An owl and what inspired it.

Hello!

Today I'll show you my last owl and what inspired it. I was looking for something in my craft magazines and came over this photo of a carved item . I saw an owl immediately.

I,ve skipped my owls for a while because I started to make some beads and that was so exciting that I couldnt stop. More about that in a later post.

Now I'm really looking forward to the weekend, Sandra is coming and it's been a while since she was here. She called me the other day and told me she was so looking forward to come this weekend. She had missed her journal a lot.

Last time she was here she wouldn't bring her journal back home, and now she regretted that.

The picture below shows my inspiration for todays owl. Do you see the owl too?

That seem to be all for today, I'm going to have a friend visiting, and I have to prepeare something for us.

Have a nice day.

Last tour through old NY.

These are the last three cards from old New York.

Good morning everyone.

First today is New Cunard Building. This card has no printed text so I don't know anything about it. Looks like a nice building though. And so it is,I read in this article. Wow, I think I'd like to visit that building.



Next image shows: Hotel Pennsylvania.
The old buildings looks so great, look at the ground level. Nothing like this is built today. That doesen't mean I don't like todays buildings, it's just that the details were much more focused back then. Today it's concrete and glass all over.
Listen to the printed text:" Hotel Pennsylvania at 33rd Street and 7th Avenue, opposite the Pennsylvania Railroad depot, with which it will be connected by an underground passageway. The first section on 7th Avenue, 20 stories high will contain 1.000 bedrooms with bath and shower."
Bath and shower back then, it's amazing. 40 years later we had our shower installed too.



Last card shows: Flat iron building Broadway and fifth Avenue.
This is not an unfamiliare way of building houses. I believe each city that have some of the old quarters left have at least one building of this kind, but the size may differ.
The printed text says:"Fuller Building, generally known as the Flat Iron building stands at the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue facing 23rd Street. Was the first steel frame sky scraper built in the world. It is 300 feet high and contains 120,000 square feet of floor space above ground and 13,340 square feet under the sidewalk.
You can see a lot more photos and read about this building in this article.




I,ve had a lot to learn from this writing and I've enjoyed it. I hope you have learnt something too.
Have a nice day everyone and take care.

Apple harvest time.

Need an extra item for Thanksgiving? I have not tried this myself, but it sure looks fun. Perhaps I should try it now that the apples are ready for harvesting. It seems easy to do and the outcome is rather special. I don't know if anyone remember that I promised to write this post, but I did back in June. In this post you can see a larger photo of a finished face. This whole idea came from a Norwegian craft magazine and the article says that the origin of this idea is American. The newly cut apple should hang in the kitchen window (or wherever you prefer) for three weeks. Each day one should gently squeeze the apple to help form the face. After three weeks, give it a couple of days in drying sand. One could dry it in the oven too, but then one will miss the chance to help forming it. Remember to use a pair of beads to the eyes. The body could be made of wire or whatever one prefers. It really doesn't matter, it's the face and dress (clothing) that matters.

There are a lot going on at the moment and I'll show you later on if I succeed. Tomorrow it,s time for the last tour in Old New York. Wish you all the best.

Two more owls.

Hello.

Todays owls are different ones. The first one was made of a paper I'd paint earlier on. I was trying a tecnique to achieve a desing by using a creditcard and paint on top of something patterned. As you see it worked and since then I've looked for patterned surfaces all over the house. Next thing to try is tissue paper.

The owl looks a bit raw or something. Not like what I usually do. Even so I'm pleased. I've chosen to show you two photos today. The first one is how it really looks like. The second one is how I like them, without the extra light. The colours differ quite much but I like it better with that "warmth" in it. Reality is too hard. He, he.




The second owl, was made while we had a warm and "foggy" day without any sunlight. It reminded me on coming season and that's why I chose to colourwash with black at the end. The white colour you see is in fact a shiny silver one.
Not much colours used in this one but I think it works.

Have a nice day, and enjoy your oval weekend to every American.

Unfortunate love.

Good morning.

