Wonderful art

Hi Everybody!

After visiting the K20 art museum yesterday,  I visited

the K21 today, which shows art of the 21st century.

I saw a lot of fun things there, and although not everything was

to my taste, it was really interesting. It is housed in a wonderful

old building, which has been beautifully modernised and adapted. I

will show photos in the next days.

For Art Journal Journey, Indian Summer, and for 

Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin, I have an A3

 mixed media piece. The background was brayered, stamped and collaged, using

various pieces stamped on tissue, and 2 of 'my' men, who were stamped with various quotes. I added some feathers found by the castle moat.

And now for the wonderful art - some of the paintings I was able to see yesterday at the K20:

Andy Warhol:

Gilbert and George:

Andreas Gursky:

And I'm in the picture too....

A fun installation by Lawrence Weiner:

Paul Klee (with my shadow again!):

Pierre Bonnard:

Amadeo Modigliani:

Paul Klee again:

Franz Marc:

I will show more bit by bit as I get the photos sorted, but it was wonderful

to be there. Even better, I have a season ticket for the rest of the year

and can go as often as I want to to see more....and there is lots more there to see!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Enjoying Autumn

Hi Everybody!

I had a fun day today, with a visit to the K20 art museum here,

showing art of the 20th century. It was fantastic, and I will show photos

when I have sorted them

For Art Journal Journey, Indian Summer, I have 2 projects. The first is a hybrid piece, using a collaged background with printed and written papers, some digital add ons and my balcony blackbird:

These pages are in my 'new' journal, just using up scraps combined with a painted background, stamping and some pieces of paper napkins:

This morning when I went out the ducks were holding an 'indignation meeting'

by the stream:

Then I saw why - the heron was there, and they don't like him.

Too much competition?

The autumn colours contrasted with the grey and misty sky:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

A lot going on

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new challenge at TIOT - 

Hand Made by YOU.

As always you have two weeks to link to us, and projects of all formats

are allowed, but this time no digis or shop bought embellishments!

I made another button back album, using papers from 7 Gypsies. The back, front and back were made with thick card from a drawing block, and covered with the paper. For the pages I made 2 signatures using coloured paper to coordinate

with the DP I used. The signatures are sewn together and held in 

place with buttons fixed to the back of the album, hence the name. I cut a figure from the leftovers and decorated the front with it. This album is easy to make:

For Art journal journey, Indian summer, I made a hybrid piece using a rusty background and one of my autumn photos:

Last weekend I went to Duisburg looking for more walls from the middle ages.

Err,  no these shops are not from that time:

But at the old market place you can see the foundations of the ancient town hall, and the metal sculpture shows its size and style:

The model was most interesting:

By the harbour I found huge stretches of the walls, dating back good 1000

years:

If you enlarge the photo you can read all about in in German and English:

On my way back I stopped to listen to this man playing classical music,

and he was really, really fantastic:

This shop was filled with Christmas biscuits and tea, which brings me to Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, and here a big welcome to the T gang:

Before I went home on the tram I warmed up with a cup of cappuccino

at a little Italian ice-parlour.

Have great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!