/17
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You are suffering from a "green out"... a temporary visual 'burnout' from using subtle color changes within a color family... I had a "brown out" when working with a large number of shades of brown..
Do NOT worry! It's only temporary!!! :) take a small break, make yourself a drink to sip on, as long as the drink isn't a "grasshopper "....
Posted by: Bermuda on 02/21/17
Oh Burmuda, that did make me laugh. I suppose a nice cup of tea would do the trick.
Posted by: MaryJoDenmark on 02/21/17
NOT green tea, I trust. :)
Posted by: VCESS on 02/21/17
VCESS.....No way....gives me heartburn! :-((
Posted by: MaryJoDenmark on 02/21/17
I remember my first episode with what you are describing. It was a pic of St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. I was a bit newer in the cross stitch world and had no idea how many shades of gray, blue gray there were. Lt gray, med gray, dk gray, lt blue gray, med blue gray, dk blue gray, gray, blue .....and on and on. You needed that for the brick facade of the cathedral but oh my!
Posted by: emt1404 on 02/21/17
Hi emt , it's one of those memories you'd rather forget isn't it. Oh well, live and learn.
Posted by: MaryJoDenmark on 02/21/17
But a little like the pain of childbirth...memory of the pain thankfully recedes when you are presented with the brilliance of creation! :) I love blue...all blue...but I still haven't finished Starry Night...hmmm...time to get it out again! :)
Posted by: VCESS on 02/21/17
Careful VCESS, so you don't get a "blue-out". I believe the blues of 'starry night' are deeper blues than I'm using on my Artecy "Iwo Jima" project with the sky.. Yes, you're right, it's similar to childbirth....:),
Of course, blue isn't necessarily what you want to see yourself becoming during childbirth....
Posted by: Bermuda on 02/21/17
For that matter, you don't want to be turning green either.....
Posted by: Bermuda on 02/21/17
Very nice picture for a cross stitch
Posted by: miss crossstitc on 02/21/17