Tornado Alley - an update

We live in what is known as "tornado alley". Yesterday was fairly active for an extended period of time with the origination point being Arkansas. While we ourselves are safe and no damage incurred there was touch downs just south of us that caused death, injury and varying degrees of damage to property.

This type of weather always makes me feel a wee bit anxious (got caught outside in some years ago) so once everything settled down a bit I got a good chunk of the simple landscape piece put together for the Learning FA on-line class :)

Enjoy your Easter week-end everyone and any other celebrations you may be participating in.

Textile Corner - 4 Seasons Challenge - step 2

The initial layout with just the very basic shapes. When I was cutting out the main tree I realised that the back of the fabric would work well for the middle distance trees. The "cloudy" effect of the sky fabric makes the main tree "pop" out more than if I had used a plain fabric (I think).

I have some fabric in my box that has a crackly wood effect to it. I like it for the covered bridge even though it's not quite the color I was going for. I may darken it down a little bit with some colored pencils. I would like to add some lines in to make it look more like the wood boards in the original picture.

Round our part of the county a lot of the trees look very grey in the winter time but I've opted for a more brown look so that the picture will not look too anemic.