Every day is an opportunity to create, right? Right now I am drawing/painting each morning and when my puppy was being funny one morning I painted him
I am using the ICAD prompts this time, but not on individual index cards, in my watercolor notebook... same size image but neatly in a spiral bound format.
plus I don't need any pressure right now, so like Joy I am using the prompts as I like, skipping around
some pages using (on the top) "trace" and windsor newton watercolor pens with a stamp, "trace of blue"
on the bottom half, "coastline" or "serene" using inktense pan color, brush, a stamp with the watercolor pens , and scratching the end of a pencil to create phantom lines
I love it! For the next two paintings I used "lucky" and painted a 4 leaf clover with inktense color, then did a pentangle of drawings in each petal with pen
the bottom image is crossroads
as to fabric, I pulled out the basket of random scraps and put together some pieces to
"start my engine"
I limited these works to just what was in that accumulated scrap pile of all colors
and
I do not know what these will become but they were fun to make. Can't ask a lot more from fabric
While listening to my audio book, my mind wandered and I thought how am I using the RSC prompt this month to use pastel color?
I generally use light/pastel in the one color of the month to set off saturated color...
I thought, what if I focused on green, purple, pink, and yellow?
I got out my box of 2" squares, and found pastels to use for a background
arranged them into colors
My "plan" was to applique spring flowers over this background...
so I started putting them up on the wall... it will change since I move squares each time I enter the studio, LOL
I see tulips in pink and purples, yellow pansies or little white flowers dotted over it.
then I thought about neighborhood photos I took, and how to include them?
I printed 4 of them onto fabric (in my home printer)
but since I have so many little squares left, maybe they will become a second art work. I love the photos (click on an image to enlarge)
I could see them surrounded with squares from my "watercolor" box... there are always more scraps aren't there?
for this one, I will be adding a sort of border, then stitching them together this week, I hope... then applique some pastel flowers, some thread work, maybe a bead or two?
welcome to this weeks list of likes.... how about the blue of our skies in Colorado?
I'll start with our beautiful pup Alfie... who... turned age 2 years old on Wednesday. Here he is in
"lazy puppy sit"
Oh my heart is so full of love for him!
we had a tummy upset the day after he had a "sprinkler spree"
we had to give him yogurt and rice for a day and now he is better
here he is chewing on a dental toy in the shade of his toy box.
yep every time we throw a toy, he fetches it immediately to drop it with his collection
he keeps them all together under this tree
Heyyyyy who's that across the street?
better get ready to guard our yard
He has also been with us for 4 months now and it's like he's always been here!
now a few pics fron our walk this week
These three birds sitting in a row made me think of how much I like plays
there was some kind of golf competition, look at these guys all in blue shirts... pretty drab compared to the usual golf attire we see walking by, LOL!
The weather is horribly hot here for June, but I still planted some cucumber seeds to see if they can handle it... they are still hiding from the sun. I put more seeds in a wet paper towel to see if they germinate there before planting them.
whew! it's so hot I was glad my pawrents did a grooming on me and cut some hair shorter
we played a quiet game new to me. The mama rolls one of my play toy balls under the table at me, I grab it, and run put it under the "tree toy box" HAHA safe and sound! None of those yard bunnies better take a toy...BOL
Haha this post is about me me me! I love it here, and love sprinklers, and following mama around, and taking walks.
I don't get it, my name is Alfie but mama keeps calling me " COME ON STOP SNIFFING"
listening to the next book in the series...
reading on E-books this next in Her Royal Spyness mysteries
can't wait to read (or listen to) them each day
We finally changed out our winter clothes for our stored summer duds.... just in nick of time
I like the closet to be spacious, and only see clothes for that season, are you like that?
conversation starter this week, what are your favorite flowers for hanging baskets???
For me. Fuchias in any colors... back east you saw these in every little village downtown....
I have not had real success with them, got tips for lush growth for me? Now in Colorado it seems too hot and dry for nearly any hanging baskets... wah!!!
In Maryland, I had window boxes for porch railings and built lovely displays yearly... love sweet potato vine, tall flowers, hanging down flowers, mixed.
I am considering fake flower baskets now... neighbors have them and they have color without the failures
dogs and their beds.... Alfie will collect toys, bones. etc but needs help unloading the bed or he squeezes into the available space...
that's it for this week, did you make note of the small things that you liked this week? Let me know if you wrote a post to include here! Please tell me what flowers you like in hanging baskets too!
welcome to this week's list of likes....starting with our magnificent skies! We had about 25 drops of rain this week!
and
little white wild flowers all over the hood.
tiny egg shells also all over, means baby birds will be joining the world
5 fresh lemons, juiced (and in the fridge) zested and in the freezer, lead to wonderful
Lemon Blondies...
we sowed colorado wildflower seeds in big patio pots again this year, they are just peeping over the brown soil, while we give them a bit of water daily... I love watching things grow.
I read growing cukes is not difficult, so maybe I'll order some seeds... love fresh cukes. Never had success with any other vege here tho...
Mama, let's play in the sprinklers!
we are allowed to water the yard 2 times a week and this one told us his hobby is
Water sports! jumping on the drops, biting them mid air, getting totally wet
we just dropped the hose after watering the wildflower seeds...
Alfie will cough sometimes drinking the drops.... I promise we have fresh water in his bowl all the time.... but water drops from rain or hose are snapped up in the air, for fun
welcome to this week's list of likes starting with some magnificent sky photos ! We have had impending rain, not really rainy, the most has been maybe 10 drops after the clouds ramping up for a deluge.
Still 10 drops is something....
the clouds have been mighty! this is looking toward Buckley AFB and this is a shot of some of their observatories from our 'hood
Look how my puppy sits on the stairs to watch me...
Hi Mama, I can watch you from this perch!
this morning I looked down at his day bed to see he'd been collecting my socks for some reason
finished .my book series on the museum mysteries set in Philly started a Her Royal Spyness latest episode I missed novel by Rhys Bowen
made some more candied pecans to keep for snacks
pecans, egg whites and bit of water, cinnamon mixed with sugar, single layer, 250 F, for an hour stirring every 15 min.
so good and the house smelled great after baking them. They last us at least 2 weeks or more.
conversation starter: What would be your favorite insect and why? think about the good or
pretty insects out there not just annoying ones... did you ever capture
lightning bugs in a jar as a kid?
I love praying mantis... so cool formal insects in the bug world. My friend Pat collected PM stuff... miss her so much... Met her on the plane from Houston (quilt show) back to MD... kept up a friendship for years til she passed to angel form
I also love dragonflies... the way they move, the delicate wings, the long bodies...
I remember spending the summer with my sister Patti's family in Indiana. Every night had a wonderful sunset and cool temps. The neighbor kids her kids and me... we'd run around playing games or capturing lightening bugs while the adults sat in folding chairs and talked.
I grew up lonely in Florida, no lightening bugs but too many mosquitoes so that memory is like old time America to me
I'm upset that two things came in already opened from food delivery this week, what the heck?
We met two women walking a baby in a stroller and a corgie puppy on leash. So many people live in this 'hood, and its fun to meet nice ones. They both wanted to pet my pretty pup and he carefully approached both of them nicely. They previously both had rescue dogs, one who adjusted well, one who always was traumatized, both were rejected in adoption and returned to the shelter (like Alfie was) so they knew how to let Alfie take the first steps.
He is becoming a brave boy, and will be 2 this month. I love him so....
I like hoomans who move slow and let me go up to them
He was so funny this weekend when we planted wildflower seeds out back and watered them.
We dropped the hose faucet so it sprayed up into the air, and he had so much fun playing in water again
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