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Day 3. Paint splotches curtsy of UI Here ping graphics

Yes they do shed their winter coats, as do all animals. I can't think of any that don't. I have found their hair in and around the dirt after digging, and around their setts. Even insects, not all, specifically those that have exoskeletons. As they grow, they shed their old ones for a better fitting one. I have no end of photos of discarded grasshopper exoskeletons. You'd be surprised of how much wildlife there is living in urban areas. I don't have anyone to give me funny looks when I'm on my hands and knees delving in the under growth, or searching the underside of plants. Here's a macro shot I took of a discarded skeleton of a tiny grasshopper. That is when they are at their most vulnerable, waiting for their new coat to harden, which takes about an hour. I also have shot of them in the process too.

Day 3 I'm late, it's actually almost an hour into day 4....and I have to get up a 5am. Not real happy with the shot. Even thought they are all Kodak Brownies they dont play well together in a shot. Tried lots of different thing and finally just stuck them on the very old (probabably) 70's photo cutting board. Perhaps it will look better when the background is in place. I am not sure I'll still with those colors in the title, but they are the Kodak colors.

I finally got Page 1 - My Cover Page done. I truly know nothing about masks so used A009 to play with. If anybody sees anything wrong just holler at me. The font used is barbatrick and the background is from Universal Media/textures/panoramas.

Here is Lesson-3. The photo is of our Siegfried, he loves to grab a blanket and snuggle into it. He thinks he is hiding and I play along and make a big production of looking for him. Font is Cat Paw again and I used Carole's tip of duplicating the text layer, promoted to raster, selected the lower text and used Adjust, Brightness and Contrast at 255 Brightness. Used green for the text "Purrfect". Added color to background layer.This was fun!

Magazine Workshop - Day 2

Here is my day 1 page. I had to edit the photo as it was almost a silhouette as the kites were against the bright couds and then fill the sky with colour

here is now my day 3, I used again a tile from the building for my background

Pages 13 and 14. We have arrived in Belle Fourche, SD and visited Aunt Mary Lou. It is Friday. Tomorrow we will go to the Badlands. Sunday is the picnic in the city park with as many of the extended Solaas family who can come. Made 2 flare buttons for this layout. Also, did a postcard and stamp as that is part of the workshop. Always fun to do.

Here is my page 3 DEBRA LENNOX ART - PACIFIC OCEAN. Featured is her etching called Salmon on the Fin. As you can see, the fish is diagrammed for consumption. This is one of my favorites of her work but unfortunately, she sold it and there are no prints left either. ?The title font is still Agency. The background is another of her watercolors, "Finding Magic," that was an impressionistic treatment of the Pacific, and I used a Hard Light layer effect.

The front cover of my magazine read that there was going to be an article on the secret life of the badger. Here it is. Badgers are frequent visitors, they keep my rodent population under control. This lovely female was digging to get under the work shop, where several ground squirrels resided. I added a quote from rat, from The wind in the Willows

Day 4 The little farm stand is only a few minutes away. Canning and freezing were my mother's hobbies, so we were there several times a week to see what had come in from the fields. The owner even called us when she knew my mother wanted something specific.

I've been working on this on and off for days whenever I found time. I'm done so I can maybe get started on the Magazine Workshop.

Glad to still see you post those pages, @Mary Solaas. You can also post it in the Travel Tale thread, so "late" viewers could still see all your pages! And of course, you can add them to the Gallery too.

Day 2

Day 3 and we are still in Het Depot at a floor with different areas for restauration, conserving and packaging for transport of the divers art works. At some point there was a cabinet filled with all kinds of pigments and paint tubes. It was a pity that I couldn't take a shot of it due to all the reflections in the glass doors. The whole building, if you can call it that, is full of glass inside and out. The elevators have glass walls, the stairs have glass panels and there are even glass floors, which will be in another photo. I kept the same font Copperplate Gothic but with colors from the photo. I added an artist impression of the building with some statistics.

Day 3. One of my photos from early Saturday morning. Again used the background from the previous layouts and the same font, BakerSignet BT. I did put a black stroke around the font today since it was blue on the blue of the photo. I think it made it stand out a little bit.

There is some really GREAT ideas here ...... I designed the logo, the fishing boat is from Free transparent background PNG cliparts free download | HiClipart. I used CASS Airbrush script on the paper and CASS barcode script. Fonts used Marguerite, Isrety, GUMS and Times New Roman. Thanks Cassel this is a great idea. Having lots of fun with it.

Day 3: Hoover Dam, looking down at part of the power plant. Font is Starlite inline from deeezy.com

Day 4. I carried the background and mat colors and textures through to these pages. Along with the BakerSignet BT font in the blue color. I chose to darken the text on the mat instead of lighten it. I have trouble reading white text. I will add that I am not liking the page with the text and will more than likely change it before printing for my albums. But that will be for a later time.

Time to post pages 4 & 5 of Debra Lennox Art. Since the two pages go together, I whipped out the Open Book script. These pieces are from her Country Living gallery. The font is still the same. I'll post the text separately as the book is not as readable. "Debra Beck Lennox paints in watercolor, oil, acrylic and is currently a printmaker. Her watercolors celebrate the light and texture of her favorite places while the paint flows freely and expressively. Her acrylics and oils feature vivid colors and strong composition that tell a visual story. Playing with many techniques express different feelings, depending on her mood. "

It's amazing what pets do for us. Dogs are special. You are their world. And they are so pure of heart. I worry too about life without animals. If my cat girls make it to old age I will be close to 70. I cant image life without animals. yet I worry about the same thing. I have to say you look way younger than 69.

