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it made me smile

This year I signed up for 2021 Carla's Year Long Class in hopes that I would do a bit more...

15+ minutes of playing with the art supplies.

15+ minutes of wondering why?

Well...it made me smile and I hope you do too.

 

#71 journal page, altered

#66 silly advice

Don't eat cherries and then brush your teeth...

Good advice:  remember to play.

#28 blink

Don't forget to play...

 

The photos are layered in an app called "Image Blender" and the filters used are either in the same app or "Hipstamatic." 

Filters can be helpful to soften edges depending on how photos are layered.

Sometimes just layering one image on top of another and adjusting the opacity is nice, other times I layer image over image. Or the same image with different filters. 

There are classes. I signed up for one but never really spent much time on it.  I started to play and well... never went back. What I am sharing is what I've learned by just playing.

The class on animation (a Carla Sonheim presents class with Kara Kramer)that I took awhile ago was lots of fun and a place to spend more time. I've been playing with the app used in the class in lots of ways other than animation (mostly as a slide show)...maybe it's time to actually try that.  There is an upcoming film festival!

Field note: First dragonfly sighting in the garden.

 

#19 coincidence?

Following a prompt from a Carla Sonheim class, I squeezed a bit of paint on a page and pulled the paint down with an old bus pass.

After three swipes I realized I'd made a robe...the hearts were added later.

 

comfort food

Otis went to his sulky place.  He thought to himself  "I wonder what would make me feel better?"

Recipes you know so well you can make them without looking...

Scones.  Recipe from Alice Bay Cookbook.

Vegetarian Shepard's pie:  split peas + onions + walnuts + cauliflower + kale + spices, topped with mashed potatoes and baked.

Inspired by a recipe at 101 Cookbooks and one from My New Roots.

 

moon garden

Paper collage + a little sketching + two layers of photos + a filter.

 

blended worlds

2 torn pieces of paper + 2 photos, blended + a filter + a bit of sketching = something else than the beginning but not really an ending.

 

winter finally

There's been a flock of robins in and out of the garden today.  They are working on the neighbor's holly trees.

Five or six will perch at any given time in one of my fruit trees that are by the entry gate.  They are fluffed out full, facing the wind. 

It's supposed to snow part of the night and be windy...gusts up to 40 MPH. It's 7 F/-11 C with the wind chill right now. Not nearly as bad as other areas but cold for us. 

This makes me think storm.

Collage + layering of two photos + filer.

I've been stitching today and, of course, watching the snow fall.

 

smile!

Or maybe pucker up?

One of the assignments for the class I'm taking.

There's also this:

Thinking about something similar to this on cloth.