September

Yes, it is September, isn't it? Actually, this is usually a gorgeous month. Of course it is starting off, as it often does, with heat and humidity, (I think because kids role into school and it is really back to work now!) but hopefully this will be it and we will cool off a bit.

Have you ever used Vaseline on a page? You put it on, scrape some texture into it, then gently, without a lot of pushing down, put paint heavily over it. Let the paint dry, and then wipe away the excess along with the Vaseline which doesn't dry. I used that on this page, to make these cool turquoise edges. The top one looks the best I think. I actually had forgotten about this technique but back a couple of weekends ago I took a painting class with Dina Wakely. The class was all about learning some interesting effects with acrylic paints. This is one I knew about but hadn't used in years.  It was a great reminder to use it again.
I also picked up this set of Dina Wakely stamps with all these flying birds on it. How fun are they?
And speaking of birds, here's a few photos I took last Saturday out in our boat.

And this cormorant and heron were having some issues.

 Not sure what it was all about.

But once the cormorant left the heron seemed a lot happier.

And it was a great animal day on the boat.  We also saw this.

This is the dorsal fin on  a minke whale. The whale was busy feeding. He or she  didn't care  a bit for us. One of my boating bucket list items was to see a whale out on the boat.

 How cool was this!
That's all for me today. Hope your weeks is going good!
And thanks for stopping by my blog.