June Sunshine

  Good day everyone! I hope wherever you are you are enjoying decent weather. Summer (the temps that is) is upon us here in NE PA and I couldn't be happier. And speaking of sunshine, that is the theme for my June calendar as prompted by JoAnne Sharpe's class. I really am enjoying the drawing lessons and the wonderful variations and themes for each month.

  Sketched in pencil then a black Pitt pen(sorry for the dark photo):

  And finished in watercolors:

 

   I may add a bit more doodling around as I go. Of course I'm linking to Kate Crane's Calendar Project.

  Next up are two cards I needed to make for upcoming events and what a better way to be inspired than by challenges!

 This is the sketch challenge for this week at Freshly Made Sketches:

 Both cards I made are also for the theme of "Father's Day/ Masculine -make anything for a Man/Boy" over at the Simon Wednesday Challenge Blog:

  Products: kraft note card (Canvas Corp.); patterned papers (sources unknown); Versafine Onyx Black ink (Tsukineko); clear stamp (Papertrey Ink); Vintage Photo Distress ink (Ranger); die cut bird (Colorbok); die cut tag (K & Company); metallic dots (Craft Essentials-JoAnne Stores).

  Products: white note card (Canvas Corp); white card stock; papers-Bubbles (American Crafts), Striped (NRN Designs); clear stamps (Papertrey Ink); Versafine Onyx Black ink(Tsukineko); bow-Stylish Accents (Offray); Sky Blue Vivid dye ink ( Clearsnap); die cut machine and Labels 1 dies (Spellbinders).

 My last offering for today is a journal page prompted by the Sunday Mornings online class with Mindy Lacefield. It started with this background which I had painted in my book months ago using texture paste then watered down acrylic paints. I was holding on to the page expecting to do something with an ocean theme. But that didn't happen.

 

  I had already chosen the psalm I wanted to paint around and knew I wanted a tree. I love how this turned out, how bits of the background color peek through the "leaves" and how it looks like there is light shining down from the upper left corner!

  Linking this to Art Journal Every Day, Creative Every Day, and Paint Party Friday. Why don't you join in sometime? 

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                "All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."  George Whitman