🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Cartoons and Caricatures & Watermelon Agua Fresca!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! (Posted on Wednesdays!) 😊😊 

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is "Cartoons and Caricatures". Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! I caught Bugs Bunny last Saturday night at his restaurant. He was kind enough to take some time to pose for me!

I attempted a self-portrait caricature, but it turned out more like a cartoon so I decided to add colour! I watched a tutorial on how to draw a caricature, but I have to say it went a little over my head! Have any of you tried this? This is my face for Nicole's Friday Face Off! I'm also joining Gillena for her Art For Fun Friday post! 

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made a really refreshing Watermelon Agua Fresca! This is so delicious, especially on a hot summer day. It's a great "mocktail" and so easy to make!

On the video front:

⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I recorded How To Paint A Starry Night Sky! This is another Bob Ross style acrylic painting lesson - so easy and a lot of fun!

⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw A Panda Bear!! 

⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing How To Make Watermelon Agua Fresca.

⬆️ I also recorded a Video during one of the walks with the dogs last week!

⬇️ Below I have 3 "before" shots of the basement inside wall.

⬆️ I did all of the prep work. I had to remove all of the pink insulation, hard Styrofoam insulation, vapour barrier and spray foam that seemed like it was CRAZY GLUED around the garage door. It was quite a job but I'm proud that I got it all done by myself! I'm really learning a lot about my home and how to take care of it! 😊

⬆️ I also had to remove the vinyl siding from the outside wall. This was very hard on my hands, but I managed to get it all done in about 2 hours.

⬆️ I may have to replace the sheathing material because there were parts where it was all ripped up (to the right of the broken door). An update might be due, this house was put together over 30 years ago. 

⬆️ Day 3 had me realizing that the week ahead of rain might soak the wood on my wall because the sheathing was ripped up. So I decided to cover the entire area with tarp.

⬆️ I wrapped the tarp around long pieces of lumber and stapled it on. Then I installed hooks on the top and screws in the walls. This will make it easier for me to remove and replace the tarp when needed. I also used the vinyl siding with some rocks and my bird seed cans to secure the bottom. There's a little overlap in the middle so I can get out from the garage door.

Good thing I did this because we had MONSOON rains yesterday and Doug couldn't make it, he was worried the lumber might get soaked. But he's here today and I'll update you more next week!

⬆️ I have basically moved my office and studio into my screen tent. I spend as much time outside as I can because our winters are so horribly long and cold! I always bring the pets with me! ⬆️ Here's Jack!

⬆️ And Raven, you can really see her brace and harness in this photo!

⬆️ And Baby Oscar! I used to leave Oscar inside because I was afraid he'd scratch up the screen, but he really just wants to hang out with his pack, so he comes out with us! He's such a good boy! 💗

I hope you're all well and enjoying life!! 💖💖💖

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic 🎨 and 😋 delicious 😋 creations! See you soon!!! 💗 💗 

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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date: click on the links below for a description of the prompt and inspiring images! (Prompts are optional!)

August 18th: Figure Drawing
August 25th: Gestures and Movement

September 1st - Mazes
September 8th - Apples
September 15th - Silhouettes
September 22nd - Harvest Dinner
September 29th - Hair

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Wednesday!

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🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Lines and Contours & Pasta!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! (Posted on Wednesdays!) 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is "Lines and Contours". Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Check out Bugs Bunny's lines and contours, ooh la la! 😊 I drew this image from the Warner Brothers short "Hillbilly Hare" from the 1950's where Bugs dressed up to fool the hillbillies who were after him! He's such a stinker!

⬆️⬆️ Blogger b**ching again lol...I did some research. The Captcha thingy interferes with embedded comment forms a lot of the times. I rarely see Captcha when I'm trying to leave comments on blogs where the comments are embedded. I guess it's hit and miss. Tom, I tried to leave 2 comments on your blog last week, but they seem to have disappeared! There are so many others too, who seem to be missing my comments! I will keep trying and am hoping Blogger fixes it! 💙 PS Christine, this was my comment for your post!!! 💙

⬆️⬆️ Here are a few doggy faces for Nicole's Friday Face Off! Lines and contours of my lovely fur babies! I'm also joining Gillena for her Art For Fun Friday post! (Sis I hope you're feeling better!)

⬆️⬆️ I did a little 3D art this week too, using lines and contours to trick your eyes!

