Fish and music

Hi Everybody!

Here's wishing you all a great weekend.

For Chris' '101 ways to keep warm' challenge at 

Art Journal Journey I have an 8" x 8" page.

The substrate is cardboard, which was painted

and embossed. The image is a paper napkin

pasted onto music paper, which I sewed

to the backing. I think playing and enjoying

music is a great way to keep warm!

 I am also linking to Simon Monday challenge,

it's a stitch up

I have some more pictures of the underwater world

at the Aquazoo:

I'm glad the shark was behind glass!

I wonder how that man got in the aquarium?

The yellow fish liked hiding:

Have a great day, take care,

and thank a lot for coming by!

Collage and fish

Hi Everybody!

Another week is flying by, and I am trying to catch

up with myself.

For Paint Party Friday I have a mixed media collage

made some weeks ago. A few months back I 

cleared out a lot of old journal pages and

paintings, some of which I cut into pieces and

re-used in other pictures. The BG was painted

and textured with a brayer. I added all of my bits and 

bobs and 2 figures cut from magazines,

who are wandering through the maze and

looking at everything. The face in the middle

seems to be watching the visitors....

I did lots of sewing to

hold it all together, and stenciled some diamonds 

over it to bring it together. I am also linking to

Simon Monday challenge, it's a stitch up:

Recently I visited the newly opened Aquazoo

in Düsseldorf. It was closed for renovations

for nearly  2 years, so it was great to visit the

refurbished museum this time. In the entryway we were 

greeted with a bust of  Theodor Löbbecke,

after whom the museum is named:

The museum follows  educational and recreational

purposes, and is very well laid out:

I loved the fossils:

There were lots of aquariums giving a glimpse into 

the under-water world, it was a bit like watching

TV but it was real, and everything was moving:

I loved the colourful jelly fish, too!

More photos to follow!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Music and rust

Hi Everybody!

For Tag Tuesday I have another hybrid tag. The 

background is a photo taken here looking along

 the Rhine. The other elements

were added digitally. The quote, is, of course,

from Shakespeare:

At the old steel-works in Duisburg I was wondering

what was interesting about this dark passage, 

until I went it:

You can look through windows right and left and see 

down into the old works. An old black and white film

shows scenes from the time when it was being

worked, and the rest is illumined by lights in bright

blue, red and green. It was rather spooky and very surreal:

Outside it seemed very grey after all the bright colours:

Spiders still seem to live there:

I loved the rusty, old machines, I'm sure Elizabeth

will love them, too!

And the old gasometer is now used as an indoor and 

inland diver's paradise - you can read more about it 

and see wonderful photos here:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!