Skip to content

Challenges

-Edinburgh

Golden Hour in Portobello

  Hex colour reference: #d68a59 A colourful note:  sienna is an earth pigment containing iron oxide and magnesium oxide, which provide shades of orange and red.  In its natural state it […]

-Hertfordshire

Please Don’t Feed Me!

I love the involvement of local school children in the design of these new signs.   Copyright Debbie Smyth, 20 March 2016     Linked to Odd Ball Challenge and Wild Bird Wednesday

-Austria

Radical Illumination in Vienna

    I always enjoy a walk along the Donaukanal, with its vibrant street art and a lively nightlife in the summer months.  This bright bridge is the Schwedenbrücke, close to the ferry […]

-London

Nude Eros at Night

This nude statue on top of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain caused a fair bit of controversy when it was erected in the 1890s in the centre of Piccadilly Circus.  The […]

Black and White Challenges

Low Key at Noho

In Manchester’s bubbling Northern Quarter, the shutters at NoHo are attractively decorated, with a real hint of promise as the sun sets. The shutters of this independent bar soon open […]

-Singapore

Temple Pizzazz

Hex colour reference:  #ff1dce A colourful note:  this bright shade of magenta, known as purple pizzazz,  joined Crayola in 1990 as part of its fluorescent specialty set. It is the same colour […]

-Turkey

Purple Majesty in Istanbul

Hex colour reference:  #9d81ba A colourful note:  the Purple Mountain’s Majesty crayon was named by  89 year old Mildred Samson from Minneapolis, as part of Crayola’s 1993 naming competition.  It was run as […]

-Turkey

Purple Heart

  Hex colour Reference:  #7442c8 A colourful note:  the purple heart crayon was another shade that played a part in 1997 in the True Blue Heroes contest in the US and the […]