Weekend Post

Hi Everybody!

It's weekend, enjoy!

We had a cold and frosty day here, but the sky was blue and the sun glittered on the water all around us. The water is still rising, and as we are expecting a monster storm with rain and gales  from Sunday afternoon on it could be bad. I hope all people in the way of the storm here in Europe and in the British Isles stay safe, in spite of Brexit the storm will visit everybody!!

I have made another piece using a painting from Paul Klee:

The head was digitally cut out and re-arranged on one of my hand-painted backgrounds. The quote is also from Paul Klee. And I gave my creation a heart so I can link to Elizabeth's challenge at AJJ

I am having fun doing these alterations and watching the picture change:

Today I walked into the Altstadt of Düsseldorf to see what the Rhine there looks like. The water in the old harbour here is at  'normal' level  as the entrance has already been shut off to protect the Altstadt:

The water here is also up to the brim:

This is a 'Pegel-Uhr'  a clock which tells the time on one face and shows the level of the Rhine on the other:

Here you can see the aluminium wall which stops the water flooding into the old town behind it:

The entrance and balcony on the Rathaus (town hall):

This stream is the Düssel which gave Düsseldorf its name - the village on the Düssel. There is no flood water here as the gates have been closed:

This house shows the year when Düsseldorf became a town:

(Our little town of Kaiserswerth is much, much older!)

One of the beautiful old houses in the Altstadt:

The Art Academy:

I walked back though Hofgarten before taking the tram back home:

And I always enjoy coming home to our little town - here some evening scenes taken today:

And the moon will soon be full:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

The water's rising....

Hi Everybody!

Today we had another dry, cold day, with lots of opportunities for walking. The Rhine is rising rapidly after all the rainfall here in the past few days, Yesterday the water had risen up to the pathway along the river, but today the pathway was underwater, too. We are expecting a big storm with heavy winds from Sunday, so that should give us some excitement!

I made this A2 piece a couple of weeks back in art group. The background was gessoed and textured before I painted the circles. The little girl and peacock feathers were added with stencils and black acrylic paint using a sponge:

Then I made some digital alterations with hearts so it fits to Elizabeth's theme at AJJ and to TIOT, share the love:

I am also linking to Paint Party Friday

Wednesday was a cold but sunny day and I walked along the Rhine:

It is very full and has overflowed its banks:

The water fowl love the floods:

The water is up to the path:

The moon was beautiful:

Today (Thursday) the water was a lot higher, it's nearly up to the top:

The pathway is officially closed - not that it stops people walking there:

 One of the marks on the wall showing previous high water stands - this is nearly a meter over my head:

Some of the marks are higher than the wall, which is over 3 meters:

The little stream is now like a lake:

Water, water everywhere:

I'm wondering how high it will be tomorrow!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!