Updates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Beginning today, March 2nd, I will show your the soldiers of spring returning to the surface of the earth, fighting for life and warmth and ... mainly for Green.

Each Post will bring your one trooper. Three per Week, till I run out of them, which will be around the end of the month.

Here we go:

flowery - check
squiggles - ... check
bedroom - check



Here’s a smaler picture of the whole corner.
It’s still all very unpacked, but I think it has potential.



What do you think?
How about a art noveau bedroom?

I’m deeply in love with art nouveau. It feels like ... home.
I don’t know if itś just me or do you have similar feelings about a particular period of art?

When I’m looking at art nouveau paintings or sculptures, by Aubrey Beardsley, Alphonse Mucha, or Auchentaller ... I have this peculiar feeling of ... coming home. Something deep in me responds strongly to these ornamental, floral designs, full of symbolic Importance and longing ... it feels right. True, good and beautiful.

And right now I’m feeling the strong need to go and paint some flowery squiggles in the bedroom ...

Last Summer someone gave mit this awesome book about paint made from plants. There ist really fascinating stuff in it. Did you know that your can make yellow paint from apple twigs? Or red paint from beetroot? Well, no surprise there ...

In the fall I did some experiments with elderberries. I made some plant sap and ink with the juice from the berries, alum and gum arabic. I dried the sap in a shell.





Now it’s hard and crystalline and it glitters.
But it’s still soluble in water which means I can paint with it!

Last week I did a greeting card in with I used the shell.



It’s a really great violet which does funny things in the process of drying. The red dye consists of Anthocyanin which ist sensible to acid and lye.
The fresh, wet paint is more reddish.





But as it dries it turns more into a violet shade.



I apologise for the blurry pictures (and the missing frame). I had a row with the camera ...



What do you think? Should I do (and tell you) more of this?

It’s become warm again. The sun it up, the temperature ist (finally) above 0°C and it really feels like winter is going.

Although I know that there may be snow and frost and cold again, I’m already in some sort of planing mode for the balcony and my partents garden. Sadly a bunch of my herbs died in the recent cold. Now I can must buy new ones, and I can’t decide what sort of ...

Anyway, here’s a little Teaser for you:







Soon ... stay tuned!

I’ve started. Now we have to stay.

Sice you’ve asked me to do more Tolkien-related stuff ...

Here are some Elves on their way to the bathtub Grey Havens.



They seem to be a bit on the barely-there-side. But thats all right, I think Elves simply are that way ...

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I’ve just noticed that the last Elf looks kinda funny. I will change that later.

The World will never be the same again.



Here’s to old friends and new adventures!