NatureFootstep: March 2023

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

Travel blog

Butterflies and Dragonflies

NF Portfolio NF Gallery on Picasa

My photos at NationalGeographic .com
My Artwork on FLICKR

NF on Facebook NF Photo and Digtal Art on Facebook

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Primary colors and art this week

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The beach!

Painting and decorsand on the scallop.

The swan!

Painting and Digital edit

Burnt paper!

Digital edit

For Rains TADD and Nicoles FFO:

The three primary colours are

yellow, red and blue.

Below are a couple of pieces where I used them.

Aphrodite!

Eastern Rosella. Painted Australian bird.

Just some fun.

© NF Photo 230330

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TADD FFO

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Friday, March 24, 2023

Bird face

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Snow cap

This is the cutest bird I saw in Costa Rica. And it is a rare one.It is a hummingbird/colibri so it can hover in midair. We only saw this one and just because they knew where to find it.

This was the Grand Finale for our trip. Last day, last visit. last bird.

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Nicoles: Friday Face Off Saturdays Critters

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Color wheel

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The color wheel

Flowers using Complementary colors

Acrylics on canvas 30x30cm

Abstract using Complementary colors

Acrylics on canvas 30x30cm

These are quite easy and fun to create. Putting dots of colors in wet black color background and smash them with a balloon. :)

Digital fun with fallen leaves at the bottom of a fountain.

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TADD AFFF

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Friday, March 17, 2023

Friday face

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Hidden in snow

a photo with a small adjustment.

Watching!

Digital work from photos

Todays work is more or less parts of faces. So some imagination might be needed.

© NF Photo 230317

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Friday face off

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

This week

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SAHARA!

This is a piece I finished 5 minutes ago.

I painted the background 5 days ago. When it dried I saw it, oh. it is SAHARA! It is watercolor paper A3

This is a collage, not glued on. Would be quite impossible to glue lichen, cotton and dry flowers from my christmas cactus. The giraffes and vultures are photos I took from an exhibition they had in town a fes years ago.

I had fun, hope you like it!

Aurora! 50x70cm

This one is painted on the bumpy backside of an old painting that was broken. I have too much paint in bottles and this one "ate" a lot of it.

🤣

My frosty window

digital grayscale for TADD

Icy waters

Digital from a trip to Iceland.

© NF Photo 230316

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Art Journal TADD

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Friday, March 10, 2023

Faces

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Frozen II with umbrellas

Stickers on a hobbypaper

Volcano Hummingbird

My photo from Costa Rica altered in Photoshop

© NF Photo 230310

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Friday Face Off TADD

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Thursday, March 9, 2023

This weeks art

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For Our Midweek Muse I choose a version of my parents Kitchen watch that I now have in my home.

It is created by two photos and digital work.

OMM

For Art Journal Journey I share "Where are you going" and "Footsteps"

Footsteps!

The basic for this is a collage of colorful, painted, papers. Then I added the footsteps in Photoshop.

This is for TADDs "Cold colors" challenge.

This is a Work in progress. When I took the photo it was still wet and reflected some light.

I was thinking "Aurora" when I started. But who knows how it will end.

🤣😼

The snow is still on and off over here. You never know if you will walk in snow or water.

That´s all for now! wishing you all a fine weekend.

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Thursday, March 2, 2023

It´s Friday face time and AJJ

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The face in the wood!

The beautiful wood came from a bench in Queensland. I was sitting on it having lunch.

The mask and the top was displayed in the library long ago too.

I combined them. And they are now on my wall.

Some people my daughter created long ago. I added some digital arms to them.

And for Art Journal Journey I added some rain and the song.

☔⛆⛈

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I´m joining Nicole for FFO and Art Journal Journey

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Friday Face Off AJJ

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Thursday art

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Mars!

First out today are my two calendars for Mars

The one to the left got two peacock stickers on it for the right one I used different stamps.

I was quite surprised I managed to glue those peacocks without destroying them. They are "sitting" on a leaf that I painted on an outdoor workshop last summer.

AJJ

On fire!

This is createn on A4 watercolor-paper, burned out sparklers and acrylic colors.

It was a bit tricky to glue the sparklers on.

For TADD that wants "Warm colors"

Wild waters!

A3 Watercolor paper. Textures and acrylic colors.

All of these was quite fun to create.

© NF Photo 230302
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Linking up with the following memes. My thanks to the hosts:
TADD AJJ

Meet me on Instagram:
NatureFootstep_Myworld
NatureFootstep_PhotoArt
NatureFootstep_travelsandbirds
NatureFootstep_Birds

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