Welcome to
Monica Johansson and NatureFootstep.com
I am interested in nature photography and photo art and travels
as much as I can to find new areas to document.
I have many blogs and below you find links to them.

Photo and PhotoArt blogs
NatureFootstep Photography and PhotoArt
Image files:  File 1,    File 2,   File 3,    File 4,   File 5

Bildverkstan - Image workshop
Image files:   Bildverkstan/Image workshop       Creative playroom ART

NatureFootstep World   Image file:  NF World

Birds blogs
NF European birds    Image files:  File 1,  File 2,  File 3
Birds around the world, Honolulu, Norway, Iceland, Japan    Image files: Around the world,   part of Japan birds
Birds in Costa Rica  Image files: Costa Rica
Birds in Morocco  Image files: Morocco
Birds in Queensland, Australia  Image files: File 1    File 2 


Saturday, March 30, 2019

Dreamers Challenge "Bubbles"

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Aphrodite meet dolphin
© NF Photo 171026

Dreamers Challenge "Bubbles". My contribution: Aphrodite and dolphin.

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Dreamers challenge

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Friday, March 29, 2019

Flowers

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 Balloon flowers on canvas, not yet dry

Abstract waterlilies on carbon paper A4. Inspired with a water lily I once photographed.

My orchid after visiting photoshop :)
© NF Photo 190329

Mostly flowers today in different shapes and techniques
Obviously I still need a lot of practice with pencils and colors :)

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Paint Party Friday   Floral Passions

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Friday, March 22, 2019

Mt Fuji in white, feather and flower

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Mt Fuji in white
Canvas 20x20cm using medium, yarn and cells from plastic sheets, It is a bit fragile but it was faun.

 Feather
 I have a hard time decide if this is a face or landscape piece. You can turn ut as you wish.
It is 20x30 cm. Tempera colors using chain and yarn for the pull.


Just playing around with my new Columbine flower in Photoshop. Softness and colors. 
© NF Photo 190322

Hope everyone has a great friday. The sun is shining for me.

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Paint Party Friday

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Friday, March 15, 2019

Polarising filter and Saturn part 2

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Fantasy Planets, Saturn project. 

Continuing from last week. I did a few exercises on painting the planet on OH plastic sheets.
Last week Susan suggested that I can use that weeks pour to create a planet. Worked out well I think. Thank you Susan!

So, for the finished piece I opened Photoshop. Copied one of the Saturns and created another planet of the pour in PS. Then I created the background universe with stars, a comet and dust clouds. And put it all together. Not sure if I am finished though.
It is fun being able to combine paint and photo like this :)


I learned this trick from an ad on FB. They use a polarizing filter on the camera and photograph some plastic in front of a computer screen. Turned out I had a filter and it suited the camera lens. But it was not so easy. The colors changes with every movement of the camera.  The piece I photographed is a magnifying glass for reading. And to make it a bit more interesting I added the angels. 

Working with polarizing filter and a laptop screen:
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© NF Photo 190315


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Paint Party Friday

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Friday, March 8, 2019

Photoedit, pour and Saturn project

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Photo edit.  If you look close you can see it is my red Hoya in bloom.

 Photo edit of a "burning" moss, I call it On fire!

 This is a tempera pour on canvas. I call it Busy! I did not make the color thin enough. But I am getting used to it.


This is something I started yesterday. I call it Project Saturn.
My brother think I am a better painter then I actually am and asked me to create a Fantasy Saturn image. I thought I try it on a carbon paper so I won´t spoil a canvas on this. And I don´t have to paint the black. As I have worked on a heavy truck design department for the better part of my adult life I did not dare to draw circles free handed. So I gathered some of my old tools. I included the image I am trying to paint. But so far I covered the paper with an OH sheet. I have to figure out what brush to use and the blending of colors. Doing that on the OverHead sheet will give me some experience even if I know the paper will be different still.
Keep your fingers crossed that I will have something to share next week :)

Let your creativity flow! And may spring be around soon up north.

Last but not least, Happy 8th birthday PPF



© NF Photo 190208



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Friday, March 1, 2019

Nature Yarn and Eggshell

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This is a photo of the stone wall around a graveyard. The outer stone has fallen off and reveal the patten of concrete.  I always check this wall when I´m passing by. Lots of beautiful spots.

This is a photo of a half rotten, fallen tree trunk. Love the colors and pattern. 



I saw something on Youtube that inspired me to create this one. It is a canvas wrapped with yarn and covered with Heavy Gel Medium colored with Tempera.



This is a disposable plate covered with Heavy gel medium and pieces of eggshell :) In this image it is not yet dry.

© NF Photo 190301 

The artist that inspired me for these two used some kind of tiny pearls to create 3D pattens. As I don´t have something like that I used a cleaned eggshell. I can´t find anything in Sweden that resembles what she used. The artist did not clearly mention it. If you have any idea I would be happy to learn.

Wishing everyone a nice weekend. Sun is shining today so it is promising. :)

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