A Little Bit of Summer Remembered

 In this post I am going to just pull up some images of art work I've been doing "here and there" at different times over the past months.  Art I intend to post but never got around.  Friends have been gathering in the art studio here on 4th floor at Oakwood to play.  This was a gelli print with embellishments.  

This was a sketch done on a VERY very hot picnic day at step-daughter Chris's home in Durand, Il in mid June. OH my gosh it was hot and SO windy.  We thought we all blow off the planet.  I always love sketching old trucks.

This is Wine and Paint class held in June in Julie's garden.  Watercolors for everyone and lots of fun.  

Fun little sketch back in July here at Oakwood...concert on the green when we got there too late for a good seat.  BUT the music was lovely.

Prepping for the October Zentangle tree class at Olbrich Gardens.  

Sketch from walk in the Oakwood Prairie in July...it was absolutely amazing at that time of year!!!!  Wow.  

Preparation for the bookmark class in Sandy Allnock's fun online tutorial.

The inspiration for the first two was geodes. 

Preparation for a grandchild's wedding on Sept 20.  Acrylic.

These 4 collage pieces were cut from one original.  Now have been made into cards and book marks.  All papers are either hand printed on the gelli plate or found pieces.  

This is just a smattering of some of the ways that I felt creative this summer and early autumn.  Have a wonderful autumn and keep in touch.  

 

Cabin Aug/Sept 2025

So here's on contemplative look at the last 2.5 weeks at the summer cabin in up north Wisconsin.  It was a compiled array of thoughts and happenings that added up to a mixed sort of event this time.  The 3 weeks in July went fairly well with warmer weather and mostly sunny skies.  Some visitors.

 

But the 2nd stay in late August/September was hard to explain. You have a combination of some too-large groups of people, less than delightful weather, my achy back, and a refrigerator that decided to die on us.  (Thus the larger than normal sketch of the fridge). The drawings are a mixed bag of okay things and not so okay.  The homemade slumgullion was a surprise that I enjoyed cooking (normally not my thing). The cozy fireplace, the puzzles, the s'mores, the card games--all very nice memories.  The coffee pot kept me comfy in the mornings over books and computers.  The sound of acorns falling made you almost jump with the noise...tall trees!  The zoom gatherings on my computer, the start of the football season were fun.  The tree cutting was successful but stressful for everyone.  The electric heater reminded me of many times when I was cold.  We had frost warnings the last week up.  I left some space at the bottom for jotting notes...you can see that I've avoid putting anything in so far.  Suffice to say, we came home a bit early and I am thinking next year one visit up next summer in July will be enough.  The kids will continue to use the cabin until mid October and then close.