Colourful

Hi Everybody!

Yesterday I had my last day at the clinic, so now I am

back home completely. The stay there really did me good,

and now I just need to get back into my 'normal' life -

whatever 'normal' is!

I did a series of prints from one of my linocuts made

many years ago, as I wanted to have one for each of the patients

and staff there. The prints are all A3 size. I am

linking to Gill's theme at Art Journal Journey, elegance and grunge.

and to Paint Party Friday.:

And now I have more photos from the Gasometer

exhibition. Some of the photographers who contributed to the show

are  Ingo Arndt, James Balog, Bence Maté, Jürgen Freund,

Rob Kesseler, Solvin Zankl, Frans Lanting, Tim Laman,

Klaus Nigge, Lennert Nilsson, Ondrej Pakan, Anup Shah,

Christian Ziegler and Tim Flach - kudos!

In the next post I will be showing you the world!

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

This and that and some more

Hi Everybody!

In the past couple of weeks I have been re-creating some pieces

for my family scrapbook. I rashly gave some pages

away last year, so have been redoing them from

photo. Here I have a mixed media 8x8" piece using

a substrate of partly peeled, painted, stamped

and collaged cardboard. The photo is Erika, and I don't 

know why she looks rather green here, as it is

sepia - possibly just the light reflecting on the glass. I 

sewed all the layers together. The fountain pen

has been stamped, fussy cut and given a coat

of glossy accents.

I am linking to Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva

and Kristin, to Art Journal Journey, Gill' s theme of

grunge and elegance, and to Creative Artiste Mixed Media.

I discovered this 'street art' from young artists on my

way to the clinic:

And here are some more photos of the exhibition in

the old gasometer in Oberhausen (Ruhr Valley)

Here's my friend Miss N adding to the photos:

More photos to follow!

Have a great day, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by!

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!