Music and love

Hi Everybody!

For Art Journal Journey, if music be the food of love, I have a hybrid page. The background is one of the wonderful sunrise photos taken from my window, overlayed with a romantic silhouette....

The fungi are growing larger day by day:

The water level is still rising thanks to the rain, and

the water fowl are making the best of it:

The gulls were enjoying the wind:

The trees are getting wet feet:

The fire place is almost in the water:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Madame Kisling

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

For Art Journal Journey, if music be the food of love, I have an A3 mixed media page, meant also for 99 faces.  I painted the background with acrylics using my scratchy brush. I copied the face from Modigliani's painting of Madame Kisling, which he painted in Paris in 1917. I love his style, and have already copied a lot of his portraits. For me it is a wonderful way to learn how the artist painted. I used a mix of acrylics, water colours and pastel chalks for the face. When it was dry I cut it out and collaged it onto the background. I added my text and some washi tape.

Thi morning we were treated to another wonderful show:

This one was taken through the kitchen window:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Head, heart and hair

Hi Everybody!

Have a good weekend.

For Art Journal Journey, if music be the food of love, I have another journal page. I woke up early, and wanted to do something heart shaped, which I did. Hmmm, can't say I like it, but that's okay, too! And yes, I know we are not supposed to slam ourselves, but....I am also linking to 99 faces

Winter sun makes wonderful shadows:

The early morning sky is always a great pleasure to see:

And here we have a case of bad hair day:

Have a good weekend you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

If music be....

Hi Everybody!

For Art Journal Journey, if music be the food of love, and for PPF, hosted

by Eva and Kristin, I have an A3 mixed media piece. The pigeon on the right is a photo, the background is part of a water-colour painting, and the yellow bird, which is , of course, the giant music-breasted warbler - a very rare bird- was painted and then scanned, digitally cut out and placed onto the background. I placed the print-out onto a background which was gessoed and sprayed. Then I continued the branches, added a few leaf embellishments, deepened the colours with Gelatos and added some tissue tape.

For 99 Faces I played around with acrylics and felt pens. 

Can you find the face?

And this is a blast from the past, a coloured pencil drawing made when I was at school, made in 1962.

We had very changeable weather, with some sun here and there, but mostly wild, wet and very windy. Even the gulls looked cold:

And the ducks:

This shows the flood marks on the wall by the Rhine. The wall is good 4 meters high, and I can't imagine what it must be like with such masses of water. The water level is normally good 2-3 meters below the level of the towpath.

I remember these 2 years well:

And here one of the old, rusty signs, especially for Elizabeth, who loves rust!

Have a good day, make the best of the weather, however it is,
take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!