17 - Summer takes flight

In the summertime there are lots of different insects.

I like to photograph them in the garden.

16 - Summer rain

Summer time isn’t always about sunshine.

For me ‘summer rain’ brings freshness and makes nature show its beautiful colors.

The photographs were taken in the garden after a rain shower J



15 - In the summer time, I just HAVE to…

Is there something I do every summer, no matter what?

Yes, there is J

Eat vanilla ice cream with strawberries! Yummie!



Scan



Photograph

On the scan you can see the sunny colors, but on the photograph you can better see that the ‘blue sun’ shines when you hold it in the light.

During the making of this prompt I learned a lot about coloring my page with watercolour pencils (yellow and pink) and blue ink.
I’m pretty happy with the result :-)

During the next prompts I will practice this as it is a lot of fun!

14 - Triple dog dare

For years I did only wear black and blue clothes.

That was till I learned of my allergy to those colors.

Wearing a lot of brown now, I think it’s time to add some color to it.

I’ve never ever wanted to wear red, but sometimes you have to give something a go. That’s what I did. And I like it J

13 - Summer wishlist

What’s on my shopping list this summer?

Natty challenged us to use junk mail envelopes as windows.

Since I just threw them all away to recycle, I had to wait a few days to make this prompt J

I have to admit that I never thought of using envelopes to create windows.

It also turned out that some envelopes have a special print on the inside. For the next prompt I did use one of those prints.

12 - Stay cool

My favorite ways to stay cool in the high temperatures?

Natty challenged us to only use splatters when painting the background.

Now I have to admit that I’ve never liked painting. I’ve always preferred to color with pencils.

Thus I don’t have paint at my home. That’s why I’ve been looking for something else. Since I don’t write with a fountain pen anymore, I used some ink that was left:



And I have to admit: it was fun to do this J

I even consider to get some painting material.

Thanks Natty to show your techniques and let us discover new things every day ;-)

11 - Take a vacation!

For this prompt we had to use design elements from a music video:

For the colors and forms I was mainly inspired by these frames:

To turn my digital photographs into Polaroid-lookalikes I used Poladroid, a fun little program.

WEEK 1 & 2

The pages of the first two weeks all together:

10 - Student feature

As Natalie says: there’s no better way to learn than to learn from each other. That’s why she lets students introduce their work in the so-called ‘student features’.

Last week it was Bad Hausfrau who presented her art journaling skills.

She showed different ways to use photos in art journals.

As I really liked her example of a photograph that was printed onto sheet music, I tried to do something similar. But as you can still see a whole piece of Bach through it, I won't place it here (to avoid copyright issues ;-)).

9 - In the summer I feel...

What do I feel when the sun shines brightly?

To feel the “crazy vibes” listen to Selah Sue: