Wednesday Art

 Hi everyone. Happy Wednesday. I'm here today with a bit of art for a couple of challenges. 

I'll start with a journal page for Jo's Wonderfully Wild challenge at Art Journal Journey The swallows were my idea for the wild part.

     This started as a page to use up some extra yellow paint. The red mesh is actually the elastic edged top that came on a quart of wild local blueberries I bought earlier this summer. I cut the elastic off and then glued it down on the yellow background.  I thought the black and white house worked so I added that, but I didn't want it floating on the page. To fix that I used this scrap of felt button trim that was sitting on my work table and that was left over from a page I made for last month's challenge (Halle's) at AJJ. The sun face and the birds are acetate images, and then to finish my page I used some other OLD stamps (the word and the fragment definition).

I also have a tag for Pinky’s Seaside challenge at Tag Tuesday. 

     I started by first stamping as much of the postcard as would fit across my tag. Then I stamped the life preserver and the anchors. I colored those in, and the silver metallic marker I used for the anchors covered up some of the black edging, so I restamped that images so you could see the outline. After that I used blue watercolor paint to color the part of the tag where there wasn't any image. I then stamped the "on deck" phrase and added the punched out seagull and sailboat images. 

      And since I'm on the topic of the seaside, here's a few photos from over the summer when I've been out on my husband's boat along the shore.

I love this take on  Captain Morgan rum. It’s quite clever.

Here is what happens when one seagull moves too close to another one. And when they think you're going to feed them, which we didn't.

A cormorant  drying off his feathers. 

And finally, all the cranes at the Naval Shipyard.

And that's all I wrote for today. Hope you're having a super day!