Last one

 

 

Though I have been rejecting the idea for a long time,

I guess by now I have to face it... keeping a blog no longer fits in my life.

 

 

Different from back in 2008 when I started 'Mostly Turquoise" I don't feel the necessity to share my thoughts, dreams and my artistic work on this site. It feels like the end of an era to me!

 

It has been a great voyage while it lasted and I will remain grateful for your visits and comments.

 

While I will continue making art and meeting new people, it will be in the 'real' world.

 

Thanks for your visits to my blog and wishing you all the best,

 

Regina

Making cards

 

Hi!

 

 

We returned home from our two month Europe trip several weeks ago. Once more it has been a wonderful experience!

 

 

 

 

We first visited a part of Spain that we had read about, but heard of no-one we knew who ever visited it. The countryside reminded us somewhat of South Carolina, albeit that it is mainly used for growing 'arroz bomba', the kind of rice that is being used for the famous 'paella'. This Ebro delta was a superb start...

 

Then came the Pyrenees and we spent two weeks in France before we arrived in the Netherlands (needless to say I love France!). Visited our children, relatives and some friends, which of course is always very good and fun.

 

Then came Germany, the region right across the eastern border of Holland. Went to a huge campershow in Dusseldorf. Lovely weather throughout the weeks, I don't remember a sunny summer in northern Europe like this.

 

To make a long story short, it was wonderful and I will certainly get back to it every now and then.

 

But today is for ART!!!

 

 

Recently I stopped singing in a choir, so instead of our rehearsal morning I decided to claim this extra time for art experimenting.

 

I started right away when we came back and it seems to be working:

 

Currently (or should I say finally?) I started with Gelli printing. A way of printing that I wanted to try since a long time, but never did.

The good thing is that there is a lot of info to be found on the internet. So I made a durable gelliplate myself, discovered the superb blog of Linda Germain and others and started.

 

 

Made a series of postcards this weekend that turned out pretty cool (IMHO)!

 

It is a start; it feels so good to be back again!

 

Thanks for your patience during my absence, and thanks for reading this post,

 

Regina

A break

 

It's that time of the year.

Hot summer nights, days on the beach and hardly any creative action...

 

 

 

So we take the time to explore new horizons and getting inspired while traveling in our second home

 

From earlier I know it may be difficult to post on a regular basis, so for this I apologize in advance. Hope to see you back soon, enjoy summer!

 

Thanks for visiting,

 

Regina

It's not easy!

 

 

Because the monthly subject 'Not your normal flower' was ready, I took two unused canvases to last week's painting session

 

My mood was restless, I had not been willing to look extensively for a new subject nor did I want to spend too much time thinking how to start...

 

I set up my easel and just flung some colors down on both canvases. Spreading it out with a palette knife and working in rectangles and squares (I really don't know why) 

 

 

Only recently have I started to use just red, yellow; blue, plus black and white of course. In my box there are the most beautiful colors that are ready to use, but I want to learn!

The above result is horrible in my opinion, I especially hated the color green and the yellow on the right top corner

 



so after watching some Youtube lessons of Jane Davies, I followed her instructions of mixing your own Celadon color

 

I put this on the places I did not like...

 



 

on the second canvas the same green, though it did not disturb me in the same way as the bigger painting 

 

 

These are the results today. And like so often I do not know how to proceed. So I guess I leave them sitting in my studio and have a look at it every now and then until an 'Aha' brilliant idea comes up.

 

Painting is not easy, indeed...

 

Thanks for visiting!

 

Regina

Hi! It is 'Martes'

 

 

 

This week's dyptich is composed of two pictures I made last Sunday.

In our coastal village we have some lovely beach clubs and we were having dinner in one of them. From a former visit I remembered there was a huge poster on a frame of a saddhu. When I first saw it I had no possibilities to make a photograph, but this time I took my camera

 

The dinner was to celebrate father's day (without kids, for they live abroad). My husband is of Indian ancestry and though I never went to India myself, I have a keen interest in various topics 'India', it intrigues me, hence the saddhu choice.

 

In the same beach club there are several 'rangoli', painted in white on the concrete floor. Rangoli is an art form, originating in India, in which patterns are created on the floor in living rooms or courtyards. Its purpose is mainly decoration (Wikipedia)

 

 

The food was excellent, as was the service!

All in all this was a very successful Father's Day,in a relaxed beachy atmosphere...

 

Thanks for now,

 

Regina

 



Flowerish

Good morning!

 

 

It was not supposed to be a simple, customary flower

but more flower-like, making you think of flowers

So I came up with this... 

 

 

First I painted the background

 

 

and then drew some lines with my Sharpie

 

 

 

and like so often I tend to like the details more

 than the whole painting

 

This soft pastel like colorscheme is very unlike me, but I want to learn, I am learning

 

It will stay like this for a while...

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

 

Regina

Martes!

Hi!

Martes de nuevo  (again it is Tuesday)

(you can click the image for a better view) 

Temperatures are on the rise, I really needed to cool down a bit here in Spain.

What could be better than to show the above dyptich? No warm summer colours this time and with a little bit of imagination one can almost feel the cold from the Athabaska glacier on the left...

We visited the Icefield Parkway in Alberta (Canada) back in 2009. It was our first summer trip with our newly purchased motorhome and we were traveling together with our eldest son, who had joined us in Seattle. We drove from Jasper to Banff and had a fantastic time. In fact it was the Icefields Parkway that made it very special: as a natural park the whole area was pure nature, no houses, no bill boards, just some traffic signs where necessary. 

A landscape that is hard to find these days (imho)...

The picture on the right is of the Athabaska falls, it is said not to be the widest or tallest, but the most powerfull!

There is a lot of info on these sites

https://icefieldsparkway.com/ 

https://icefieldsparkway.com/maps

Ah: Lake Louise, Peyto Lake, Johnston Canyon and so much more,

...sweet memories...

Have a lovely day!

Regina