This and that for Monday

Hi Everybody!

Hope your weekend was good.

For Art Journal Journey, if music be the food of love, and 99 faces, I made another Modigliani 'knock-off'. I painted her face with water colours and pastel chalks, and placed her onto an A3 background made with gesso and brushos.

I am having fun with Modigliani just now. This is face number 66.

Today was wet and cold, but the signs of spring cannot be ignored:

Have a great day you all, take care

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Grungy, rusty Valentine

Hi Everybody!

Happy Valentine's Day!

To celebrate the day I made 2 hybrid pages, which I am linking to Art Journal Journey, if music be the food of love, and Moo Mania and More, hearts.

My grungy wall has been used for the background of both pages.

Here I have added rusty roses, my heart and my window-sill cherub.

 

For the second page I used an image from Dezinaworld, combined with my grungy wall and rusty heart.

We had a cold and frosty night followed by a wonderful sky in the early morning:

Anr the sunrise was wonderful

Here I took  photos of the sunrise reflected in one of my pictures:

Have  a great day you all,

take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!

Grungy walls

Hi Everybody!

It's weekend - enjoy!

Today I have a hybrid piece made using the photo of the grungy wall

that I took this week, with my Modigliani knock-off that I showed yesterday

placed onto it. The colours go so well together. The rusty heart is one I bought here, and is in reality about 1", I just enlarged it a bit.

I am linking to Art Journal Journey, if music be the food of love and Moo Mania and More, hearts.

Here is the grungy wall photo again; if you want to use it, feel free!

The Rhine was a lot higher today, but as it hasn't rained for 2 days I am hoping it will soon go down again. The little stream is very full:

Here, where it joins the Rhine, the water is up to the level of the bridge, you can't see the arch underneath just now. The footpath leads over the bridge:

I found another nice, grungy wall today:

The gangway to the boats is almost on a level with the towpath:

Have a great weekend you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Friday Mix

Hi Everybody!

Today it's time for Art Journal Journey, if music be the food of love, 99 faces, Paint Party Friday and Moo Mania and More.

I made another mixed media journal page for PPF and 99 faces. Once again I copied a Modigliani portrait (Lunia Czechowska, 1918) as I am really fascinated by his faces just now. I placed her on a background which was gessoed, sprinkled with brushos and given added colour with pastel chalks. I have also made a hybrid version on a different background, and will show it tomorrow.

For Art Journal Journey and Moo Mania and More, hearts I made a hybrid page, using parts of older pages digitally combined with a heart mask.

This is a piece I made back in the 90s. I always loved watching the ducks etc.

And here is a de-coloured version, feel free to copy it and paint it in your own colours if you want.

This week we had a lot of rain, and the Rhine is still rising, although we did have some sunshine today. This is not the river, just the path I usually take through the fields, so I had to take a very muddy detour.

The sun showed itself this morning:

And a lot of bushes and trees are sprouting fresh green:

The Rhine is getting wider and wider:

Another of the paths I ususally take ended here:

A lot of trees have wet feet:

Here the water is almost up to the top of the bridge:

The little stream is full:

I hope the water starts to recede now!

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!