moonlight

digital collage, 10 x 15 cm, "serious moonlight"

For the SPA challenge  this week: moonlight

stripes

"Off to the sea"

For the  TAW challenge  this week: stripes.

printed words

For the three muses challenge this week: the printed word.

dancing numbers

For the TAW challenge   this week: numbers.

Some years ago I participated in "The Week As Art" in Create Mixed Media magazine.

I visualized a week in seven numbers.

For the take a word challenge I've put the seven images together into one image (above).

(Each number is 2,5 x  2,5 inch) 

Below I've altered the numbers into a "painted by number" image: dancing numbers.

floral patterns

 

For   the three muses challenge   this week: floral patterns.

windows

For the the three muses challenge  this week: windows.

I was caught by the wideness of the billboard images: as a window to the world.

carte postale - atlas

For the SPA challenge  and the TAW challenge this week.

Collage 10 x 15 cm, the drawing is an altered detail of the
"Crouching Figure of Atlas by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (1481–1536)"

namaste

For the  SPA challenge  this week: namaste.

Collage, digitally altered, 10 x 15 cm.

open book

For the SPA challenge this week: books and reading.


"Yeah, I'm an open book, Amy Winehouse"

mail art

For the three muses challenge  this week: mail art.

blackbird

For the TAW challenge  this week: blackbird.


Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

by Wallace Stevens

1

Among twenty snowy mountains

The only moving thing

Was the eye of the blackbird

2

I was of three minds,

Like a tree

In which there are three blackbirds.

3

The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.

It was a small part of the pantomime.

4

A man and a woman

Are one.

A man and a woman and a blackbird

Are one.

5

I do not know which to prefer

The beauty of inflections

Or the beauty of innuendoes.

The blackbird whistling

Or just after.

6

Icicles filled the long window

With barbaric glass

The shadow of the blackbird

Crossed it, to and fro.

The mood

Traced in the shadow

An indecipherable cause.

7

O thin men of Haddam,

Why to do you imagine golden birds?

Do you not see how the blackbird

Walks around the feet

of the women about you?

8

I know noble accents

And lucid, inescapable rhythms;

But I know, too,

That the blackbird is involved

In what I know.

9

When the blackbird flew out of sight,

It marked the edge

Of one of many circles.

10

At the sight of blackbirds

Flying in a green light,

Even the bawds of euphony

Would cry out sharply.

11

He rode over Connecticut

In a glass coach.

Once, a fear pierced him,

In that he mistook

The shadow of his equipage

For blackbirds.

12

The river is moving.

The blackbird must be flying.

13

It was evening all afternoon.

It was snowing

And it was going to snow.

The blackbird sat

In the cedar-limbs.

1923

over the mountains to the sea

For the the three muses challenge  this week: 
a black and white snapshot on a colorful art page.

Collage and monoprint of corrugated cardboard.
The photo is part of an old postcard from Switzerland
size: 12,5 x 12,5 cm

beauty

text by Sarah Kay - spoken word poet   (click her name to see her performance)

For the TAW challenge  this week: beauty

monochrome

For the TAW challenge  this week: monochrome

If I'm going to make something I often start making a monochrome. 

Usually with a collage or de-collage which I then wash in a single
color and sometimes rinse again. It is a basis to work on further. 

Often I use blue and it is also often sea related. These pieces are a 

beginning.
I love simplicity. So I do not know if I add something else.
If I work in a flow, it is done in one session.
But often I work as a gardener: every day some pruning and weeding:)
Time will tell. Each piece is 12 x 17 cm.

sunday postcard art

For the SPA challenge this week: TURQUOISE & LIME

circle of life

For the three muses challenge  this week: circles.

Collage, mono-print, each (of the 4) squares is 12,5 x 12, 5 cm.

red shoe

Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

More footwear on the three muses

landscape with rainbow

For the SPA challenge this week "rainbow".

Collage, painted paper, mono-print.

wings

"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?" Frida Kahlo

Found on Pixabay, I just added some blue. Love the contrast.

More wings on the three muses

ode to the letter

"They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea"

For the Sunday Postcard Art challenge.this week: nostalgia, times go by.