Colourful or black?

Hi Everybody!

On the 5th of each month we begin a new challenge at

More Mixed Media. As always, the challenge are 

anything goes, this time with optional black.

You have 4 weeks to enter.

For my A3 piece I used black as a contrast to the colours 

of the rainbow, which I used here in the reverse order. 

The face was stamped with the stamp I recently cut. The BG was 

gessoed, and the halo of colours was added with blended

gelatos. The stamped face was then sewn to the BG,

and I added some lines of sewing in the halo.

I am also linking to Chris' '101 ways to keep warm'

challenge at Art Journal Journey, as colours always make

me feel warm.

For Simon Monday Challenge, 'all creatures great and small', and

Tag Tuesday, Sandie's challenge of 'book-print', I have

a tag. The book-print BG was coloured with distress oxide inks

in spiced marmalade, abandoned coral and frayed burlap, 

and sewn onto matting in black and coordinating stripes.

The hedgies were die cut, I imagined them looking for a place

under the leaves to hibernate. The quote is from 

Ecclesiastes chapter 3. 

I didn't go walking yesterday as I was not feeling so good,

but was able to take photos from my balcony. The raven, up at

the top of the tree in the field behind the house, was busy

with his morning toilet:

And I was treated to a front seat to watch the moon rise up through

the tries, making a very spooky glow in the sky:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Flowers and more

Hi Everybody!

For Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin, I am sharing an 18 x 24"

paint pouring canvas made a couple of months back. I was

intending to alter the red flower on the left, as I wasn't

happy with it, but haven't got round to doing it yet.

Perhaps I will alter it one of these days, who knows? I added some

micro-beads to the centres of the flowers:

The moon was surrounded by an icy halo yesterday evening:

 Pastel colours to start the day:

And a visit from Mr Heron:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

2nd on the 2nd on the 1st

Hi Everybody!

Here's wishing you a good,  new month.

The leaves are falling fast here, some trees are almost

bare. The nights are growing longer, and it's getting

colder. Winter is stretching out its cold fingers, so I'm trying to 

hold on to the warm colours of autumn as long as possible.

Tomorrow is '2nd on the 2nd' at Elizabeth's blog,

where we share a previous post. This one is from 2014.

I have chosen a canvas showing some of my ancestors.

 I chose a vintage style, and used crackle glaze  to age some 

of the pictures. Others were given a coat of milky glaze 

to make them look far away and faded. I used fussy cut photos 

and photo  transfers done with Golden gel interspersed with 

scraps of letters:

For Sandie's 'Book-print' challenge at Tag Tuesday I have a hybrid

tag using various elements from Serif, Mischief Circus and me.

I used scraps of book print combined with figures from

children's books, who have emerged out of the story:

And some picture of autumn before it disappears:

I love watching the moon:

 

Beautiful skies:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!