T sTands for This and ThaT

Hi Everybody!

Hope you have all enjoyed your weekend!

For this piece I used a print of Klimt's beautiful golden lady - Adele Bloch-Bauer. I placed her on a painted and textured A3 background and surrounded her with a mosaic of little squares cut from scrap paper and lots of gilding flakes. The Nazis stole the painting and all other valuables when the family was driven out of their home, and later the painting came into the art museum in Vienna. For many years they refused to hand  the painting back to the family, until the owner took them to court, and after a 7 year legal battle they were forced to return it to Maria Altman, who was the legal heir. It now hangs in the Neue Gallery in New York:

I am linking to Tracey's theme at AJJ.

Today is also time for Elizabeth's T sTands for Tuesday link party, where we share our drinks. Here a warm welcome to all of the lovely ladies of the T Gang who visit. I have a selection of photos from last year, and am hoping very much that sooner or later we will be able to visit cafés and restaurants again:

Misty mornings are very common here in Rhineland:

But I love the sunny mornings even better:

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

Weekend Post

 Hi Everybody!

Life goes on very well in the clinic. We have good food, good treatment, plenty of free time and a kitchen stocked with fruit, snacks, cake cheese, sausage, various sorts of bread and of course the wonderful coffee machine I showed yesterday. And three good meals a day on top of it all. It's a good place to rest, heal and recuperate.

I have my small journal - a bit larger than A5 - with me, and this is one of the faces I made this week, using water-colours, pencils, a gold pen and some pastels from my 'clinic stash':

I am linking to Paint Party Friday and to Tracey's challenge at AJJ

An evening walk through Kaiserswerth:

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