Being Inspired.........

I'm still taking Roxanne Stout's Nature Journaling class and this is a subject that just gets my creative juices flowing! 

I've said before, I'm not much with watercolors but I have noticed an improvement each time I paint with them.  I have a long way to go to get the free look I'm going for.....more of that practice "thing", I guess. 

Roxanne has encouraged her class to get out their cameras and shoot a few still life compositions.....so here is mine.  These are some things that sit on a wire shelf on our patio year 'round, I just tightened up the arrangement and added some art supplies.

Played with some watercolor and a sunflower.......



 

 Last post I shared some pictures of the Swallowtail Butterfly that visited our garden Sunday.  So, on Monday I needed to paint him!

 

Then it was collage time.  Roxanne presented a collage challenge and I love collage and a challenge.
I am planning on binding the work I've done, so far, in this class and making it into a small book and I had started work on the cover.  I needed to finish the inside of the cover, so, I decided collage would be the way to go.

Here is the collage I made.........



You can see where the collage will fold.....the left side will look something like this when it is bound.

 

 

......and the right side will look like this!

 

 

 My nature journal is really, three journals of different sizes, in different stages and I have different plans for each book.  This is book #1.  I hope this enthusiasm and inspiration last.....till I get them all finished!