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:

# 28

Oil pastels from Sennelier finally arrived this morning and I painted this on oil painting paper:

So one more face to go :-)

# 27

Still two more faces to do/finish. For today I made a drawing in water colour-graphite:

My drawing has evolved through this challenge, thank you to everyone for visiting, sharing the journey and for you encouragement and positive energy evolving around the 29 Faces! 

I'll work on the last two pieces for sure!

collaged chocolate boxes

I have been working with 29 faces and still have a few to do, but for Paint Party Friday and Paper Saturday I chose to try something different away from portraying my niece :-)

So here are:

A young man sketched free style with ink pen and added various colours.

And a linol cut I did inspired by Manon's Lottie (Manon Popjes and Paper Saturdays)

I made a print and added various colors again, the blue I added at last and it quite made my heart sing.

Seems like I'm in a blue mood ;-)

Sitting on a shelf in my study, side by side:

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

# 26 WIP still...

Here comes my canvas portrait added quite some colour :-)

I used a feather to apply the colors that weren't there on the face yesterday, love the effect.