More of Nature's wonders

Hi Everybody!

Nature's wonders is Gill's lovely theme at AJJ this month, where Gill is doing a great job as hostess. For my hybrid piece today I started with a painting made a couple of years back, using acrylics and pastel chalks. I painted the view from my balcony on a night where the moon hung huge and low and low in the sky (4th picture). I used a mask to make a frame, added the stars, clouds and angels from Mischief Circus, and the quote from Buddha.
I am also liking to Paint Party Friday, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin, and Moo Mania and More, moon:

The cow was painted from a photo taken last year, and then given a filter and mask to jazz it up a bit. I love watching the cows, they have such beautiful eyes, and they are really natural wonders:

And I have another cat doodle:

We had mixed weather this week - some sunshine, some rain, and cool enough to really enjoy walking:

I enjoyed my walk to a neighbouring village:

I walked through the park after passing the beautiful gates:

This holly tree was full of blackberries - another natural wonder?

I loved the flowers in the hedges:

And this strange fungus was growing out of the side of a dead tree - eek, it has a face in the middle! Can you see it? And there's a profile of a bearded man on the left! Can you find more?

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

New Challenge at Moo Mania and More - Moon

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new challenge at

Moo Mania and More -

Moon

As always, projects of all formats and styles are welcome,

and you have 2 weeks to link to us.

Hope to see YOU there!

For my hybrid piece I used a background made from painted, heated and bubbled Tyvek, adding some digi elements from Dezinaworld 15 & Mischief Circus. I am also linking to Art Journal Journey, Nature's wonders - yes, I am still on my moon trip!

My walk yesterday led me to a neighbouring village and then back along the Rhine:

The long eared sheep are back again, including some very newly born 'babies':

'If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter'

George Washington

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

The world is full of wonders

Hi Everybody!

For Art journal Journey, nature's wonders,  I made a page to celebrate butterflies,

these wonderful, graceful creatures that flutter about in summer. And all the more marvelous when you think they start out as caterpillars - a true wonder of nature. I wanted to use a butterfly that I made last year - it was cut from plastic, painted, crackled and embossed with Frantage vintage gold. This made it buckle and bend, and it was like it had come alive. So I couldn't bear to part with it. I used Dina Wakley's moon head stencil on a textured and painted blue background, and cut the dress out of left-over Christmas ribbons. I added a few left-over stickers and then digitally added this page and the butterflies to a second painted background. And I love this quote from Gary Zukav! This is also a reminder for TIOT, use your leftovers, and you still have a week to link up to us - hope to see you there!

And Tuesday is also Elizabeth and Bluebeard's T Stands for Tuesday, so a BIG welcome to all of the T Gang! Today I am offering you some coconut bars. They are cookies made with golden syrup, muesli, coconut and....and whatever you want to put into them. They are delicious, especially eaten warm and sticky....

And my drink is cappuccino, as always:

On my Sunday walk to Schloss Kalkum, a moated castle near here, I saw

this pigeon on the roof of one of the houses, and it seems to be imitating the pose of the cockerel on the weather vane:

Then you go in through the magic gate, and are in another world:

The ghost was still in the little chapel:

The sun was just right to make wonderful reflections on the water of the moat, which set the ducks really well in scene - wonders of nature indeed:

And the Egyptian geese were proudly showing off their offspring:

I will show more photos another time, too much is too much on one day!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!