Rain's Thursday Art Date: Stripes and Happy Thanksgiving in the U.S.A.

 

 

It's Thursday, which means it's time to join Rain's Thursday Art Date, which this week is Stripes.  I'm not sure I have exact examples, but I will give it a try at least.

However, before we join Rain, I want to wish everyone in the states a very happy, healthy, and safe Thanksgiving.  Today, more than any other holiday, is all about the food, loved ones, and food.  No gift giving, no fancy decorating, no religious celebrations, just food and camaraderie.  

Some of you start the day watching the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade.  After dinner, some will hover around the TV to watch football, while others will take an after dinner nap, especially if turkey was on your menu.  There will be leftovers, leading to "snackers" and "grazers" who get their second wind late in the day.  Did I not mention today is all about the food?

Some of you may invite friends to your home who have no one nearby in which to share the day.  Some of you may travel to visit family.  No matter how you celebrate it, make sure it's one in which you give thanks: thanks for your freedom, thanks for your health, and thanks for the bountiful food you have eaten and possibly shared.

Now let's join Rain.

I created this in 2008 for a Patriotic tip-in swap.  I started by swiping red and blue stripes on card stock, then watered down the excess paint I had on my palette. I dipped paper towels in the paint and allowed them to dry. When dry, I glued them over the painted card stock. In the meantime, I cut out the flags and pole, then glued them on top.

This was for a challenge at Art Journal Journey.  Stripes were everywhere in this home.  Since you probably can't read my scribbles, I wrote "Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."  The quote is by Christian Morgenstern, but I didn't leave enough room on the roof for the author.

 

 I created this for a Flag Day in the U.S.A. post that was also for a challenge at Art Journal Journey.  For this page, created June 14, 2021, I began with two colors of Staz-on solvent reinkers, to which I added isopropyl alcohol.  I added computer generated text to which I lined with stripes of red and blue felt tipped pens.  I also added the flag and three butterfly stickers.

This may be pushing the stripes theme, but the German scrap is a stripe that I have added to the top and bottom.  And of course, Bleubeard picked it out, so I had to go with his choice.  Who doesn't love decorating the tree?

 This is a Humboldt penguin.  I suspect you are going to ask where the stripes are.  According to Penguin World:

They have a black area that starts at the top base of its beak and cover their forehead; it continues between the eyes up to the head, and it is distributed all over its back, flippers, tail and the upper part of the throat. C-shaped white stripes start at the base of their beak and join the white area in the bottom of the throat.

Their chest is white with a thick black horseshoe-shaped stripe that starts from the legs and goes upward to reach the top of the chest and then go back down to the other leg. They may have random black spots on their chest and belly, which are different from each other.

   This may be pushing the stripes theme very, very far, but this is one of three coolers in my wonderful gaming computer.

   My flag is always a good example of stripes.

All art was created by me, either for a swap, for my art journals, or in an altered book.  The cooler photo was taken by my friend Scott as he was building the computer.  Bleubeard remembers those pre-Squiggles days fondly.   

Thank you beyond belief for stopping by.  I am truly grateful to you, my dear friends, followers, readers, and lurkers for visiting.  Please also join Bleubeard and me at Rain's Thursday Art Date.   Don't forget to give thanks today, if you live in the states.

This is also Day 25 of AEDM and I joined a link up party and wished everyone in the states a very happy Thanksgiving.