Feminine and masculine

Hi Everybody!

It's weekend - enjoy it!

For Art Journal Journey I have another A3 page for our masculine-feminine challenge. This was made from half of the underlay sheet on my table. I always try out stamps, colours, stencils etc on it, and thought it was  a shame to throw it away. I gave it a thin coat of gesso, then used black paint applied with a sponge for the Dina Wakley moon face stencils. I used some scraps to make them some pink accessories. I was thinking about some of the sayings we used to get told as kids - 'Pink to make the boys wink', 'pink for a little girl and blue for a boy' etc. and used a stencil (sent to me by Teresa - thanks Sweetie) and pink India ink for the quote.

This is another of the quick sketches made in the ice parlour this week - this is the waiter, a friendly and smiley chap who always seems to be in a good mood. I am linking to Kim Dellow's Friday face art:

And on my walk I saw feminine and masculine trees again:

The flowers were growing on a scrap of waste land

A peaceful corner of the Hospital grounds:

Flowers growing down by the stream:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Birds, Beasts and Humans

Hi Everybody!

Another week has flown by and it's Friday already -

where did the time go?

I have made another mixed media piece for Art Journal Journey, masculine-feminine, Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin; Moo Mania and More, Numbers and Kim Delow's Friday Face link.

I  painted an A3 sheet with gesso, and stamped into it while wet with a flourish stamp to texture it. The Stencil of Einstein was printed over a photo of one of his notebooks, fussy cut, and placed on the page, surrounded by lots of stenciling, especially numbers. The quote is from Einstein and very fitting for our masculine-feminine theme.

I treated myself to a cappuccino at an ice-parlour this week, and sat outside, watching the world go by, and sketched some of those round about. I used pencil, and worked them over back home with charcoal and pastel chalks. This girl was sitting there with a friend:

I will show the others in the course of the next days.

I met various animals, birds and insects while out and about.

The young rabbits were not at all shy:

This huge snail was oozing its way over the path after a rain shower:

This looks like a punk caterpillar:

I Googled it and found out that it feeds on nettles and turns into a peacock butterfly:

This dear little raven was sitting on the grass in front of the castle ruins, squawking for his Mum to come and get him:

He's looking up to the window where his anxious parent was also squawking at him (or me?)

I think it must have been his first outing all alone.

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Thursday this and that.

Hi Everybody!

We had a warm and sunny day here, not too hot, not cold and no rain - 

just great.  I enjoyed my walk along the Rhine, watching the hay being

harvested and baled, and the ships chugging up and down the river.

For Art Journal Journey, masculine-feminine, and for Moo Mania and More, numbers, I have another journal page. I used an A3 sheet, painted with gesso, and then covered with frustration scribbles in blue and pink Gelatos. I blended them with a baby-wipe and then used various stencils to make the patterns and numerals to give it all a bit more depth and interest. The picture is from one of my old magazines from the 1950's, I fussy cut it, and added some paper scraps and flowers around it. The bird is a water-colour painting I made of one of 'my' jays, scanned,  printed out and fussy cut.

The day started with a beautiful sunrise and sky:

I enjoyed seeing the fields and watching the men at work again:

And there were lots of Ravens walking fearlessly through the fields looking for tidbits:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

New Challenge at Moo Mania and More

Hi Everybody!

Today is the begin of a new challenge at Moo Mania and More -

Numbers.

The challenge will run for 2 weeks, as always, and you are welcome to link up projects of all formats, not just Moos. For my mixed-media DT page I pasted some pieces of newspaper onto an A3 background and painted over it with gesso. Then I used a large TH stamp with numerals all over it. I used shabby shutters and soot black DI for the stenciling, once again with lots of numerals. The image is from the Graphics fairy. I printed my strong man out and transferred him with gel onto my page. The quote was found on Google, and written round a plate. And finally I made him into the Number 1.

I am also linking to Art Journal Journey, masculine-feminine, and to Anything but cute, masculine

This young Jay came later than the others for breakfast, so I gave him some bread, and he sat in the tree and enjoyed it. They all really love white bread.

I enjoy watching men and their machines working down by the Rhine:

The hay harvest is in full swing:

Some places the grass is taller than I am

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!