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Monica Johansson and NatureFootstep.com

I am interested in nature photography and photo art and travels
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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Exhibition Jungle and ice

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In the jungle!
Acrylic on water color paper A4

My exhibition in the library. My paintings and my sisters dolls.

Sisters!
This is my sisters work. The doll to the left is my sister and the one beside her in the coat is me.
My sister designed and sew the cloths and hairstyle we actually had at that time in our lives. This is the first time I could convince her to share them on the exhibition. And, people loves all of them. 😄

Flowers frozen in ice
For Rains Jagged and Ice. The ice is the same, the difference is the light and position.

© NF Photo 200116

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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Rains Cozy and PPF

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Spiritual Deer forest

canvas 23x30 cm. This one took me several days to complete. It was when I placed them unevenly that I liked it. And then I remembered I had some white deer's as well. They are cutouts. And, there are glitter on it, like a little snowfall. An hour ago I noticed my kitchen floor are glittering too. 😀😇

Santas Cozy vacation

For Rains Cozy and Dreamers challenge. This is painted in photoshop, first time I tried something like this really. But Santa is photographed. I bought them in New Zeeland many years ago and thought I could combine it. Santa is part of my Christmas decoration.

Abstract pour on panel 18x24 cm
I bought the panels earlier this week as they were cheep and wanted to try it. But, as you can see they are bent, curved at the short side. I thought they should stay flat 😞
Both panels are the same colors. I dipped the second one on the standing one. There were too much colors on it. But the final result is very different from each other.

© NF Photo 191212

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Friday, June 21, 2019

Dark Abstracts and Midsummer

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Dark Power
Photoshop work! I was playing around with an image of two beautiful art glasses I have. Then I was looking for a fairy to complete the image, but, I found a devil :) Think the pair sits nicely on their thrones :)

Dark Fountain 2
This is a brighter version of the Dark Fountain from last week. Not as much black this time and more colors. This is photographed when it was dry.
Tempera on white Canvas 24x30 cm

This is a detail of the one above. Photographed when still wet and then color enhanced in Photoshop.

Captured golden seafloor - Gyllene havsbotten

I liked the string of black on the white board so I tried to capture a kind of pour in the middle of it. I wanted fo keep the interaction between the black and the white color.
And finally added the "black spot" in the center.
Tempera on white Canvas 28x28 cm

This is a photo I took yesterday. In Sweden we celebrate "Midsummer" to celebrate the summer solstice and today is Midsummer eve. So, I wish you all a great Midsummer. :)

© NF Photo 190621

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Friday, May 17, 2019

LP-flower and Microcosmos

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LP-flower
This is painted on an LP-disc. A black background and then I too a chain with white color to create the "frame" In the center I added a few colored paint spots and used a balloon to create the flower.

This is the Microcosmos shell from last week. Yesterday I noticed on my balcony this piece of birch bark and placed the shell on it. Now I think this is how my "Microcosmos" is complete :)

© NF Photo 190517

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Friday, April 26, 2019

Colors and circle

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Colors of life

Acrylic on 30x40 canvas
As I have acrylic paint I wanted to play around with it. I had seen something on Youtube I wanted to try. But of course, my work took it´s own path. It´s not even close to what I started with :)

My Circled Universe

One sketch and painting on carbon paper, and 2 pours, one on canvas the other on an LP record, combined in Photoshop

© NF Photo 190426

Re the "My Circled Universe" I have seen some kind of challenge on Instagram It is only a few days left but I want to see if I can join in.

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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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Friday, January 18, 2019

Kind of messy balloonart

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An LP as a test object for "balloon" art. Using a balloon to create the flower like patterns.

Patterns of color used for the next balloon attempt, canvas Ø31 cm

Balloon flower patterns on white canvas Ø31 cm

Detail

© NF Photo 190117

This was fun to work with. And it did not take that much color as a pour does. Also gives you more control of patterns. The balloon press the color out in a circual pattern. I added a few more drops of colors during the dripping balloon process.

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Friday, October 19, 2018

More acorns

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Acorn art

© NF Photo 181017

More acorns. It is quite fun to work with. Only back draw is they fade away quickly. A camera is needed to capture it all. To the left in all images is the same acorn in different stages. It darkens and then it starts to crack.

The acorn to the right in the pen image is the canvas for the center one in the second image. I draw the "tree" from the pattern it it´s bottom area.

I haven´t given up of trying to preserve some of them. I have a few in a bottle with vinegar right now, but I doubt it will work, Seems like the red color is moving out if the acorns :(

I have tried two kind of pens. Ink and gel works. Still have to try arylic paint if I can handle such a tiny brush. :)

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Friday, September 14, 2018

Sailing and deer Testing pencils and blending

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Sunset deer

© NF Photo 180901

I was playing with pencils and blending in sunset colors. Then I remembered I had this deer image so I put it in there. It is painted on a overhead plastic sheet. Thought I would have it on a window but it did not work so well. But adding a black background in Photo shop, it looks much better.

Sailing in sunset

This one was made at the same time as the deer above. But on black paper.

I like the way the acrylic colors interact with the black, carbon, paper. I might make a poster from it.

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Thursday, August 23, 2018

Rosella and scratched landscape

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Eastern Rosella
acrylic painting. 24x30 cm on canvas

Photo of Eastern Rosella used

Skratched landscape
Board 30x30 cm

© NF Photo 171026

This was actually meant to be used for the "fishbowl" from last week. But when I came to this stage I thought it might be an art of it´s own. It is an old poster I scraped "clean" and got this pattern. Maybe not art, but hey, from what I see on the net it might work as such. And I like it :) So the Fishbowl has to wait for something else to be glued on.

Wish all of you a great art creating week.

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Thursday, July 12, 2018

Beach treasures and Rainbow Tree acryl paint

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Treasures from the beach

Rainy backdrop, my first attempt with acrylic oil, on paper 14,8x21 cm white, grain.

After almost three weeks I finally got the paint and pencils, but no panels. They were not in store. And the delay of the colors was due to our post office. They are not reliable nowadays. :(

I painted this on the paper and it was a good way to learn how paint and pencils work. But I did not dare to sign them. Tried to "write" with the pencil with no luck. But, it is possible to paint, but not write, with a toothpick. :)

I took a photo of the backdrop. It does not really look like the video I studied but I liked the way the white curves contrasted to the more or less grey surface. So I kept one image that way. Will probably do some more work with black and white only. I would have liked if the paper had been more square. The tree should have come up higher.

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Friday, June 22, 2018

watercolor and clay

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Clay forest, Photo and digital painting on tablet

© NF PhotoArt 180621

Trying lots of new stuff this week again while I wait for the acrylic paint.

This time I bought watercolor. Have not done that since I went to school as a child. So it is all new to me. A question to you that are used to the medium, is it possible to keep the paper from "bubbling"?

The Clay Forest, comes from cleaning up some remaning things from my mother. The clay was created by my mother and my daughter some 40 years ago. So, many memories there.
I photographed the pieces and manipulated them one by one in Photoshop. Then arranged the scene. The background is created by painting digitally with a tablet.

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