Sunday

  Hi everyone. I hope you've been having a lovely weekend. Our weather has finally warmed back up a bit after a pretty cold past week. We had some nights with temperatures below freezing. Hurrah for today though when it feels more like spring again.

   Today I am joining Nicole for her Sunday in the Art Room (canceled for today), and I'm also joining Gillena for 2 challenges.  I'll be linking  up to her  Sunday Smiles and also over to Art Journal Journey. Gillena is hosting this month and her theme is Trees Are Awesome, Aren't They? 

   I was inspired to make today's page after watching a gorgeous sunset a few weeks ago. With the  sun setting behind the trees, those trees were solid black. I used this older tree stamp and black ink several times on my journal page. I then went over the images with a black Sharpie because I wanted the trees to be bolder.  

    I first colored the sky with watercolors, but then I wanted bolder colors, especially for the orange part,  so I also added some orange liquid ink to a wet paper towel and rubbed that on the page.  To make the grass I used watercolor paints  and  markers as  well as a green  Stabilo pencil. The birds are a stamp from the same set as the trees. The quote is from the same set.  I tried something just a bit different for the quote because I stamped it on color paper and then gently tore the edges away. I had hoped the pink would blend in more with the pink of the sky, but I still like how it works.

     Friday night's sky was fairly pretty, although not the  boldest colors like the view that inspired today's page. But the sun before it set created some interesting light through the evening clouds.

    And even though last week didn't feel much like spring, it's mating season for the wild turkeys. This Tom was strutting his stuff around the lawn one morning. 

     (Excuse the photos because if I stepped outside the show would have been over so I needed to snap these through the window.)

And here's the lady he was hoping to impress. I'm not sure if he did or not.

    Earlier in the week I noticed him in the woods also all puffed up and trying to impress some lady. He was just far enough off that when I looked at first I thought it might be a bear in the woods. These turkeys get pretty large when they puff up like that, especially from a distance.

     Later he came back just to scrounge up some ground scraps from the bird feeder. The show was over by then.

   That's all for me today. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and start to the new week.