Yellowstone 5....Sketch Books

Paul Harvey Quilt in Jackson Wyoming

Jackson is home of the Elk Refuge.

The Elk come down from Yellowstone and are

fed here during the winter months.

 Our campground at Yellowstone...

was full of RAVENS...

We could sit for hours and watch their antics!

Very FUNNY birds

RAVEN on Yellowstone Lake...

Hayden Valley

Buffalo Herd

This baby was new....still had his navel

Breeding Season now....

lots of bulls fighting

Impressive.......Herd Bull

A few designs added to the Sketch Book

while at the park...

Modern, Geometric, Background Fill Design

Grid Style Design.....Background Fill

Geometric Background Fill Designs

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LuAnn Kessi

Yellowstone 3....Sketch Books

We located the Sketch Books today that I took

along to Yellowstone...

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Paul Harvey in the

Tetons in Jackson, Wyoming

Tetons

Here are a few things I added to the Sketch Book

during our trip through Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming:

Spending so much time outdoors,

botanicals were on my mind.

These designs will work in backgrounds and borders.

Mammoth Hot Springs

Yellowstone Park

Buffalo Jam...

Yellowstone Bison Herd

Moose.......in Moose, Wyoming

The RAVENS were everywhere!

Lots more Sketches to come!

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LuAnn Kessi

Yellowstone Trip......2

The camping gear is stored away,

The laundry is all washed,

so I started editing images from Yellowstone...

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Paul Harvey Quilt at Yellowstone Park

This is Paul Harvey's first CAMPING trip

Lower Falls at Yellowstone

This Raven flew by the falls and perched long enough

for a few photos...

Ravens are much larger than crows and are more willing

to stand still long enough to be photographed.

The crows in our yard don't give me enough time to turn the camera on,

and they squawk and fly away!

 This is the reason we went to Yellowstone:

Our youngest son, Heath, is working here with the

Fish & Wildlife Department.

 Yes, the trip was a family affair:

Gunnr absolutely adores the Buffalo!

Every time Gunnr heard someone say the word Buffalo

he started looking all over to see those big beasts!

We started calling them Bison, so we wouldn't get 

Gunnr all hopped up and excited.

I was hoping to share a few pages from the sketch books

I filled up in Yellowstone,

but I haven't come across them in the unpacking....yet.

More to Come...

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LuAnn Kessi

Paul Harvey........in Yellowstone

While you have been enjoying my Sketch Book posts 

the last two weeks...

We have been in Yellowstone National Park

visiting our son...

He is working for the Fish and Wildlife 

department this summer.

It was a great excuse to go see him....and the park!

You can see that my Paul Harvey quilt came along to Yellowstone too!

I never leave home without it.....and the camera.

We have visited the park a dozen times over the years and enjoy seeing all of the wildlife.

This year I became infatuated with the RAVENS.

A raven quilt is definitely calling to me.

I brought along my featherweight 221 

and pieced in the evenings.

I filled up several pages in sketch books while traveling.

I will share them with you in the coming days.

For now I am doing non-quilting tasks like unpacking all of the camping gear, washing laundry, going through mail and editing photos.

More to come...

Enjoy the rest of your SUMMER!

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LuAnn Kessi

Sketch Book......Zentangle Style Designs

These are my most recent drawings

from the Sketch Book...

They have a Zentangle look to them.

To me, it is doodling...very relaxing:

Long, skinny triangles...

fill them in with anything.

Separate the page with horizontal lines...

then fill each area in with anything you like.

 This was a lot of fun to draw out:

Draw out a long loopy line......then trace back along that line

about a half inch away from it.

This gives you lots of odd shaped background sections

that you fill in with anything you like.

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LuAnn Kessi

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Sketch Book....Background Fillers

Here are a few more background fill designs

from the Sketch Book...

I enjoyed drawing the long flowing organic lines

in this design...

Circle shapes are always happy...

Another design with an organic feel to it...

These have a modern feel to them...

A plume design...

This fills a background very quickly....curls and leaves

Swirls with plumes around them...

These designs can be used as background fillers, in border areas,

a central motif with a filler added around them.

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