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!

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!