Art Challenge "ROOM" (with a view)

Hello everyone!

It's been a while on this neglected blog, but trying to put up this post

for this weeks art challenge from our lovely Nadine, I know why:

it's a whole lot of work!

But fun too. Rambling over ideas how to put this challenge into pictures.

Out theme today "ROOM".

There are trillions of possibilities to interpret the theme but I was going

with the idea of room as a place to create like a studio for example.

But hot as it is these day my studio is going to be to HOT and

glistening sunlight in the afternoon simple blinds you.

And as we had to many rainy days this summer I like to jump

onto every possibility to be outside and turn the garden into my

part time studio

or the terrace

raskog (ikea) part time studio make up

 Above pic is for you Ariane.... you know why.

or find a nice comfy room at the sea (one of my favorite places)

During my 365 days collage project I brought my studio even to the camping ground.

And sometimes you can turn a coffee shop in a room of ones own...

Or carry your stuff to your friends rooms...

hope-for-Nadine-pic "cool down"

Thank you so much Nadine-tje for this challenge and this pic

is especially for you to cool down mentally cause winter isn't

so far away and you can breathe again.

Wish you a happy weekend/holiday/summer

Barbara - busy - bee

dc #190 Metamorphose II

Hello my dear friends,

this weekend our lovely Rose invited us to play one more time with the theme

"Metamorphose".

Metamorphose can simply be described as some sort of transformation.

Here the metamorphose of a sketchbook page....

first I added some paper scaps

than a bit of paint and color

a bit of ink dripping

followed by some line drawing

and the metamorphose is completed!

If there is no developement no transformation, there is death -
like in my flower boxes.

Time for some transformation.

For more metamorphoses please visit Arianes'/Rose' lovely blog.

For those who are interested to see the complete process of the journal page

the "making off" video will be posted next wednesday - so stay tuned!

Wish you a nice and springlike weekend!

Barbara -busy- bee

drawing challenge "CALM"

This weeks drawing challenge is tributed to the theme "CALM"

from our lovely host Veronica.

While I'm sitting here thick fluffy snow flakes fall from the sky

and this feels for me calming. 

The world gets a little more quiet  and calm with snow and it reflects

more light on a grey winter day which is especially welcome

after all this damn grey nasty rainy days!

But this wasn't what I initially wanted to contribute to the theme.

I guess we all suffer of to much distraction from outside, not only

bad political news, but also all this plings, tweets and zirps all

day long around us.

Sometimes it really drives my crazy and still I feel addicted and

I know I have to reduce it for not losing my conection to

my true inner self - I hardly can remember who that was.

Therefore bought a new sketchbook (and here the same: do I

need another sketchbook? Certainly not!) and a small watercolor

box and  started to draw/paint this little birds to keep my mind

focused on something beautiful and nature related and hopefully

calm my distracted mind and get more focuse again.

So keep calm and draw on and don't forget to Veronicas' site and

find all the other beautiful contributions.

Wish you a nice sunday

barbara - busy - bee

drawing challenge "tiny"

Für diese drawing challenge hat Tammy das Thema "tiny" / winzig gewählt.

Da es drawing challenge heißt, dachte ich, ich zeige mal eine Zeichnung. Ha!

For this weeks drawing challenge Tammy has chosen the theme "TINY"

As it is called drawing challenge I thougt I show a drawing. Ha!

sketchbook drawing by barbara böttcher - Radiolarie

Als ich über das Wort winzig nachdachte, fielen mir die sehr faszinierenden

Zeichnungen Ernst Haeckels von Radiolaren ein, das sind mikroskopisch

kleine Einzeller die im Meer leben oder eigentlich deren Skelette.

As I thought about the word "tiny", I noticed the very fascinating
drawings of Ernst Haeckel of Radiolaria, which are microscopic
small single-celled organisms that live in the sea, or rather their skeletons.

