Thursday, 26 March 2020

It's all Corinna's fault....

Hi Everybody!

This has been a hard week for us all, coping with the restrictions and problems caused by the corona-virus. As Nathalie typed 'Corona' into her phone, it got corrected to Corinna - hence today's title - it's all Corinna's fault!
Whatever, we have to get through this crisis, and I hope we all come through it unscathed. And here in Germany, one man in Aachen is trying for a court case against the government, because he wants to be able to go out and enjoy life with his friends....Words fail me, polite and printable ones anyway!

For Michele's bunnies and butterflies challenge at Tag Tuesday I made a tag with an Alice theme. I used images from Itkupilli's Mr Whiskers set:



 I made this journal page using a photo taken a couple of years back.
I  did some tricks to change the colours of the shadow of the vase, and put three little figures into it. At the moment I really feel like being behind glass, watching the world go by through the window:



I am linking to Art Journal Journey, Eileen's green challenge:

This was the original photo:


I am also linking to Paint Party Friday!

As I can't get out just now I have photos taken on this day 2017:

A nutria by the stream:







A hawk sitting in the tree:






A bunny who sat still to have his portrait taken:







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

In like a lion and out like a lamb - or the other way round! - Rain's Thursday art date

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are all well and fit! We're living through strange and hard times just now, and isolation and no contact are rules which are hard to keep, but we have to endure it all just now in the hope that things will get better.
Here we had a mild and wet winter, and then an early spring in February. The big shock came in March, which came in like a bad tempered lion, bringing us rain, cold, gales and floods. Then the weather warmed up, the trees and flowers  bloomed and we thought spring had arrived. We've still got blue skies, and it's been drier, but very cold. And the last few days of March are going to be cold and wild, perhaps even with sleet and snow. So it looks like the lions will be back for the end of the month!

I made a photo-montage on a hand-painted background. The quote is from Isaiah:



This is a book I made using various mixed-media techniques back in 2009. I also wrote the poem.  This was my version of the quote in the first piece, turned into a fairy tale. And I hope that one day it will be true, for animals and for all the people in this world, that they learn to live together in peace and contentment:









And some photos from Pexels and me:





When I think of lions I always think of C.S. Lewis books about Narnia, where Aslan rules - this lion reminds me of him:


These ones look like playful pussy cats:



We have a lot of sheep here, which graze on the meadows and fields along the Rhine:














And a very short video taken last year:



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