Summer feelings

Hi Everybody!

For Rain's Thursday Art Date - summer plans - and for Paint Party Friday I have a selection of artwork and photos which remind me of summer. I don't go away for vacations, but spend my summers enjoying the lovely places near here, as I do all year round. The pieces I made today were all inspired by blue skies, birds, flowers and summer feelings.

Stamped and coloured:

Various photos digitally combined:

A summer journal page:

Dragonflies:

Stamped dragonflies on a dripped background with stamped plants and circles:

Altered photos again:

A lady in a hat:

Combinations of photos and digital images:

Some digital fun:

A panted tag with a cut-out lady:

Some hybrid pieces:

Painted summer colours:

 Summer fun:

 Before sunrise:

A visit to the Japanese house and Zen garden in Düsseldorf

Midweek post - scrap collage pages

Hi Everybody!

It's Wednesday, so my day to show some of my  'Without rhyme or reason' collages. My scraps have diminished a bit, but I swear they are multiplying in their boxes over night! Whatever, I have time till the end of June, and then it's bye-bye scraps. I have already filled the first journal and started on a second one - 3 weeks to go! I use an eclectic mix of rubbish  scraps. I grab a handful or two, put them on the table and then pick and stick. Anything still on the table when the double page is finished has to go in the garbage sack. I need to be very strict with myself or I will never get finished!  I often stencil some dots or diamonds around the pages to bring them together a bit:

This one has an awful drawing I tried to make of my auntie Fanny in it. And there's a clock, so I'm linking to Halle's 'Stitch in time' challenge at AJJ. Which is fitting, as Auntie Fanny was a seamstress and embroiderer:

Various faces and other scraps:

I liked these 2 characters put together:

The face on the right has been put together using 2 different face-halves:

Here I used a figure from Julian Opie which I cut from an art magazine. I copied it and made copies in other sizes. The lady on the left has been placed in front of a graffiti wall, to which I added some scribbles. The figures on the left are on a background photo of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera:  

And some more photos from Südpark. I will be visiting again as soon as the weather warms up a bit. It's a wonderful place to relax and  let your soul fly free.

The heron's legs look like twigs:

Ducklets:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

New challenge at Try it on Tuesday - Make it Masculine

Hi Everybody!

Hope you week got off to a good start! It's still cold and windy here, but I like it, it's great weather for walking, and rain is welcome, too!

Today we are starting a new challenge at TIOT -

-Make it masculine-

As always, you have 2 weeks to enter our challenge, and entries of all formats, digital, physical or hybrid are welcome-

I made an A3 Mixed Media journal page. I painted the background with gesso then added in some titan buff and burnt umber. While it was still wet I sprinkled on some EPs in black, white  and copper and heat dried it. Then I added the diamonds through a stencil using some iron paste I discovered in my cupboard. I can't remember buying it, but suppose I must have done! I collaged 2 of my men, and added colour with brown and black pastel chalks.  The roosters are scraps of paper napkins:

And I have some photos from the Botanical Gardens and a park in Düsseldorf:

David's Delight:

Nile Geese:

I'm not sure if this is Doris or Heike sleeping in the mud:

The little coots were having a big splash party:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!