The accompanying card was inspired by images of Chicago and its green coloured river celebrating St. Patrick´s Day. As always, the scan doesn´t show the shimmering mica sprays behind the city skyline ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Spring Greens
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Chicken Eggs
Once in a year, I´m having a fabulous afternoon and evening together with 3 of my best friends, painting Easter eggs and having fun with cake, beverages, music and political discussions. It´s one my highlights of each year, but usually I only paint two eggs. This year´s eggs show chickens as I´ve loved painting my chicken postcard recently. I have used watercolours and several pencils and markers here.
Sunday, March 05, 2023
Chicken
When I saw that this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme was "Chicken", I thought "I know I have a matching stamp" ... then I didn´t find it tonight and drew my own chicken. Then I found that stamp but liked my own chicken so much more. Art is to be open to surprise yourself (and maybe others).
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Alice - First Step
For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Alice I´ve made a paper collage hand coloured and finished with some rubber stamps. Such a nice theme as Alice never gets boring, there´s always something new to find in this book.
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Masks
Wearing your everyday face can be a necessity or a betrayal. You should be allowed to just be you, but you´re not.
Here´s my card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Masks".
Sunday, February 12, 2023
Red Roses
Have you ever tried to scan something red? You´ll be surprised to see the result ... Reds that go well together in real life will look weird together on your scan. So you have to believe me that the reds on my card really look great together on the original card!
I´ve collaged two magazine photos of a woman and a bunch of red roses, used clear gesso upon them and painted them with watersoluble crayons, then added two stamps from Red Lead.
And the whole card is my entry for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Red Roses".
Thursday, February 09, 2023
Love is all around
Wednesday, February 08, 2023
Imperfect Circles
Sunday, February 05, 2023
Bauhaus Design
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Light and Darkness
I´m hosting this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge this week with the theme "Light and Darkness".
For my sample card I´ve picked a quote from Goethe´s play "Götz von Berlichingen": Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
So I´ve used a custom made Goethe stamp, a light bulb from Katzelkraft and a text stamp from PaperArtsy to illustrate my thoughts. Plus gesso and shimmering watercolours of course.
I hope you´ll feel inspired to show us your own version of this theme this week!
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Butterfly Effect
I´ve used stamps from Paper Artsy/ Lynne Perrella and Visible Image and used shimmery watercolours from VHAquarell for colouring.
Sunday, January 08, 2023
Year of the Rabbit
I never really got the idea of Chinese zodiac signs because I can´t believe that soneone born in the a specific year has something in common with everyone else born in that year. However, in a few days the Chinese new year will start, and it´s the Year of the Rabbit.
When I read that this is the theme for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge, I thought "hm, I know I have some rabbit stamps", but it wasn´t before tonight that I found out how many I have - and I won´t tell you ;-))
Then today I read that stamp designer Tracy Evans is ill with Covid right now, and I thought "Why not make a card with only her designs" ... and here it is, my card to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit - may it be a good one.