Re-Capping the week

It has been Avery busy week, glad the weekend is approaching. It's the first time in awhile that I have absolutely nothing planned...I like it! lol

1.  I am totally crushing on my Khadi journal. 

Just love the deckled edges of handmade paper!!!!

 This page was done for the itac-17 challenge 2, Asia.

2. Began a new Vignette Art piece (WIP)

3. New toy

I got a refracting ball (80mm) and took it out to play with. We were up in the mountains for the solar eclipse and got there early to avoid the traffic so we had some time to enjoy the scenery.

and of course there was a lot of moss, these were my favorites

moss sporophytes

British Soldier Lichen

4. TIRED
Tired pretty much sums up the Eclipse experience, I didn't even know I had misspelled eclipse in my video of the day until it was pointed out to me, lol If you do decide to watch it, and it's pretty boring, I know, please give me  'thumbs-up" to make me feel better. lol
And an art journal page which pretty much sums up the day.

5. finished Vignette Art piece
#Hahnemühle #Leonardo paper
which I am entering in Paint Party Friday and in Illustration Friday

I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Thanks for stopping by!

weekly highlights

Some things that entertained me this week:

1. Painting tennis shoes for our upcoming trip to the Oz Festival. 

Will post more on them as I continue working on them.

2. Trying to photograph un-cooperative butterflies like this Silver Spotted Skipper.

and this more cooperative Tiger Swallowtail

3. Finished another piece of my Vignette Art with a picture of my grand-nephew and submitted it to Illustration Friday.

4. Tried to post daily on IG...
Slowly gaining followers!

5. ATC for the Grumbacher swap
Theme: Song Inspired
I made my ColourArte monthly video by the skin of my teeth. I had completely lost track of the days and even had to cancel a luncheon date with one of my good friends in order to get it done.
Refer back to #1 and see if you can guess which song is the inspiration. 😉
Video can be found here.

6. Artist Tribe
We got to make the new team announcement for Gwen Lafleur. I'm very excited to be working with her and all my tribe members!

7. Supplies
Then my Artist Tribe package arrived. You can see my goodies HERE!

Posting this week to
Paint Party Friday

And, wow, loved seeing my painting featured on your site!
What a nice surprise!
💕

One door closes and another one opens

As sad as it is to say that July's watercolor month has come to end I am happy to report a new adventure begins for me. I have received a couple of commissions to do my Vingette Art from a couple of people and that really excites me! I was only doing "Pierson's Great Adventures" to write and illustrate a small book for my grand-nephew to give to him at Christmas but I get to continue on working away at what I love!

How lucky am I?

day 29
Currently the last of Pierson's adventures BUT I am hoping to write that book
( just for him ) so hopefully, you will see more of that in the future

"I am 3! Hear me Roar!"

day 30
starts the work on my commissioned piece


day 31
Pen work rates as one my favorite things to do! I love how it really brings out the details and makes everything pop!


August
As #WorldWatercolorMonth is over, I've decided I'll be continuing on with my weekly posting of art instead of blogging every day...
and so this begins August
 😘

day 1
Finished "The Little Mermaid" and I love how it turned out.
I swear I could keep this for myself it's so darn cute!
Hahnemühle #Leonardo paper

"Little Mermaid"

day 2

Started on the next one...

it's too dark right now so I'll work on lightening it up some.

day 3
much better and I've decided she will be a fairy in this one!


day 4
And the second one is completed...not sure which one I like the most, but I can say this, I'm pretty darn happy with them both!

"Moon Child"

Oh and I finally got a proper phone and now have an Instagram account. Talk about teaching an old dog some new tricks, whew! I never knew hashtagging was like an Olympic sport! lol
#WhoKnew
😜
#IdoNow