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Hauling up the HaGs

Here they come
Three HaGS on TaGs

Ready they are for HalloWeen

On their Brooms they will be seeN
hehehe

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Caught in the Abyss

Mixed Media on 8x15 inch woodpanel

Remember her ?

This is after her "facelift"

The Murky Waters Nixie

A digital play as preview to my "Murky Waters Nixie"

I will have to photograph her tomorrow with daylight.
I am not an aquarel expert by all means, but I did this one on watercolourpaper with watercolour paint and pencils and then I added inks, stamps, acrylics, glaze, more watercolouir paint and at last some Golden glass bead gel which I covered with some more diluted sparkly paints.
She is my "Halloween" project for this year,

since I am all submerged with the water sprites.....

Where do I belong ?

One of the journal entries...

While I was starting to draw something over the gesso layer that I had painted over my text,

I suddenly had to think about the little hermit crab with its house on its back, that little hermit crab belongs wherever it is, because it's got its house with him.

A comfy thought....

Mermaid Journal so far...

I am steadily adding more to the Mermaid journal/sketchbook

... thought I'll post a "so far"...

here are some excercises with paints and materials

some prompts I worked on

...there is more...

...which I'll show at a later stage...

dowN wheRe iT's Better

Down where it's Better ~ Under the Sea ~ The Seabed

PiraTeS love MErmAidS Yo Ho !

"Yo Ho, Yo Ho , a pirates life for me

we pillage and plunder, we rifle and loot

Aye and we're loved by our Mermies to boot,

Drink up me 'earties YoHo !..."

(my own spin on the lyrics of "YoHo" by Xavier Antencio)

Pensive

A work in progress or no longer ?

I like the unfinished kinda look to it

and the monochromatic with a hint of colour,

we'll see if I can keep my pencils

and brushes off her long enough...

Cancer

I've been catching up on my Zodiac challenge,

I got behind/stuck/pre-occupied....

you name it...

Cancer- Zodiac sign for 21 June-22 July

Antler Maiden

"Deep in the Forest

I found two peaceful Doe

and captured them with paint"

~

Haiku by Joyce van der Lely © 2010

~

I have been a bit disturbed by the Earthquake we had Saturday

and we still have aftershocks regularly throughout the day and night.

I try to get some peace and quiet by making my Art

but I am not always succesful with this

it's a creepy experience

I hope a -once in a lifetime thing- only...

A Mermaid Booklet and her value studies

I am doing colour value studies

for La Sirena

(the back-to-school-feeling is creeping up on me, haha)

but of course I cannot resist the odd little portrait in between the excersises

and some ATC's too

A couple ATCs for my Mum, together with some instructions so she might start to make some ATCs too ? Who knows......we'll see...

'Make a Wish' and 'a Kiss'

and another couple of pages I did in Mum's journal

playing around with profiles and frontal faces

Little Red

another spread in the journal

with my first succesful crackle ! Yay !

and little windowshutters that keep an old piece of parchment

to write on.

Toadstools & Ferns

This is one of my own favs from the book for Mum

Filigree Frame ~ The Lady

Another page from the Journal Book for Mum

Feather Lady

This is one of the journal entries from the coptic journal I made.
I found the Guinea Fowl feathers while visiting a kids-petting-farm.

The fowl were loosing their feathers and these were too irrisistible....

I could not take them back with me to New Zealand though, NZ is pretty stricked in bringing in animal- and organic bits and pieces,

so I just had to use them right there and then.....
A5 size - portrait on a piece of frayed and stained printed cotton fabric in the coptic journal

♥

The book for my Mum

I finally finished this book as a gift for my Mum
remember ?
It started as my first Coptic Book a while ago.......
I took it with me half finished...I always run out of time.
Now it's her turn to write some stories or poems in the open pages or in between the drawings and paintings.
When I get home I want to make another coptic journal, it's loads of fun !

Fairy

8X12 inch canvas

Another gift, this time for a third birthday of a friends daughter

I found some beeswax !

-funny enough: in an amusement park where you go back in time

follow the link, it was FUN and we got to make candles, so I had my beeswax !-

...it's a bit yellower than my yummie one at home though...