Time moves....

Hi Everybody!

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend!

For Art Journal Journey, time, I have an A3 mixed-media collage. The background was painted with a mix of gesso and titan buff. I used my home made head stencil, added a clock and stenciled the rest  with  cogs using rusty hinge DI. The rest was collaged with bits and bobs from one of my bit boxes, and given a diluted wash of the gesso mixture. Part of the text was written with a stencil, the rest by hand. (Sounds silly, I use my hands with the stencil too, but I hope you know what I mean!)

The fields have all been harvested, some of the leaves are beginning to turn, and the berries are ripening - summer seems to be slowly winding down.

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by.

Our times

Hi Everybody!

Hope your weekend is going well!

For Art Journal Journey, time, I made an A3 mixed media page in warm and sunny colours. The background is one of my scanned torn-paper ones, and after placing it on the A3 page I coloured the edges with red and yellow Pan pastels. I used lots of stamps, from Paper Artsy, LaBlanche, Tattered Angels and unknown, all stamped with Archival black. The text was written with a stencil, and I just managed to get it finished before my pen ran out of ink, but in the meantime I have bought a new refill.

The night was stormy with lots of rain, and the sun this morning looked more like the moon!

I enjoyed my umbrella walk, walking in the rain is always fun, and I like having the world all to myself.

The horses in what used to be the  moat were busy grazing, as always.

The honeysuckle smelled very fragrant :

The insects liked it, too!

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

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!