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 


Friday, July 29, 2022

Ninja grandkids

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My granddaughter was in Japan for 6 months as an exchange student. She bought the outfit they wear in this setting.


© NF Photo 220729



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AJJ    Friday faces

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Butterfly door to sunset

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You want to sail to the sunset but there are no door

I painted this with acrylics on a TILE 15x15cm a few years ago

Butterflies notice it and creats a door for you
 
Diecut butterfiles on the tile and digital writing

You catch your sailingboat and takes off

One of the first pieces I painted on CARBon paper, A4

Finally Sailing to the sunset


Here comes the sun!

Tag Tuesday wants sun and Rain wants the first thing I see wake up. That is the blinds. 


© NF Photo 220726

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AJJ     TAG tuesday      TAD       Critter Crazy  

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Friday, July 22, 2022

Faces or what

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Monica

This is a self portrait I drew when I was 14 years old. I can still remember sitting in front of a mirror to create it. Was not easy to do. Finding the right angle every time I looked into the mirror. 
I was probably not very pleased with it as I can read a note in the upper corner. 
It sais: Refinement by Marie. 
Marie was my mother. So she adjusted it a bit. 💖

HELP!

Acrylics on paper 36x24cm
Last day of  having access to the the storage room in the Art Gallery I created this one. When fixing the image in Photoshop I noticed the siluette. If noone else, at least Andrea will see it. 
😇😁


© NF Photo 220722

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 Friday Face Off    Art for fun

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Unknown door

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Do you dare walk trough?? 

Step out....

..into the forest


First image is one of my photos that I worked on digitally!
Last one is a landscape painted with ink. (worked at the arthall´s open shop this week) 
Middle image is a combination of the two. 

It is HOT over here today, will be tomorrow too :(  
In many parts of Europe there are fires burning. So I hope tomorrow is the last day of heat where I live. There are already warnings of fire alert. 

Take care everyone. There are fires in many places. 

© NF Photo 220720

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Friday, July 15, 2022

Face and door fantasy

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The actress ZsaZsa Gabor
A drawing I did 1960, 15 years old. 
Acc to Wiki she died 2016, almost 100 years old. 
Nicoles Friday Face off



Andreas fantasy in my freezer! 
Andreas was one of my travelling companions to Varanger in Norway. 

For Art Journal Journey


                   
And the horse:  Escape! 
 Well, it is kind of a doorway. 


© NF Photo 220715
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The blue tray

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What I used today, veneer tray, paint, heavy gel and the multiple leaves. 
There is a jar with Heavy gel medium that I used on the dry leaves to prevent them from breaking into pieces. Because they are leaves and not particulary flat. 

I painted the tray and added the leaves. 
The leaves comes from the Outdoors art camp I was on last week. 
It is 13x20cm in size


Make it magical
a painting with a digital fairy added. 
for TIOT

© NF Photo 220714 


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Saturday, July 9, 2022

Funny face or what

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The face of a  kitty

Looking through my files I found this forgotten one. 
I remember well the cat in question. It was a beauty. But I don´t remember creating this image. 

But obviously it is the same cat and the small one heavily altered and now pretend to be a kitten. And angry. 
😁



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Thursday, July 7, 2022

Don´t cry

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You can recognize the angel from my header image. It is from the same place too. 


Doors and arches in the old church. 


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First try at ink

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Had some fun, again!
It is kind of, strange, earlier there was NEVER any activity for us retired people! Ever. Babies was invited to painting sessions at the exhibitions. They "painted" with natural colors. Like blueberry and other eatable colors. But never my generation.
Honestly it pissed me off. So I let them know what I thought. As often as I could. This spring has totally changed. 

First there was the really fun one where we created our art and printed it. That was 4 times with "Open workshop" for everybody. Next out was last week when everyone was invited to create art outdoors. That´s when I tried spray-paint. That was fun. Too bad I can´t do it at home. 

Finally this week and two more weeks we are invited to the Arthalls storageroom. There are lots of fun things to try. Mostly this has been used for school-classes and such. But now everyone are welcomed to have fun. What I show you below is what I created with ink yesterday. I had noticed the rolls of tiny nets so I took some and used to create texture with the ink. 




Sadly I catched a cold and are now coughing and have a fever. Not that high as I manage to create this post. I will be able to have more fun next week. Hopefully!
😇😀

"Flora and Fauna" for Allsorts challenge


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Saturday, July 2, 2022

Faces and critters

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Another one for Nicoles Friday Faces. This one is from 1959, when I was 14 years old.


Another little doggy face. 

And a horse for Critter crazy. 


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