update: AC #200: WINTERSALON

At a brick eve, full moon is near, 

I have a nice cup of tea under naked ladies 

and browse through the catalog of gold smith Bettina Speckner

Her wonderful work let me think of a Lady

an ancestor of my family, on my mother's side

(and on my diploma thesis: 'Everything is One', 

photos of it at DC/AC #53 CONNECTION)

So, I run through the times in the here and now

to find the well

the encasing palm leaves

soft as feathers

where I sit

with other chicks

brooding

over the best ideas

as nowadays

to safe the world

pearls on a chaplet

{Happy birthday, dear 

Malina, my beautiful niece}

Wann kommst du mal wieder nach Hamburg? 

Du bist immer herzlich willkommen!

(more photos from the Elbphilharmonie Plaza on my Flickr)

AC

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No. 195 GARDEN PARTY 

No. 196 BLUE

No. 197 Room with A VIEW 

No. 198 TIDE

No. 199 SCHOOL / HALLOWEEN

today: 

For this week's Art Challenge
dear Stefanie Seltner is our host.
It's the unbelievable
No. 200
 of the AC (former Drawing Challenge DC)
and her theme is

Winter salon

I've painted with oil crayon on a 

matte of an old picture frame

this lady with a (wise) grey wig
(with no 'real face' for the imagination,
that it could be everyone...
it's all projection!)

wearing a black-golden lush dress

sitting under palm leaves

in a heart-warming atmosphere

with 

YOU

dear friends!

I love 

our salon of the AC with such 

an inspiring, providing quality!

Please visit Stefanie Seltner

and find more of it


next: No. 201 at Veronica's
with SANCTUARY
this weekend
(beginning with Friday, the 18th)
Saturday, the 19th + Sunday, the 20th
of November

...

On pic 7 and 11 is Tilda Swinton as Orlando, from the www.
Rose in pic 4 by Ritva Palander

AC #199: SCHOOL / HALLOWEEN

My son has brought me to this theme:
or... the scary part of school.
 I have blue-penciled my oil pastel drawing 

where I drew him with shirt back to front,
something like a straitjacket
even as an ascetic,
but he is a smart cookie!
so I add some brightness around the head
and a little bit of pink for the bright prospects.

I've met Bee yesterday at our bench in the palm house, where we had a fine drawing session ;-)

And besides drawing we've enjoyed an education of applied botanic right in front of our bench:
these students are in awaiting to taste the difference between vanilla and
vanilla essence with their's eyes closed, handed by their teacher.

We see the fruits of a sausage tree

and an ananas

and find the blossoms of pomegranate

I have added some more green
to my naked lady from the palm house

and have taken my old book for dictation of primary school and
draw a scene of ups and downs and open doors.

It's a little bit scary, a little bit Kafka-like,
but there is a little fun, too, the spirit of competition.

 Hello, again, at Rose!

I am the host of these Art Challenge #199.
My theme is SCHOOL / HALLOWEEN

and these artists are my schoolfellows:

Patrice Aarts
Stefanie Seltner
Veronica Roth
Tammie Lee
Carole Reid
Leena Vainio

Annton Beate Schmidt,

Nadine Paduart
 Tania of ja.nein.vielleicht
Mano

and: welcome Sue
of slowfulhollows

AC

...

No. 195 GARDEN PARTY 

No. 196 BLUE

No. 197 Room with A VIEW 
No. 198 TIDE

today: No. 199 with the theme(s) SCHOOL / HALLOWEEN


No. 200 at Stefanie Seltner's with

Winter salon

...

Thank you for playing this time, again!
Wish you a happy weekend.

Love, Ariane

A rave of photos from the palm house and Planten un Blomen
here!

Return to standard time / Invitation to the AC #199

Bouquet of sweet maries, privet, ivy 

and green branches (of? I don't know) upon quinces

It has been a fine day, 

this Sunday, at the return to standard time. 

I have stayed in my PJ's all day long, watching the leaves 

falling into the Eisenbach, softly, photographing, 

cooking a bubbling soup for my family, 

preparing for some jokes for halloween and... 

preparing for school. Yes, vacation for my kids is over: back to school!

Well, this make me think, 

that these two perceptions could be a nice theme for our Art Challenge. 

For the 199th of AC you can choose one or take both! 

Halloween. School. Yah! 

Are you in?

PS: Had you seen the last post? I tried to write a little story, my hidden pleasure.
And more photos you can find here.

AC

...

No. 195 GARDEN PARTY 

No. 196 BLUE

No. 197 Room with A VIEW 
No. 198 TIDE


this weekend: No. 199 Halloween/School
here at Rose on the first weekend of November


Who wanna host the
#200

?