Thursday Art

        Hi everyone. Happy Thursday.  It's a wet early morning at my house, but warmer than usual, so instead of snow, the wet is mostly rain. And all the rain, means we have a lot of mud too. It definitely feels like spring, which is great, although this year we have record setting ice outs so you can tell it's been a warmer than usual/normal winter.

       One thing I want to share today I have a page for Chris' On All Fours challenge over at Art Journal Journey. My 4 legged animals for today are dinosaurs. 

      I die cut the dinos and colored them in with inks. Since we don't really know what color dinosaurs were (Thanks David for linking me up to Jakob Vinther and his work on dinosaur coloration. They can now infer what colors many dinosaurs were) Since many dinosaurs are closely related to birds who come in various and sometimes bright colors, many dinosaurs were also brightly colored. And I didn't include feathers, but many dinos probably had feathers over at least part of their bodies also. 

      I haven't added any postage stamps to my art in a long time, but I love mail art, so I created a set of fake postage stamps for my page.  The actual white stamps are die cuts, and I used some number  and some dinosaur skeleton rubber stamps for the images. I need to correct myself since the pterosaur is an ancient reptile and NOT a fly dinosaur, even though it lived at the time of the dinosaurs.

     The palm trees (the closest I could come to some of the tropical trees found when these quadrupeds lived) are also die cut, and I stamped the postmark and the special delivery with some ancient postage related rubber stamps  I had in my stash.

And you can see the quote better in this above close up photo. It is from an Art by Marlene set. 

Also for today, I have a tag for Pinky's challenge at Tag Tuesday. The challenge is Rabbit or Hare, I Don't Care.

      I had a page I painted with some shiny blue paint, and while it was wet, I laid the tag up against it which made a few blue blobs. I then used some purple ink spray and a paper towel to color the rest of the background, except that  I took some dark blue ink and inked the edges of the tag. 

       I then used that same blue ink and  some bunny word stamps and stamped them several times on the top of the tag. After that I took some flower paper and die cut the big bunny. I drew in the eyes, filled in the ears and gave the tail a bit of sparkle. The tag still needed something, and I remembered I had a die that cut out all these little confetti sized bunnies. I used the die two times, and then took all the bunnies and glued them down on my tag.  I hope if she's the Mommy bunny she didn't give birth to all these babies at one time. 😏

       That's all for me today.