Collage-work and Faces

Welcome to the Party, or did I miss it? It's Saturday already!
I want to begin with a thank you to last week's visitors, who commented. It seems like you enjoyed the visit as much as I did enjoy to put up the blog post :-)

This week I have worked over some pieces I have done earlier, but didn't quite like or just hadn't finished. I also did some pieces, where I combined collage and painting. I think collaging has an interesting effect on a painting.

Starting with the new from old, the first three pieces are works in progress:

I cut the couple out of a newspaper-photo. They stood in front of an old guesthouse. I think it was from the 50'ies or 60'ies, putting them together with the bird to create some humour. I'll have to think up something to bring it all together.

This background is one of the favorite results of the past week's work!

Work in progress,  a caterpillar - bird mimicry :-)

And the last piece of the reworked art series: a portrait that I hadn't quite liked. I painted over her with white acrylic and found a photo to sketch after to give her a better expression. Then I added acrylics to the background and the blue hues to the hair. 

This combination of collage and painting fits in with the above pieces, the only difference is that it is all new. I'm not quite sure if I should add anything to it???

The above face is painted and drawn on a canvas (20x20 cm)

I also collaged different kinds of paper scraps to the background.

And at last a parrot on a canvas board. It is also 20x20 cm and it is cheap and a great alternative to canvases for teaching art in schools I think. It is really solid and gives the impression you have something of quality at hand.

Thank you to Eva and Kristin for hosting Paint Party Friday!

And for the paper art shared on Paper Saturdays!

Art that travelled the World

Remember the international collaboration I told about earlier? Seven women from around the world grouped together and made a start on a piece of fabric and sent it off. This means that every one of us added somehow to every piece we got in hand. I showed you a bird once that I did for Milo:

and a woman riding on a horse for Audrey Breed, who is a Japan-lover:

And for Manon Wisser I added acrylics, pastels and charcoal. I need to show you the finished piece also, which turned out amazing

Here is the finished version:

The past week I have received three pieces of the collaboration. One of them my own :-)))
Here is Malissa Priebe's piece:

Malissa prepared a white square for each participant to paint and I found a photo of an albino child from Asia that was so adorable and painted it.

The following piece is Sandra Sherman's piece that is going back to Australia, as soon as I finished it completely. I'm not quite sure, maybe you have a suggestion for me how to complete it? To the left you see the piece how it arrived to me. I added the greens and animals and flowers:

This is my start, that I sent off to Australia in May. I added metallic colored acrylics to a silk dupion square and sketched the woman on top.

And this is what came back to me after it had travelled from Germany to Australia, different states in the US and Canada and over the big water to the UK and back home:

I absolutely love this piece and have to thank all you participants for working on my start! You are amazing!!!

I've been on a little holiday with my family in Copenhagen, where we were at an exhibition about Frida Kahlo, with some of her wonderful artwork. We stayed at the museum for more than three hours, which is a lot for a nine year old and a teenage boy!!! I love my family for giving me that time and I enjoyed it so much I wanted to go back the next day :D but we didn't, we visited an underwater world with all kinds of fish and other creatures which was amazing especially for my children!

Thank you for visiting my blog! Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

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Friday evening post

Hello everyone! So nice to greet you on my blog, where I will show you some of the things, I'm working on at the moment.

I have bought new paper recently and as I used only half of an A3 sized sheet of 230 gsm/108 lbs Winton oil colour paper, I decided to use the rest for two small booklets. One with the theme: "A visit in Israel" and the other with "women/faces" I will only show a few of the sketches of faces I did for the second booklet just now.
I will work more on these faces, probably with gouache.

I also worked a little more on the last portrait I did for the 29 Faces challenge:

Still a lot to be done before it is finished, but the color suits her well, I think :-)

I wish you all a wonderful week end!

Sharing this with Paint Party Friday - thank you Kristin and Eva for hosting!

# 29

Still work in progress: