More Birds, beasts and humans

Hi Everybody!

Hope you have enjoyed your weekend. Have a good start in the new week!

For Art Journal Journey I have made another A3 journal page. For the background I sprinkled brushos onto a damp page and then sprayed with more water to get the colours moving. I used stencils from Dina Wakley with black acrylic paint for the faces. The  elephant was also made with a stencil, but I don't know the manufacturer. The steampunk birds with human faces are from Paper Artsy. I stamped them onto tissue paper with archival black and embossed with extra fine EP. The quote is from DH Lawrence, and was hand-written.

We had another grey day here with rain and sleet showers. Not many people were about today, but lots of seagulls, who enjoyed my leftover bread.

The ducks didn't seem to mind the weather either!

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by.

New Challenge at Art Journal Journey.

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend!

Today is the start of a new challenge at Art Journal Journey - 'Birds, beasts and Humans'. This gives us a wide field of possibilities to be creative. You can, for example, make portraits or pictures of people, animals and birds, or you can combine them to make fantastic  mixed beings - perhaps a bird's head on a human body with animal feet? Think about all the wonderful images of the ancient Egyptians, the Sphinx, for example - just wonderful for this challenge. May your creativity spread wings and fly in all sorts of fantastic directions - we are looking forward to see where your flights of fantasy take you.

 

For my first example I have made an A3 journal page with something of everything. The wonderful rhinoceros from Albrecht Dürer seems to be astonished by the little hippos splashing in a pond. Froggy is fishing, a little mouse is having fun, and a lady is emerging from a flower. One of the Gibson girls is staring haughtily at a mysterious lady in a mask, and they are both being slowly  over grown with climbing plants. Mr Umbrella Man is walking calmly through this strange jungle, doing his own thing, and perhaps wondering about the huge birds over his head....Just let your fantasy lead you into a strange land, and enjoy being there! I painted the background with acrylics, made the circles with a loo roll, and stenciled the Umbrella Man with a mix of blue and black paint. The other elements were collaged, and then I added some doodling for the plants and branches. This was fun to make, I enjoy just watching it grow.

I woke up very early this morning, sat at my desk drinking coffee, and watched the day dawning. The lights in the background are planes coming down to land.

Birds of a feather:

A hungry hawk:

Lucky went for walk in the stairwell:

A beach crow:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by.

Inspired by the Masters - summary and collage

Hi Everybody!

It's weekend, so hope you all have a good one!

Today started off cold, damp and windy, but got better in the course of the afternoon, and we had a really pretty sunset.

Today is the last day of the challenge 'Inspired by the Masters' at

 Art Journal Journey, and I was really happy to see so many great contributions. I have made a collage of all the projects I made in the course of the month, and I am quite happy with the results. I enjoyed trying new things, like paper weaving, learning about artists, and trying to copy their style, which enabled me to learn a lot. All in all a fun month!

Hope to see you again tomorrow when the new challenge theme will be revealed!

The blackbirds are usually the first visitors each morning. If their 'breakfast' is not yet there, they get noisier and noisier till I take their goodies out!

The evening sky was beautiful. There were still a lot of clouds, but lit up by the sun they made a great scene.

I love the silhouettes of the old man and his grandson:

Have a great weekend you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Art Journal Journey and More....

Hi Everybody!

My post is rather later in the day than usual, as I was feeling really bad

last night, and just needed to get to bed asap. I had a long and deep 

sleep and woke up feeling oodles better today, for which

I am most thankful.

My project today is for Art Journal Journey, Inspired by the masters. The challenge ends on Saturday, so hope some more of you will be inspired by then!

Although on Sunday there will be a new challenge!)

I am also linking to Paint Party Friday, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin, and to Moo Mania and More, masculine.

I used an A3 brush wipe sheet for the background - I always have a lot of those floating around my kitchen! I drew the portrait of Armand Roulin from Van Gogh onto paper, painted it with water colours and pastel chalks, and glued it to the background.  I added some shading and text round the head. Van Gogh painted many portraits of the family Roulin while he was in Arles, and I will probably be trying to do some others sooner or later. The quote, 'Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul' is from Vincent Van Gogh.

The sky was very cloudy early this morning, with just a few patches where the light showed through.

I love seeing the twinkling lights of airport city in the distance.

The crow, hawk and a magpie had a another slanging match this morning - this time the hawk won.

Later on he was back in another tree, looked right, left and then swooped off - I think he spotted his lunch!

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!