New York time again.

Three new images from old NY.

Hello everyone.

Here are the next three images from old times.
The first one shows U.S. Custom house.
This looks like an impressive building, but newer photos shows that today it's not that big after all. But, it is a very nice building. The sculptures in front represent the four continents: Asia, America, Europe and Africa and they helps make the huge impression. I'm especially attracted to the flying flags, they always make me feel good. It's almost like they're expressing : Here we are and we're proud of it.
You can read more about this building over here.

The printed text says: "The U.S. Custom House occupies an entire block at the foot of Broadway facing Bowling Green between Whitehall and State Streets to Bridge Street. It is a magnificent carved granite structure, the finest of its kind in the world, erected between 1901-1907 at a cost of $7,200,000. The site was formerly occupied by Fort Amsterdam."



The next image shows: Hudson Terminal and Tubes.

Have a look at the boats, steamboats! It's interesting looking at old images, they can tell so much about the time back then.
The printed text says:" The Hudson Terminal Building on Church Street,between Cortland and Fulton Streets are twin structures, and together from the largest office building in the world. The weight is estimated at 200,000 tons, resting on a cofferdam 400x178 feet, 75 to 98 feet deep. It is 22 stories 375 feet high and has office room for 20,000 people. Twin tubes enter the basement from Jersey City."

It occures to me that the infrastructure was so well planned back then. While we still was using horses if we had one. :-)



The last image today shows: The Post Office.

Wow, if only the those offices could look the same today.
The printed text says:" The General Post Office, located at the intersection of Broadway and Park Row is one of the finest granite buildings in the world. It has 47 branches 251 sub-stations and there are 38 other post Offices with 76 branches with a total of 410 sub-stations for the entire city. The General Post Office also contains the offices of the U.S. District and Circuit Courts."

It seems to be a lot of the best/largest/finest in the world. Probably used to build the nations fellowship. Just as many of our painters back then made all those romantic landscape paintings.



That was all for today, I hope you have enjoyed it.
Take care and thanks for visiting.

I have enjoyed my day journaling.

Today I have used some of my new art supplies.

Good evening.

Today have been a relaxing day. I have spent my day making patterns. It's kind of meditation repeting the same movements over and over again.

The photo below shows my new items. Most of the Indian ink pens I already had, just some of them are new. These are my favs. They have a tip like a brush and they work on EVERY surface. If you ever get the opportunety to buy one I highly recommend you to try them. Especially the grey shades are useful, but I love all of them.

For a long time now I have wanted to have a stamp with a feather on it and yesterday I found it....ON SALE!! And I even found the Micronpens. It must have been my lucky day yesterday. :-))



This spread shows what I've been doing today. The left page shows a pattern I've wanted to learn for a long time, and finally I took the time to learn it. After this page I'won't forget it again. You can also see my new feather on this page together with a hen I had as a leftover from another spread I did earlier.
This hen looks like she is a bit irritated and the feathers make me think that there has been a fight of some kind.

The pattern on the right page is inspired from a fabric I have. Actually I tried to copy that fabric on my copymachine but it wouldn't work. The fabric is very light weight. But, I did copy several other fabrics today as a preparation for tomorrow when my friend is comeing and we are going to play together. I'm really looking forward to that. I will try to remember to photograph as we are playing.



This last pattern gave me some new ideas to try. Isn't it fun how new ideas comes to you while doing other things? I love that symbiosis.

I wish you all the best.

I'm done with faces.

I did an experiment.

Hello.

I didn't feel for doing faces on a daily bases any more, so I tried to copy one of my paintings. Downsized it just to see if it would work. And it did.
This journalpage was part of my experiment. Boy, have I missed working in my journal.

When I and my friend painted together the other day I got so inspired by her. I've really done some sheets that looks exactly like how she does it. It's absolutely not me but fun to see how working together influence what one does. Perhaps learning new ways of doing things and so on.

Coming wedensday I'm going to paint together with another friend of mine, which I haven't done before and I'm really looking forward to that.
She has never worked in a journal so I'm thinking of showing her how it can be done. Perhaps she will start one too. AND, this time I won't forget to photograph what we are doing while we are doing it.



