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Hi folks,

 

Before the holidays began, I promised myself to continue painting, no matter what...

 

So I cleaned and gessoed a long and 'skinny' canvas that a friend had salvaged from the garbage for me (you know I love recycling, don't you?) and then the question came: what to do with it?

 

I opened a similar format canvas in Photoshop, put a few pics of my collages over it and then the layering and filtering fun started!

 

This is design no. 2.

 I plan to continue designing until one emerges that really speaks to me, the one I really would like to translate into paint.

 

It is not an easy way to paint, but the painting is yours and yours alone, so you may do with it whatever comes up and will always be original...

 

This will be my way of working for the next weeks

 

See you!

 

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Regina



Summer blues (bloes)

Sometimes I feel the need to make new clothes...

This time, with the heatwave we are experiencing here in Spain

it had to be something airy, so I designed a simple top

 

I hardly feel it when I wear it...

 



 

I knew there were some fabrics in the cupboard

Remnants of Japanese patchwork fabric (bottom), a panel from a once loved skirt

 

A fabric that a dear friend gave me years ago (the dots) and the silk fabric at the right side of the top that was part of a thriftstore find!

 

This is the thing I like so much, making something out of 'nothing'...

You see, it is no problem at all there are no fabric stores around our lovely coastal village

 

Thanks for reading, grtz

 

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Regina

Short, summer

Just a short post today. 

It is sweltering hot in Spain; days to swim in the sea, a time to do just the necessary things

So: just this dyptich, that I quickly composed from the files of collages I once made...

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!

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Regina

Art cards

 

Last week I've been making cards

this is just a small selection

 

 

At the end of my painting sessions,I like to clean the brushes and wipe off the leftover paint on clean white, cheap paper

 

This results in lots of collage papers, that can further be

decorated

 



 

Texture may be obtained,  like with the above one, by pressing a piece of  painted canvas down on the paper

 

 

bold marks simple added by a wide-tipped marker

 

 

the blue circles were printed with cork, these were cut of protecting cork pieces of the glass curtains on our naya (covered porch)

 

I cut the cards myself, find an interesting rectangle or square with a viewfinder and just glue it down, then brayer the whole and put it under a very heavy big book et

 

voila!!!

 

Made with love by me,

 

Regina

Independence...

 

 

While in the USA in 2011 it was Independence Day

 

and in the days before I saw this billboard in a shopping mall

 

...

 

Knowing that it had to be somewhere in my huge photolibrary of our USA travels, I found it and chose to post it on my blog today

 

I think of you all

 

Though the picture may look a bit grim, I prefer to see strength and pride for your country in it

I don't mean to offend you

It seems appropriate to me though, this time, today

...

 

But, as every year, HAPPY 4th of JULY!!!

Guggenheim Bilbao

It is almost one year ago that we visited this great museum

in Bilbao, Spain

A funny thing is, at this moment our daughter and her partner are visiting this very same place. 

They are traveling with our Roadtrek motorhome, so needless to say that our thoughts are with them a lot these days. I hope they enjoy Northern Spain as much as we did...

Grey weather today

 

 

Hi there,

 

 

This morning we awoke to very dark and grey skies. It made me think that it was very early, not yet time to get out of bed...

 

It seems though we have a little interlude in the very sunny and hot weather of the recent weeks.

 

When we were living in the tropics this grey weather sometimes happened and upon occurring I mostly felt happy, for it enabled me to stay inside and make the most (creatively speaking) of it!

 

This kind of feeling I have today...

 

Looking for possibilities I found the picture of numerous beaded strands  (Pinterest) and was attracted by its colors. And at the same time I found back a picture of a postcard I once made, there is a detail on the right. I was surprised to find that it is made up of these very similar colors.

 

Now, I wonder, what could this mean?? 

Could this be my style, is it related to my personality?

 

However, it inspires me to go and do something creative on this grey day in Spain!