Red-violet Riot   Barbara D. Kibbe   45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Red-Violet Riot plays with the tints, shades, and tones of red-violet as well as shadow and light, with the help of layered prairie points. It [...]

  Mama's Purple Couch   Marlyene Schwartz   45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT When I was seventeen, my mother bought a huge purple couch. She loved purple!  That purple couch held the place of honor in our family [...]

  Amethyst Geodes in Violet #13   Lin Schiffner   45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Being an avid color enthusiast, Prism Play instantly sounded fascinating. The challenge of making a monochromatic work was also intriguing, having done so [...]

  Violent Violet   Martha W. Ginn   45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Violet is not a color I ordinarily use in my art, and although the word seems to refer to flowers, I imagined a stormy sky [...]

  Violet Reaction   Susan Gibson Kelly   45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Contemplating the violet color card, I decided to try something less representational. During the past couple of years, through the on and off periods of [...]

  Eyeful of Iris   Sue Siefkin   45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Lush, curvaceous, and sensuous, irises are indeed an eyeful. The sinuous shapes and color variations of the iris, together with my assigned card for the [...]

  Midnight Watch   Ricki Selva   45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT He watched their fluid forms  slicing through the night  racing the boat  racing each other  sleek forms sheathed  light    As I rarely work with monochromatic [...]

  Blue Violet Hand   Sandra Bruce   45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Blue-violet is my favorite color.  I was drawn to this 15- by 45-inch format, which is such an interesting and challenging space to work in. [...]

  Rennie Mac All Over   Carole Rossi   45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT I fell in love with the work of late 19th/early 20th century Scottish architect, designer, and water colorist Charles Rennie Mackintosh when visiting Glasgow [...]

  Waterfall   Jan Soules   45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Gentle curves flow across the surface of this composition.  The monochromatic use of numerous blue fabrics keeps the eye moving across the piece from top to bottom.  [...]