The red man

Hi Everybody!

Today I have another mixed media piece, 10 x 14". The image

was cut from a magazine and transferred using clear film 

(Saran wrap). I sewed it onto canvas, adding some very simple 

embellishments. The edges of the canvas were coated with

structure paste and painted with a mix of reds, orange and

black. I sewed the whole piece onto black cardstock to frame

it. I love the grungy effect of this transfer.

For 'Back to School' at Tag Tuesday and for Simon Monday challenge,

school related, I have a tag with a hand-painted background:

Some photos from today's walk about.

Back to school is the theme at the Book shop:

Have a great day, take care

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T stands for This and ThaT

Hi Everybody!

On Tuesday we are beginning a new challenge at TIOT -

-Stitch it-

We want to see some stitching, real or faux on your work!

As always, projects of all formats are allowed and you have 

2 weeks to link your creations to us. Hope to see YOU there!

I made an A4 mixed media piece, using collage and stitching

on a painted, stenciled and stamped BG. My great Auntie Fanny

was a seamstress and very skilled at embroidery and beading, too,

so I think it's good to use her photo here:

This is a hybrid version, as I want to make it my last entry for Jo's

'Poetry in Motion' challenge at Art Journal Journey, and would like to 

thank Jo for all the lovely comments she left on my blog:

And I would like to remind you that you still have a week to enter

 into Michele's 'Back to school' challenge at

Tag Tuesday

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

so I would like to welcome all the nice ladies of the T Gang.

Last week when my cousins were here we had an art-museum day,

and went to an organic and vegan restaurant for lunch. We enjoyed the 

good food, and sitting outside watching the world go by. My drink was

water. Some money from the sale of this water goes to provide

clean water for those who live where it is not normally

available, a dreadful scandal in the world today.

In case you'r wondering where my coffee is, I did have coffee before and 

after my meal!

Last weeks postcards went to Chrissie and CJ. This week

there are 2 unique postcards up for grabs, both with pictures

I painted from photos. If you would like one, please put your name in 

a comment:

 And some photos from out and about:

 Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Art and Freedom

Hi Everybody!

Today I am sharing a little  (A4) quilt I made using photos of my Mum
and me transferred using Lazertran decals and liquid polymer. This
doesn't render the photos as transparent as using turpentine,
but also gives a very good result with less odour. After fixing the
pictures onto some recycled floral material I sewed it onto canvas.
I added some 'party hats' made of lace. I am planing on making
more with other family photos.

And I have another tag for Michele's theme 'back to school' at

Tag Tuesday:

And this tag is meant for Go Tag Thursday, clocks:

I have some more photos from my visit with my cousins

last week:

Loved these stairs at the Main Station:

There's always lots going on there:

We then headed to the K20 (Art of the 20th century)  museum to 

see the normal collection,which is superb, and the special

exhibition:

Rupture, War and Surrealism 

in Egypt (1938 – 1948)

This is the official introductory text issued by the museum:

This is the first comprehensive museum exhibition about the largely forgotten Cairo based group Art et Liberté ("art and liberty", "jama’at al-fann wa al-hurriyyah"). The exhibition presents more than 200 works from around 50 collections in 12 different countries, including paintings, works on paper, prints, photographs, films, books, and archival documents. At the dawn of World War II and during Egypt's colonial rule by the British Empire the surrealist collective of artists and writers was engaged in its defiance of Fascism, Nationalism and Colonialism.

Through their works, artists such as Hassan El-Telmisani, Inji Efflatoun, Fouad Kamel, Amy Nimr, Samir Rafi, and Ramses Younane amongst others, gave voice to the group's political, aesthetic and social commitment. The collective's main driving force was the Cairo-based poet and literary critic Georges Henein, the son of a diplomat and a cosmopolitan personality who had been closely associated with the Parisian Surrealists grouped around  André Breton from as early as 1933. Surrealism, with its often provocative, always poetic, subversive, anarchic, and intimate amalgamation of poetry and painting, resonated very strongly in Cairo where it stood firmly in its fight against political repression and for the ideal of human freedom.

This exhibition features a direct link to the  Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: the Cairo-based artists' collective explicitly declared solidarity with many of the classical modernist artists who were persecuted by Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco. Some of these artists are represented today in the permanent collection. Alluding to the defamatory and propagandistic National Socialist exhibition devoted to "Entartete Kunst," the Art et Liberté group headed its founding manifesto of December 1938 with the words "Long Live Degenerate Art!" and demanded: "Together, Let us overcome the Middle Ages that emerges from the heart of the Occident."

Here a selection of the photos and paintings. There were also newsreel 

films being shown:

This was my fave piece:

My cousins loved the exhibition rooms of modern art, too, here they are 

standing in front of a wonderful Bonnard painting:

Everyone gets a bracelet to make him an official visitor:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!