Day 4851: Another Step-by-step card & Rime Ice Tree.

                    

"Suspicious": junk collage, ink brush & digital.

The above was a current digital overall of an old drawing/collage. 

8x10" journal page.

  

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    Click: Smokey Robinson, Just to See Her.

 

2GN2S

Another Step-by-step card.

To Austria with Love.

Dear friend of many years, Elenor is a retired teacher and artist in Austria. Although we have never met in person, we chat almost daily through the blog. I feel like I know her favorites, and will try to work on a Christmas card for her, she enjoys a step by step.

1.

I started with a 5x7" Kraft card and envelope.

2.

I got this far before I realized it was upside down! ;op

3.

I turned it right side up and continued. Not really happy with it so far.

4.

Somehow the strip of script gave me hope.

5. (scraps)

I thought I'd share what my scraps are looking like about now? Every snippet is still in contention. It's funny how often the perfect scrap turns up. I save everything in progress.

6.

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This is my final. Elenor, having taught physics and math seems to like structure, and minimalism. This didn't quite make it. I'd give it a B, but I think she might like it. This took about 2 hours, and I am tempted to try another now (10:36 pm) to see if I can do better?

This surreal frozen formation looks almost otherworldly — yet it’s entirely real. Brooks Range, Northern Alaska

You’re seeing a wind-sculpted rime-ice tree, formed when freezing fog and relentless Arctic winds layer ice in one direction over many hours. These incredible shapes only appear in some of the coldest, most extreme environments on Earth.

A natural ice sculpture carved solely by the Alaskan winter.

 

  

 

A 4+ minute video, Go Blue, Go!, here

 

  

 

Just because ...

Royal Flycatcher

 

Friday's Smiles ... 

 

 

        Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.