⬆️⬆️ 😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made a few pasta dishes in the past week. Some penne with a rosé sauce. To make rosé sauce, I use my Homemade Marinara Sauce, add some milk, white wine and Parmesan cheese petals; then heat it all up until it's melted really nicely!

⬆️⬆️ More penne, with fresh tomatoes, parsley, olive oil and S&P. I'm trying too cook as little as possible during this heat wave!

⬆️⬆️ Take a good look friends! This is my basement wall at the back of my house. Next week I will be very absent...I will post for TADD but you might not see my comments (not because of Blogger!). This wall is being rebuilt, which means I have to remove the broken door (to the right), the vinyl siding and the insulation on the inside. My carpenter friend Doug caught Covid last month but now he's all better - called me today saying he'll be here Tuesday (eek). I had to call my neighbour Perry who is taking the garage door on condition he remove it himself! Doug's going to put in a proper dryer vent, a new door and a window. I sure hope it all goes well! Please pray for me, I need it!!! 

On the video front:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I recorded myself doing the 3D Trick Art! (It's super easy btw!)

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw Lemonade! Perfect for this weather!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing a few videos. I had to Shock My Well a few weeks back. For those who don't know, that means adding bleach to get rid of bacteria.

⬆️⬆️ I also Picked Blueberries on my acreage! We had a bear sighting lately, just across the road! They are eating the blueberries. Usually the bears and critters in this area want nothing to do with humans, but I'm carrying my air horn and pepper spray with me just in case!

⬆️⬆️ Here are Jack and Raven during one of our walks, they are best buddies, having fun together, I'm so in love with them!

⬆️⬆️ A request from one of my YouTube friends: Blogger Tutorial: How To Insert Videos Into Blogger Posts - From Your Computer Or From YouTube!

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic 🎨 and 😋 delicious 😋 creations! See you soon!!! 💗 💗 

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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date: click on the links below for a description of the prompt and inspiring images! (Prompts are optional!)

August 11th: Cartoons and Caricatures

August 18th: Figure Drawing

August 25th: Gestures and Movement

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Wednesday!

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🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: The First Thing You See Today & Garlic Scape Powder!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! (Posted on Wednesdays!) 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is "The First Thing You See Today". Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!

Tweety Bird is very lucky! The first thing he sees each morning when he opens up his eyes is Granny bringing him breakfast in bed!! 💘  This will be my face for Nicole's Friday Face Off! I'm also joining Gillena for her Art For Fun Friday post! 

I hope you're all getting my comments! I noticed that my comments seem to disappear when the comment form is on the same page as the post. The message above appears, but the comment doesn't always get to you! Just please know that I do visit if comments disappear! And if anyone from TADD who participated doesn't see my comment within 5 days of the post, please let me know! 

David posted a beautiful photo on his blog last week of a Red-spotted Admiral butterfly. His wife Miriam took the photo and I asked him if I could draw it. Well, it started out looking pretty realistic, then as I usually do, I veered away from the reference photo! I still like how it turned out! I used Prismacolor pencils to draw this; and odorless solvent to blend!

The first thing I see each morning are the sweet faces of Jack, Baby Oscar and Raven!

When I remember to leave my curtains open a little, I also see a beautiful sunrise over the woods and mountains! I painted this with acrylic paints.

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made a delicious Pull Apart Bread, using my No Knead Bread and blended Homemade Pizza Sauce for dipping! It's made with garlic butter, Mozzarella and Parm...all melted in the oven. A nice comfort food treat!

Breakfast Chalupa!
Aimeslee told me it's not a burrito if you don't roll it up, it's a chalupa! Thanks Aimeslee! 😊

Another quick meal is roasted potatoes on tortillas with Homemade Salsa.

In the garden, I picked about 4 cups of blueberries! I'm lucky that I have wild blueberries all over my acreage. Too many to pick, but this is a good start! I think these will turn into blueberry simple syrup!

I also picked my garlic scapes! I didn't plant as many garlic bulbs this year, only 16. When the scapes start to curl, they're ready to harvest! If you don't harvest them, the plant puts a lot of energy into turning those bulbs into flowers and your garlic won't be as large had you snipped the scapes off!

I dehydrated them and ran them through the blender to make garlic scape powder! I'll be uploading that video in the next few weeks! 16 garlic scapes made about 7 1/2 teaspoons of garlic scape powder!

On the video front:

For Rain Frances Art, I recorded the Sunrise Video! I used a Bob Ross technique in this painting!

