The weather has been wonderful these past several weeks in the great
Pacific Northwest, we have finally been blessed with summer! Since late
August we have gotten in some good camping times starting off with
White River, then to Trask River, onto Kilchis River, and ending up at
Whalen Island.
On our latest excursion to Kilchis River the "Humming Belles" asked if they could tag along on our adventure. Of course we were delighted to have their charming company and they happily made themselves all comfy in our mini-motorhome and off we all went!
When we finally arrived at our destination the little darlings took off and began exploring and found some delightful spots just perfect for having some fairy fun!
Here we are about half way finished with the background and border
designs; we are pleased with the direction this piece has taken and are
looking forward to it completion.
Happy day!
Karen Anne and the "Humming Belles"
On our latest excursion to Kilchis River the "Humming Belles" asked if they could tag along on our adventure. Of course we were delighted to have their charming company and they happily made themselves all comfy in our mini-motorhome and off we all went!
When we finally arrived at our destination the little darlings took off and began exploring and found some delightful spots just perfect for having some fairy fun!
This
was a magical little spot they found where two trees roots were
intertwined forming a delightful area for the wee ones to climb over,
under and discover wonderful hiding niches!
This was an area they chanced upon that was like a miniature forest, made just for the spirits of fun seeking little fairies.
After
a day of exploring and new adventures the "Humming Belles" came
trooping out of their newly found "Fairy World Forest" filled with tales
of new discoveries and hidden little treasures.
Several
of them wanted to help me set up my portable art studio and help me
along with my latest illustration. We had caught three cute little
crawdads earlier in the day and they thought I should capture them in a
drawing before returning them to their river home.
So here we are, starting a new drawing and wondering how it will progress.
We've
gotten off to a nice beginning. We have our images drawn, shaded in
just a bit with colored pencils and beginning to add details. We all
agreed that zentangle inspired designs would work well in this
illustration.
They
drawing is beginning to take shape, the crawdads are completed and the
background design and border are needing to be added.
Finally! The completed illustration! We like it!
We titled this piece "Kilchis Krawdads"
We all had loads of fun on this expedition and hope you liked our sharing this time with all of you.
Happy day!
Karen Anne and the "Humming Belles"
It is unusually warm here in the northeast too -- very humid and in the 80s (when I was a kid, we had a hard frost by now and would be at the height of the leaf season, i.e. brilliant color on the trees).
ReplyDeleteLove your crawdads by the way!
Lise