Playing with pictures

 

Yesterday I showed a picture of an old branch that I saw during my walk.

 

Looking in my pictures library for a future post about my painting exercises, I was inspired to play a little with some of these pictures. Here they are:

 

 

Yesterday's branch after rotation

 

 

detail of a painting that I will show soon...

 

 

...combined into this digital collage

 I love the visible texture of the canvas!

 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy the weekend!

 

Regina

Morning walk

Now temperatures in Spain are more pleasant, after a very hot summer, I have resumed my daily walks

 

I must confess that the Mediterranean life is very attractive, with so much wine, tapas and siesta, so daily walks are one thing I can do to increase my condition...

 

 So let me show you some vistas from this morning, it is funny how much details can be seen when you simply walk!

 

 

My walk started along the vineyards, where the grapes

are ready to be harvested

They make a sweet dessertwine with these, called Mistela

 

 

Then I passed a big carob tree. Its leaves are a good replacement

 for Eucalyptus in bouquets!

We don't have fresh flowers here (just imported), neither have I seen Eucalyptus,

 but

silk flowers and carob tree leaves are a good follow up for me...

 

fruits of the carob tree

During WW II it was an alternative for cocoa,

but I believe nowadays it is only being used in

the health food section of our food

industry

 

 

the artist in me got excited when I discovered this tree trunk,

in fact it was a hole of an old branch that has weathered over the years

...pure beauty...

 

 

some more eye candy

 

 

the tree that can be seen all along the Mediterranean coast:

the pine tree

it is protected nowadays, for there have been removed way

too many trees during the house building boom of

some decades ago

 

 

and finally, on my way back  home, the sea!

It never ceases to make me happy

 

This was it for today, I hope you enjoyed this impression of

my morning walk

 

Bye 4 now!

 

Regina



Remembering

 

Picture shot at Eagle Rock in New Jersey.

 

This is the commemoration place in New Jersey, opposite of Manhattan, where  many commuters and their families

were witnessing the smoke during weeks after the tragedy.

We will always remember

Painting lanterns

After we moved to our current house, the men started the renovation.

It was a time of much noise and dust, the tiles of our complete floor

had to be removed in order to install a new concrete layer

to enable the solar energy pipes and system to work.

 

At that time there was not yet much participation needed from me

 (or so I thought)...

 

So, inspired by this idyllic picture

 

 

...I remembered these storm lanterns that we brought to Spain from our house

 in the Caribbean.

They had been left behing by the former owners of that house

 and I have a tendency of always taking with us something of the past.

 

The red color of these lanterns never spoke to me and I started with one

 of these to get rid of the red paint: dissolvent first, then sanding, buf buf, and halfway this job

 my DH saw what I was doing (while he was working that hard, oh my)

.......

 

and he suggested to wait with this until the house was finished

and I reluctantly had to admit that he might be right,

 

so I put the lanterns away

 

This week I rediscovered the lanterns

and since I have this new hobby to renew, repurpose and recycle

I started with the one lantern that was half stripped of paint and

 the other half rusted, haha!

As for me letting them completely rust would also have been an option, but DH hates rust...

 



 

I probably have to put on at least one more layer

of the black anti rust paint

 

 

but this is how it looks

after this morning's job

 

Happy Painting..!

 

Regina



Dilemma

we see the need
and don't want to look
away

but is there a solution
of this huge human drama?

DILEMMA
digital collage

Pillow makeover

Remember the dress from this post?

There were some remnants after I made yesterday's scarf...

 

 

and this pillow definitely needed more contrast, after being bleached by the

Spanish sun

 

 

so I auditioned the remnants by simply putting them over the pillow

 

 

... and then chose this piece.

Simply stitched by hand without ripping out any previous stitches,

the easy way

 

Enjoy the weekend

 

Regina

A different medium

Many years I have succeeded in refusing to work with different materials than fabric and paper...

 

It is not that I did not want to try, but knowing myself and my enthusiasm, I expected it to disturb my focus. I thought I had to make choices and thus it was fabric (quilts, sewing, art quilts) and paper (collage)

 

But about a year ago I let this selfimposed regimen go!

 

And started painting, more on that in future posts...

 

I have to say that it is nice to feel free to experiment with different media, so when I recently saw the decoration chain on this blog, I decided to give it a try.

 

 

 

there was a package of air drying clay left from our Caribbean period

(you see I was tempted already back then!),

and fortunately this material is also available in Spain

 

 so I made over twenty big beads, let these dry during two days and then painted them twice

 



 

the clay was white and I wanted it to become more or less concrete coloured. Then I remembered I had seen these little sample tins in one of the paint stores...

 

Most of their stock were empty tins (it looked so organized and impressive to me!), but there was one colour Down Pipe present in this size

so I now have completed this huge decoration chain and will certainly find a place for it, will show pictures then, ok?

 

 

and last but not least: this is how the recycled dress from this post turned into a scarf. I wore it with a sense of elegance (the drape is gorgeous!) yesterday on our 43rd anniversary diner in a lovely 'chirinquito' near the sea.

 

That's it for today, thanks for reading and enjoy your Wednesday!

 

Regina