art challenge 198 - tide

 



      This week's ac has a wonderful theme:"tide", anyway for me.
      I've made some pieces, not sure if they're all finished...

      Below some links to previous blogposts about tide.
     
      high tide, low tide, time and tide, waterlines, time and tide wait for no man

      To see more "tides", please visit Ariane's  site here

 

 

on the high dune - II

on the high dune - I

art challenge 197 - a room with a view

A recent (top) and a somewhat older (below) "room with a view"

 - both collage, mixed media on paper , 12,5 x 12, 5 cm / 30 x 30 cm (below) -

To see more "rooms", please visit Nadine's site here

She's the host this week for the art-challenge.

pier and ocean

the sea, always the sea...

"I need the sea because it teaches me"

 Pablo Neruda,
 On the Blue shore of Silence, Poems of the Sea

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

           

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - 
That perches in the soul - 
And sings the tune without the words - 
And never stops - at all - 

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - 
And sore must be the storm - 
That could abash the little Bird 
That kept so many warm - 

I’ve heard it in the chillest land - 
And on the strangest Sea - 
Yet - never - in Extremity, 
It asked a crumb - of me.


Emily Dickinson







 

art challenge 196 - blue

"Blue face"

"Blue seascape"


For several reasons Patrice theme,"blue", for the art challenge 
this week came as a pleasant surprise. Those who have been
following my blog for longer know why.

In a sense, "blue", is a little bit my color:). I just use it often,
it"s my favorite color.
And it was with great pleasure that I organized an online exhibition
in 2012 entitled, "ode to blue"

To see more "blue", please visit Patrice her site here
Thank you for hosting Patrice.

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If you wanna see the  "ode to blue" exhibiton please go here:

 part I,  part II,  part III,  part IV  and  part V

paperboats

                                                                      

    Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running
stream.
    In big black letters I write my name on them and the name of
the village where I live.
    I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and
know who I am.
    I load my little boats with shiuli flower from our garden, and
hope that these blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land
in the night.
    I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky and see the
little clouds setting thee white bulging sails.
    I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down
the air to race with my boats!
    When night comes I bury my face in my arms and dream that my
paper boats float on and on under the midnight stars.
    The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading ins 

their baskets ful of dreams. 

Tagore.                                                                

art challenge 194 - sky

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

 



This poem by Willem Hussem crossed my path. It inspired me to the above pieces,
collage and mixed media, each 15 x 20 cm

Poem bu Dutch artist and poet Willem Hussem, 

1900-1974, wallpainting in Leiden, The Netherlands

          

     put the blue

     of the sea

     against the 

     blue of sky

     sky, wipe

     some white

     of a sail

     in it and the

     wind starts to blow

       

 "sky-high"

To see more "skies" please visit the sites of the other  participants to this art challenge here: 

Melodye, Norma, Veronica, Nadine, Ariane, Lucia, Tammie, Sabine, Anneke, Patrice, and Stefanie

I didn't had time to find out about the linky site. So it's the old fashioned way:) Didn't I forget anyone?

Thanks everyone for joining!

old letters and a new theme (drawing challenge 194)

Back to where I once began...

While cleaning my studio, I came across these collages.
They are from long ago, even before the Internet era  and
at that time I had never heard of mail art or something.

They're made on unfolded airmail envelopes and imagine
travel impressions. I've always kept the pieces ( as a kind
of hidden treasures) but never exhibited them.
So this is the scoop!:)

The subject "airmail envelopes" brought me to the theme
for the next dc:  sky

How it works: 
If you want to join, leave a comment saying you are in.
The following weekend ( 14 and 15 of May) the drawings, 
photos, poems etc. are shown on the blogs of the participants.
And the host (me:) links to them all.

(I'll try to create a linkpage....not sure about that)

Looking forward to see your SKIES

To get inspired: please look here
It is an article of an exhibition on the theme of "clouds".
The exhibition was in 2014.
The text is in dutch (just use google translations)
but I think the images speak for themselves.

prayer, meditation, still point - drawing challenge 193

It's long ago since I made these pieces. 

They're a kind of balancing acts of a found piece of iron and 

found stones and were only there for one day.  

What remained are the Polaroids. 

They came in mind by Tammie's drawing challenge this week 

about prayer, meditation, and still point.

To see more, please visit her site here

Barnett Newman's Stations of the Cross

   

  I've always been impressed by the 14 Stations of the Cross by Barnett Newman.

  Easter is the right moment to put them back in the spotlight.

  

  More about Barnett Newman you'll find here, here and here

  Wishing you a happy Easter! 

   

leap - drawing challenge 191

small steps, big leaps:)

This week's art challenge is leap.

What I did: I've tried to paint some leaps but I wasn't really satisfied
with the results. They turned out to be a little dull. So I cut them in
pieces and reshuffled them. The red pieces  are the originals, the brown
pieces got some ps 'leaps'. So here they are: small steps, big leaps:)

To see more leaps, please visit the site of Veronica here.  She's the host this week.