Weekend Post

 Hi Everybody!

Here's wishing us all a happy, safe and healthy weekend. The Corona Infections are on the rise again here, things are starting to look grim.

Today I am sharing 2 pieces made in the taster course at Lifebook. This was made after the beautiful lesson from Eris Klein, using water colours, pencils and pastels. Once again, I was not really happy with it, and will try it again when I have more time, but it was fun to work on:

This was made after Nicole Warrington's wonderful course 'Nature's Palette'. First we were sent out to take a walk and bring some 'bits of nature' home. I was only too happy to oblige and walked along the Rhine collecting feathers, stones, shells, seaweed and some leaves. Then we were asked to paint some shapes - I chose ovals - using the colours of the things we had collected. I found the shapes looked a bit like eggs, so added some speckles using walnut powder:

This was a very peaceful piece to make. I am linking both pieces to Chris' lines challenge at AJJ:

And here some photos from our little town:

A headless Nile goose:

At Castle Kalkum:

Sunrise:

Shadows:

More pics from the farm shop:

The heron at the stream:

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

See you on Monday!

TGIF

 Hi Everybody!

Hope your day will be better than my Thursday. I somehow couldn't sleep all night, fell asleep after 4 a.m. and got woken by people working outside by the garages behind the house with a pneumatic hammer at 6 a.m., with huge flood lights set up to give them plenty of light....Then the next shock - the electricity was off for some reason, so no internet, no phone, no warm water for showering, no heating and - wait for it - NO COFFEE! Anyway, after I had managed to have a cold wash and get dressed, I went out. I thought about going into town for breakfast - no chance, the trams and buses were on strike yet again. So I went into our little place here and bought some coffee to go from the Kiosk by the tram stop, It was good, so I swallowed it PDQ and then bought another one to get me back home. About 1 p.m. the electricity and internet were restored, the heating still isn't working. Apart from that, the day passed without further mishaps....

Today I am sharing my mixed media A3 piece painted after Melanie Rivers wonderful 'Eagle Wisdom' lesson. I am linking to Paint Party Friday and Art Journal Journey as there are lots of lines in the picture:

Some photos from my walks:

A very strange fungus growing on a tree in the Rhine:

Signs of autumn:

The sheep were here 2 or 3 weeks ago, I put the pics in the wrong file but have now found them again - the lost sheep!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!