It's All About The WHIMSY!

Inside the sketchbook

I am working in more than one sketchbook...not necessarily a good thing but different sizes and papers work for different pieces..you understand, right?  

 

Fuzzy Bunny is in a square journal with cold press paper..

 

 

 

My frog "collection" is in a moleskin rectangular journal, cold press paper as well..

 

 

 

Pond Poacher is in a rectangular journal, this time hot press..

 

Different papers yield different results.

I used to be in love with hot press, my new favorite is cold press.

 

But that could change tomorrow..you never know..

 

 

My front porch arrangement for the Thanksgiving holiday,

can you find the great heron gourd?

It is All about the WHIMSY!

The changing seasons

 

 

Goodbye summer!

I will miss you.

 

 

 

Hello Autumn!!

I love you~

you are my favorite!

 

 

 

Smashing Autumn ~ Week 11

 

Finding Balance..and we all need that, right?

Smashing Autumn ~ Week 9

 

 

Samhain 

and 

Dia de Ls Muertos!

Collage for Samhain

Sugar Skull

Dia de Los Muertos

Fabulous theme for the week!!

A little rainy day journaling

Happy Friday to you!

Smashing Autumn: Ravens

 

Week 7 in "Smashing Autumn" already!  Time flies!  

And so appropriately the theme for this week is Ravens.

 

 

 

Collaging over a copy of a Raven watercolor I did last year

A Raven feather in watercolors on Arches cold press 140 lb,

added into the journal with Smash album's nifty connectors.

A Raven feather in white pen on black paper and a little poetry

A Raven stencil cut from cardboard centered on

an Edgar Allen Poe poem

Musings on the Raven, essentially brain storming Raven characteristics,

I love word play!

Over-painting a Raven photo , a really fun technique!

And a few hand cut stamp designs..Speedball, it's a good thing!

And an apology for odd spacing...typepad is being very persnickety this afternoon.....and I am done arguing with it....

Autumn color

Happy Sunday!  

Enjoying the Autumn color.

 

Smashing Autumn: Pumpkins!

 

This week the theme in Smashing Autumn is Pumpkins!  

I love pumpkins!

Here are a few pages from my Smash Journal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evidence Found

 

A day spent outside, finally, after days of rain and gloom.

Time to put the veggie garden to "bed" for the season and tidy up the garden.  It's that in between time, the trees are just beginning to turn so the mountains of leaves have yet to drop.  The pace is slower.  I like that.

 

 

The signs are all around that Autumn has arrived

 

 

A volunteer pumpkin vine, happens each year, a seed buried and forgotten by some furry creature, that sprouts into life.

 

 

An empty spring nest, dropped to the ground by a strong gust of wind..

 

 

A much earlier sunset leaves time for a little nature sketching while dinner cooks...

I love Fall, do you?

Halloween Countdown

Twenty days and counting down!