Tricollage by Josephine, Lynn and me

We made three Madonnas in "Exquisite Corpse" style - one made the head, covered it, passed it to the other who made the body and passed it to the third in line to finish. Here is one of them.

Lady Madonna ... mail art

               My contribution for the mail-art exposition in Den Bosch.,
               another 'rorschach' dress.

The Kiss (1 & 2)

Number 1 I made once before but traded it, so made a new one
called: Licking Wounds (lesson one at first aid)
Number 2 is called:
Almost there

At The Beach

The Philatelist ....(I think I found a new hobby)

I was so impressed by Angie's book so I just had to try and draw my own stamp ....
I found a lovely photo of this girl in an old magazine .... very Dutch and very vintage.

Stamping my way around ...

Well of course I had something completely different in my mind with this theme ...
and I proceeded with my own interpretation of 'stamps' ;))

Collage made on 'stamping grounds' ..

Rollage .. first trial

Very much fun to play with this new technique ... this one feels like creating vintage tiles.

The Birth of Halloween in Holland

I'm glad to announce that these two ladies of the Dutch Lowlands found some big potatoes in their backyards and manage to turn them into these Halloween Costumes ... the elderly lady even managed to turn some of the (very old) potatoes into a doll ...
Initially the plan was to turn some Edammer Cheese into a pumpkin head but due to the beer that goes so well with a party the Edammer ended up in their bellies as well ;))
Cheers!

Trick or treat .....

We don't have a tradition of Halloween over here in Holland, but I managed to create 2 monsters ;))
I'm not sure who frightens who ..

A day in the life ....

I read the news today, oh boy
four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

Looks a bit like the one last week .. before glueing I played with the elements and made some pictures ...
I thought this one fits the last couplet of the lyrics
(getting a bit nostalgic listening to old Beatles songs ;))

A mysterious page

Here you see my little kid brother who's about to uncover what lies beneath this mysterious page that seems to scare the rest of my family ... well except for my mother and my brother and me;))

Backwards in time ....

Always looking great in a 'Rorschach' dress!

I've been making a lot of 'rorschach' inkblots lately and a lot of them look like dresses to me ... so I made this advertisement out of one of them.

Marie Toilette's live performance of her 'Apple-tree Dance' ..

Unfortunately Marie couldn't find the right apples so she improvised with balls of wool, but due to her very expressive dancing style these almost got her strangled.
Luckily for us she turned back to knitting warm undergarment again ;))

Not only the asemic babbling was a bit weird about this family ..

The signs on the wall ....

    Not a shadow of a doubt this couple had on their honeymoon travels, but we already saw some    shadow boxing ....

The Murmur-maid a.k.a. the Mermaid

The girl sprouted out of my imagination.

I just discovered and admired the art of Mari Katayama, she is very inspiring to me.
Here's a link to some of her art : Mari Katayama's provocative self-portraits - CNN.com

Inside out and upside down

                                Abstract versus figurative
                                color versus black and white
                                upside down versus inside out

'The scream of a Butterfly'

'Before I sink
Into the big sleep
I want to hear
The scream of the butterfly'

A part from the song of the Doors ; When the Music's Over
(my favorite boys-band when I was a teenager)

Excusez moi for not being around so often but I'm focussing a lot on drawing and painting ...
and give myself permission to do some self-education on painting this summer ..

playing with patterns ..