Pink Moment of the Week

Day 365 of my year-long photo project,

see here, if you like.

And also coming to its end, the MATS online course,
in the final week the assignment was to design a hyper-lush zipper pouch,
where I used some photographs from our recent holiday on Gran Canaria.

Pink Moment of the Week

a new painting:

Yoga, Paint and Photoshop

It all comes together.

Signs of September

One beautiful sunflower opened this week in our garden -

even though summer and sun are coming to their warm ends,

bringing in the harvest.

Tomatoes - the typical September fruit,

that is the only thing that really worked this year in Hubby's garden.

Free for all - porcini mushrooms,

I found near a school playground,

that made a nice grounding meal:

And grounding is what I need right now.

Time For Me

The time we take for ourselves, gives us something in return.

Ernst Ferstl

Off to a weekend of Shakti Yoga, North Sea and sun.

 Enjoy your weekend, friends!

Copy Cat

The new lesson in the painting e-course A Year of Painting by Alena Hennessy is titled "Making it your own". Find some art that speaks to you and paint your own version of it.

I chose Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Venus Verticordia.

And another painting by Tamara de Lempicka that I saw this April at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Turquoise & Pink

Still feeling Japanese.

Pink Moment of the Week

Hollyhocks!

My Own Private Geisha

...came to visit me today.

Pink Moment of the Week

This week I found some beautiful flower paper at a Tiger store

and used it to collage a button:

both sides of the botton:

It fits the theme "collage on unconventional surfaces" in Mati Mc Donough e-course

and will look great on a garment too.

Raspberries, Peacoks and Temples

With a so-so summer so far,

surrealist collage goes dreaming of summer travel:

Soon, my heart, soon.

Paintings, this Week

Surrealist collages were the theme this week 

in Mati Rose McDonough e-course Daring Adventures in Collage.

This really stretched my creative muscles

and is not something I would come up with myself.

Surrealist collage number one turned out rather spiritual ...

 and number two kind of sexy:

Meanwhile my studio floor looks like this:

I am looking forward to two more messy daring collage weeks!

Paintings, this Week

Or more appropriate collages.

I am taking Mati Rose McDonough e-course

Daring Adventures in Collage these weeks.
The perfect summer course.

This week we made "messy collages".
 

After all this messiness I felt like some order too:

Have a beautiful summer weekend!

Pink Moment of the Week

... a new rose in our garden.

Hello June!

June kicked off yesterday with a bang:

Oh yes, my 37th birthday.

And it will also be Clara's Papa's (aka Hubby) birthday soon.
Time to party
and enjoy the start of summer.

Pink Moment of the Week

At the end of a pink week:

Happy birthday to me!

Pink on Pink

And the pink beat goes on ...

Pink Girl

And the pink series continues ...

Pink Series

I am always drawn to pink, you might have noticed.

But for the last days I felt that I needed 

pink even more than usually to cheer me up.

And I played with digital reflections:

More pink to come, I can feel it.

Pink Moment of the Week

... not so really pink ...

... but pretty.

Flowers gathered by Clara, Carolina 

and their cousins

at Grandma's birthday party.

(from her garden)