Showing posts with label WCTrade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WCTrade. Show all posts

Monday, August 4, 2008

A Nod To Our Town's Yearly Festival


In rural America every town has its annual fair or festival. It is a lot of fun for most of us. My girls and their families will be here for it this year. I am excited more about that than the goings on. I will be involved in the parade this year with our community puppet group. That should be a bunch of fun. I know the grand kids will be enthralled by the puppets. There is also free watermelon and a seed spitting contest (gross). The University has had carnival-type games for everyone on their campus. One year they had "Human Bowling" where they strapped you into a big metal ball and rolled you towards fluffy bowling pins. Another time they had a game where you were attached to a flexible cord. You were supposed to run as far as you could away from your point of origin and set down a marker where upon you were snapped back to where you started by the cord. I think the participants were being cheered on by the local chiropractors.
This is the last WC card I have done and the fourth one in my set to send in for the trade. It didn't take nearly as long as the watermelon picture to do but I like it better and it fits in more with the traditional Zentangle-type art. So now I have four cards ready to go. Hoping to mail tomorrow!

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Rapunzel

This is a drawing that I started last night and pretty much thought I would toss. I fussed with it a little today and I like it a little better. I may continue to fuss with it, who knows? I have always liked the idea of doing something based on a fairy tale. Can you find Rapunzel? I know she is not in a tower, she is in the Keep. An evil wizard did not put her there, her dad did. And he is going to keep an eye on her until she is atleast 30!

Random Watercolor


This is my most recent finished ATC for the watercolor swap. I didn't like it at first, but after coming back to it several times, I think it worked out. It was almost a disaster, though. The drafting tape that I used to secure it to a hard surface while I worked on it didn't want to release it. My daughter got it loose, though. I was worried. After all that time spent, I didn't want to ruin it when I had just started to like it.