Time

After watching the "Alice in Wonderland" film by Tim Burton I bought the original "Alice" books by Lewis Caroll. I read them and was amazed by the story. 
I can still remeber the white rabbit in the Disney version and I really like him. He is always rushing around trying to beat the time because he is so afraid that he might be too late. 
So I decided to draw the white rabbit from "Alice in Wonderland". 
The drawings in my book are so beautiful that I chose to draw this rabbit and not the Disney version. 
Finally I have to say: "Oh dear, oh dear! I shall be too late!"

We are always looking at our watches, trying to be in time and to squeeze everything in the 24 hours of a day. And sometimes we just forget to look at the nice things in life. So please don't forget to look at the rainbow!

Summer starts on June 21st!
Therefore the word for next week is "Summer"!

For more information see our previous posts.

Sweet 'n' Tasty

For me the essence of sweet and tasty is a fresh and ripe strawberry. I can't resist them and as soon as the first strawberries appear in the supermarket I have to have them.  My secret wish: a strawberry as big as an orange.

I am a huge fan of sweets. I like cookies, cakes, muffins and anykind of chocolate. I really do. 

So when thinking about sweet 'n' tasty I immediately thought of a cheesecake. I really like it topped with cherries. 

And here the reminder:

We would like to invite you all to join our challenge.

We will post the word(s) of the week on Sunday and then we all have one week (till Saturday evening) to create our approach to this word(s). If you want to share your work with all of us (and that would be really wonderful) then mail it to us till Saturday evening. We will post yours and our two pages on Sunday for everyone to see.

It would really be great if you would all share your pages with us.

So, just create a page, take a photo, reduce the size so that it fits into one e-mail and send it to us (thejournalchallenge@gmail.com).

The words of this week will be: “Time”!

We really look forward to your approaches and hope to receive lots of mails.

Going wild

The titel of my page is: "Going wild with colors"!

I immediately associated "going wild" with wild animals. First I was thinking of zebras or wolves but then I remembered a trip to Yellowstone and the bisons there. For me they are the perfect example of wild animals, strong and impressive. 

And here the reminder:

We would like to invite you all to join our challenge.

We will post the word(s) of the week on Sunday and then we all have one week (till Saturday evening) to create our approach to this word(s). If you want to share your work with all of us (and that would be really wonderful) then mail it to us till Saturday evening. We will post yours and our two pages on Sunday for everyone to see.

It would really be great if you would all share your pages with us.

So, just create a page, take a photo, reduce the size so that it fits into one e-mail and send it to us (thejournalchallenge@gmail.com).

The words of this week will be: “Sweet 'n' Tasty”!

We really look forward to your approaches and hope to receive lots of mails.

Have a nice and creative week.

Hello out there!

No, we are not lazy and yes, we haven't posted anything this week.

Why not?

That’s easy to answer.

We had a fabulous idea last week. We came together on Sunday and posted our letter and discussed the word(s) of the week and on Tuesday or Wednesday we had the idea to share the word with all of you. No, not in our regular way but before we draw it.

We would like to invite you all to join our challenge.

We will post the word(s) of the week on Sunday and then we all have one week (till Saturday evening) to create our approach to this word. If you want to share your work with all of us (and that would be really wonderful) then mail it to us till Saturday evening. We will post yours and our two pages on Sunday for everyone to see.

It would really be great if you would all share your pages with us.

So, just create a page, take a photo, reduce the size so that it fits into one e-mail and send it to us (thejournalchallenge@gmail.com).

The words of this week will be: “Going wild”!

We really look forward to your approaches and hope to receive lots of mails.

Have a nice and creative week.

Letter

We are here again!
Sorry for the long delay!

Our challenge for this week was "a letter". I took the letter G. My inspiration were the first letters of a chapter in old books. They are big and heavily ornamented. My letter did not turn out this way - it looks more like a G with a lot of doodeling. But nevertheless I'm rather happy with it.

I tried two different approaches this week and I couldn't decide which one to show on the blog. So I will show you both. 
My first page was a grid were I thried out how various letters look and then colored them. 

My second page is just a single letter which I tried to decorate with climbing roses. Good intention but it looks more like some string of light attached to the M, which is good also. I am just glad that it looks good. I wasn't sure about that when I drew it. 

Window

We are so so sorry. Because of a huge amount of work we didn't have the time to do our weekly challenges for quite a long time. 

Even this week only I found the time to do the window for our challenge. 
I found inspiration in my pictures I took in Italy. I really like those window or door pictures one can find in so many calenders. So I started to take pictures of windows and doors I liked instead of buying the expensive calenders.

This one is inspired by a window I found in Siena, Tuscany. 

Next week everything will be back to normal and we will both be posting our pictures. At least we hope so.

Spring

As I walk my dog everyday in the woods I see spring coming. There are more and greener leaves on the trees and on the ground every day and although the trees seem bare there are green leaves and flowers everywhere. On a sunny day I took my camera with me and tried to capture this feeling. There is a large picture with seemingly bare trees but on the close-ups one can see that there are a lot of tiny white flowers on the ground and fresh green leaves on the trees.

I had an immidiate idea what to do with the word "spring". When I was a kid I had the wonderful book "Big Bird brings spring to Sesame Street". Poor Big Bird is fed up with snow and winter and buys six wonderful flowers to put in his nest. During his walk home he gives all the flowers to friends in Sesame Street. So he brings spring to it because there are these beautiful colored flowers everywhere. I really really wanted to do something with the story of this book. I read it again - it is still so lovely - and started to look up the different flowers on the internet. Then I came across this photo of "Prismatic Spring" in Yellowstone National Park. I was there in 1998 and it was so amazing. I really recommend going there. 
I printed this photo and glued it on a black gesso background. I also rubbed this photo with purple pastels to get a more extraordinary look. I hope you can see it on the picture (I think you can see it in the left corner).