Rusty Rose

Hi Everybody!

Happy Weekend!

For 99 Faces  and Kim's Show your face I made a face which I have called 'rusty rose', drawn onto patterned and stamped cardstock, and painted with water-colours in reduced colours.

For Art Journal Journey, collage, I turned her face into a collage. I made a 

background with texture, flowers and some printed matter onto which I placed her head which I digitally removed from the first background. Then I added the skyline of  Düsseldorf and  the rusty rose which I photographed near here.

Some more photos from my walks; Everything looks better when the sun shines:

The heron flying over the river.

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by.

Collage, sky and birds

Hi Everybody!

For Art Journal Journey, collage and Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin, I made an A3 mixed media Collage. The background was painted with a mix of titan buff and gesso. I collaged various bits and pieces from my table onto the lower half of the page, and added a piece of embroidery thread, some stamping and some tissue tape. The handsome man dropped through my letterbox in an advert. I cut him out, used his reverse as a template and sprayed round him with dark brown, and then added his front side to the collage. I added some stenciling and used another stencil for the text.

We had beautiful weather today - cold but sunny. The day started with a beautiful pre-dawn sky:

The gulls were once again all gathered at the jetty, I love watching them:

The sun was glinting on the water:

As I saw this I was wondering if we had a shark in the Rhine, but as it came nearer I saw it was just drift wood:

Standing on one leg seems to be in fashion for big and small:

Have a good day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Thursday this and that

Hi Everybody!

For Art Journal Journey, collage and for 99 faces, I made a face, drawn  very simply with black ink onto some printed cardstock. I kept the lines and  colours to a minimum, too, and collaged some diamond shaped scraps and the journaling, which is a quote from Marcus Tullius Cicero. I let some yellow and green water colours run down over the face.

I didn't get round to showing my Tag Tuesday tags from the last 2 weeks, so here they are:

Theme - found objects (the key brads)

Theme : bows

I am always fascinated by shadows and reflections:

More feathered visitors:

I think this one needs to go on diet!

After all the rain the Rhine is full again, and the heron and ducks were looking for food. The heron always seems to get very irritated with the ducks who don't respect his space:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!