Poultry again

Hi Everybody!

Happy Weekend to you all.

For Art Journal Journey, Things with wings, and Moo Mania and More, Poultry, I have made another journal page. I used images from the graphics fairy, water colours, gel-pens and my lovely Gelatos. The cockerel also got a layer of Stickles. 

Today I visited a place right at the opposite end of the town, and had a walk through the village and the fields:

There were lots of wild geese walking around the fields

I saw quite a lot of these birds, they are about the same size as the wild geese, but I have no clue what they are - does anybody know?

Just got some information from one of my readers that these are ruddy shelducks (Rostgans in German) - thanks Sarah. 

The wild geese enjoyed marching around.

The wings of those ducks are amazing with green, black and white bands.

Have a nice weekend you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Happy Birthday Paint Party Friday

Hi Everybody!

It's Friday already, have a good one!

Paint Party Friday is celebrating it's 4th birthday, so thanks to Eva and Kristin for hosting every week. 

An optional theme this week is to make a self portrait, but I didn't have enough time, so I am re-showing one made a couple of months back for a challenge at Art Journal Journey, as well as my piece for 'Things with wings'. This was worked with water colours, Gelatos and Gel pens.

The self portrait was done in pastel chalks over a background made with acrylics.

I wasn't happy with it, so I digitally chopped it up and recombined the pieces digitally to a collage. Sometimes I would be quite happy if something like this was possible in real life!

This morning started off sunny but cold after another frosty night.

This made me happy - new leaves, a little sign of spring.

Things with wings and more

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are having a good day!

Today I have another journal page meant for Art Journal Journey, Things with wings; Moo Mania and More, Poultry; Simon Monday Challenge, B is for...Black sheep; and Mixed Media Monthly, Birds of a feather. The background has been painted with water colours and then sprayed, dripped and stamped. The idea was inspired by a postcard which I had years ago showing 2 cockerels, one with a plastic comb on his head. The card is long lost, but I have used the idea here.  The image on the left is from Gecko Galz, and has been fussy cut, collaged and given extra colour with felt pens and Gelatos. The chicken on the right was drawn and painted with structure paste, which I bubbled with a heat gun to give more texture, before painting it in grey and black water colours. The head, tail etc were coloured with felt pens, and the comb was drawn with black ink. I added some colour along the bottom edge with felt pens, and did some random background stamping and stenciling. This was another fun make!

After a frosty night today started out cold and mist, but in the course of the day the sun came out, although it stayed cold.

Here you can see the new trees which were planted this week to replace those which were detroyed in the big storm 'Ela' last year.

The world always looks better when the sun shines:

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

A new theme at Moo Mania and More - Poultry (Federvieh)

Hi Everybody!

 Hope your day went well! My day went so quickly that I have the feeling that I didn't get anything done, apart from reading, sleeping and a walk this morning.

Today a new challenge is starting at Moo Mania and More - Poultry (Federvieh). You have 2 weeks to dream up nice creations and link them to Moo Mania, where all formats are accepted.

My journal page is for MM and M and for Art Journal Journey, things with wings. I water coloured the background, added more colours with Gelatos, and stenciled the flying birds and other background patterns. I placed my Cockerels (Image from Gecko Galz, applied with an image transfer) opposite each other, added colour again with Gelatos and felt pens, and stamped some plants and flowers in the foreground. I am also linking to Mixed media monthly, Birds of a feather

Today started off cool and very misty

The mist lifted, but left us with drizzly weather that wasn't really nice for walking

The ducks didn't seem to mind, though.

Have a good day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!