Windows again

Hi Everybody!

One of the things I like doing is to look out of my window at the flowers on my balcony, and watch the birds and insects flying by, and this is reflected in this  A3 Mixed media page, using stamping, colouring and stenciling over a gessoed and painted background. The flower stamps are from LaBlanche, the dragonfly stencil from EBAY. Made for 'through my window' at Art Journal Journey.

I drew this lady looking over her shoulder while watching TV. She did not turn out how I had hoped, so perhaps it might be better either to watch TV or sit down and draw! She was drawn with charcoal pencil and chalks. If I have counted right she is no 27! Linking to 49 Faces.

These pretty half timbered 'Fachwerk' houses with their beautiful windows, doors and shutters are to be found in Unkel, a little town further up the Rhine.

'Up' means towards the south and the source of the river in Switzerland; 'down' means towards Holland and the sea. We're more down than up here!

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks for coming by!

The view from my window

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For Art Journal Journey, Through my window, I made another A3 mixed media page featuring 'my' tree, the moon and the stars. The lady who lives in the apartment under me always has a bright light on, which lights up the birch tree and often makes it look white. I used a CWS stencil for the tree, and blue and black acrylic paint for the background.

For 49 Faces and Kim Dellow's show your face I am sharing 

the last of the summer sketches from the ice parlour:

Yesterday evening the sky was filled with clouds, sunshine and a rainbow:

Today we had a  stormy start to the day:

I love how the sunlight was reflected on the leaves at the top of the trees:

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

This, that and the other

Hi Everybody!

There's lots going on today, so I'll get started straightaway.

At Try it on Tuesday we have a new challenge, use metal. As always, projects of all sorts are welcome, and you have 2 weeks to link up to us, so hope to see you there! I made a 8" tag from corrugated card, painted white, and embossed with Frantage antique white. I collaged some tiny scraps of old letters and varnished them. Then I added different metallic effects with gilding flakes in various colours. The leaves are real autumn leaves, coated with embossing ink and embossed with Utee gold enamel. I added some flowers and a butterfly as further embellishments.

For Art Journal Journey, through my window, and 49 Faces I made an A3 page using 'my' head with a window put into it. I drew the light-bulb and used India inks to colour the face etc. To finish it off I added some  yellow spray for the light.

At Tag Tuesday our theme this week is white space.  I decided to make a black and white, shaped cow tag - it has lots of white spaces. I added some googly eyes and a bell - finished.

And Tuesday is also time for Elisabeth's T stands for Tuesday

group meeting. I wanted to bake a special cake for this week, but never got around to it - sorry. But I sacrificed myself and went into a Café for my fave drink, cappuccino, and a slice of Raspberry cheese cake.   I saved the cake for you, so please help yourselves and have a taste.

This is the window of the cafe/restaurant at the old ferry here. You can sit inside and look out at the river, or sit outside on the patio or in the beer garden. The Ferry and restaurant have been there since 1392, although it does seem to have been modernised a little bit. I loved the photos of the windows, because you can see the Rhine reflected in them, as well as the interior.

The reflections make it look rather surreal.

Have a great day you all, take care

and thanks a lot for coming by again!

Marilyn in the window

Hi Everybody!

Quick post today, time ran so quickly I couldn't catch up.

For Art Journal Journey, Through my window, and 49 faces  I made an A3 page showing Marilyn in the window. Marilyn has been stenciled onto white paper, fussy  cut and collaged onto a stamped background - wanted it to look like wall-paper, and the window frame has been collaged over her. The butterflies were stenciled, as were the bricks in the wall. The Banksy stamp is from Bee Crafty.

Today we had a book and art market on Market Street:

There was a fête at the Diakonie with lots of colourful stalls selling hand made things, flea-market stuff and lots of food

And last but not least some stained glass windows from the Basilica.

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks for coming by!