Below you can see the sheet I made after the day together with my friend. It's done by using acrylics and markers, on a cheap piece of paper. I'll use it for collages.



That's all for now, take care and thanks for visiting!

Five "faces" today.

Hello!

Today it's not real faces I'm going to show you. I have been thinking of how to make different expressions in my painted faces and came up with this idea.
If one have equal faces, how to make them look different? Today I have tried to express five different moods. Can you recognice those feelings: Frustration, cheerfulness, aggression, pleased and irritation?

Next question is, is it possible for me to transfer these expressions into my painted faces? I haven't tried it yet but I have some thoughts of how to try. How about a group of nuns? They looks the same but have different faces and bodyshapes. That could be a rather cool experiment. Don't they have a "talking hour" where they can express things? Perhaps I will try this.
Yesterday my artistic friend was visiting and we had a lovely day. We smeared and painted all day and had some real joyful moments. I didn't photograph anything and that's a bit irritating. Next time I will, that's a promise.



How do you get different expressions into your painted faces?
That's all for now, have a nice day and thanks for visiting.

A face in my journal.

Today I have just a face in my journal to show you.

Good morning everyone.

My 25th face was made in my journal. I so much wanted to try an idea I had. First I covered my page with squares of different papers and on top of them I have some layers of paint before I was making the face.
In the photo I can see that the image is a bit pale but in person it works well. The interesting thing about this is that I could have done a lot more with the squares. I did mark some of them and it looks like they are loose squares lying on top of the rest. With a clever use of the background colour this could have been a very interesting way of doing it. I have to do it again and see if I can get the result I was looking for.
There is nothing special with this face, I need to learn more about light and shadow. I have to try to make the shadows a bit more visible. As it is now it's just the highlights that are focused.



The left page is something I did in a hurry. I called this girl Electrica. She is made using some scraps and markers. Nothing extraordinary but she became a bit fun to look at. Tomorrow I'll show you 5 "faces" that is all about expressions.

Have a nice weekend.

A new face.

Good morning.

My face today(#24) was an easy task. It was one of those who almost did itself. I'm smiling a bit over this one because I can feel I hear my mothers comment. "Greyhaired people don't have long hair" That's her statement and will be forever. Well, I think she's wrong but that's ok.

At this point I've found a lot that I want to do when this month is over, and it's not about drawing faces. I've had enough of that for a while. I'll try to make a tiny installation or whatever I should call it and then there is zentangling, I want to do more of that too.
And I've missed my journal a lot so I will work within that too. As a matter of fact I did work in my journal yesterday and my 25th face are made in the journal. But that one I'll show you tomorrow.



I don't have much more to say today so I'll stop here.

Be creative and take care.

One week left of August.

This challenge is soon over.

And I'm glad for that. There are so many other things I want to do so I'll be glad when it's over. Today I'll show you my 22nd and 23rd face.
The face below is the 23rd. This girl has a bit of a fragile expression, but something is wrong. I don't know if it is her hair, the colour of her clothes or the background. Otherwise I'm pleased with this one. I feel it's easier to draw a face in an angle now, I don't have to look at photos to get it right any more. Light and shadow is another issue. I'll have to practice that a lot more before I feel secure enough but I'm practicing all the time.
One thing is absolutely clear to me and that is I've got the faces into my hands. And, that was exactly what I wanted when I first started this challenge. Earlier on I did a face a week but that isn't good enough to learn from.
Childrens faces are still difficult but it's only a question of practice. Everything is possible if one want it enough.



My 22nd face make me smile everytime I look at it. It strongly reminds me of my mother ( when she was young) And at the same time it's not anything like her at all.
This girl looks a bit angry or something, perhaps she doesn't like the bonnet. I'm not sure why she is looking down, I tried to make her look at me but it was impossible. Strange thing that. Can you see she's just about to say something? I feel it's one more second and she will have said it.



Perhaps she would say something about me not making her proper clothes.

Wish you all the best.