NatureFootstep: watercolor

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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.
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Thursday, June 3, 2021

Hand in hand

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Today I was using some older pieces and altered them a bit to fit todays Hand challenge.

Hand in hand brings light!

My hand hodlding the hand you have seen before. A useful piece for artwork.

Dressage in my hand!

Holding the Blue Crystal World in my hand!

Maori cave art!

This piece is painted on watercolor paper A4. Orange background is watercolor. The caveart is painted with acrylic color. This caveart I have on a T-shirt from New Zeeland that bought on a visit many years ago. I love it and was thinking of painting it for a while now. Now I figured out how to get the pattern from the T-shirt to the paper. Still, I made a mistake. I forgot that I have thinner brushes. The "hands" would look better painted with a thin brush. But next time I will. There is a lot of rock art in the world so, maybe, I will do more of them. 😍

© NF Photo 210603

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Friday, November 20, 2020

AEDM20-xx

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I will use this post for several days of AEDM.

Every day I will ad the image I have for that day. So, please visit daily as there will be a new one on top. AEDM20 - xx

Lady legging

Lol, this was my leggings thrown on my sisters chair when I visited her. Manipulated in photoshop.

Entry for AEDM23

Natural design

This is a design made from a photos of Shaggy inc cup. The skirt and the cap are fungi shots. Edited in FotoSketcher and Photoshop

Entry for AEDM22 Mosaic Monday

The Face

Sometimes nature just does it for you. This is a piece of birch bark.

Entry for AEDM21

Watercolor spots

Sometimes you just like how the colors look when placed out. This is watercolor from tubes. I liked the spread and used thin plastic folie to press the color down. No water added.

© NF Photo 201120
Entry for AEDM20

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Spirit and leafs

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The waterspirit

For Rains TAD this week about Supernatural. Photo edit in PS. The spirit is my granddaughter. The waterfall is Skogafoss in Iceland.

Below is a set of Autumn leaves. Watercolor, coffee and leafs on watercolor paper A4

Autumn leaves 1

Walking in nature looking for leaves I realized not all autumn leafs are yellow, orange and red.

Also I noticed the backside is sometimes very beautiful.

Autumn leaves 2

This is the backside of different dark leafs. Looks very much like lace.

Autumn leaves 3

Had to find some autumn colors too.

And, my little workstation crowded with stuff for Autumn leaves 3.

© NF Photo 201015

The Pandemic seem to start all over again so I hope everyone is still safe. I am. No "C" in the forest. And I found a new place to go yesterday. Will share some images later on, on my other blog.

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Thursday, September 3, 2020

Goddesses and some grass

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"The Birth of Venus" (Sandro Botticelli) 1485 This image that Rain had found on her search of Masters says Venus. I thought this figurine was Afrodite.

At least this is NIKE, but who created her I have no clue.

Nike as the Winged Victory of Samothrace, c. 200-190 BC,

These are imaged from 130223 so they are old ones. The two above are slightly edited in Photoshop

Below are images showing the setting for my "photoshoot" with Goddesses figurines

Nike and Afrodite or if it is Venus 😕

Sand on a black baking sheet

At that time I had a bowl of water standing in the window. In February the sun created a rainbow on the floor. So I decided to play a little with goddesses and settings. The bowl in the window is the source to the rainbow. My files are almost overloaded with images from that day. Glad I found them. 😄

And a little grass also today

Leaves and grass

Watercolor on watercolor paper A4

For this one I used makeup pencils. A tiny one for the grass and leaves and a feather for the grass on the ground. For the background I used a pencil I think is used for powder on your face.

It was easy to work with makeup brushes and I like the result. Hope you like it too.

The color choices came from one of my socks..😄

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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Canceled summer plans

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Summer plans for Rains DAT this week. Well forget about it. I guess everybody knows why that is.
I was thinking of driving to Öland. An iceland in the south of Sweden. Not to windsurf myself but to photograph them. I made this watercolor painting inspired of a photo I took several years ago. I love watching them and if I was young I would certainly try it!

