When the cock crows thrice....

Hi Everybody!

Hope your day has gone /is going well.

For Art journal Journey, Rosie's circle challenge, I have a digital

piece composed from various paintings. The moon is one of

my photos. I am also linking to Digitally made, put a quote

on it.

This piece was made just for fun. Last week I had the strange notion

to make some antique coloured brown ink and a quill pen. I looked for

'recipes' on the web, and found quite a lot, but some of them had 

ingredients which are, to say the least, hard to buy at the 

local supermarket - it's a bit like asking for eye of newt and 

leg of toad, or a fenny steak for the witch's brew.... 

Anyway, I did some experiments, and made a concoction which has

a gorgeous, deep brown colour, and is good for both writing and

painting. It did smell quite awful while I was  reducing it by boiling, 

although I left the powdered entrails and blood out....

This was my first piece, written with the quill pen I made from

a duck's feather I picked up at the museum/farm last week.

Here with my lovely quill:

The ink is really deep brown. The brown paper behind the script

is a scrap of home-made paper which was dyed with it:

 And now, back to the farm. This rooster was living in a yard with 2

ladies. Every time the black rooster in the next field crowed,

he ran to one of his ladies and tried to jump them, and they kept

running squawking away. They had bare patches on their

backs, so he does seem to strike lucky quite often!

Life in the 'black' enclosure was more peaceful and idyllic:

I digitally cut out these photos and made them into PNG images,

so please feel free to download and use them for your

digital creations:

I will blog again on Thursday, just need a little break to

recouperate a bit.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!