My virtual vacation is taking to Turks and Caicos today!  This page brings back such wonderful vacation feelings for me.  I can almost hear the waves and see my kids para-sailing high above the beach.  Notice I said my kids, not me.

Best thing I brought in my traveling art case- the black clips to hold the pages so they didnt’ blow around.

I scanned the page and boxed in the words that spoke to me.  Then I went back and added a bit of stream of consciousness journaling.

Scribbled with blue reinkers to add a bit of blue color.  Staring at the ocean had me stuck on the color blue for some reason…

The blue was way too busy so a bit of gesso pushed it back.  As a bonus a bit of the color bled through and mixed with the gesso.

Added a bit of color with gelatos and inktense pencils.

Added the words with paint.

Added black Pitt pen to make the words pop out.

Thanks for grabbing your luggage and joining me for my virtual vacation!  If  you’d like to win the V.V. creativity kit just link up your vacation blog posts, photos on flickr (or other site), or your vacation inspired art!  You can find all the details here. Remember that everyone is welcome on this vacation, even if you’ve never done a link up before.  I’ll be randomly drawing for the winner on Saturday, June16th!

On vacation, my youngest reminded me to be in the moment.  She had grabbed one of my pencils and began drawing in the sand.  The best sand is damp sand however it’s damp because it is near the water.  The ocean has a habit of sending waves of water on the beach.  Kind of the attraction – the water and waves.

As my daughter drew pictures in the wet sand I realized how I need to be in the moment.  She was drawing quickly because a wave would soon be washing all of it away.  She made her drawings, refined them when time, and enjoyed the process of making them.  No pretense about it lasting forever, or for 5 minutes for that matter.

She drew something and then the wave smoothed it away.  What did she do?  Drew another.  It was like a self erasing Etch-A-Sketch.  Sometimes the waves caught her in the middle of a drawing.  She just started another.  She enjoyed each drawing she made and then let it go.  That moment had passed and she was into the next moment.

Vacations are restorative- even it is a virtual vacation!  There’s still plenty of time to join in and win the giveaway! All the details are here.