The changing face of nature

Hi Everybody!

Today I have another face made for our 49 Faces challenge and for 

Kim Dellow's Friday show your face.

This face reminds me of summer, although summer is slowly flying away like the birds. I am enjoying making these part faces in reduced colours - and even with a lot of facial features missing, it is still clearly identifiable as a face. She was drawn and doodled with pencil, India ink pens and pastel chalks on an A3 gessoed background.

And here with reversed colours, making her look dark and mysterious:

Today the sun came out again. In summer the sun rises to the far left of my balcony, and then seems to move round, although I know it is the world turning, till it rises opposite my balcony in the late summer. 

The raindrops were still glistening on the rose-hips:

Nature is showing other flowers and plants:

And windows sometimes work as mirrors:

This tiny stained glass window was high up under a roof:

Have a great day, take care

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Landscapes, a face and windows

Hi Everybody!

Today we are beginning a new challenge at Moo Mania and More - Landscapes.

All forms of projects are allowed, not just Moos, and you have 2 weeks to join up with us, so hope to see lots of you there.

I made an A3 mixed media Journal page, using a landscape from Vincent van Gogh. I saw the statue of him in a magazine at the dentist's, and took a photo, and it is from a Sculptor called James Buttler.

I made this face from an inspiration I found on the net, using a black Edding to draw the hair and features, I am linking to 49 Faces and to Art Journal Journey, through my window, and to Kim Dellow's Friday face

It was difficult to take the photos of this house, as it is standing on a busy road. I had to stand on the other side of the road to take the photos, with cars driving by all the time.

Windows in  the little houses here:

And these photos were taken in Linz, a little town further up the Rhine-

I'm the one holding the camera:

Have a great day you all, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by!

Black and white, coffee, cake and more

Hi Everybody!

Today I realised that I need to post the black and white pages I made, as the challenge at Moo Mania and More ends today - time flies by and I can't believe we will be starting a new challenge again tomorrow.

I am also linking to Art Journal Journey, through my window, as the zebra is looking through the window of his house at the zoo, watching all the strange people who pass by.

Here I reversed the colours:

Today is Elizabeth's and Bleubeard's 'T stands for Tuesday'

so I want to greet all of the gang.

I am showing you a cherry cake I made some time back when I had visitors. There's a layer of short-crust pastry, then one of  cheesecake, and on top of that the dark cherries. When the cake was nearly finished I took it out of the oven and added a glaze made of cream mixed with some melted butter, brown sugar and almonds and let it bake for another 20 minutes. It was delightfully sticky and buttery and tasted of caramel and cherries and cream cheese, yummy. I was rather disappointed that my visitors ate it all, so I had none left over for the day after. But it was really good, and I did not put any calories in it. If you are looking for calories you should know that they are mostly to be found in closets, where they hide and make your clothes smaller each night.

Next week I will make another cake specially for you.

And my drink is once again cappuccino, which is my nectar and medicine:

 At Tag Tuesday our theme this week is 'I remember when...'.

The text is on the back and reads: I remember when I thought lavender and purple were colours for old ladies. Now, 50 years later, I like these colours....'

When I was at Schloss Kalkum I was very sad to see how run down and dilapidated the castle looks. They are starting to do some repairs, so I hope it will soon look better.  Paint is flaking off everywhere:

Looks like the dungeon window:

And even shabby shutters and windows look better with reflections in the moat:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!