They are very reserved towards strangers, they also do not like to be around crowds. But it is possible, and there are collies that are service dogs. With my previous collie I always went to visit my mother, who had been in a retirement home for the last 2 years due to dementia. I also visit the other people with him, it was always a special experience how those people revived and often started to talk about their own animal that they used to have.

Thank you Corrie. Yes I love him so much, as much as my previous collie. They give so much. Thanks to my previous collie, I came out of a severe depression without any other help. Now, I fear this will be my last dog, although I fear I will have a hard time without such a friend. But this year I will be 69 years old, I hope Poncho will stay with me for a long time. But then get a dog again?...then I think, what will happen to that animal if something happens to me. Hospital, or not being able to go outside anymore, or what if I were no longer there.

The original version of the song, written by Neil Diamond. (Later covered by UB40.)

I don't know what happened, guess it was too late for me .... grrrr but I just discovered I "killed" my final version of purple rain ?. So I add the first try.... where I began to paint the face....

They look either from under the sea or from beyond the stars!

Here is the linocut with no other distractions. This IS straight...and how the artist wants the viewer to see it. Looking at the magazine page I decided to try a revision of the layout. See what you think of this now...

I just signed up this magazine workshop. I am not sure but will surely try.

Day 3

Day 3

The other night I introduced ya'll to a snow guy named Harold. Today he brought his girlfriend Harriet for a visit.

My day 4 projects.

I've started working with a local shelter to trap and home local stray cats. Most recent was a female calico that had 4 kittens. We lost one kitten but all the rest are safe in homes now, including "my mama, Maybelline." Now I'm leaving out food for a young calico, but it is very elusive, and I rarely see it, though it's eating the food, mostly. It took me over 6 months to get Maybelline to be calm (though she still hissed at me if I got too close LOL) I'm just glad she got her own home and is safe now. My two pampered brats would not have allowed her in the house.

Day 4 the, double page, and it shows more of the artwork on display and the structure of the atrium. In the whole building there is glass almost everywhere and that makes it very transparent. You can see through the lifts and there are even a couple of corridors where there is a glass floor; although not everybody likes to walk on those floors. I use the same font on all the titles, but again in another color to go with this page's colors. Changed the blue mats to a more fitting color which I took from the photos. It really is a fascinating structure!

I love that Art! I would like to be able to do that too

@Anja Pelzer Those tiles are so nice and they obviously match your photos. @Ann Seeber I don't know if it is just me, but I would like to see the image on your Day 2 project to be "straight". That is a personal preference though. @Brian Smith Maybe you'll be able to share this magazine with the Newfoundland and Labrador tourism department! @Rene Marker Although you didn't use white to display the half-title, you used another approach to achieve something similar. Very creative! @Sue ThomasEven though these pages should be super simple and quick, I am sure you are putting in more time than I was expecting! @Corrie Kinkel I guess using a different color than white works fine! @Gerry Landreth I guess you didn't need to change the color of the text as it is easy to read. @Marie-Claire It is interesting that those intelligent dogs are not typically used as guide dogs. I would assume they would be great at that. @Dorothy Donn The pages are meant to be made very quickly so you can use the minimum and still get pages done. Go for it! @Anne Burgess I can't help but smile while looking at your projects!!! @Shirley Once you are done, it will be worth getting a printed version. You will be a featured artist in a magazine! And leave it on the coffee table as a conversation starter. Well worth it! Keep them coming. It is so nice to look at all those diverse magazines!

Love what you did with the title! What an amazing building. It would day several days to really explore it all I bet.

@Marie-Claire Love the photos of Poncho, he is such a great model and your photos show your love for him!

My page 2 is now ready. It features Debbie's New Work, and I chose this piece mainly because it fit the portrait format. The pale blue is part of the piece. The font is still Agency.

I've been working on Lab 12 Mod 9 so I decided to use the included template for today's daily look. The "people" are characters from the game and the font is PLAYFULL CARTOON. (It's from a Mega Collection Font Bundle from Creative Fabrica. There are 86 fonts in the bundle and it's still available for $3.00.) The brick wall texture, included with PSP, came in handy.

That Sunflower is STUNNING! I grew them for the first time. They are mutant sunflower though. Supposed to be 6-6.5 feet tall. they are almost 10' now. The open book works great in this format. It would be cool to have a "Magazine" script, thinner and both sizes...hint..hint..hint Carole. ?

And the love between you and Poncho shows in every photo and layout. I feel the same about my cats. Since I am 82 and they are 13 & 9, who knows who will go first? If I'm ever left alone without at least one of them, I might adopt an older cat. They languish in shelters and deserve some love in their waning years, also.

That's bad luck that you now have to start over, but this one is beautiful, so you paint the face yourself ? ?

I think my sister had a brownie when we were kids! I love this topic.

I am so slow because I went down a rabbit hole on songs with color in them. ? QUESTION: Cassel, on Day 3 video, around 4:43, you are able to color sample the red shirt while your plain text layer (a different layer) is active. I used to have this ability YEARS ago, but had lost it. Can you think of the setting I have messed with which precludes me from sampling any layer except my active one? It is a terrific time waster!

Beautiful. I love the mustedlid family. Your title is out of this world. Love all the little touches you do. Like the words "The secretive", and larger "B". How do you manage to find so many creative ideas. (Full disclosure: I really just want to get my face all up in that soft fur..it probably isnt soft at all, and they are probably cranky animals if you mess with them. I bet they have teeth and a jaw to match the power of their claws.)

I picked the song Time Marches On by Tracy Lawrence. I like the words and truth of the song that time does march on. I used CASS Airbrush script on the background paper then used the Brick Texture. I created the clocks using Notebook-Lab-10-01 clock face. I used font Times New Roman and Forte. For the elements I used Jumpstart Designs My Weathered Heart.

Libera, you are not alone! ? I'm juggling this workshop, the scripting, and now the Magazine!