Thursday Art Date with Rain ... Holloween Party

Halloween Party

All of the Peanuts characters were sketched in pencil then outlined with a Graphix pen and colored with watercolor paints.  Everything else was done digitally :)

Halloween can be tricky since Covid 19 is out and about ... please be careful, especially with the children.  They can get Covid even though some want to maintain that they don't.  

Be safe and enjoy life to the best of your ability ...

Andrea @ From the Sol

 

Thursday Art Date With Rain ... Urban Legends

Urban Legends

This was fun.  All are done by me .  Some sketches and all digitally enhanced.  

Our election is getting close ... have you voted?  

And don't forget to find some fun in your life while staying safe at the same time. 

Be well everyone ... Tricky, Tricky :)

Andrea @ From The Sol

 

Thursday Art Date With Rain ... Supernatural

 Supernatural

I actually had a hard time figuring out what "supernatural" was.  I looked it up on Google and all they had were pictures of a TV program called Supernatural.  Then I asked around and everyone had a different idea of what would be "supernatural".  So I just sort of  winged it ... enjoy :)

(click on pictures for a better view :)

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The two following pictures look supernatural, but aren't ... they exist in our natural world.

If any of you watched the movie "The Black Crystal" you will recognize this face ... if not, well then, it is simply a baby Turkey Vulture in all his little glory. 

This picture appeared on my computer screen(Bing Desktop).

  It is a Blanket Octopus.  I have never  seen or heard of

 anything like it, and it looks supernatural to me.  Apparently they live in the ocean around Australia.  So I am  asking my Australian friends ... have you ever seen or heard of this?

That's all folks ... hope you are finding ways to have fun in your life and can stop focusing on the terrifying world we are living in at the present.  Be safe everyone, stay well ...

Andrea @# From the Sol

Thursday Art Date With Rain ... Scarecrow

Scarecrows

This is a combination of sketching and digital editing.   Sadly this is all I had time for this week.

I also missed out on commenting on last weeks Goblins & Trolls, so I will try to do them together this week.  I sure don't know where the time goes ... I seem to be busy all of the time and by the end of the day, I have very little to show for it.  Don't get old :)

Andrea @ From the Sol

 

Thursday Art Date With Rain - Goblins & Trolls

Goblins & Trolls

 This prompt doesn't leave much room for going back through my files to find pictures.  So, my post is short this week, but hopefully fun.  Hope you are all well and staying safe :)

Andrea @ From the Sol

Thursday Art Date With Rain

 Crops and Farming

We went to the Queen's Gardens in Chiang Rai.  This is only a touch of it ... they also had all kinds of flowers and flowering trees. The Tea Plantation is only a few miles away.  They have a restaurant with recipes made from tea ... there were some  amazing sweets.  And, of course, there were rice fields everywhere that we passed as we drove to different destinations.

We have orchards all around us so every year (except for this year) we go cherry and berry picking and yes, even apple picking though I haven't included it here.

My DIL (Daughter-in-Law) comes from a family of farmers so when she came over here, she brought her skills with her.

Thai cucumbers are awesome, big, juicy and sweeter than our cucumbers.  Everyone was surprised at their size ... as you can see on my neighbors facial expression.

But, needless to say, my DIL's favorite crop is the Thai pepper.  Sometimes when she cooks our eyes water and we  have to cough.  Hot is hot and then there is Thai Hot!

At this house we have a farm in our back yard.  This is last years harvest of corn.  This year they planted beans, but haven't harvested them yet.  I love watching them and they go on into the night with lights on their tractors.  

To me a farm isn't a farm without a barn yard.  I love all of the animals so I had to include some of them in this post

This post could go on forever.  I live in the Midwest where farming is everywhere ... mostly miles and miles of corn and bean fields, but also farm animals.  My father was a Professor in Horticulture and my mother grew up on a farm so we always had crops growing in our back yard.  I also have wonderful memories of going to the University farms and walking through the barns,  watching, talking to and petting the animals.  It is in my blood and I love everything about farming ... except, at my age, I was glad to let my DIL take over the garden part :)

So all of you stay well and do what you need to do to be safe.  Also don't forget to have some fun.  These are difficult times so we need to put our best foot forward to get through it all ... and laughter is always good for the soul.  

Andrea @ From the Sol

RIP RBG

Thank you RBG for all you did for Women, all Minority Groups, the Strength of our Constitution ... 

and our wonderful, but struggling USA