Sunday Art

 Hi everyone. I hope you're having a great weekend.

Today I have another journal page for Aimeslee's Anything Goes challenge at Art Journal Journey.  I'm also linking up to Gillena's  Sunday Smiles.

     This is a page out of my harvest/garden journal that I'm just about finished with. I love how it's bright and cheery.

      The background is an old sheet of denim style paper that's been sitting around since I did a lot of scrapbooking. (I bet it's at least 25 years old if not older. I guess it was  time to use it!) I thought it worked great for a garden theme because you might wear denim while working outside. The fence is a very old stamp by Cornish Heritage Farms. They went out of business a long long time ago ( like maybe 2010 or even before that) , but even though I'd never used it, I could never get rid of it when I did a supply purge. And finally I had a place for it. 😏 I like the details and size since it's big enough to fit across my page.

     The other images came from some other various stamp sets. I stamped, fussy cut and colored the watering can, and then I cut it so the handle would slide behind the fence post. I love the rooster who I'm guessing is getting us up and wanting us outside in the garden. I used several ink pads on the stamp to color him in. He was also a bit tricky to fussy cut, so I left the white edging around him. Finally the quote is stamped directly onto the paper. 

       I painted in the grass, and then to add some brightness to the page I added the sun yellow daisies at the bottom. I decided I wanted to add a sun also, but I didn't decide that  until everything was already glued down. Since the sun should have gone behind the rooster and fence, I decided just to leave it off.  Perhaps Mr. Rooster had a bit of a sleep in and the sun is already high in the sky. 😏

      I thought I'd also share a few more photos from my art walk last week at Alnoba. If you missed my first post about the walk and are curious, you can find it here: Alnoba part 1.

The sign in the back is by Hank Willis Thomas and is a fun play on the words. It is titled Love Over Rules.

This red installation was made of lots of lobster pot line, woven together and painted red. It is by Orly Genger, and is called Going, Going, Gone. You can also walk on top it, so I gave it a try.  It's not really squishy, but a little bit.

Have a great rest of your weekend and start to the new week. 

      

Art Walk Part 1

    Hi everyone. It's the end of the week already, and Friday the 13th too. I just realized that as I wrote this. Be sure you don't walk under any ladders or let a black cat cross your path. (Grin)  😜

   This past Tuesday morning I went on a sculpture walk with 3 friends. The walk was at a place called Alnoba in Kensington, New Hampshire which is in the southeastern part of  my state not far from the Massachusetts border. Alnoba is on private property, and it is also a private business where you can book retreats and weddings, etc. However, they do offer art walks because they have quite a sculpture park on the property too. We had signed up for an artist lead art walk.  It started at 9 AM, and since I had almost a 90 minute drive (with morning traffic) to get there, I had to leave the house pretty early.

    The art walk was for 3 hours and actually ran a little bit longer. We didn't even get to see everything because the park is about 400 acres of land. However, I really enjoyed it, and I'd like to go back sometime on a different artist lead walk.

     Here's some of the art we saw. I have some faces so I'm linking up to Nicole's Friday Face Off.  I'm also linking up to Gillena's  Friday Lunch Break also. 

Let me start with this statue, which was one of my favorites.  It's called Colossal Fragment by Lionel Smit.

Not only was  the front view cool, but so was the back. It doesn't even look like the same sculpture, does it?

And if I stepped to the side and took photos, they were even different. And fascinating.

The artist who took us for a walk was Joseph Gray. His medium was stone. On the property he had several eagle benches.

He sees eagles in  certain flat stones, and if you look carefully you can see the head and tall feathers.

Joseph Gray  also did this large statue which I also really liked.

Can you see the Japanese tea house on the hill in the background?

I enjoyed hearing the artists' stories about how he created his art. This statue was originally one piece, but to get it into  its present location it had to be cut into 3 pieces. 

And here's a couple of pieces that don't have faces created by other sculptors.

Indeterminate Line by Bernar Venet

This blue piece in the woods  was harder to reach so we never walked any closer. Can you see it among the trees? 

Blue Gilead by Murray Dewart

Let me end this post with this HUGE fire pit that they burn during the retreats. It gets such a large fire and gets so hot you can see the granite stones on the side have even cracked and split off chunks.

I think it in itself is a work of art.

That's all for today's post. I'll have more next week. 

Have a great weekend and week ahead. 

Thursday Art

 Hi everyone. 

I'm back today with some more assorted art starting with a tag for Michele's Back to School  challenge at Tag Tuesday. Today's tag is a little different as I took the view of a teacher looking at their students, rather than student looking at back to school.

I stamped the quote, die cut the apple, and stamped as well as fussy cut the little bookworm with the mortar board on their head.

