Trees, ducks, horses and stones

Hi everybody!

It's weekend, so hope you all have a restful and creative time.
We had cool but nice weather here today, so I enjoyed my walks, and it was a bit warmer in the afternoon.

I still seem to be on my autumn/trees/leaves/ little beings trip, so here is the next offering, a journal page. I sprayed an A3 page with home made blue and green inks, and then used just under half of it for this painting. I daubed the water-colours (thanks again Chrissie)  directly onto the paper, using orange, brown and yellow, and a liberal portion of fairy dust. I used some of the super bronze gilding flakes that Sandy recently sent me to make the little leaves on the tree and fluttering down. The little elf is from the autumn flower fairies, and the rabbit, of course, from Beatrix Potter. The little birds were stamped with scraps of brown paper from an old envelope using a Martha Stewart punch. I have forgotten from whom the quote is, if anyone knows, please tell me! I am linking to Art Journal journey, living beings; Mix it Monthly, trees and Craftroom Challenge, something old, something new. (New paints and gilding flakes, old images and recycled paper)

The ducks came waddling up to see if I had any food, so I shared some bread with them.

The horses were calm and contented as always.

The sun was sparkling on the lake this afternoon.

And I love this large, rusty rose on the old gates to the hospital park:

There are a lot of stones and huge pieces of brick and mortar walls down on the shore underneath the castle. There were a lot of battles to take control of the castle in the course of history, and  the walls were breached with cannons.

Some of these stones were evidently cut, so were perhaps part of door frames or arches:

Have a great weekend, take good care of yourselves,
and thanks a lot for coming by!