Tags and heads

Hi Everybody!

Time is flying by again - it moves more quickly

than I can!

For Art Journal Journey, Erika's lovely theme of 'Tell me a story', and for Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin, I have a

hybrid piece made from 2 large tags I made this week. 

I scanned the tags into my computer, and with some digital magic

I put them into two of my heads and grunged them up a bit.

I placed them on a background made from another collaged

tag made this week which I will show another day. I changed the

colors to black and white in one of them and

added the sentiment:

For my mixed media pieces I used 10" kraft tags. First they were painted with olive and blue metallic paints, then stenciled using some new stencils Annette sent me for Christmas - thanks so much! After they were dry I used my 

clear-the-table technique

to collage them with all the UFOs flying about, and then used more stencils to draw the figures. To finish them off I added some white stenciling and some dotted highlights on the figures. I had fun making these, I haven't been able to do much lately as my fingers are not being very cooperative.

As I have used my new stencils I am also linking 

the tags to Simon Monday challenge

and to More mixed media

anything goes

These were the backgrounds before I pasted everything onto

them:

Recently I visited The Kunsthalle art museum

in Düsseldorf. I have a season-ticket which gets me into all

museums without having to pay, but I would have 

been very disappointed if I had paid 18€ to view this

'wool and water' exhibition:

And this exhibit really takes the biscuit -

this is not my idea of art:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Past, present, future

Hi Everybody!

It's been another cold day here, and we have

been threatened with winter storms over the

next few days - I'm hoping they are wrong!

For Art Journal Journey, Erika's lovely theme of 

'tell me a story', I have a hybrid piece using  a canvas I made 

of some of my ancestors. I  placed them here onto a

grungy background. The original was made with various photo transfers, interspersed with scraps of old letters. My great grandparents are both there,my Mum, my grandparents, my great aunt, and I am hidden in the background.

I like having many layers, even though they are not all visible -

life is a palimpsest, one layer covering up and sometimes

erasing the other. People who lived before us are still

'with us'in our memories, they are part of us as we are a 

continuation of them:

And this is the tag I made for Tag Tuesday, theme 'silver':

'To speak is silver, silence is golden'

Would be a good tip for some politicians these days....

Some photos taken this week, mornings and

on my walks:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T stands for today

Hi Everybody!

Today is Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday party and is also

the start of a new challenge at 

TIOT 

*Use tissue*

I made a set of 3 little canvases (4x4") into a 

wall hanging for a neighbour. She wanted

something with yellow and green and

flowers. I used some small tulip

serviettes from my stash,

glued them with gel medium to

the canvases, and then gave the edges

a coat of paint - finished. I mounted them

onto a dark green ribbon with gold edges . I was

not really impressed with them, but the

recipient loved her hanging, so that's the main thing!

At this point I would like to welcome the nice ladies of

the T gang. We had snow this morning, so I was outside on

my balcony before it was light taking photos. I mounted one of them

onto a moonlit sky background, which I grunged up a bit.

I do feed the birds every morning, they are always

waiting in the tree, but the coffee is

just for me! I am of course linking to Art Journal Journey, Erika's lovely theme of tell me a story

Last week I cooked a huge pot of soup made from carrots,

parsnips and sweet potatoes, and spiced with

garlic and ginger. It was good served with a splash of sour cream!

My fave water glass has a black cat on it, she looks like my

Kitty did:

The clear circle on the other side of the glass shows the

cat again, magnified by the liquid:

And I love making patterns in my soup - perhaps

I'm in my second childhood!?

And this bread twist was delicious - filled with tomato and cheese,

and with lots of seeds on top!

My Scandinavian bird hopped down to have a look:

And the rocking horse came over too - I think she wants

to send best wishes to Elizabeth & her boys.

(The rocking horse was a present from dear Sabine)

And some photos from my snowy walk on Monday:

Photo bombed from a loudly squawking crow!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Of dragonflies, strange faces and cracked mirrors

Hi Everybody!

Today is Elizabeth's 2nd on the 2nd,

where we share a post previously published.

I made the journal page in September 2014, using DP and 2 tags I had made a couple of months previously.  I used the same stamp set from Lawrence and Morgan for both. I added stickles for the wings. The tags were machine stitched to the background. The quote on the right tag is from Leonard da Vinci:

For Erika's new challenge at AJJ, 'Every journal page tells a story',

I made hybrid page where I got carried away, and it ended up

rather differently than I had planned..... 

The background was painted, collaged and partly crackled. 

I collaged lots of words cut from magazines.

Then I added the quote, the strange lady, goggles and hand digitally (Mischief Circus). The ravens are from Dezinaworld. This was a fun and 

silly piece made to cheer me up. And the story? 

Well, I would like your ideas for this! Don't be shy!

  

The photos today are from an exhibition at the Kunsthalle

in Düsseldorf, 'Wool and water'. It was interesting, but not

quite my thing- I am in some of the photos, rather distorted 

by the mirrors:

 Have a great day, take care

and thanks a lot for coming by!