Sort of Mid-Week Art and Other Things

    Hi everyone. Happy Thursday. I hope your week is going well. We've had some wet weather, but luckily (or not so luckily for the drought we still have from last year) it hasn't been all day rains. And in between showers, it's been warm and beautiful outside.  I've been trying to get a bit of outside chores done, which is something I always get excited to do in spring. If only that excitement would last all season...grin, but once it gets hot, I would rather look at the gardens than do all this big spring cleaning. 😏

    Today I am joining Gillena for Her Trees Are Awesome, Aren't They? challenge at Art Journal Journey. 

   I started this page on some white watercolor paper. I fussy cut the tree, the bottom bird and the leaves (all one image) from a paper shopping bag I received from the local bird store when I went to get a seed tube. I used matte medium to glue it down. 

   I then took an old chickadee stamp (from Stamp in the Hand) and stamped it first directly onto my page, and then onto some brown paper-bag paper. I fussy cut it and added it to my page covering up the first stamped image. I used a white paint pen to highlight the white spot around the head.

    I used a green paint pen to color over the leaves on the trees since they were originally the same brown as the trunk. Then I took a stencil and some light blue paint and added some spots of texture and color on the background. I decided the page was still too white so I took some yellow watercolor paint and added it to brighten up the sky.

   The 3 flying birds came from an older Hero Arts stamp set. The Birds of a feather quote came from the same Stamp in the Hand set as the chickadee did. I am not sure who made the paper that I fussy cut the word fly high from.

   Then I finished my page by adding a feather I found in my yard and outlined the Birds of a Feather quote.

   And speaking of birds, I've had a pine warbler visiting my bird feeder lately. You can also see the seed tube he/she is sitting on that came in the paper bag I used on my page today. 

And the grackles are back too. I like how I caught  this motion in this next photo.

And once again, the turkeys are back.

   That's all for me today.  And just an FYI- I won't be around for the weekend ahead starting tomorrow, so I won't be joining  any Friday or Sunday challenges as I usually do.  Have a great rest of your week and weekend ahead plus start to the new week. I'll be back in the blogosphere next week-either Monday or Tuesday.