Crow on frosted leaves

Hi Everybody!

The week has flown by, and it's Friday already, which means it's time for
Paint Party Friday again, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin. And every day is a good day for Art Journal Journey, winter wonderland.

I painted an A3 mixed media piece. The background was a brush-wipe page painted with blue acrylic. I toned it down using some white, grey and silver paint applied with a sponge. I was inspired by the frosty leaves I saw here, so I drew lots of free leaf forms and painted them with brown, white and silver grey acrylics. I added texture to the leaves by embossing them with various colours of Frantage aged EPs. I doodled the left over spaces with Pentel pens in gold and white, and edged the leaves with the same pens. You can see the patterns in the detail photos. The crow, who is also one of my frequent visitors here, was painted with black acrylics and embossed with Frantage aged black, then cut out and collaged. I had fun  making this.

Today got off to a good start, but then the sky clouded over again and it stayed

wet and windy all day:

The water in the Rhine has risen thanks to a few days of hard rain:

Some of you tried to guess which 'bulb' I was growing on my window ledge after I showed the photos yesterday, but nobody got it right. It's a garlic plant. I had a clove of garlic that had started to sprout, so I put it onto the hyacinth vase and after about 10 days the roots appeared. Now I have a second one growing next to it, and will soon be putting them into pots, and am hoping they will keep growing - a good protection in case vampires come!

Have  great day you all, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by!