A face and more

Hi Everybody!

Hope your weekend is going well.

For Art Journal Journey, inspired by autumn colours, and 99 faces I have an A4 journal page. I found a pile of old papers, which I used as backgrounds for faces. This one has been made minimalist, reduced to the bare essentials, and with a limited colour palette. I added colour with water colours and lots of 'random' stamping, the stamps used are from LaBlanche.

Some photos of my wintry walk today - the temps are falling fast!

I have been watching this tree stump rot and crumble for a couple of years now - it is covered with fungi and drilled full of holes - looks like an insect hotel. It's fascinating to watch how it is being reclaimed by nature.

The birds on the balcony are happily feeling again; the tits think they are the owners of my balcony and try to chase all the other birds away, however big they are!

Have a good Sunday, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

This and that on Saturday

Hi Everybody!

Here's wishing us all a better weekend than the last one,

and peace and safety for all.

For Art Journal Journey, inspired by the colours of autumn, and 99 faces I have an A3 mixed media journal page

The centre part is a hybrid work using a face I drew layered over a patchwork background and an old letter. The autumn leaves and butterfly are digital additions. I pasted it onto a gessoed background, framed it with a broad marker, added a TH die-cut tree and the quote.

The water in the Rhine is still low:

Ships are only allowed to move half loads:

The leaves are almost gone:

But on the meadows the rape seed is blossoming in the middle of November.  We are expecting very cold weather from the north now, so it looks like we're moving from spring to winter.

The fire-brigade boat:

A beautiful and rusty hand rail:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Bird Friday

Hi Everybody!

For Art Journal Journey, inspired by autumn colours, Moo Mania and More, layers and Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin, I made an A4 mixed media journal page.  The central part was made with various elements and brushes, layered digitally. I placed it on an A3 page painted with black gesso over sage green, into which I stamped to repeat the pattern on the page. I added some fairy dust for a bit of sparkle. I used my photo of the moon as 'halo' around the African mask.

For 99 faces I made a hybrid page. The background was painted with acrylics and sprinkled with glitter. I added some freebie brushes digitally, and my photo of the statue of the girl. The face is my drawing.

Also linking to Kim Dellow's show your face

A herd of  sheep was grazing along the Rhine near here today, so I went to visit them. There was a huge number of seagulls flying around, it was great to see them flying and swooping in their formations.

As I went over the meadows down to the Rhine I startled this wild goose, which flew up from almost under my feet, squawking very loudly:

And then all his mates took flight and joined in, too. I had fun watching them swoop around.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!