Rain's Thursday Art Date: Night Scene

It's Thursday and that means we're meeting at Rain's for her Thursday Art Date.  This week, the theme is Night Scene.

I don't have a lot to offer this week.

I'll begin with this entry I called "Day to Night."

It's fairly obvious, I named this "Night on the Town."  Believe it or not, this is a stunning photo of a quilt.  Isn't it lovely?

For this page, I began by creating one of my favorite backgrounds: 91% isopropyl alcohol and a green Staz-on reinker.  I don't think I'll be making too many more of these for awhile, though, because I'll need to ration my alcohol until this COVID-19 has been put to bed.  Thankfully, I still have over 1/2 a bottle left, but there is none to be found in the stores.   

For the words, I started with paint chip samples from the hardware store that I sewed in place using green variegated thread.  The buttons were some I had been gifted.  I wanted the threads long and dangling to honor the quilt. 

This is possibly my least favorite Night art I've created.  I began by adding a sheet of Christmas holly scrapbook paper to the 110 lb. substrate.  I cut the 12 X 12 inch (30,48 X 30,48 centimeter) paper to 8.5 X 11 inch (21,59 X 27,94 centimeter), the same size as the substrate.  Originally I had planned to sew everything, then decided against it.  There was enough confusion with this piece without adding thread to the mix.  The central image was a Christmas postcard sent to my friend Sally by "Chewy," an online company that sells all types of pet products.  I added a slew of white dots and the dark red balls on the fireplace swag, in addition to the words on the book.  I wrote the sentiment on leftover red copier/printer paper, then adhered the cut words to lime green copier/printer paper.  This was one of those measure twice, cut once mistakes.  Once I had all the words assembled, I realized I didn't have enough room for everything.  Unfortunately, I had no more lime green or red scraps, so I had to make due with what I had.

I called this one "Headlights."

Date night.

Granted, this was for a T Tuesday entry, but the city at night in the background was too good to pass up.

Now for some night time photos.

Evening light in my neighborhood last winter.  The light you see in the snow is from the street light overhead.

I read this poem and changed the words on my blog for a T Stands For Tuesday one year at Christmas.

Santa stayed for hot cocoa before heading home.

There are certainly times when it's dark on the moon.  This is a full scale replica of the Lunar Explorer Module (or LEM) and a full scale model of the Lunar Rover.  They are located at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, USA.

One of my tabletop trees lit at night.

And this is why I don't like to use my flash.  You can tell a flash from a mile away.

I had to serve a Kahlua Cappuccino Shake the night the power went out right before T Tuesday.

It's frustrating when the power is out on my side of the street, but not the other side.

When my friend Joseph from California was visiting, he shot a video of a thunderstorm and lightening.

Joseph (on the right) was filming while I got images of the rain that was coming down in buckets.

That's as much as I have today.  All art created by me.  All photos taken by me.  Bleubeard was actually excited because he always gets treated like a king when Joseph visits.

Thank you beyond belief for visiting today.  I am truly grateful to you, my friends, followers, readers, and lurkers for visiting.  Please also join me at Rain's Thursday Art Date.