Bird Wings In Motion Blur - Photograph

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This is 3 of 3 posts of photographs that I took of birds at the bird feeder in my yard this past week.

I managed to snap this photograph as this bird was flying at the bird feeder. Besides the motion blur of the wings, there are seeds spraying too.

"Summer in New England" - Tag

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For the month of June, I have the honor of being the guest host for Tag Along. This week I chose the challenge theme of "Beach Days."

The vintage images are from an Internet search. I modified the background.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.14.

One of the fonts is Market Deco.

Color by Number - Week 24 - The Book of Days

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The week24 theme for my Book of Days was Color by Number.

My art journal page was inspired by the week one theme for the Summer of Color (SOC) challenge. The challenge was to use two shades of blue and one shade of green.

The images are from an Internet search.

The master index for all of my entries is here.

Male Northern Cardinal - Photograph

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I took these photographs of a male Northern Cardinal in my yard this past week. They aren't very clear because I took them through a glass window.

"Blue Sky and Golden Light" – Postcard

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This week’s Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "At the Beach."

I struggled to come up with something for this due to the recurrence of artist's block. I ended up going to the beat of my own drummer (for the second time with this theme).

The words are from a Chanel No. 5 commercial

I am made of blue sky and golden light
And I will feel this way forever
Share the fantasy
Channel Number Five

I created this using GIMP 2.8.14.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The font is Bernardo Moda Contrast

"Nauticum" - Postcard

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I created a nautical theme postcard.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.14.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The words in the background are from the song Come Dancing by the Kinks:

The day they knocked down the Palais
Part of my childhood died, just died

The  reference to Wilcox's Pier, Savin Rock, Conn is related to the Savin Rock Amusement Park which was closed and demolished in the 1960s. 

The font is Smoothie Shoppe

"Celestial" – Tag

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This week I have the honor of being the guest host for Tag Along and I chose the challenge theme of "Celestial."

I printed this and was going to post a photograph of it, but the colors came out too dark, so some of the details weren't noticeable enough.

The background image is from Cosmographia Petri Apiani

The sun image is from A Masque of Days

The phases of the moon image is from Cosmographia Petri Apiani

I created this using GIMP 2.8.14.