Autumn's last flight

Hi Everybody!
Here's wishing you all a great weekend.

For Art Journal Journey, inspired by the colours of autumn and 99 faces I have a hybrid journal page:

 For Art Journal Journey I also made this A3 mixed media page.

These photos were taken last Sunday, a lovely, frosty and sunny day, just great for walking.

The old water mill in Kalkum, dating back to the 14th century:

Love this weather vane:

Beautiful reflections at Schloss Kalkum:

The winter flowering tree:

This Canadian wild goose has paired up with a Nile goose

and keeps a close watch over his family:

Have a good weekend you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Autumn has almost blown over

Hi Everybody!

The week has disappeared in a flash, Autumn has lost all of its leaves and colours, and winter is greeting us with its cold blast.

For Paint Party Friday, and Art Journal Journey, inspired by autumn colours, I made an A3 mixed media journal page. The background of the middle part is a sunset photo taken here at the Rhine. I used my photo of the night watchman that I took in Kettwig, and here he is doing his rounds and checking that the stone lion (Dezinaworld) is feeling well. The clock is from Purely vintage designs. I think the quote is very suitable for the end of Autumn. I painted the surrounds with acrylics using matching colours and my scratchy brush.

Last Sunday I took more photos of the shop windows here, and I love the surreal feel of the views of the interiors and houses opposite at the same time.

My fave windows here show a shop which is having a sale before rebuilding, I love the dummies wrapped in brown paper. They ususally have a very staid and old fashioned window decoration, so I was happy to see this one.

This is the 'Conditorei', a baker and confectioner with a café, where you can buy wonderful cakes, biscuits bread etc:

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Happy Thanksgiving Day

Hi Everybody!

I want to wish all dear friends in the USA a very happy

Thanksgiving Day.

To celebrate the day, and for Art Journal Journey, inspired by the colours of autumn, I made a journal page:

For our private Challenge, 99 Faces, I made a blue lady.

I drew her very simply in black ink and kept to a very limited colour scheme, using a gold pen to add some highlights. She was painted with water colours.

I am also linking to Kim Dellow's show your face:

The sunrise yesterday was wonderful:

The moon was really unusual tonight - not just because it was so bright, but because of the halo of coloured clouds around it.

Mid week mix

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well.

For Art Journal Journey, inspired by autumn colours, I have another hybrid collage, using my photos and art work. I added  Banksy's little girl with the balloon (stencilry) and some bubbles.

For Wen's Simply Neutrals I made another hybrid collage. The fish are from Itkupilli, all the rest is made from my own art/photos.

These 2 photos fit Wen's theme, too:

On Sunday we had beautiful weather. This raven was waiting for his breakfast in the early morning:

Here I have digitally cut out the background and changed it to a PNG file,  (with a transparent background) so please feel free to down load and use this one in your own work if you like it.

We have had wonderful sunrises in the past few days, I love seeing the morning sun dispelling the frost and mist.

My long shadow accompanies me on my walks:

The leaves of the pollard willows were gleaming like silver in the sun:

Frozen leaves:

There was ice on the little swamp:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!