NatureFootstep

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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, January 14, 2021

Skies, birds and roses

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Winter night

This is the background from last week. I painted some snow on it. Or is is stars?

I photographed the background with an iceicle stensil for windows. Then painted the moon in Photoshop. So, kind of a mixedmedia piece.

Using the same acrylic colors as before. This is two photopapers. The large one A4, the small one 10x15 cm.

I painted both images with the blue/green colors and marked the corners of the small one with a round foampencil. And painted the owls.

Smowy owls

on the small paper

Rose island in a pond.

The A4 size paper

That´s all for today. We had some snow so I have to shovel the car before I can go and shoot some wintershots.
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, January 7, 2021

Eyes and skies

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Eye

For Rains Tad: Facial feature. Created from an image of my granddaughter in Topaz!

Transformation of an Amaryllis and the moon

Photoshop

Well! Not sure what this is! Or became.

Guess it is up to you. 😎

Blues!

Played around a bit with the blue acrylic colors. The little one is supposed to look like a Dolphin.

😃

I think : stay indoors seem to be the best advise!

At least we have our art!

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

See the sidebar for the last updates in my blogs.

Thursday, December 31, 2020

May the moon give us a Happy New Year

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For TADs This is not a FULL cold moon. But I made a New Years Wish of it as it met with the fireworks.

Holding the moon carefully!

The full Red moon

Images below:

I continued working with Ania Witwitzka instructive class.

It is really fun. You mess around with colors and suddenly you have something you like.

Chaos!

Orange background and stencil lit by light and created shadows,

Blue background with a stencil deer on top.

That´s all for today. I hope everyone is fine.

Our situation in Sweden has worsened and we have raised restrictions.

But good news is the vaccinations have started. In Sweden and many other countries.

The New Year 2021 will see if it works.

Take care everyone!

© NF Photo 201231

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

See the sidebar for the last updates in my blogs.

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Wishful thinking

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For Rains TAD I created a Snowy landscape. This image is what I want and some I want to remember.

The snow is cotton. The house is created by my father and mother.

The White dove of peace keeps my family healthy and safe in difficult times.

A memory from Yellowstone, bison in snow

Landscape in snow

A place close to home. Digitally enhanced

Little moss in snow

© NF Photo 201224

We had some frost today and I have been out sneaking on Fallow deer. I think those guys recognice me by now. They let me come rather close. Took a lot of shots but that will be for a later psot.

I hope everybody has a great and healthy Chistmas. Now I am off to my Christmas dinner. Boiled ham and meatballs.

Take care, greetings from Sweden.

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

See the sidebar for the last updates in my blogs.

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Lipstick lady and abstract class

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Lipstick Lady 1

Lipstick Lady 2

Well, this is for Rains "portrait" obviously. This IS ME! I painted with my lips and lipstick, So, it is a portrait of ME. The top one is the first I made. Worked quite well with the eyes. The second one was harder. When you try to create the same form/shape with the lips you fail. And trying to do it in a "correct" position was not easy either. But never mind. It was a fun thing to do.

Belowe:

I received a free class from artist Ania Witwitzka in Creative painting and this is my first work inspired from that.

First Layer on a photopaper 10x16cm

Christmas Star

Fifth layer and finished of with a glittery star glued on it.

This is a Christmas card I received a couple of days ago from my daughter and granddaughter.

My granddaughter bought it in Queensland before she was able to come back to Sweden.

I share it because I was so impressed with it as soon as I studied it closely. The card is 15x15 cm. And it is not painted, it is Paper Filigree art. The height of the rolled paper is maybe 1 mm, I can´t even measure it. I made a closeup in the corner for you to see.

I have never seen anything like this before!

© NF Photo 201217

Yesterday we had a bit of sunshine! And it created headlines in the news. First hours of sunlight in December! Today it is back to grey again. With the clouds on the ground!

I wish for some SNOW.

Take care!

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

See the sidebar for the last updates in my blogs.

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Canvas collection, Cubism and the C

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This is my Workstation/study nowadays!

Rains theme Cubism!

Not my favorite really! Looking through my art I found the "lady" below. Think it might classify as cubism.

Then I played around in PS.

Not my best work all time but at least it is colorful and quite fun. I pretend it is partly a Cubism. 😇

It is created with a backgrund bokeh photo. Added a few shapes and a little drawing on a small Wacom tablet I have.

I think I will call it "Whatever!" Cubism? I guess it depends on what you think. 😎

Also photoshop, photos, shapes.

This was a tricky challenge. Demanding me to think opposite in some way. Hard as I am too much a photographer.

📸

I am not sure if I have shared this one. I found it in my files and I really like the colors.

I heard, in a comment, that the US thinks Sweden is in Lockdown. We are not. There are laws in Sweden that makes it impossible to lockdown the country. But that might change. Laws are being prepared!

Our situation right now is this: Since a calm summer with only few Corona cases it is now increasing and due to a "second wave" we have raised restrictions. So far we are still lower then we were in May. There are three areas where the Covid spreads rapidly. It is Stockholm and Uppsala. And also in the south part of Sweden which was almost spared in the spring. I guess they thought they were safe, but you are never safe when it comes to corona.

But so far I am free to do whatever I want as long as I am careful. But as I am mostly in the forest that is no problem. I just miss going to the Library. They are closed.

I and my family are all safe. I, my sister and brother will all stay at our respective homes during the upcoming holidays. My daughter and her family lives in the countryside and will also be at their home during the holiday. But we will connect in FB and on internet. That is a great thing!

Take care everyone, better safe then sorry!

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

Meet me on Instagram:
NatureFootstep_Myworld
NatureFootstep_PhotoArt
NatureFootstep_travelsandbirds
NatureFootstep_Birds

See the sidebar for the last updates in my blogs.

Thursday, December 3, 2020

SF and digi edits

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I guess the name of this one is quite obvious, Star Trek, created for Rains theme The big screen.

I like SF, real SF that is, not the horror ones pretending to be SF. SF is about exploring, adventure, cooperation with other species and understanding different cultures and natures.

Flight!

Added just because I like the mood in it. Digital composition. FUJI, eagle, window frost.

Transition of a rose!

Just to share what I do! This is the rose I used for the transition to the image above.

No way I could have painted this!

🖌🖌

© NF Photo 201203

Take care everyone!

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

Meet me on Instagram:
NatureFootstep_Myworld
NatureFootstep_PhotoArt
NatureFootstep_travelsandbirds
NatureFootstep_Birds

See the sidebar for the last updates in my blogs.