Crops and farming- Rain's TAD

Hi Everybody!

Rain's theme today is 'crops and farming'.

I'm starting off with a piece I made inspired by a painting from Wilhelm Morgner, which can be seen in the Kunstpalast Art Museum in Düsseldorf. It's called 'The Sower'  I didn't paint mine, but composed the picture from pieces of torn paper  sewn together:

And this is the original from Wilhelm Morgner, and I loved this painting from the first time I saw it back in the 1970s:

Van Gogh also painted lots of pictures with crops/harvest themes, which always remind me of the verse in Genesis 8:22, 

'While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

Living here outside town I am confronted everyday by fields, farms, crops and animals, which I love to see:

This is the farm at the end of the road where I live:

I love the changing face of the landscape at various times of the year:

Have a great day, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Midweek post

Hi Everybody!

Today I am sharing another mixed media tag for Sandie's bookprint challenge at Tag Tuesday

I used peeled, corrugated cardboard, which was coated with Utee extra thick embossing powder, into which I also stamped while it was still warm. I pushed the book paper into the ridges, and added a few embellishments and a TH paper doll:

And then I built the tag into a journal page so I can also link to Jo's challenge at AJJ:

The pictures are from my visit to Tomas Saraceno's 'spacewalk' installation 2 years ago, high up under the dome of the K 2I museum in Düsseldorf. I was determined to go in there, even if I only managed a few steps. You have to put on an overall and put goggles on over your glasses, and you mustn't take anything else with you. I was scared stiff, but once I was in it was fantastic and I walked around over the net for good 30 minutes, and it was a wonderful experience. My cousins were visiting  and took photos:

Sometimes it's good to keep your feet firmly on the ground, but sometimes you need to let go and soar!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!