Mid week madness

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well. For Gill's theme of elegance 

and grunge at Art Journal Journey 

I made a digital piece, using a photo

of my Great Auntie Fanny on a grungy, layered background.

I used images from Mischief Circus, Serif and me.

I am also linking to Digitally made challenges,

anything goes.

Yesterday we visited the old gasometer in Oberhausen. It has a fantastic, 

steampunky space inside - that alone was exciting, but

the exhibition we saw inside was even better.

This climbing park is next door to it, a sort

of adventure playground for wannabe

Tarzans and Janes. And no, I did not try anything!

Let's go nearer to the exhibition:

Thomas Baumgärtel, the banana sprayer from Cologne has

left his mark on the entrance door:

Looking up from bottom to top:

Inside there is a huge space, dark, and mysteriously 

illuminated, and huge photos for the exhibition

'Wonders of nature'

In my next posts I will be showing you much more....

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Tuesday This and ThaT

Hi Everybody!

It's Tuesday again, so lots to do here!

At Tag Tuesday we are starting a new challenge, I am hosting,

and this time it's 'anything goes', so hope to see

you linking to us. Projects of all formats are

welcome!

I made a 12"mixed media tag with many

layers, and, what a surprise, I chose coffee for 

my first theme, as it also fits to Elizabeth's
T Stands for Tuesday, and I would like to extend
a warm welcome to all of the T Gang.

I used stencils to make the cups, and painted them

with blue/green metallic paint from Vivacolor. The
colour changes depending on the light.

I sewed the various layers together. 

The text is from a coffee stamp set, 

the highlights were added with a Sakura pen:

The table cloth also fits to TSFT. It's one of the many I embroidered

as a kid for my Great Aunt. After she died, I got them back,

and they have been in a box for years, where I rediscovered

them yesterday. It's much too large for my table, so I had to 

spread it out on the floor.

I would also like to remind you that you still have a week to

join in our 'Little things mean a lot' challenge at

TIOT.

The paintings were taken at the museum here in our

little town, all painted by women who live here:

Here the artist, Helga Stender, allowed me to take
pictures of her with her paintings, which I liked very much:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Mother' Day

Hi Everybody!

Tomorrow is Mother's Day, so I'm wishing a

great day to all you Mums out there! Hope you will be

suitably celebrated by your families.

I have a mixed media piece showing a photo of my

Mum with my sister Ruth, taken in 1939.

I still have the brooch my Mum is wearing.

For this piece I cased a similar one made a couple

of years back and given to my sister. The corrugated cardboard

has been peeled, painted and inked. Some parts were embossed

and others embellished with gold leaf- I am linking to

Creative Artiste Mixed Media, anything goes.

This was the very first card I made back in 1951 at the

tender age of 4 1/2:

I drew this face a couple of weeks back using pastel chalks

and added the flowers with a stencil:

Then I did some digital additions (Serif, Mischief Circus):

I am linking to Gill's challenge of elegance and grunge at

Art Journal Journey.

Some more photos from my walks:

These steampunky objects are at the tram stop:

 Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!