Stitched up men

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well. Yesterday I had an art-play-day with my buddy G, and we had a fun day painting and crafting. We didn't starve either, I made us veggie soup, meat balls, strawberries with yogurt and of course, lots of coffee and cookies. N came along in the afternoon, and we enjoyed time sitting round the table for a good natter. We spent some time on the balcony, too, and G and N tidied up my flowers, watered and sprayed them, and made them look good again. Thanks, you guys!

I painted a few A3 backgrounds in various colours and styles, and then started making one of them into a mixed media journal page with a vintage touch. I stuck to neutral colours of cream and burnt sienna. The background was brayered with cream and I stamped into it while wet with a script stamp. After it was dry I rubbed on the burnt sienna with a damp sponge and stenciled some diamonds in the same colour.  Then I added the bits of paper napkins and the flowers, which were stenciled with metallic paste and then heat-bubbled, as well as the stamped splodges. The men were drawn with pastel chalks in burnt sienna, black and ocre. I added some sewing to finish it, leaving the thread ends to give them some 'hair'. The quote was made with chit chat stickers. I am linking to Paint Party Friday

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And I have another 'landmarks' tag for Wendy's challenge at Tag Tuesday.

I stamped onto a scrap of hand-painted paper, coloured the image with prismalo pencils and matted it with more scraps, sewing the layers together:

I watched as the cornfield behind our house was harvested this week:

These photos were taken in June when we still had some green grass. They were on my other camera and I forgot to download them before:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!