Old Masters - Rain's Thursday Art Date

Hi Everybody!

I was originally planning to start with a selection of my fave old masters, but I think everyone will have their own faves and can look them up on the net or see them in a museum, so I'm just showing some of my own creations where I have used (Perhaps misused) old paintings or statues. Here goes:

I love Leonardo da Vinci!

I like mixtures of old, new and impossible:

Leonardo again:

I love Buddha paintings, too:

This lady seems to be intrigued by the statue:

This cow was painted in the style of the old masters and made into a journal page:

Michelangelo's David again:

Mona Lisa is known to all:

I painted the fruit in the style of the old masters:

I like mixing old and new:

Da Vinci's Leda is one of my all-time favourites:

This antique man looks grumpy:

The wonderful Leonardo again:

And Leonardo yet again:

And I like scary pictures, too:

Shakespeare is also important for me:

I tried to give the atmosphere of an old master here:

Mona again:

The statue on the right is one I saw in a stately home:

Old and new:

A strange scene:

And a selection of my photos which I changed into Old Masters with help of Photo Fun:

If you got through it all, well done - go to the top of the class and give yourself a pat on the back!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

2nd on the 2nd - Back to School

 Hi Everybody!

It's the 2nd of the month, so it's time for Elizabeth's 2nd on the 2nd, where we re-show artwork shown on our blogs in previous years. These pieces were all made for AJJ back in 2016, and the theme was back to school. Here in our county the kids went back to school 2 weeks back, some still have the 'Big Day' in front of them. 

My internet provider has announced that they will be doing maintenance work during the night, from midnight till about 6 a.m. I hope I will be able to get onto the net again tomorrow, but it could take longer than they estimate - we shall see!

But now - back to school!

For this one I used my head(s):

This one comes from the heart, during 35 years of teaching it was good to have friendly pupils at least some of the time!

Here I have a selection of young ladies from various times. The one standing at the front behind the chalk board is me. My mum is the third from left in the 2nd row, and another relation, Erika, is at the left of the 2nd row:

Erika is in this one again. It shows her school sports team back in the 1930s. Erika is the 2nd from the right. A year later she had to leave school because she was Jewish, and 2 years after that she fled Germany with her family and had to start a new life in Paraguay:

This piece shows Tower College in the background, a private school near Liverpool where I taught for a couple of years from 1969 to 1972 before I came to Germany:

I taught art at various schools here. This journal page reminds of some Christmas window decorations I made with my class one year. We decorated the windows through the length of the big hall, so it was a lot of work:

This one shows my late husband as a schoolboy:

This page shows another project I did with one of my classes back in the 1980s. We made heads using paper maché and the kids had great fun. We started by collecting egg cartons, then they had to be torn up and pulped, and then we formed our heads. And no, we did not empty all of those wine and beer bottles, we got them from the caretaker....:

Another page showing Erika while she was at school, she's standing on the right. She was the only one with short hair, all the others still have their long plaits, including the teacher in the middle!

The photos are also a repeat from this day back in 2017. We visited a lake surrounded by a lovely wooded path, not far from here on the other side of the Rhine:

I love these fairy colonies:

The cormorant found a good seat:

And of course, lots of Canadian Geese, especially for dear David:

That's enough for today!

Take care, have a great day,

and thanks a lot for coming by!