Radiolaria

Der Mensch, der sich ja gern für allwissend hält und meint, er wüsste 

alles und hat alles im Griff, ist sich gar nicht darüber bewusst, wie

klein eigentlich unser optischen Wahrnehmungsspektrum ist! Denn

alles was kleiner als 1mm ist, können wir nicht wirklich mehr gut sehen.

So bleiben uns unfassbar viele wirklich winzige Dinge verborgen, die

Dank Elektronen-Rastermikroskope sichtbar gemacht werden, so daß

man die faszinierenden Formen z.B. dieser Radiolaren sehen kann.

Man who so willingly considers himself omniscient and says he knew
everything and has everything under control,  is not conscious about how
small our optical spectrum actually is! Because
everything less than 1mm, we can not really see very good anymore.
So  a lot of really tiny things  remain hidden.
Thanks to electron scanning microscopes made visible, 

we are now able to see the fascinating shapes of this Radiolaria.

Wimperntierchen

Alle nachfolgenden Fotos habe ich hier gefunden. 

Tolle Seite unbedingt mal reingucken!

I have found all subsequent pictures here.
Great site worthwhile a peek!

Kochsalz - salt

Z.B. fasziniert mich die Vorstellung, daß man sich so eine Art eckige Betonklötze

(Bild oben) sprich Kochsalz in sein Essen streut.

For example, I am fascinated by the idea that you sprinkle a kind of square concrete blocks
(Pictured above) ie saline on your food.

Blütenblätter einer Rose - rose leaves

Blütenknospe Baldrian

- Valerian flower bud

Gießkannenschimmel - Aspergillus

Die Welt ist soviel faszinierender als wir es uns jemals vorstellen können, wenn wir

doch nur in der Lage wären, die wirklich winzigen Dinge zu sehen.

The world is so much more fascinating than we can ever imagine, if we
only would  be able to see the really tiny things.

Foto Planetarium Hamburg

Und könnten wir noch über den Tellerrand hinausgucken, dann könnten wir auch sehen,

daß wir selbst winzig klein sind. Denn wir können nicht nur die kleinen Dinge nicht 

sehen, die ganz großen erst recht nicht. Denn unsere Erde im ganzen Unsiversum ist

nicht mal so groß wie der Fiegenschißpunkt, den ich eingangs in mein Skizzenbuch

gezeichnet habe.

Wie war das Thema noch mal? Winzig? Ich weiß nicht was das ist!

Denn kleine Dinge können groß sein und große ganz klein.

Ich wünsche euch noch viel Spaß mit den winzigen und großen Dingen, die

es alle auf Tammys' Seite zu sehen gibt!

And if we could also watch yet the bigger picture, we could also see
that we are tiny. Because we can not not just see the tiny things
but the really big ones either. Because our earth throughout Universe
is not even as big as the fly shit dot I initially drew in my sketchbook.

What was the topic again? Tiny? I do not know what that is!
Because tiny  things can be big and large quite small.

I wish you much fun with the tiny and big things that
there is to see all at Tammys 'page!

Barbara - busy - bee

drawing challenge - second hand

For the first time Joke  from Spiegel-Beeld ist our host for this weekends

drawing challenge with the very welcome theme SECOND HAND.

For a frenetic flea market goers like me  the theme 2nd hand  

is a clear self-perpetuating thing.

Because second hand is nearly everywhere...

for example in the hallway

(click to enlarge  all pics, if you like to have a clearer look)

or in the living room

And of course this is only a small part of the actual disaster!

This year I had given me a certain amount of fleamarket-ban, and often had no
time anyway, but the few times I was there, I have of course added properly!

Even a giant brain cell, cause of such you can never have enough!

 

 and very rarely old photos for collages

and I'm always happy to find nice rings, but sometimes a particular one

is made for another woman, so it changed owners. Sigh.

But before you liquefies in pity for my generosity, 

I can only say this is very unnecessary,  

it's not the only ring I've ever found!
From necklaces and bracelets not even talking here.

I hope you had fun to observe all my finds, as I had collecting them for this

theme with which I had a lot of fun. And do not miss to go to Joke to

see the other entries!

Wish you a nice sunday

Barbara