I also have a journal page for Aimeslee's Anything Goes challenge at Art Journal Journey. 

     Back in 2017 (or so) I made a journal about the night sky. I should say I started that journal, but when it was put on the shelf, it wasn't quite finished. I decided to finish it this fall, and this is one of the new spreads I recently made.

     The left hand side of the background is a page I pulled out of a very old calendar I had (as you can see from the fringe at the edge of the image). I kept this calendar because it has fascinating very old style illustrated pages.  Since my journal has narrower pages than the calendar was, I cut the illustration.  Most of the page is on the left, and there's a little bit of it on the right. I stamped, colored and fussy cut the rocket and Saturn before adding them to my page.

     On the right hand side I added a strip of black polka dot paper (the darkness and stars) as well as a couple pieces of gold diamond trim. After staining up the remaining uncovered background I stamped this old quote that I had in my stash.

    We've been having such gorgeous weather this week I have been making a lot of effort to get out and enjoy it. Yesterday Mr. Pete and I took a lovely long walk. Maddie spent the day at the vet's getting a day long blood glucose curve done, and finally, for the first time since January when she went on insulin, her blood sugar was down to normal. ❤   

      Here's a few photos from my walk.

That's all for me today.  Hope you're having a great day. 

Wednesday Journal Pages

 Hi everyone. It's the middle of the week again, and almost mid-September.  We're in a bit of a warm up after the start of the week's cooler temperatures too.But I definitely love that the nights are cool and good for sleeping.

Today I have a couple of pages from my Greece travel journal that I haven't shared.  Since Aimeslee's challenge at Art Journal Journey is Anything Goes, I thought this would be a good time to show these.

Today's art is blue and also has recycling.

We sadly didn't get to go sailing on our trip back in March, but we did watch some sail boats. I started with a Greek Key stencil and made the square and then the inner circle. I then added some blue paint around the inner circle and also stamped all the mini suns. I decided my circle needed something, and that's when I added the inner design. It's actually from the center of  a paper plate. We had been at my cousin's funeral back in June, and we left with some cookies for our 2+ hour trip home.  The plate that held the cookies was still fresh and clean, and I liked the design, so I cut out the center and added it to my page.

The waves, compass and  sailboat are die cuts. I was going to leave the sailboat white, but it didn't really stand out, so  I made it darker. I also made some crazy blue sky to represent all the wind you need for sailing.

And my other page is the last page of my Greece journal.

This next page (in both views) is made with the leftovers from my flight home including the boarding passes, the luggage tags, a silverware wrap and a napkin from the flight. I die cut the globe, mini clouds and the plane. I also added a bit of very colorful scrap tissue that was wrapped around something that I bought. It makes a nice pop of color. And all the dot designs  on my page are actually the shape of the island of Corfu. These were on little bags I had, but they make great "decorations" on my page so I cut them out and put them down in whatever direction they worked best.

Finally I outlined my page with a blue marker.

And there you have it. That's all for me today. Have a super day, and thanks for visiting.

T Stands for Signs of Early Fall

 Hi everyone. Happy new week to you. Today it's time for T again over at  Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog. This is a longer post today, but mostly photos.

         Last week I finished up my summer lake job (was that only last week?), had a day out with friends and had some  time to do a few things that have been on my list.

Like going apple picking. The Macs and Cortland (2 of my favorites) were ready for picking.

I bought some artificial fall blooms to put on my fireplace mantel. They were moved there after I finished arranging them and taking this photo. 

I made some pickle relish with some of the cucumbers from my garden.

And I also made chocolate zucchini bread with some garden zucchini.

The bread came out delicious, but even more precious is the fact that my mom sent me this recipe years ago. It was good to see her handwritten note on the paper. ❤

We have some early signs of autumn right now, including some cooler temperatures (which are not supposed to  last).

Here's a left over sunflower head and also the last of my wild blackberries finally ripening.

It's mushroom season.

And seed head season too, along with wild asters being in bloom.

My roses are having a second bloom and look beautiful.

Some of my dahlias are blooming now too.

The remains of summer flowers are looking interesting, although past their peak.

My garden is in no-man's land time right now. It's a bit too early to pull things and transplant, and  it's late enough most of the blooms have gone past. In my wild-flower bee garden there is still goldenrod blooming and some tall phlox too.

After all this activity, I need a cup of warm tea and a photo for T day. Here's some green tea in  my NH mug.

       Just an FYI that if you join tomorrow I won't be able to visit your blog until evening because I'm off on a sculpture walk early tomorrow morning (I need to leave at 7:15 AM) and then I have to vote in our state offices primary.  Have a great T day and week ahead.