Picasso, coconut bars and coffee

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week got off to a good start.

For Art Journal Journey, through my window, I made a journal page. I found a photo of Picasso standing at a window in an old magazine I was leafing through. I copied it several times, did some fussy cutting,and changed the parts round a bit to make a Picasso-like treatment of his photos, which I then collaged to an A3 page painted with gesso.

The quotes are all from Picasso, too.

At Tag Tuesday our theme this week is 'something old.something new'. I used an old stencil and stamps, together with new Signo pens in black and gold.

The coffee cups also fit well to Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, so hello to all the gang.

And now for the real thing. On Saturday I had a visitor, so we drank our coffee out of the onion pattern china:

And I baked these very delicious coconut bars with a recipe I got from Nicole.

And as you know, when they are cut up into small pieces, half of the calories fall out  every time you make a cut! Try a piece, just help yourselves!

At the moment it's 'Oktober Fest' in Munich, and all over Germany people like to make their own celebrations, where the main ingredient is beer, and lots of savoury food to keep people sober long enough to drink lots of beer! This little celebration was held  here on Saturday:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

The last rose of summer

Hi Everybody!

Here's wishing you a good start in the new week.

The weekend was very mixed - cold and wet with sunny intervals and patches of blue sky in between, but it feels more like autumn than summer.

For 49 Faces and for Kim Dellow's Friday face I made another mixed media A3 face. The face was drawn and painted with pastel chalks and water colours, the roses, leaves and butterflies were stenciled and coloured with India Ink markers. The quote is part of a song from Robert Burns, written in 1794.

This morning the raindrops from the night were sparkling in the sun:

The leaves are turning:

I had a run through the castle:

I saw people, dogs and horses:

One of my fave corners:

And this owl was sitting in a front garden:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

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!