NatureFootstep: black and white

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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

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Friday, February 7, 2020

Fractal

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Fractal

© NF Photo 200207

I was going through some of my old files and found this. I made it in an online program years ago. And forgot about it until now. Hope you guys like it!

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Weekend in Black and White

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Friday, December 27, 2019

Fantasy worlds

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Sunset over the savanna
This could be the sun but probably isn´t as it has a black corona.
Paint and stencils on a board 24x18 cm

Life in space
Digital work including the painting above. And a bat!

Cinderella!
version 2, I made one before and people seemed to like it even if it was, obviously a beginners work. So I tried to do a better one. Learning from what did not work earlier.
Paint and stencils on canvas 40x50 cm. Mixed media

© NF Photo 191227

I hope everybody had a great Christmas week. This is how I spent mine. My daughter is married to an Englishman and they flew off to England. Christmas eve I had dinner with my sister. I had a nice week with art indoors and a grey one outdoors. No snow anywhere to brighten up the day. 😞

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Paint Party Friday Rains garden

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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

AEDM26 Handy tree Catching light

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Handy tree catching light

My older serie "Catching light"
© NF PhotoArt 160918

Yesterday I wanted to create a "Hand tree". I tried to copy the first of "Catching light" on CARBon paper so I could paint on that one. But that did not work. The printer don´t seem to print white color.
😢
So, tried to draw in Photoshop but it is hard to draw with the mouse. Then I remember, three years ago I bought the smallest of the WACOM series tablet so see if I could use it. It was hard. But yesterday I connected it and, voila, it worked well enough for the branches.

Have a nice day!

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Monday, November 18, 2019

AEDM18 On stage

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On stage
© NF PhotoArt 191118

Cutout ballet dancer
I copied a dancer from Pinterst. I had it for a couple of days until I realized I probably have a scalpel somewhere. When I worked as a truck designer I used some tools I still have. They were not needed when designing was digitized. Now I found the scalpel and the writing template.

The scalpel made me able to cut out the white dancer from the white paper. So the image shows the cutout dancer as white and the "cutout form" as the black paper. Then it took me two days fo figure out what to do with them. Teh finished one is the first "On stage", CARBon paper, foam brush and tempera white color. Stencil used for the horns and lettering template.

So, now I can create my own stencils 😊

© NF PhotoArt 191118

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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

AEDM12 Abstract bw fluid

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Abstract square in black and white

© NF Photo 191112

I have been splashing black and white colors and glitter all over the place yesterday. I like photographing them on my balcony floor. Think it gives a nice background.
😀

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Friday, October 25, 2019

All different

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Wildlife at night!
Another piece on CARB-on A4 black paper. I used stencil for the deer. The rest is a circular foam brush.

Flower field!
This piece was a happening. It was a photo poster from the start that I scraped away the image. Then I used it as black and white art. A week ago I painted it with gold and blue Tempera color. And was lost. :( After using the foam brush on the CARB-on paper I decided to make a Flower field. I was inspired by a real one in a farm outside my town. Lots and lots of flowers, Poppy and many others. So, this is an interpretation of that colorful field.

Autumn avenue
This is an avenue outside my town leading to a Mansion. I photographed it a couple of days ago. This time I did not use photohop for the edit. I have another one called Topaz. The filter used was oil paint.

© NF Photo 191025

Fall is coming to an end and soon all trees are bare.

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Friday, October 18, 2019

Carbonpaper landscape and hummingbird

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Grass and BOKEH
Pencil and foam brushes

Landscape
Pencil and cotton swabs /topz

Hummingbird
Used a stencil and foam brushes for this little bird.

All three pieces are on black A4 CARBON paper and tempera colors.

© NF Photo 191018

It´s a bit chilly today and I think fall is coming to an end soon.

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Friday, June 7, 2019

Trees n seas

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Wetland forest
This is a photo that I edited with "Split toning" in PS. This means you give different colors to highlight and dark areas. In this case blue and green.

In the sea
I bought an old canvas and painted on it with my silvery, tempera colors. It´s a bit shiny but I like the colors. Canvas 30x30cm

Dusk
This is an image I got in my head when I woke up the other day. I clearly saw the white circle and the dark trees. I call it Dusk but I don´t really know if it is dawn or dusk or the sun or moon. :) But, who cares? :)
Tempera on canvas 20x20cm

© NF Photo 190607
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Friday, April 19, 2019

Happy Easter and this weeks art

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Deer under the Tree
White tempera on black canvas 20x20cm

Emotional meltdown - Känslomässig härdsmälta
Grained paper A5

One morning at breakfast my brain presented me with "Emotional meltdown" Two days later I tried to paint it. I used only three colors, Black,red,yellow which I think represent a quick destruction. Which was proved in Paris this week. :(

The Seesaw - Gungbrädan

Canvas 20x20cm
This happend as I had the decoration gravel and the white Seesaw. I had some troubble with the thick paint but finally I got it too work.

Happy Easter! - Glad Påsk!

Earlier in life I always painted my Easter eggs with tiny chickens. Thought I´ll do it this year too even if I had no guests :)

© NF Photo 190419

Happy Easter everyone!

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Saturday, November 10, 2018

Twig in black and white

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Twig in black and white

© NF Photo 181110

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Friday, November 2, 2018

Paint pull and physalis

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Chain pull flower

The wave

This kind of painting is quite interesting to me. I was only about to paint one canvas in black. The purpose was to try out how to use fan brushes. I ended up with four canvases in black and white :) The two shared above I will bring to the Exhibition I start Monday. Hopefully somebody want to buy them. My walls are full again.

I DID do the black canvas yesterday :)

The Wave is actually black and white, the blue tone comes from the camera as it was a grey day. Camera settings White Balance like to do that. I like it so I keep the color in the photo.

The Physalis is a photo with some light edits.

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Friday, September 21, 2018

Black and white week

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Black and white abstract

Have been busy learning and using Tempera paint this week. The things I ordered finally arrived.
I have loved working with white paint on the black CARB paper. This week I colored canvases with black tempera . When i sprinkled the black color on the first canvas I liked the pattern so I took a photo of that. Then I made the canvas black. When dry I created the white chain art on the black canvas. Think it worked out pretty well. :)

I have also walked the forest to find nice birch bark. I will share what I found next week. :)

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Friday, April 6, 2018

The ruin in black and white

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Detail of the ruined cottage

sketch

© NF Photo 180327

Using CS5, NIK collection and Topaz filters.

Thanks to Stanley Hattman for suggesting BW for this place. Even if it was not that easy. A bit too much texture made it look dirty at first so a bit of "handiwork" was needed.

See more from this place Fire ruin lens flares in the photo blog.
And also the post before this one on this blog. #Ruined or...."

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Take a word- BW Black and White weekend

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