Yellow Magnolia
One photo used three times in different ways and combined.

I have now put the small, bright, paintings on a white canvas.I might call it
"Black and White kitchen wall"
😄

© NF Photo 200611

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Rains and PPF

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We all need a hug these days, this is for you.
Photocollage of 2 images

For Rains "in like a lamb, out like a lion" challenge I choose to see two sides of the same water.
Upper and lower side of the flood lock . 2 photos collage

Gannets. .A favorite bird I happened to "pass by" in my files.

The spring has arrived even if we still has cold mornings.

Leaves budding 1 - Lövsprickning
Watercolor CARBon paper A5

Leaves budding 2 - Lövsprickning
Watercolor CARBon paper A4

My test pad for painting also suitable for Rains this week I think as there are flowers, trees, ghosts and even a spider. The size of the pad is A4
This is a pad I designed for SCANIA heavy truck drivers when I was still working at the design department. I was allowed to bring it home with me when I was retired.

© NF Photo 200326

Take care, stay safe and let the art flow.

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Friday, March 20, 2020

A weird world art and virus

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A marsh or wetland tilted and manipulated in Photoshop.
A path I often walk when it is not too much water.

A fantasy landscape in watercolor. A4 aquarelle paper

Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone, in watercolor. A4 aquarelle paper
Inspired by an image I have on a bag I bought in Yellowstone.

© NF Photo 200320

I think I start to understand how watercolor works, when to use "wet on wet" or dry painting. Don´t really like that the paper has to dry every now and then, kind of disrupts the workflow. And I have to remember to finish with Fixative.

I hope all is fit and well. I am, kind of stubborn. They say 70+ shall remain indoors being cared for, but I need my exercise so I still walk the forest to see nature and animals. And, btw, I am the least ill person in my family. So, I will probably take care of the others so, lock myself up in my apartment, politicians can forget about that. But I don´t take unnecessary risks.

Stay well, there are at least 2 good things in all this. We can still meet online, and....space images show our world is cleaning up. What politics could not do about climate change, a tiny virus does.

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Thursday, March 5, 2020

Mostly watercolor and what you see

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Running!
This is 2 images combined in Photoshop. The "valley", is our skate course. And The deer Fallow deer.

I see you! Slightly manipulated image.

The path!

Watercolor on paper A4

Some kind of landscape I guess. Watercolor paper A4

I had bought a set of watercolor in tubes. And wanted to test them with earth colors.

The colors I used was: Lemon yellow, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, burnt umber and the last one is deep green as I thought it needed something else to stand out. For the deep green I took the color from the tube and did not ad water. I like this colorpalette and will probably do something more with these colors.

I also tested some trees I found in a book. A lesson in how to use the color from the treetrunk to create a shadow on the ground by adding a little water at the bottom of the trunk and let the color flow down words and spread out. 🙏
And as you see, I liked the tissue I used for the color palette 😇

Lookíng at my bunch of images I guess they all are suitable for Rains "What do you see" promt for this week. Even if that was not what I thought at first. 😁

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Thursday, February 27, 2020

Leaps and PPF

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Abstract landscape
A mixture of photo and watercolor

Second try on the lake in watercolor. A4. Aquarelle paper

Deer
Watercolor and gel pen on sketch paper A5

For Rains TAD Leaps and bounds.

This is actually my grandson taking a leap into the unknown below the surface.
Photoshop edit

© NF Photo 200227

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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Wisdom and watercolor

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Ballerina, watercolor on A5 sketch paper using stencils

I found a tiny doll in a second hand shop. I placed her in my watercolor landscape an took a shot.

Ducks! Watercolor on A5 sketch paper.

Wisdom

watercolor on A3 sketch paper

Yin and Yang is a concept of dualism. Most people think the symbol should be and mean "perfect balance" but I don´t think the Universe is perfect so, my symbol is not perfect.

That is wisdom to me.

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