September Calendar and Hollyhock Challenge

One blog post -- for TWO LUSCIOUS CHALLENGES.

First up:  Violette, author and artist and a favorite blogger of mine (because she has an incredible Purple Magic Cottage with a giant Dragonfly she made mounted on the front) issued a HOLLYHOCK ART CHALLENGE.

Now hollyhocks are one of my favorite flowers AND I needed to create my September Calendar pages for the 366 CALENDAR CHALLENGE at The Kathryn Wheel, sooooo I painted up some hollyhocks for my September pages!

I used acrylic paints, colored pencils, watercolor crayon, and a white signs unibal pen.

Now, before I transform that into my SEPTEMBER CALENDAR, here is a picture of AUGUST all finished and filled in:

Now to turn hollyhocks into a calendar:

Let's see how those colors look outside.

And a closer look at each page:

It's not too late to join either the Hollyhock Challenge or the Calendar Challenge!  Check out Violette's and Kate Crane's blogs and all of their wonderful creativity.