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IPhone Friday

random items on desk..

Steampunk TaDa app

Monday morning play!

Goose neck gourd in my No More Excuses Journal, lovely Fall colors!

IPhone Friday

Steampunk Tada app

Wednesday musings...

Halloween decorations are gradually being scattered throughout the house...

I LOVE this little face!

This guy is pretty cute too!

A Witches Hut at my favorite garden center.  Can you see her? She's lurking inside. ...creepy but wonderful.

I picked the last of the carrots yesterday afternoon, the garden is officially put to "bed" for the season...Yes these are red carrots!

These are yummy Liberty apples from the Farmers Market. They really are the colors of Fall: red, orange, yellow.. 

Just like this beautiful tree in the Church yard...see- red, orange, yellow. Full disclosure- I took this photo last year..

I live in a small coastal community in New England where we are usually blessd with spectacular color each Autumn...

But guess what?  

None, Zip, NADA!  A combination of hurricane damage and wet weather has greatly dampened the season...here's what my wooded yard looked like yesterday..

Greens and browns...just a hint of red and honestly that might be cardinals sitting in the tree! A large number of trees have already lost all their leaves from salt damage...

I am heading to Maine for a few days, here's hoping for

reds, oranges, and yellows there.

Mixing it up!

Revisited some "old friends" this weekend...It's so easy to grabbed the same art supplies for every project and let me tell you I have LOTS of art supplies...

Saturday I set aside my new "best friends", watercolors, to play with some old favorites, Portfolio oil crayons.

Cheap, available at Staples for a mere pittance, but can create with spectacular results...

Add encaustic wax and a heat gun to the mix and....some scratching and dripping and blending and melting....

Ta Da!

IPhone Friday

watercolor altered with grungetastic app

Just a pretty picture....

Seed left behind by a chipmunk sprouts in the moss on a garden sculpture...

  Hiding in the tree...I can see you!

IPhone Friday

Grungetastic app

Thank you Steve Jobs for your innovation and vision, rest in peace.....

Homage to Edgar Allen Poe!

in my No More Excuses Journal..

A rainy day look around the Studio

 

Playing with water color palettes...

Loads of brushes...

 

There's some Halloween fun going on with skulls and glitter!

The Golden Snitch hovers overhead..

We've made a "gallery" wall for finished or almost finished pieces..This piece of mine is an image transfer over painted with oil pastels and acrylics.

Morgan's work in progress...she's painting right now, or she should be...

Another Morgan piece..can you guess what it is? 

For the love of Washi tape!

A small piece of mine...image transfer photograph over painted with a variety of paints..

Have a happy Saturday!  I hope yours is dryer than mine!