Falling Leaves and More Doors.

Hi Everybody!

The day has run away from me again,

so I need to keep it short today.

For Paint Party Friday and Art Journal Journey, Masculine-feminine, I painted another A3 mixed-media journal page. I painted the background with various shades of brown and gold, and used more of my paper strips to build a seat for the nude. The painting is one I saw in a magazine at the doctor's, I took a photo of it and printed it out, fussy cut it, and over-painted it with translucent gold from Deco-Art before collaging it. I added one of my leaves embossed with Frantage gold as I didn't have any fig leaves....

Today the sun came out and we had a warm and sunny day - wonderful!

These are the rest of the doors and gates etc taken this week:

This used to be the fire brigade till it grew too small, and now it is a bar:

I love how the top step has been trodden out:

This are 2  of the old silk-weavers' houses:

That's all for today!

Have a good one take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Thursday this and that

Hi Everybody!

Today I have another project for Art Journal journey, masculine-feminine.

I was not quite sure if it was masculine or feminine, so I gave it a heart with a pink bow and decided that it must be feminine. I was trying to use up all the ready cut strips I discovered under the layers on my desk, so drew my head and filled it. What would I do without my various heads?! The background was painted with gesso mixed with some left over blue and gold and stamped with a large flourish stamp, which made it look rather like old-fashioned wallpaper. The quote reads: A man who treats his woman like a princess is proof that he has been nurtured in the arms of a queen.

I don't know from whom the quote is, sorry.

And the crown is perhaps quite fitting as Queen Elizabeth II is visiting Germany just now.
I am also linking to Mix it Monthly, facial profile

Today I took more photos of doors and gateways in our little town.

This is the west door of the Basilica

One of the buildings belonging to the Basilica:

The Latin words mean 'Neither rashly nor timidly'

And I just love the doorknobs

Are the steps missing here?

These three photos are from the old monastery, built 1671, which is now part of the School

That's all for today.

Have a good one, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Purple lady for SOC and Art Journal Journey.

Hi Everybody!

Hope your day is going well!

The colours at SOC this week and purple, purple and yellow. This week the colours didn't make me so happy. I made a quick water-colour sketch from one of my old sketches, drawing directly with the brush. I added the yellow with pastel chalks. I am also linking to Art Journal Journey, masculine -feminine. The challenge runs for another week, so you still have plenty of time to join in.

At Tag Tuesday our theme is 'On the ocean waves'. I used a piece of marbled paper, stenciled my surfer onto it, and wrote the quote by hand. I added some matching ribbons as embellishment.

Today we had a lot of clouds again, but some patches of blue sky, and it didn't rain as much as it did yesterday.

I took photos today of doors and doorways:

This is a tiny snack-bar, right next to the river, which only opens on Sundays and holidays, and sells pea-soup or potato soup etc. I have never tried it, but there's always a long queue waiting there. You get your bowl handed out through the window and take your soup and find somewhere by the Rhine to sit and eat it.

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by.

Coffee cups, cars and more.

Hi Everybody!

Today is the beginning of a new challenge at Try it on Tuesday - Tea cups, or coffee cups, or mugs. Hope to see lots of you there during the next 2 weeks, projects of all formats are allowed. As I am a coffee drinker I cut 'my' head and filled it with  coffee cups on a patterned background. In the circles I wrote my coffee poem, written a couple of years back. Here it is again for those who can't read round the circles:

Give me coffee, but not tea,

Tea is not the drink for me.

Coffee, frothy, brown and hot,

I can always drink a lot.

Coffee topped with whipped up cream -

This with joy will make me scream.

Café au lait with chocolate sprinkles,

Makes me happy, stops my wrinkles.

And if the point you have not seen - 

A day without coffee makes me mean!

I am also linking to Art Journal Journey, masculine-feminine.

I had to make a birthday card for a neighbour who will be 90 this week. As he loves cars, I made one using Tim's old jalopy. I cut the car from cardboard covered with aluminium tape, which had first been embossed with an embossing folder. The crown and wings were cut from the same material. I coloured the 'metal' with Vivacolor rust, and gave it some patina with black antiquing paste. I mounted the car and heart onto brown mirri card, and matted it with 2 layers of peeled cardboard, painted with rust, copper and gold, and partly embossed with Frantage vintage copper and gold. I rubbed the edges with some Inka gold in gunmetal grey, and used  snap fasteners as embellishments. I am linking to  anything but cute, masculine.

A few photos from yesterday's walk, today was too wet!

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!