More of the Sandcastle

Hi Everybody!

Another week is flying by really quickly and it's Friday

already, which means it's time for Paint Party Friday.

I am also linking to Yvonne's 'colour in my world' theme

at Art Journal Journey

Today I am sharing an A3 mixed media piece made 2 weeks

 back, using another of my doll faces - I made 3 altogether,

so there's still  another one to come. This time I gave her sewed arms 

and legs, made from pieces cut from an old blouse, and clothes

made from scraps. The background was painted, collaged, stamped

 and stenciled. 

The quote is from Baz Luhrmann:

She started out like this:

And the rest was sewed on:

 Here are some detail shots from the giant sandcastle - if you missed

yesterday's post you can read all about it here

The damage you can see at some spots was caused by some

rowdies who broke into the site at night and tried to climb up

the castle. The sand sometimes seems to be different colours, which 

was caused by the sun shining or hiding behind clouds:

By the way, my Tuesday postcards this week were won by Eileen

and Lisa. Eileen, please contact me with your snail-mail addy!

I will show the rest of the photos tomorrow!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Building sandcastles

Hi Everybody!

Today I have another mixed media piece to share, using an

altered photo of Miriam as a baby. She had been lounging on the
couch, watching me sew.....I digitally altered the photo to make

it grainy, and then added some soft colour to her. Then it was 

sewn onto various substrates, using different textiles. To finish it off

 I added a piece of pink netting to make a nice contrast to

the neutral tones. I am linking to Yvonne's lovely challenge of 'colour 

in my world' at Art Journal Journey 

and to Paint Party Friday hosted by Eva and Kristin:

After visiting Neuss on Sunday we fortified ourselves with

plenty of cake and coffee and then sent off for Duisburg,

another neighbouring town. A group of people there recently made

the Guinness Book of records with a 17 metres high sandcastle.

I had watched it's progress on the news here, but wanted to

see it 'live'. It's in the middle of a wonderful 

industrial park, where you can see the giant machines used in the 

manufacture of iron and steel, and that was an even greater

highlight for me. I will definitely be visiting here again when I

have more time and energy:

The track back to nature:

And then we got out first view of the magnificent pyramid-castle:

Here you can see the progress shots:

More photos to follow next post - watch this space!

In the pink

Hi Everybody!

For Art Journal Journey, Yvonne's lovely 'Colour in my world'

theme, and for Simon Monday Challenge, 

'it's written in the stars' I have an A3 mixed media page. 

For the BG I splodged white,quin red and titan buff liquid 

acrylics from Deco art onto my page

and brayered them quickly to mix and move the colours. I then used 

a star/snowflake brayer-stamp to give some texture.

When it was dry I collaged 

the image of the lady, cut from a magazine, 

and used various stencils round about to

give some depth. The other images, including the

scribbly ones,  are all die cuts, made from 2 

sets of dies bought from Aliexpress in China, where they

offer a great selection of very reasonably priced, good quality stuff,

which is sent with free shipping.

I cut them from some scraps of paper painted with brown

metallics. The Eiffel tower was cut from a paper napkin. I used

some sewing to edge the page:

After the flea market on Sunday we visited a newly built

cultural centre in Neuss, called the Romaneum. When you go into the foyer 

you can look down onto houses from Roman times to the middle ages - a very fascinating view into the history literally under our feet:

Various pots and glass from Roman times up to the

19th century:

There is also a reading corner, where you can bring, take or swap books and magazines

Exhibitions are also held there, and at the moment there are paintings

from Gisa Rosa:

The best photos are still to come - watch this space!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!