Weekend Post

 Hi everybody!

It's weekend - enjoy!

Today I am sharing one of the pieces I made in Tam's 'art, heart and healing' course. It's a double page mixed media collage spread in an altered book journal, somewhere between A5 and A4. First of all we wrote down all the negative things we think or feel about ourselves on the left size, and after painting it over it was collaged with a new and meaningful text:

As I have birds on both pages I am also linking to AJJ, Wendy's birds challenge.

And I have some photos from today's sunrise and walk:

This new mural appeared on a wall near here;

Along the Rhine:

Flowers in boxes on the town hall:

Masked face cartoons have been sprayed everywhere on the pavements to remind people.  Let's hope it helps!

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

TGIF

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are all managing to stay fit and well in these difficult times. The time has raced by again this week, and once again Friday has come around more quickly than I thought possible.

Ths week I have been trying to learn to draw with coloured pencils at Ida Anderson's  'Wish upon a star course'. Some of the ladies made really fantastic art, but I tried my best and am not completely dissatisfied with my result, and hope to do some more over the weekend and keep practising:

I am linking to Paint Party Friday

And I have a hybrid piece using photos and digital elements for Wendy's birds challenge at AJJ:

And  a few photos:

This morning started off cold and frosty, I love how the mist is over the stream:

It was cold outside waiting for the sun to rise:

It took some time before the mist cleared:

Last week when I was shopping with my neighbour we saw these wonderful clouds as we were going back to his car:

As we drove off it started to rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning - this pic was taken through the car window:

This was my walk from Thursday afternoon, walking towards the setting sun:

The moon from this evening (Thursday):

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

 

New challenge at More Mixed Media

 Hi Everybody!

Things are hotting up here, and the powers that be in Düsseldorf have mandated that masks have to be worn on all streets in the whole town and environment, with exceptions only for woods, parks and green spaces where there is plenty of space and few people. They are threatening with fines up to 25,000€ for not being masked. I hope this will help stop the rapid rise of Covid here.

Today we are starting a new challenge at More Mixed media. All of our challenges are anything mixed media goes, this time with an optional colour choice, black.

I made an A3 mixed media collage page using an image of Beethoven. I threaded a piece of cord through the right corner as I can't sew in my journal! And I sewed the textile ornament under the bust of Beethoven:

For Wendy's texture challenge at Tag Tuesday I have a tag. The background is part of  a recycled TH packet, the sunflower was stenciled:

The moon from Tuesday evening:

Some more walk photos from last week:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!