Hi Everybody!
Hope your week is going well. It's another grey day here, but the sun did show itself for a few minutes this morning, and it's not quite as cold and windy as it was, so that's good!
Today I am sharing an A3 mixed-media collage, made using strips of JD wrapping paper and washi-tapes collaged onto a painted and stamped background. As you can't see the BG anymore, perhaps I could have done without it! I used stencils to doodle over it, did a modge-podge tissue transfer, and added some stamping and a hand-written sentiment. I am linking to Simon Monday challenge, take flight, and Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin, and Simon Wednesday challenge, anything goes:
The photos were taken in the past 2 weeks in Hofgarten, Schloss Kalkum (a moated castle) and here:
Is that duck headless?
By the moat:
The hawk looking for a take-away dinner:
Have a great day, take care,
and thanks lot for coming by!
Hello dear Valerie!
ReplyDeleteWow! What a gorgeous creation! Love your mixed media page and all the techniques that you used!
You are so talented! Your pictures are so beautiful! Like especially the close up of the duck and the Hawk!
The place looks so ideally for a walk and relax! Like the Autumn colors of the trees! Thank you for sharing!
Have a relaxing evening! Hugs!
Dimi...
Hi Val, your new piece is fantastic, and I love the colours and how you have combined the various elements. It's a bit like looking through striped glass, great effect. Love the lovely photos, too, you got some wonderful shots. Enjoy your evening, look after yourself. Hugs, Sarah
ReplyDeleteOkay where is that duck's head?
ReplyDeleteLoved everything. Your piece is so wispy and mysterious.
Loved the fowl photos. Could do some word play with that one. Heh.
Hugs
Better fowl photos than foul ones!
DeleteThe waterfowl have found the perfect home, haven't they! And they add so much to the gorgeous views there. That Autumn color is gorgeous!
ReplyDeletewunderschöne seiten mit den gesichtern und tolle bilder von schloss kalkum.
ReplyDeleteeinen schönen abend.
hugs jenny
Fabulous page Valerie, 'eye' love it!! Great photos too!
ReplyDeleteAlison xx
Wow! Awesome idea with all the faces and eyes on the page, Valerie! Very cool!! Thanks so much for sharing your awesome make with us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! hugs, Maura
ReplyDeleteOhhh this is such and 'eye" appealing art piece. Hee hee hee. I do love these eyes and the colors are just perfect. Have a great day today.
ReplyDeleteWow! Your art today really is colourful :)
ReplyDeleteWhat fabulous photographs of the moated castle, the Autumn colours are great.
Happy Halloween!
All the best Jan
The eyes in your art piece are captivating! A moted castle, that’s exciting, such beautiful Fall photos!
ReplyDeleteFirst, I love your face painting! What a bevy of gorgeous ducks and Fall images! I enjoyed my "walk" with you, again!!
ReplyDeleteLovely page and gorgeous photos today!
ReplyDeleteOoh I love this, very bold and colourful! xx
ReplyDeleteIts a fabulous page created with the JD papers and washi tapes. It brightens the day when looking at your art.
ReplyDeleteThe photos are super, lovely autumn scenes around the moated castle.
Yvonne xx
What a fabulous page Valerie, love how you have used strips to create a different view. It's such a clever way to fill a page, Janes eye's are incredible.
ReplyDeleteLove how those reds are starting to make an appearance within the tree's seems as if it's natures way of warming us up on a chilly day.
Happy PPF Hugs Tracey xx
That is a cool piece of art. There's so much to see and those eyes-especially the blue ones. Wow. And you visit such beautiful places. I am sure your views are a bit more advanced autumn like than these photos but we are will be down to bare trees in another week or maybe 2. Hope your weather stays a bit warmer than it was and the sun shines. Hugs-Erika
ReplyDeleteSome trees are nearly naked, others still have lots of foliage.
DeleteI think the painted background adds depth to the page. It brings out the tissue papers and washi tapes, too. It's a fabulous piece and the eyes are so piercing, too.
ReplyDeleteYou shared some beauties for your photos. That moated castle is amazing, and that water is stunning with its reflections and beauty.
Amazing ideas on the art project Valerie with such richness in the images and colours.
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful photographs of thebirds and Autumn colours. There are certainly some special varieties of ducks there and your reflection photographs are worthy of a prize
Rain and more rain here today
Love Chrissie xx
Your page is a masterpiece, Valerie. One of your best pages ever. I simply ADORE it!!!!!!! Congrats for the beautiful photos, too, my dear. The hawk is stunning! Kisses, my friend.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I love watching the hawk.
DeleteGenial gemachte Seite liebe Valerie, die Streifen mit den Gesichtern und die Augen dazu ergeben eine excellente Collage. Gefällt mir sehr. Aber auch deine schönen Fotos sind wieder ein Augenschmaus. Diese Brücke mit den leuchtend roten Blättern sieht ganz bezaubernd aus, aber auch die Nahaufnahme der Ente ist dir super gelungen.
ReplyDeleteLiebe Grüße
Sabine
Fantastic artwork, love the girl's eyes! And those are lovely pictures to share. Happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteValerie, your collage is striking! I love how the eyes were following me- very clever! And of course, i am in love with all of that color!
ReplyDeleteLovely weather for you to get out and about! I was inspired by your post earlier in the week and dragged my husband and dog out to go walking,which actually ended up as hiking as there were many steep hills on the path! heehee It was a beautiful day,and one my soul needed so much! thank you!
hugs my friend,Jackie
Stunning photos as always! And I really like your art piece...it reflects a persons broken-ness in a scattered personality. We all sometimes get fractured like that. The black bird sort've looked like sadness to me.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I am sure we all know these phases of feeling torn apart.
DeleteI'm loving your collage! The abstract design and colour palette is beautiful 😀. Such lovely photos too, the castle looks home to quite a few different water birds and the autumn colours are stunning! Creative wishes! J 😊 x
ReplyDeleteYour art piece is great! I love the colours!
ReplyDeleteHeadless duck! LOL! Fantastic photos!! Big Hugs!
I love your JD collage! Thw photos of these gardens look wonderful! Gorgeous colours and great bird shots - love the headless duck! I especially love the bridge reflections! Hugs,Chrisx
ReplyDeleteOh Valerie, I've missed your beautiful art and wonderful birds. What a fabulous way to start the day, with the brilliant color!
ReplyDeleteWOW! You have taken some spectacular pictures. The duck on the water- with the salmon color is gorgeous. I love that we can see the details in the feathers in your pictures too. Stunning. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDelete~Jess
What a perfect use of the Jane Davenport Faces washi Tapes. They make a gorgeous page, Valerie.
ReplyDeleteYou got a great shot of the perching hawk(?). I can't tell what that last bird is doing. It looks like he caught a flamingo - lol. Eileen xox
What a clever journaling page, the tapes are give an amazing effect.
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us at Simon says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.
luv
Debby
Oh wow!!! That journaling page is SO FUN. I love it. Love all the great photos as well. Hope you are having a fantastic week!
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