2nd on the 2nd on the 3rd

 Hi Everybody!

I am a day late with Elizabeth's 2nd on the 2nd. This has been a busy week. I have spent several hours each day enjoying Tamara LaPorte's Lifebook taster course, which is good but very time consuming.  On top of that 2 new challenges started, and I have another 2 in the next couple of days. And appointments at the doc's and having to walk because the trams weren't running - it has to get easier sooner or later! The challenges are from the last month or 2, I did not have time for 'archaeology' and digging out older stuff;

And a repeat of some of my fave big birds:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

TGIF

 Hi Everybody!

Where did the week go? I don't know. I remember it being Monday and then all of a sudden it's Friday! Today it's Paint Party Friday, and I'm sharing one of the pieces made this week at Tamara'a Lifebook taster course, which is fun, but a lot of work. The first exercise was to paint this wise fox. It's painted on A4 water colour paper with water-colours, sharpies, gouche and ink-pens. I had fun with this one! 'Just do it' is the motto I chose for myself for these 2 weeks - not picking and choosing, just doing! I am also linking to Chris' 'hold the line' challenge at AJJ as there are lots of lines in my fox:

As always I enjoy taking pics of everything around me, and although we have had some much needed rain this week, we've had some wonderful sunrise and moon scenes to enjoy!

The moon yesterday evening:

Yesterday's sunrise:

Autumn is creeping in:

And I found a disused nest in the hedge:

This was the sunrise this morning (Thursday):

Have a great day, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by!

New challenge at Art Journal Journey!

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new challenge at Art Journal Journey, and this time Chris is hosting. Her theme is  'Hold the line' and she will tell you all about it on the blog, so hop over and take a look. I am also rejoining the team at AJJ, and Chris will be joining, too. As always, projects of all formats, 'real' and digital are welcome, and the challenge runs for 4 weeks.

I made an A3 mixed media piece with a black background. I scraped the paint on thinly to let the white show through. The sunflowers were added with stencils and structure paste, and the centres filled with gilding flakes. I sewed gold threads from the sunflowers to the dragonfly clips to 'hold the line':

Hope to see you joining in and look forward to visiting your blogs!

Some autumnal colours:

Rust fits good to autumn!

On Tuesday evening the clouds and rain disappeared and the skies cleared:

The moon was beautiful:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!