wordless wednesday

Inspired by Carlene & Right Brain Planner

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beach walk

Dan and I went for a fall beach walk last weekend and I wanted to share a few photos....

Some clever person created this fish 'sculpture' from found driftwood bits and branches.  It's so artistic!

A little further down the beach we came across this carving in a driftwood log. Someone put a lot of effort into this art that will be transient. It was such a joy to stumble across these two examples of artistic effort - at the beach, just because, no expectation of longevity, just joy in creating.

I noticed this empty bench in a little clearing at the park (we were at Lincoln Park in W. Seattle) and asked Dan to go be my lonely person......

The path up to the park from the beach - this is where I started gathering those giant maple leaves that became my sewn garland.  I love that in Seattle we enjoy the colorful leaves of deciduous trees but also have the contrast of deep greens of the evergreens like in the park photo above.

Our Seattle beaches are pretty rocky and I miss the white sandy beaches of the Caribbean or Tahiti or Hawaii.  BUT, I've become quite addicted to rock gathering at our wonderful beaches - I have piles of rocks showing up on my window sills, table tops, in vases and wrapped in yarn... There's a lot of beauty in a rocky beach! :) (just hard to walk barefoot across the beach!)

As we here in the west are enjoying our fairly mild fall/early winter weather, my mind is continually wandering to those of you on the east coast and the mess of weather and nastiness that you're dealing with.  I can only hope that you all get through the mess without undue hardship.  

AEDM day 8 and texture tuesday

I can't believe it's Tuesday again already and time for Kim Klassen's Texture Tues.  Her theme is "two" - an interesting challenge with so many possibilities.

My take is to use a leaf I picked up (I gathered leaves in Vermont on vacation and brought them home and then gathered piles of them from here at home - some yet-to-be-determined project in the making.....), dried and pressed, then scanned.  

 I duplicated the leaf, added a shadow and put them over a fall tree photo in the background that I blurred out.  Next I added a gradient level (at 49%) using one of the golden tan colors picked from the leaves.

Finally I added Kim's texture Pourvous at 100% Hard Light for a simple finish.  Not as many layers as some of my other creations, but a strong finish I think.

This is my AEDM entry for day 8 and my Texture Tuesday and Texture Thursday entry.