Friday Faces

Hi everyone. Another week is zooming by, and we're almost at the first weekend of August.  

Today I'm sharing a page for Chris's When We Were Young challenge at Art Journal Journey and also for Nicole's Friday Face Off. .

I actually made this page on a different background, so that this energetic girl was stamped directly on the paper, but I definitely did not like the original page’s background. I made another background with ink, a stencil and white gesso, and this one made me much happier.

I went back and cut around the girl and my bottom grass and added them to this page. I think the little white around each figure actually helps it to pop off the page more.

I hand cut the grass along the bottom and added the bunny die cuts as well as the flower die cut. All 3 images were sitting in a box of scrap die cuts that I have. I stamped the quote, and I also added a few fun sticker words. The girl is an Art by Marlene stamp, which was stamped multiple times and colored with markers.

I haven't finished sharing my photos from deCordova Sculpture park, so let me do that today before time gets too far ahead of me.

Inside the museum there was some interesting  textile art starting with the dressed figure.

Shame on me. I'm not sure who made this fantastic dress.

This one is called the Daddy Vest by Baxter Koziol. It could have been a Mommy vest. 

And this next one called History was also made by Baxter Koziol.

And here's a few other pieces. I'm not sure of the artist who made each, although I suspect this first photo is another Baxter Koziol.

Since I like to play around with textile art, these exhibits were inspiring. 

All my photos from the deCordova have been a sampling of what there is to see. I still have a few photos left, and if people are interested I can share those another day. 

I am also linking up my post to Gillena's Art For Fun Friday.

Thanks for visiting. Happy Friday and have a great weekend ahead.

Does a Butterfly Need a Door?

Hi everyone.

I can't believe we are heading into the last few days of July. Wasn't it just the July 4 holiday weekend (here in the US at least but July 4 all over the world definitely) ? I know summer is far from over in most parts of the Northern Hemisphere, but still, fall seems a lot closer when we get into August.

Today I have a more abstract page from one of my journals that I want to link up to Wendy's Doors and/or Arches challenge at Art Journal Journey. You still have through Sunday to join if you're interested.

The background page was inked with some shades of brown.  Then I added the door, which was from a large piece of paper with doors on it. The butterfly was the front of a card that I had and which I cut away the back and also the white that was around most of it. I thought the door and butterfly would be enough for the background, but they weren't, so I added some little scraps of deli paper that I had pulled as a print off my Gelli plate. Then I cut out the 7 from a printed page I made with a number stencil. I figured as it was the 7th month, the seven was the number to use. And then I finished my page with some little chipboard nuts that I found while cleaning. I used black and copper ink to color them.

I also thought since my page is on the abstract side I'd share a few more sculpture photos from the deCordova Sculpture Garden that I visited a couple of weeks ago. You might be tired of seeing them, but I am just about finished sharing these photos with you.

This may just look like a rock with a tree growing next to it, but when you get close, you can see it is a sculpture.

I'm not sure if the rock was covered in worked metal or if the statue was created without a rock underneath it, but the texture up close was amazing.

And this next sculpture may be links in a chain, but the burnished aluminium it is made from also looked fascinating up close.

And finally for today, a ball of bricks. I like how it looks as if it's fallen off a turret. 

That's all for me today. Happy middle of the week to you.

T Stands for Last Week and some more Sculpture

 Hi everyone. 

It is another Tuesday, and time once again for T over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog.

Last week was a busy one for me. I had a few appointments on my calendar and some home things that needed doing. It was also a hot week, our first one this month in New Hampshire. We ended up at my MIL's home 3 times last week. One evening she had fallen and couldn't get up so we had to go on a rescue mission. And then with the heat we went up both days over the weekend to check in on her and cool off in the lake. 

 Luckily her home is on a small pond so we did have a bit of water time, to cool off not only from the heat but from her  house also. She has casement style windows in much of the house which she can no longer open herself. Even though there is an AC in her bedroom, she doesn't want to leave her bedroom door open because it will make the AC run too much and that will drive up her electric bill. Even when we tell her she needs some air moving to cool off her house. She is also getting confused and forgetful, not just from the heat, and someone needs to check  in that she is taking her medicines and even eating.

Sometimes we help her down to the lake with us, but it was too hot this past weekend, so she sat on the deck off the kitchen and every now and again called down sometime to us. That meant we had to go up and answer her because her hearing is so bad (and she wouldn't spend the money for a hearing aid) she can't hear you when you reply. Even me when I yell up to her, and I have one of those voices that, to put it nicely, carries very well. 

The lake was mostly refreshing and pretty with the sun on it. A bottle of ice cold beer helped cool us off too. This is my drink reference for T this week.

And I thought I'd finish off this post with a few more photos from deCordova Sculpture park that I've been sharing for the past week. 

This first one makes me think of cold ice.

And the walking path lead through these doors.

I tried looking through the door

and then looking at the doors through a different sculpture.

And instead of the doors, I could also look through this sculpture to view other parts of the park. 

Here is looking down on the sculpture.

And here is looking up at it.

And the view when I wasn't as close to the sculpture.

Can you tell I liked that sculpture? 

And besides sculpture, the grounds were pretty too.

I guess this is more than enough for one post. Have a great T day and week ahead. And thanks for visiting my blog too.