Stormy weather

Hi Everybody!
Hope your weekend is going well.

For Art Journal Journey, through my window, I have  another A3 mixed media page. I used a background page from my stash which I placed in the middle of an A3 gessoed page. I added more colour with acrylics and chalks. The moon was painted onto a separate page, fussy cut and collaged, and the bird is a Dina Wakley stencil. I carried on the pattern of the floor at the bottom to build it more into my page. The group of ladies with their cards was cut from one of my old magazines from 1899 and collaged.  Mr Umbrella man seemed to be just right to brave the storm, so got centre place on my page.

Today the weather was a little better, the storms seem to have died down for the time being. The trees and plants are showing more and more signs of autumn, and the horses were wearing raincoats.

In the square by the Basilica Saint Swidbert was watching over things as always:

In the evening we had a short glimpse of blue skies behind the clouds:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Windows

Hi Everybody!

Happy Weekend!

For Art Journal Journey, through my window, Kim Dellow's show your face and our 49 Faces challenge I made another of my doll's faces. She has been drawn onto an A3 sheet, painted with water colours and Gelatos, stamped and stenciled. The window stamps are from Darkroom Door, the stencils were from my giant EBAY packet. I made this one weeks back and re-discovered it today when looking for something else....

I woke up very early again, but made the best of it by watching the night fade into day:

Venus is still shining bright:

 I enjoyed watching the ships at the Rhine again:

This information might be a little confusing for tourists:

And last but not least, a beautiful stone window at the Basilica:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Another window to Van Gogh

Hi Everybody!
It's Friday already - where did the week go?

For Art Journal journey, through my window; Paint Party Friday, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin, and Kim Dellow's Friday face I made another journal page. This time I have copied one of Van Gogh's paintings, the portrait of Camille Roulin, painted in Arles in 1888. Van Gogh was friends with the family Roulin, and made about 20 portraits of the family - of Joseph, the father, who was a postman, of his wife, and of all the children. I can imagine  peeping through the window of the Roulins' house and seeing Vincent painting them. My face was drawn and then coloured with water colours and pastel chalks. I fussy cut it, and placed it on an A3 background, painted with gesso, and then coloured with Pan pastels and pastel chalks. The quote is from Van Gogh.

The weather has been mostly wild wet and windy again, but we did see the sun for half an hour this evening, before the clouds gathered again and sent down more rain.

I have some more photos of 'Fachwerk' houses today, taken this time in Rhöndorf, a little village where  Konrad Adenauer, who was the  first German Chancellor after WWII,  lived. His house is a museum today. In the background you can see the 'Drachenfels', the Dragon Cliff, which is fun to climb up. There is also a little train which takes tourists to the top, and donkeys for those who prefer to ride. At the top is a castle, and a hotel /restaurant.

I love the little church in the middle of the road.

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!