Autumn Rose Hips

An Autumn Treasure - rose hips from the wild roses growing out back. 

FYI: The spiky thing on the left is a giant horsetail... the rose hips are at my eye level and I'm 5 feet tall.  Those suckers are taller than I am. :)

Happy Sunday! 

Great Blue Heron

Wandering the garden on a gray day. I already miss the sunshine and have been planning our January sojourn to Phoenix, all the while busy creating for the Holiday Arts Festival. 

While I was in the garden just enjoying the gray, (it does have it's beauty) a juvenile Great Blue Heron flew overhead, a rare treat. I'm usually elsewhere when they fly over, although I can tell their call. This fellow looked like he was landing on the roof, so I climbed the berm and discovered him atop the Cypress tree in the front yard. He was most gracious! He allowed me to go inside to grab the camera, and even posed prettily while I took several shots... 

Isn't he gorgeous?  

Inspired by the Heron, I've started a mixed media piece that is nowhere near done. I have the basic background of vintage bookpage and a couple of layers of paint, and created a design by taking off paint with a rubber stamp.  

There will be a heron on here some time soon...  :)

On another note, I've been working on partially finished pieces, including this abstract trail through the woods painting.

 Besides paint, I've added some bits of mulberry paper and textured ribbon as the trail. It's getting closer!

Hope your week has been good!  

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Grass Seed

Playing around with the filters on my Lumix camera. This is using one of the filters, however I didn't keep notes so can't remember for sure which one. I'll have to play again tomorrow.

This one tweaks the saturation a bit... I love how the colors turned out!

Today is my last scheduled shift at the store.  I am becoming a full time artist and Etsy Shop Owner, without the distraction of working for someone else. It's a bit sad, as I'll so miss working with everyone; and a bit scary to be venturing on my dream, however very very exciting!

Happy Monday!

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Carla's Online Summer Art Camp

Anyone up for summer camp? 

This week I'm taking

I have learned so much in just one day! Steve explains things so clearly that I may actually have an idea of what I'm doing with my camera by the end of the week. 

Photo's to follow soon. 

You can find out more about Carla's Summer Art Camp classes by clicking the button in my sidebar. 

Love low tide!

Low Tide! Love low tide!

Lots of critters for me to eat...

Hey, what you want, human? 

Couldn't resist snapping a photo of this crow walking about looking for bits during the recent low tide. And then he turned and looked at me like, what do you want? Made me laugh! He ignored me and continued on looking for treats among the rocks. :)