Balloons

Just a page that I made last weekend:



Colors & Senses

A prompt of my own:

Which colors remind me of summer and what sensations do they make me think of? What do I hear, see, smell, taste and feel?

It was at least 20 years ago I made some origami butterflies. It was fun to do that again ;-)

25 - Vacation @ home

Sometimes you don’t have to go outside the house to have a mini-vacation.
A few ways to relax @ home:



Although you can’t see it well on this scanned page, in real the text is better visible:

§  Take pictures when you go for a walk in the garden (this gives me a vacation feeling, because on holiday I always take a lot of pictures of the environments)

§  Play parlor games (this reminds me when I was a kid and played those kind of games during holidays)

§  Prepare voyages by reading travel books and look on maps (it’s almost as much fun as going on holiday itself!)

Definitely not my best page so far, but I’m learning a lot about the use of different materials and that’s what matters ;-)

And having fun of course! :-D

24 - Siesta time

Today I challenged myself to make a collage.

First I printed out a picture I took recently of a cat that sits often in our garden. Really like how she is lying in that tree! The picture was taken on a hot day and she felt lazy because of the warmth ;-)

Then I did tear out all sorts of green out of a magazine to make the leaves of the tree. Never did this before, but I like the result! So I will use that technique again in the future ;-)

Finally added some other paper forms I already had cut out, but never used before.

23 - Summer quote



I’m a fan of nice quotes. Although I keep a lot of them in a little book, I challenged myself to find a new one for this prompt.

The quote I chose is from Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and goes like this:

English

People are like stained-glass windows.

They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

French

Les gens sont comme des vitraux.

Ils brillent tant qu’il fait soleil, mais, quand vient l’obscurité, leur beauté n’apparaît que s’ils sont illuminés de l’intérieur.

Dutch

Mensen zijn als gebrandschilderde ramen.

Ze schitteren en stralen wanneer de zon schijnt, maar hun werkelijke schoonheid openbaart zich alleen door het licht van binnen.

22 - Summer memories

For this prompt I challenged myself to use only material I already had.

That included that I wouldn’t print out any photos that we took ourselves. Thus the pictures I used come from a travel brochure. On this trip we took hundreds of photos, but they’re all equally beautiful, so I’m glad I didn’t have to choose. I enjoy looking back at them from time to time.

If you don’t know the aurora borealis (an extraordinary phenomenon), take a look at the video In the land of the northern lights from Ole Christian Salomonsen!



21 - Beach playlist

When I think of beaches, what kind of music comes to my mind?

Do you want to listen to my beach playlist?

Here are 3 english and 2 dutch songs, all (partly) about the beach:

Surfin’ USA – Beach Boys

On the beach – Cliff Richard

Miami – Will Smith

As it isn't possible to place the video here, I give you the direct link on youtube J
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwBS6QGsH_4

Zo heerlijk rustig – Wim Sonneveld

Strand – Boudewijn de Groot

WEEK 3 & 4

An overview of the past two weeks

(I also added the first prompt of week 5: beach playlist)

20 - Lazy days

If I could give up one chore for the rest of summer, what would it be?

Definitely vacuuming (the vacuum cleaner gives too much warmth on hot days and it doesn’t do any good when I have backache).

I didn’t made a page for this prompt, because in my art journal I prefer to only write down positive things.

Meaning: only things I’d like to do, instead of remembering myself at things I don’t like to do but that have to be done.

If that makes any sense ;-)

19 - Road trip playlist

There are lots of songs I would like to put on my road trip playlist.

I listed a few of them.

Most are in English, but I added one Dutch and one French song too (because these are the three languages I speak).

Let’s get loud – Jennifer Lopez

Smooth – Santana
Love the chachacha-sound (just like in the previous song of Lopez btw).

Dorpsstraat – Fixkes
This is sung in a Dutch dialect (from Antwerp).
The band is laughing with the hiphop-clichés.
Just love the lyrics and the rhythm.

Pack up – Eliza Doolittle
Very happy feelgood rhythm.

Summer in the city – Joe Cocker
I prefer his interpretation of the song to that of Lovin' Spoonful, because of the changes in rhythm,...

Any man of mine – Shania Twain
Love different kinds of music, including country.

Walk of life – Dire Straits

Bip bip – Joe Dassin
This song is of one of my favorite French artists.

Bad medicine – Bon Jovi

Crazy vibes – Selah Sue
Already posted a part of this music video in an earlier prompt, but now I give you the full version.

Desert – Luc Callaert (my own lyrics)
As I had never written a song before, a friend of mine (jazz & blues singer) challenged me.
I wrote the lyrics and he sung it.
Feel free to say what you think about it!

Merengue & Salsa music

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