Time and Tide....

Hi Everybody!

For my page today, for Art Journal Journey, time,  I thought about the quote, supposedly from King Canute more than 1000 years ago, 'Time and Tide wait for no man', which we usually interpret to mean that nobody is so powerful that they can interfere with the course of time.

 King Canute demonstrated to his courtiers the limits of a king's power by failing to make the sea obey his command, even though they were trying to flatter him into believing that as King he also 'ruled the waves' and could tell them to recede. That literal interpretation of 'tide' in 'time and tide' is what is now usually understood, but wasn't what was meant in the original version of the expression. 'Tide' didn't refer to the contemporary meaning of the word, that is, the rising and falling of the sea, but to a period of time. When this phrase was coined tide meant a season, or a time, or a while. The word is still with us in that sense in 'good tidings', which refers to a good event or occasion and  remains, too,  in phrases like noontide, eventide etc.

My A3 mixed media page is trying to show the power of the waves , tide, and their other meaning, time. I used stamps from Paper Artsy and LaBlanche and various cut outs. The background was painted with blues and greens over gesso

 As it was again exceedingly hot and humid I kept to the shadowy paths and ways along the Rhine again today.

I got this heart shaped peach today, and took a photo before eating it:

It was delicious, too!

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

The face of time

Hi Everybody!

For Art Journal Journey, Time, I have another journal page - well, what else? I am also linking to Paint Party Friday, Stamps and Stencils and Kim Dellow's Friday Face Art.

I painted the mixed media A3 page with gesso, adding in some Titan Buff and pink to give it a touch of colour, and used the same pink to do some script stamping very faintly in the background. I drew the face and stamped the flowers, leaves and clocks ( LaBlanche), masking some parts to get clear imprints. I coloured them with water colours. The bird and the stamped sentiments are both from TH. I doodled a vine and some leaves and wrote the sentiment. The face was inspired by one seen on Pinterest.

The sunrise was beautiful again:

The moon visible at 11.30 in the morning

And some cool pathways and places I chose for my morning walk as the weather was so hot:

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Time makes....

Hi Everybody!
Hope your week is going well!

It's hot and sunny here, and they have promised us temps of up to40° till the weekend, and then storms....

For Art Journal Journey, Time, I have another journal page. I made a collaged journal page, which I did not really like, so I scanned it and made some digital alterations before printing it out. I placed it on an A3 page, and painted the edges with blues and purples to pick out the colours in the page. The quote is from Euripides, a famous dramatist in classical Greek of the 5th century BC, 'Love makes time pass; Time makes love pass'.

On my walk today I went down the river, which means towards Holland and the sea. (Up river would be going towards the source of the Rhine in Switzerland)

This is one of the remaining kilometer stones, which Napoleon had placed every kilometer along the Rhine. Very few remain today, I always wonder whose garden they landed in....It shows the distances to Basel and Rotterdam, and to the border with Holland.

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Time like an ever rolling stream

Hi Everybody!

The day started off very stormy here, with the sun battling its way through storm clouds, making a glorious sky with wonderful colours.

For Art Journal Journey, time, I was inspired by a hymn written by Isaac Watts in 1719, a paraphrase of Psalm 90. We used to sing it at school and I imagined the 'sons' floating away with the water.... My page is surely influenced by the Rhine, the meadows and the wonderful sunrises I see nearly every day. The A3 background was painted with gesso and acrylic paints, and I used a marker to divide the colours. The people floating away have been kept very shadowy, I used stencils from Dina Wakley and Jessica Sporn with a transparent grey.

And here some pictures of the ever changing sky this morning, all taken in less than half an hour:

And the rest of the day it rained and rained and rained, but the air was clean and fresh, and I enjoyed my umbrella walk!

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!