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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

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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Paint Party Friday Rains TAD Mixed Media

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Thursday, October 8, 2020

Not that inspired this week

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Howling in the night!

Sticker and tempera paint on A4 Carbon paper

Autumn leafs

Digital edit in PS

I tried my best on a Scarecrow for Rains this week. It seems to me that the scarecrow is not happy with the result. Wax crayons on note paper.

Well, I can´t draw and are not used to crayons either.

It is windy and chilly today and leaves are falling fast. Soon trees are bare again.

Linking up with the following memes. My thanks to the hosts of:
Paint Party Friday Rains TAD

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Thursday, October 1, 2020

Mixed compote

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The Bauer trolls cave

This is for Rains theme this week. The background is a photo from a place in my town. It is from the entry of an underground safety place in case of war. The government can be safe in there in case of war.

The Troll with the rain deer´s was painted by Swedish artist John Bauer. (1882-1918) He and his family drowned when they went with a Steamer a stormy day on lake Vättern. A sad story!

This is an old painting I did really not like. I throw some black on it and then I liked it better.

Fern

Mixed media. Board 21x30cm

While the black paint was still wet on the board above I placed a leaf of fern on it and ended up with a completely different thing. The fern is now glued on the painting.

😊

I was at Dollarstore and found the wolf sticker for car windows. Coming home I happened to put it on one of my fluid balloon works. Thought it looked cool so I took a shot.

Coaster

Coaster 2

Fall

On Dollarstore I also found some coasters to be used for beer it said. I thought it could be used as stencils.

For the first two I placed the coasters on photo paper and poured color on them then just let them dry. It was fun to see how the color kind of shrank and revealed the coasters as it dried. They are now stuck to the paper.

For the last one "Fall" I painted the fan-like structure with watercolor on sketch paper A5. Then I painted a coaster on the back, it was 4 of them, with black tempera color. And made the grey print in the corner. And then a stencil, pen and watercolor for the rest.

And....that was all for today folks!

😎

Hope you all are well. Staying away from "C", fires and hurricanes. That would be great!

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Linking up with the following memes. My thanks to the hosts:
Paint Party Friday Rains TAD

Meet me on Instagram:
NatureFootstep_Myworld
NatureFootstep_PhotoArt
NatureFootstep_travelsandbirds
NatureFootstep_Birds

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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Crops and farming and............

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Rains TAD is about crops and farming today. Nice I thought, I have a lot of that. But, sometimes the more you have makes you trapped. My brain got a meltdown. Not fun! And the images I searched for I did not find. Luckily I had a few beforehand I can share.

This is a manipulated image of rye or barley. Not sure which. It s´was shut at a field after a rainfall.

This is Oats. Photographed and manipulated this summer.

Grass a rainy day manipulated in both Topaz and Photoshop. I like it, wish I could paint like this

😄

I painted this background several days ago. And then my mind was blank.

But this morning I finally dared to paint some oats on it!

Watercolor on A4 watercolorpaper.

This young farmer is me. It is an old shot of course I was probably just 8 years old.

I worked on it in a sketching software I have and made it a painting.

Hat and jeans! The outfit has not changed much. But nowadays I need something on top.

Wounded tree!

Sometimes when trees are wounded and sap are running it can be a very beautiful abstract.

This is pretty much the true colors. Just slightly enhanced. I cropped the image and mirrored it.

Linking up with the following memes. My thanks to the hosts:
Paint Party Friday Rains TAD

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NatureFootstep_PhotoArt
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Thursday, September 17, 2020

Paint and photo work, hard soft and wet

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Oslo!

This is created from an image when I was on a train in Oslo, Norway, going north.

I took a quick shot through the window and played with it later. It is created by two images of the same shot. One rotated 180 deg to create this architecture for Rains TAD. (to be honest I created it a few years back)

Grebe abstract (photowork)

The wawe

Tempera paint on A5 photopaper

Flowers on blue

Tempera paint on Photopaper A4.

Flowers on blue

Tempera paint on Photopaper A4.

This is the same as above but my lamp was on. I liked the effect so I share that as well. I think if would be nice as a photo poster.

Blue eye!

I was bored one day and so I played around a bit with water, soap and drops of oil. And, this happened.

Hope your plans are going as planned.

Take care everyone.

Linking up with the following memes. My thanks to the hosts:
Paint Party Friday Rains TAD

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NatureFootstep_Myworld
NatureFootstep_PhotoArt
NatureFootstep_travelsandbirds
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Thursday, September 10, 2020

Eyes and ears and nature

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Lily of the valley

This is a photo of the berries and dry leaves of Lily of the Valley. For balance I added some other dry leaves.

Wild life in the sea

Photo manipulation. This was a duck from the start, now I see Dolphins 😀

Eyes and ears for Rains

Horus eye

Watercolor on A4 paper and a cutout eye.

The eye!

Watercolor on A5 sketch paper. My first eye ever.

This is supposed to be an ear. But I see a ghost. 😂

I did this one before the eye as a test on how sketch paper and pencils would work.

It is my daughters birthday tomorrow. It was totally ruined on the 9/11 event. You are reminded of that every time it is her birthday. I wonder how many birthdays the C will destroy?

Create happy art.

Take care everyone!

Linking up with the following memes. My thanks to the hosts:
Paint Party Friday Rains TAD

Meet me on Instagram:
NatureFootstep_Myworld
NatureFootstep_PhotoArt
NatureFootstep_travelsandbirds
NatureFootstep_Birds

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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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Linking up with the following memes. My thanks to the hosts:
Paint Party Friday Pains TAD

Meet me on Instagram:
NatureFootstep_Myworld
NatureFootstep_PhotoArt
NatureFootstep_travelsandbirds
NatureFootstep_Birds

See the sidebar for the last updates in my blogs.