The leaves are falling

Hi Everybody!

After the relatively mild weather we had these last weeks

today was cold, grey and damp, brrr!

For Art Journal Journey, Susi's theme of collage with a twist, I have a 'nightmare' collage, reminiscent of those strange dreams we sometimes have where nothing is quite as it

should be....
(digital add ons from Mischief Circus, verse anon)

There seem to be more leaves on the ground than on the trees,

and today they made a squelchy and slippery mess underfoot.

I enjoyed seeing the last of the leaves and berries :

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Busy T for Tuesday

Hi Everybody!

There's lots going on again today - It's Elizabeth's

T stands for Tuesday, so a big welcome to all of the T gang. And we have a new challenge at TIOT.

Our new theme at TIOT is

'Trees are green, or any other colour'.

Projects of all formats are allowed, and as always you have 2 weeks

to link to us - hope to see you there.

My fave colours just now are the beautiful colours

of autumn, and they are on my tag. I used a photo  for my tag, and again,  

faded, for the background:

 And for Susi's collage challenge at Art Journal Journey I have a hybrid/mixed media piece. 'My' men were cut with templates, and collaged onto a painted and collaged background. Then it was digitally placed on a water-coloured background and given a filter to grunge up the edges And no faces, leaves or wings are to be seen!

For Elizabeth's T stand for Tuesday, my drink is, as always

cappuccino:

I baked a lemon cake when Sabine visited last week:

And a batch of scones - here they are still on the baking sheet-

help yourselves:

One of the rooms I visited at the K21, the museum for 21st century art,

contains art from Hans-Peter Feldmann.  The heads have been copied and enlarged from old paintings, and arranged so that they look at the viewer and at each other. 

The white square is there to be filled with the viewer's own memories:

Here he collected various landscape paintings and re-hung them with the horizons always at the same level:

And here he has made collections of various bits and pieces and put them onto turn tables, so that the shadows make a sort of macabre dance along the wall. This was very fascinating to watch:

 Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Monday Mix

Hi Everybody!

For Susi's theme of collage with a twist at Art Journal Journey 

I have another hybrid page. The orange background is part of a page in my 2nd new journal, placed onto a water colour background with a filter. Then I collaged the headless lady and the text, the blue something in place of her head is part of the background. The digital bits are from Mischief Circus.

Yesterday afternoon the wind chased the clouds across the sky:

And this lovely sunrise welcomed me when I got up this morning:

On my walk I saw some strange fungi:

These ones look like gone-off yeast dumplings:

Most of the trees have lost nearly all of their leaves:

The bridge is good 20 minutes walk away, but I zoomed it in 

and it looks like it's right here:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Censored

Hi Everybody!

It's weekend - enjoy!

For Art Journal Journey, Susi's fun theme of collage with a twist,

I have another hybrid piece. The background is a gelli plate print I made back in September when Susi was visiting. I stamped the little boy in the rain (LaBlanche) with Archival black. I placed it digitally on a water coloured background, using a filter to pep up the edges, and added the embellishments. The poor child's face has been censored as faces are on the no-go list at AJJ this month!

We had 2 nice days with sunshine this week:

 The farmers were making the most of the good weather and

harvesting root veggies, accompanied by

swarms of seagulls:

 Autumn is still showing itself in lovely colours:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!