Drawing #9 - Navigator

Another mental landscape drawing is here. This one depicts the Navigator. We have found many things in its parts and I'm sure you will too. The Navigator might chart our path or help us take flight.

Bald Eagle Success

A photo from August at the natural history museum seemed too nice not to scrap. The museum had an early successful breeding program for Bald Eagles and still keeps injured birds for educational purposes in a wild-like environment.

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Designer Credits:
ArtPlay Palette Autumn Haze by Anna Aspnes
fonts: Pea Aimee, Mufferaw

Hidden Colors: Mallards

I liked this photo of two female Mallards in part because the bright blue of one's speculum shows up so well. When this week's scraplift for Anna Aspnes came along I decided to use it for the layout. Blue featured prominently in the original so I turned the vegetation a bit blue here too.

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Designer Credits:
-lift of "chick" by Rita006
ArtPlay Palette No. 10 by Anna Aspnes
font: FreekTure

Drawing #8 - Dragonrider

I was quite excited as this one developed. The title arose very early and I actually worked with it in mind much of the time. Perhaps later I'll tell more about the creation of the basic shapes in the beginning. I also have to get back with an image for another scraplift, but here is the Dragonrider.

Drawing #7 - Ancient Oak

The latest drawing or "mental landscape" is finally here. I think of it as an ancient oak, inspired in part by the big old oak around which the orange mushrooms appeared. I worked on it a little bit at a time over many days.

Last Heat of Summer

During the week, on the 13th, we went out to enjoy what promised to be the last hot day of summer. It was really nice out and notable around the Lake View ponds were lots of dragonflies. I managed to get decent photos of one, a Blue Dasher. I love the challenge of photographing dragonflies! The page done with it is a scraplift for a new designer at Oscraps.

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Designer Credits:
scraplift of ‘Morning Tea’ by Judy (Jarhm)
ArtPlay Palette No. 10 by Anna Aspnes
fonts: Brochure, Banff, Amienne

Curious Challege: Out of focus photo

Do you still have some out of focus photos you just didn't want to delete? This month the camera challenge at Oscraps has us looking at ways it can be a good thing. I actually found two from a little before dawn at the airport that seemed to be just the thing. I've taken interesting photos through the windshield of a moving car, but in the near dark it didn't work too well, but did create a moody image.

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Designer Credits:
-background paper, purple paper (blended) from Royal Blending Papers by tinamarie
-brushes from ArtPlay Palette No. 10 by Anna Aspnes
-stitching from All Stitched by Kitty Designs
-border from Strippies 2 by Merkeley Designs
-waved element from Modern Paper Masks by tinamarie
fonts: Pea Anderson, Enchanted Prairie Dog, Pea Beth