For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw Ketchup! This was fun, made me crave a hot dog lol!

For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing a Basil Update...

...and an easy beginner tutorial on How To Insert An Image With A Clickable Link in your post and on your sidebar. I used the TADD button as an example, but this goes for any photo with any link! If you'd like other Blogger tutorials, feel free to ask!

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic 🎨 and 😋 delicious 😋 creations! See you soon!!! 💗 💗 

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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date: click on the links below for a description of the prompt and inspiring images! (Prompts are optional!)

August 4th: Lines and Contours

August 11th: Cartoons and Caricatures

August 18th: Figure Drawing

August 25th: Gestures and Movement

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Wednesday!

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🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: A Poem and a Potato and Gruyère Tart!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! (Posted on Wednesdays!) 😊😊

TECHIE NOTE: Blogger changed the HTML gadget making it difficult to EASILY put my button on your sidebar. I'm about to make a tutorial on how to do that, so next week I'll have that ready for you!

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is "A Poem". Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Since Edgar Allen Poe is my absolute favourite poet, I chose The Raven as the poem I would illustrate today! Bugs Bunny is flipping out a little as he hears a rapping on his chamber door!

I painted this raven with watercolours. I love adding splatter to my paintings!

My Raven! 💜  Abandoned nevermore my sweet doggie! 💜💜 ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

This is a beautifully sung version of The Raven. The band is called Omnia. There is a folky Celtic sound to this song, I just love it. The singing portion of the video starts at 2:15, so that's where I cued it up for you! I'm joining Cathy this week for her Monday's Music Moves Me post!

This is a painting I did in 2018. I shared this on my blog and in that post, I shared this poem. If you'd like to hear me read it, please click HERE.

The Apple Orchard

(A Rain Frances Nightmare)

In the orchard, dark as night, 

I wander blind, despite my fright.

The wind is still but whispers stir,

A monster lurks, of that I’m sure.

I scan the rows of apple trees,

One by one, then twos and threes,

My footsteps snap the frozen grass,

I’ve reached the edge, the dark impasse.

Shivering from cold and fright,

My breath is taken by the night,

A lonely apple hangs up high,

A creak, a hush, a laboured sigh.

I peer into the hollow blue,

“My dear it’s time to bid adieu”.

Eyes ablaze, the demon grins,

Its prickly skin as sharp as pins.

Its evil voice revives my fear,

Its nasty smile grins ear to ear,

Its fiery eyes seem to ignite,

I cower at its ghastly sight.

“In this orchard you will stay,

And join the rest who came this way.”

It points to rows of lifeless trees,

Imploring branches, silent pleas.

I run, I run, I cannot flee,

The demon catches up to me,

A crash, a screech, its cry of glee.

The last I see, the apple tree.

Here's my face for Nicole's Friday Face Off! I was playing around with online software, this is from the website PhotoMania. I'm also joining Gillena for her Art For Fun Friday post! 

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made a delicious Potato and Gruyère Tart! I've had a wedge of Gruyère cheese in my freezer for months, so it was time to use it up! I'll share my recipe for Homemade Pie Crust as well, it's easy to make and so delicious!

Today's beverage is a wine suggestion, Apothic Rosé. I'm not a fan of their reds and whites, but they do make a nice rosé to enjoy in the hot weather! It's a bit of a dry wine, slightly sweet with a watermelon finish! The label suggests you might also taste strawberry, but my taste buds didn't detect it. This is great with some soft cheese and fruit! Make sure it's icy cold!

I went walking along the river this week, it's so beautiful there.

I love the rock formation, it looks like little dens and caves. The water is signature Maritime red-brown! Louise, I thought you'd enjoy seeing these!

Jack's hound dog nose is always working. During our walk this morning, he found a nice patch of Wild Blueberries To Snack On! Raven doesn't like them so Jack went to town!

On the video front:

For Rain Frances Art, I recorded the Real-Time Painting of my Raven.

For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw An Elephant! So much fun!

For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing How To Make And Waterbath Can Homemade Pizza Sauce!

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more artistic and delicious creations! See you soon!!! 💗 💗 

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Upcoming Art Dates For Rain's Thursday Art Date: click on the links below for a description of the prompt and inspiring images! (Prompts are optional!)

July 28th - The First Thing You See Today

August 4th: Lines and Contours

August 11th: Cartoons and Caricatures

August 18th: Figure Drawing

August 25th: Gestures and Movement

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Wednesday!

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