Adventures in Pretty

Flowering into Fall

Light breezes, warm sunshine... and a little time spent with my art supplies, my sewing machine and scraps from my collage box... and I began this...

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This is where it is at at the moment. I think I will add more details with a fine point black pen. And maybe some more layers of paint, collage and who knows what else : ). But you can see how the warm colors of fall are influencing me! : ) Here are few more images...

The little line with the white dots is actually where I free motion stitched the collage layers together on my sewing machine.

Have fun with your art this week. Let the season inspire words, drips, swooshes and colors! Happy Autumn Equinox!!!

Every September

Every September, I forget to remember, that I resist the end of summer- and that a couple of weeks will pass and then I've embraced the arrival of autumn with enthusiasm and joy. No other seasonal change is this abrupt here, plus the shortening of our long summer days is hard to accept. But given a little time, the thoughts of earthy colors, hot tea, baking bread, crimson leaves and crisp air seduce me to the romance of fall. And every September, I forget this happens. Fall found me yesterday. And this morning I woke up desiring to bake cornbread, redecorate, listen to football games... and turn on the heat : ). Some of this may have been prompted by my visit yesterday to Anthropologie and Ravenna Garden stores. Like a thirsty traveller, my eyes drank in the harvest colors, and gathered a handful of images to share with you, so that you too may quench your thirst for this changing of the seasons.

   


  

This display feels like summer, so I imagine that the store, too, is making the transition of the seasons. After all, it was 85 degrees only last week. And today it is cloudy and gray with an expected high of 63 degrees. Well to those of you in the northern hemisphere-Happy beginning of Autumn! And now we send the sun back to our southern hemisphere friends so you too can have summer!