Happy Thanksgiving in the USA

I'm once again joining Rike at Rike's Art our host this month at Art Journal Journey.  By now, I'm sure you know Rike's theme is Fruit and Veggies. 

I'm also celebrating Thanksgiving,

a federal holiday in the United States, celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. 

The pumpkins, cut and colored using water soluble crayons, are my veggie of choice for Rike's theme.

According to History.com:

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.

For this spread in my Challenges altered book, I began by laying down a sheet of gold paisley tissue paper.  I was hoping to cover over the graphs more than the words, but the graphs still showed through quite clearly, as will happen with tissue paper.  That's when I decided to extend the pumpkins I planned to use on the right side of the page to the left side.  When I was satisfied with the arrangement, I glued the pumpkins in place using a glue stick.  For the right side, I found this cute image of a girl and her pumpkin, who looked like she might have been at the first Thanksgiving.  Two more pumpkins were cut and added at the base of the image.

Thanks for joining me today at AEDM and Art Journal Journey.  If you live in the United States, I want to wish you a blessed (and safe) Thanksgiving.  If you live anywhere else in the world, I wish you a wonderful Thursday.

This is Day 28 of Art Every Day Month (AEDM), hosted by Leah Piken Kolidas
and I created a spread in my altered book for Art Journal Journey.