Mandarin Orange Monday

This collage is my entry for Mandarin Orange Monday.

Fall Fearless and Fly

Here is my entry for Fall Fearless and Fly. 

Headline Prompt:  Triumphs and Defeats:  What do you see as your greatest triumphs or defeats?  What have they taught you?  Which have you learned more from?
Color Prompt:  Black and white
Quote Prompt: Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

I just used the color prompt.

Paint Party Friday for October 26

This is my entry for this week's PPF. I am posting a page from my mini-journal.

SoArtful - Harvest Moon

Shine On Harvest Moon is a song I learned as a child and heard sung in movies when I was growing up. I just found that it is an old song, dating back to the Ziegfield Follies of 1908. This is my entry for So Artful Challenges.

Mandarin Orange Monday

Here is where I live. This photo is not this year. I doubt we will have the vivid reds and oranges, but the yellow hickory nut trees are looking good! This is my MOM emtry.

Paint Party Friday

These are my mini-journal pages I made for PPF and Art Journal Journey.

The text is from Lamentations 3:22-23 and says:

"Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness."

The 3 Muses - Vintage

The Three Muses has as its theme this week - Vintage.

Fall Fearless and Fly #2

The second challenge for Fall Fearless and Fly has these prompts:

Headline Prompt:  Taking a Chance:  When did you take a chance or a leap of faith?  How did it turn out?  What did you learn?
Color Prompt:  What color do you like least? Use it!
Quote Prompt:  "Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase -- that's what wild geese are for." Anonymous

I ignored the headline prompt since I am not a risk-taker.

I used yellow, one of my least favorite colors. I like almost all others a lot.

And I used the quote over a photo of my backyard and a googled goose.

Edit: I realize now that this sounds as if I never take a leap of faith. Our marriage 55 years ago was certainly one of those leaps. We had barely enough money to get across the country from Tennessee to my husband's navy assignment in California. There have been many opportunities to take chances over the years.

Mandarin Orange Monday

I was playing around with one of my paintings via Photoshop Elements and I've created this square for Mandarin Orange Monday.  It looks a little like a fabric pattern, I think.

Art Journal Journey - Indian Summer

Every fall we get our flu shots so we don't get influenza or at least get a much milder case. So here is a scene from the doctor's waiting room. I sketched someone sitting there waiting. I'm not sure she was there for a shot or not. The tree leaves on the opposing page represent autumn and all the gorgeous golds, oranges, and reds in the fall leaves. This was for Art Journal Journey.

Art Cards Challenge - filmstrip

This is an ATC (2.5"x 3.5") size piece I have put together for Art Cards Challenge, where the theme is filmstrip. Audrey Hepburn is a freebie from Dover Publications. The filmstrip was googled.

Water cleanup Oils

Using some poppies I painted last week in watercolors as my model, I made this using water soluble oil paints tonight. I am entering it in this week's Paint Party Friday #31.

Edit: It's getting to the end of PPF. I have visited and left comments on 71 blogs. That is truly a record for me. I often visit 45 or 50, but I spent almost the entire day enjoying all this art. What a wonderful treat!

Fun with ATCs - sketch

For the challenge Fun with ATCs I have followed the sketch given pretty closely. I used some decorative paper for the background, green cardstock, some snippets of other decorative paper, and some acetate images given to me for my birthday by my crafting pal Laura. The text is handwritten.

Orange Lily - MOM Challenge

Patty S. gave me permission to do a painting from one of her photographs a year or so ago and I made this watercolor. For the Mandarin Orange Monday I used Photoshop Elements to change the color slightly. The original is slightly redder, which I really think looks a bit better. (see below)

Fall Fearless and Fly

Check out the new button in my sidebar. It's for a new challenge called Fall Fearless and Fly. We can use any medium for our piece. We can use one, two or all the prompts given. The first prompts were:

Headline Prompt:  Inventing the Future:  Where do you want to be 5, 10, 15 years from now.  What's holding you back?  What's propelling you forward?  What do you need to do or stop doing to create your future?
Color Prompt:  Warm colors (reds, oranges, pinks, yellows)
Quote Prompt:  "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."  Abraham Lincoln

At 78 I hope to be around for all 15 of these years, not only JUST around, but also actively doing art and serving the Lord. Keeping busy and healthy is important for that to take place. This watercolor is surrounded by scripture from Psalm 46. (Sorry, I accidentally reversed "refuge" and "strength".)

Oil Painting on Canvas Board

Here is my painting for this week. I realized tonight that I had not done any painting this week I used my water soluble oil paints on a canvas board. I realize this isn't a fine art work, but it sure felt good to do oil painting again. I am entering this in Paint Party Friday.

Take a Word - Manuscriipt

This is my digital art for Take a Word challenge where the theme is Manuscript.

The woman image is from Dezinaworld. The background is wallpaper.