Stone and more

Hi Everybody!

Another week is past and gone, and it's Friday already, which means it's time for Paint Party Friday, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin.

I have another journal page to share for Art Journal Journey, architecture.

I used a photo of a street near where I lived as a kid, in the middle of Jack the Ripper Land, when the houses, and especially the Church, always seemed to be so huge and sometimes threatening to me. After the war there were lots of gaps, or tall walls which had survived from bombed houses, and everything was blackened with soot, smoke and fire. 

The background was painted in grey and black, using my scratchy brush. I added some blue  and yellow patches to represent sun and sky.

And as I haven't been able to paint this week, I am re-showing a piece made some time back, where I copied one of Modigliani's portraits - it's a picture of a poet from 1915. I used ink, water colours and pastels for the face, and acrylics and pastels for the background.

Linking to 49 faces and Kim Dellow's Friday face Fun. 

If you have a face to show, pop over and join in there!

Some architectural details from the Basilica here:

Also linking to Wen's Blog

Thanks to those who sent well wishes, my pneumonia is slowly getting better, for which I am very thankful.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Architecture can be fun

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well.

For Art Journal Journey, architecture, and Moo Mania and More, patterns,

I made another A3 mixed media page. The background is a brush-wipe page, collaged with a cur out from a magazine. The graffiti artist is called Stik and the drawing is on a house in Bristol. I added my own graffiti with a marker.

I took these photos here 2 years ago, somebody just added a smile to the 'eyes' in the wall of the public toilets by the Rhine. I love how the sunlight is reflecting from the stained glass windows of the Basilica opposite. I was rather sad to see that the powers that be painted over the smile :(

I watched the sky growing lighter from inside today:

This slug in fashionable leopard-look oozed across my path last week:

I never tire of watching the horses grazing:

These photos are from Bad Honnef, a little town further up the Rhine.

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

New Challenge at Moo Mania and More

Hi Everybody!

My journal page today is meant for the new challenge at

  Moo Mania and More, 

show patterns. 

You have 2 weeks to join us with your creations, so hope to see lots of you there.

I drew a face and doodled her hair and eyebrows. I kept the colours minimal, as I find these sort of patterns look better in black and white. The birds were added with a Dina Wakley stencil and the houses with an 'anonymous' stencil.

I am also linking to Art Journal Journey, architecture, 49 Faces and Kim Dellow's show your face.

Here 2 digitally altered versions:

The photos are from the weekend, I really have to stay home for a few days and rest, not something I like, but it's necessary.

Here you can see the new railings they are erecting along the Rhine:

And these photos were taken in Zons, a little town from the middle ages, a few kilometres up the Rhine from here.

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!