Today I'm going to show you a very cool project I finished yesterday. It is the one I spoke about in my former post.
First of all I want to say that I saw this on a blog which I didn't register the name on, so if anyone of my readers have seen that blog and know the adress I would love to get it. Normally I like to give credit to the person that shows me something the first time, but this time I can't.
In the post I saw she was making a slim flowery pattern. I hope someone know the blog and let me know the adress.

My project is not the most suitable for this tecnique. My pattern (owl) is far too big so I almost ruined the middle page. The whole project involves 2 spreads in my journal. (3 sheets) What I did was this: I drew an owl like I would have it and cut it out. Placed it on the middle sheet to see if it was OK. Then I chose to glue papers on each side of that sheet, just to keep it solid and strong enough. I transfered my owl onto the page and cut it out.
The first photo shows the outlines of my owl. As you can see there is a very week point, so for safety I used some tape to strengthen it.



Next thing to do is to draw the owl on each side through the hole in the middle page. It's important to get them to fit exactly otherwise it's just rubbish. And then the fun starts. Since my owl is that big I did not have any space to differ the pages. That's why I chose to use different papers, just to make each spread look different but the owls are the same though. I hope this made sense. Look at the photos perhaps it's easier to understand it that way.

Now that I can see the result in my journal it looks a bit impressive, and it's exciting too. This tecnique can be used in many ways and the lady with the unknown blogname had cut out her shape in three following pages. That way she had the opportunety to test out her pattern in several different ways.

The text on the photo below says: Morning Miss, would you care to go for a walk in the Park? She replys, No thanks, I'd rather stay here to read this book.




I'm sorry for the quality of the photos.

Have a splended weekend everyone.

My fairyland.

Good morning everyone.

This was a fun page to make.

The owls came so quick that I had no time to think. The landscape and surroundings did too. Some days are just magic.

I call this my fairyland because I feel it contains a lot of different storys. The house could be a school and the flying owl the teacher who is calling for the students.
When this page was done, it gave me the idea for the next one, or reminded me of something I had been thinking of doing. I started it last evening, but it wasn't a good idea.
Well, the idea was good but the way I chose to resolve it wasn't. I'll show you later on.
Clare asked me what it is about owls that capture our imagination. Not easy to give an answer to that question but for me it's a nice bird with a simple shape and no hard details to draw. In general the owls are thought of as wise birds and in fairytales they often hold a central possition, are surrounded by mysticism
and very often the owls are messengers. Remember Harry Potter and the "owl mail"?
I've always been attracted to fairytales and I have, during my adult years, collected all the well known collections of fairytales.
There are a lot knowlege hidden in every fairytale if one are digging a bit.

Clare suggested to me that I might know a bit more after 14 days experiment with owls. Yes, she could be right. At least I've had 14 fun days.



Do you have a favorite fairytale, and if so which one?

Wish you all a wonderful day.

Playing with my friend.

We had a joyful day.

Hello.

My friend and I had a joyful day yesterday.
The spread below was made on Tuesday but I did some small finishing touches yesterday and therefor it's dated 31th.
I made a decision to make an Owl a day the next 14 days. It's always exciting to see how much the results can differ using the same image. An Owl is ok to use because of its shape. It's easy to draw and not that timeconsuming, and 14 days are not that long.
My first Owl is made upon a background I made a long time ago. It wasn't the easiest thing I've done (using an old background for a new idea) but I think it came out well. I'm trying to integrate the papers used on my pages and sometimes it works and other times it don't. All in all I'm pleased with this spread.



Here you can see my friend, Margit, fully consentrated to find an image to use on her page. She had not been doing this before but she liked it and felt for starting on her own.
We had some fingerfood to eat during our artmaking and we had lots of good laughs too. The photo shows a tiny corner of my Owl too.



This is how my Owl finally came out. It's a bit fun and I'm not too happy over it's legs but I drew and painted them before thinking. The maths I don't understand but my darling husband do and he told me how to write it down. I needed some "smarty" stuff and for me maths are just that.



It was a really joyful day and we agreed to repeat it, perhaps together with yet another friend.
Have a nice day everyone and thanks for visiting.