However you celebrate and wherever you are or with whom, I wish you a wonderful, tranquil day. I’m grateful for so many people and things, and whatever troubles me, I know my life is filled with abundance in what matters most–people (including friends and family) and dogs and a comfortable home. Because our holiday celebration is set for Sunday, we have a few days to do things around the Hall–like put up the Christmas tree! Photos to come. Lindsey and Rhonda gave me this coloring book for my birthday this spring, and I flipped through it with some of Blue Sky Boy’s suggestions in mind–including bikes and fall colors.
This is the page I chose. I always forget when I use this book to take a picture of how a page looks BEFORE I begin adding to it. But I found this unaltered photo on someone else’s site and used it (thanks, anonymous person who I don’t remember). Her photo cuts off part of the bottom, but it gives an idea of the background provided by the artist and coloring book creator, Kendra Norton.
Below is my version–I used a page of old bikes in the Antique Treasures coloring book for my model. Clearly, this rider has had a few tumbles and damaged the spokes because they’re not in any way aligned (unlike Amanda in yesterday’s post, I have little patience and zero skills as a draftsman). The dirt path at the bottom is colored pencil. The bike is black fine-lined pen and Sharpie, and the leaves are acrylic paint. Celebrate fall!
I love the autumn colours.
I think we are pretty much in winter now.
Thank you.
We’re solid fall in Houston–though there are still some unseasonably warm days, and we don’t get many of those great fall leaf colors–and nowhere near winter here. Other parts of the U.S. are getting their winters, though–even snow.
There is only one street here that has trees turning colors now, and it’s not Bland. I call that part Tree Street. The rest of Blandy is truely bland! The remaining non-desert-ever-greens that one would expect to change in the Fall did so during the hot season when, it was too hot and dry.
I love the fall colors in your reverse coloring book. At first, I thought I saw the silhouette of a cat on the seat!
Thank you. Tom saw that, too!