Friday 29 November 2019

Weekend post

Hi Everybody!

This past week has flown by again - too much to do, not enough time!
Or perhaps I just like to spend too much time walking about....

Today I am sharing another A2  (approx. 17" x 24") geometric-shapes mixed media page made a couple of months back at art group, and which somehow slipped to the bottom of one of my ever-growing piles. The page was gessoed, and then I drew in the shapes and painted them, layering some on top of others. I used an Edding pen to outline the shapes and add in some lines. The smaller patterns were added with stencils, the lines were drawn with a ruler - and still not quite straight!








And Nathalie and I discovered these painted rocks when we walked along the shore of the Rhine, so beautiful. Painted, and then left for others to enjoy:




Here I took a walk along the old bastions (walls) of the town:



This was one of the old watch-posts where the guards could shelter:




Saint Swidbert keeping an eye on us all:


The sun goes down early these days:




Nathalie watching the river:


While we were there the Canadian wild-geese flew around us before moving on:





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

Wednesday 27 November 2019

Rain's Thursday art Date

Hi Everybody!

First and foremost I would like to wish all of my friends, fellow bloggers and family in the USA a very happy Thanksgiving!


Rain's theme this week is greys and browns, so I have tried to find things in these colour schemes. I am also linking to Paint Party Friday.  First up is a journal page, showing  various generations of my family taken at different times. I'm on there, too!





And a vintage journal page with script as theme:




A steampunk tag:




And a journal page using a photo from somewhere-in-London:



Some doodles and sketches from my sketch-books:





And some old sketches made back in the 1990s:



Lastly I have some old family photos as they fit the greys/browns theme, too.

Erika:




Her brother Ralf:


Her cousin Emily:


My great-grandmother Rachel:


Great Auntie Fanny:


My grandparents:


Great grandmother Rachel with Sadie and Fanny:


My mother:


Here she is second from the left, and the only one smiling at great Uncle Benny's wedding, together with her sisters, Betty and Pauline and the rather unhappy looking bride:


And here she was  about 3 years old:


 Having photos taken must have been tiresome, as most people look very unhappy!

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