'Inspired By' my Second on the 2nd choice

This year is going by so quickly already, but then years fly by so quickly and when I was looking for the post I am going to show you I had to go back far further than I remembered it being!

I wanted to find it as I have another page for Art Journal Journey where the theme chosen by Eileen is 'Inspired By'

See below Second on 2nd

I was lucky enough to go and see the Gustav Klimt exhibition at Belvedere palace in Vienna. I have always loved Klimt's art and my page is inspired by his art.

I'm joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for a second look at a post from my blogging history!

My Second look on the 2nd was back in November 2014

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Okay, so I know I wasn't impressed at first but Sunday dawned and the sun was shining - time for an early start - a metro train to catch and palace to visit!

Schonbrun Palace - the most visited attraction in Austria we knew there would be queues - fortunately not for too long - they were very organised!                                                     

The palace was beautiful and interesting! No photos inside!!

The gardens were amazing - and although we wanted to go somewhere in the afternoon we spent some time wandering around in the sunshine

I have never seen such a tame squirrel or birds, this squirrel kept going back to some children with nuts

We had a simple lunch and saw this advertised on a card on our table Kaiserschmarrn - couldn't resist - it was (apparently) Kaiser Franz Josef 1st's favourite dish

I could see why - delicious - loaded with sugar - we shared and hubby did his best to eat most of it!!

Then it was a metro ride back to the city centre.

We decided to walk to our next destination.

Past this..

Minecraft you could move yourself (I have grandchildren - I've seen their games - that's all I know! lol!)

Down the road to…

…beautiful Belvedere Palace

I wanted to see the Klimt exhibition- hubby wanted to wander outside.

What did I see? 'The Kiss' - couldn't get a photo, 

some lovely decor

some interesting faces

by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt who did these based on himself while receiving treatment for an illness - each face contorted in a different expression - fascinating!

I also took this view from a window

Hubby took some fab photos outside

Then it was a tram back into the centre again for another highlight!

The Sacha Hotel cafe!

Happy! Happy! Happy!
This is the one my Diabetic nurse said I shouldn't miss - bless her!!! She had been earlier this year and enjoyed the Sacha Torte!

From here we went for a walk, thought I'd better!!

Then it was time for something to eat and back to the hotel to pack!

I have no idea what blogger has done to the text at the top of this post - it looks fine while writing it!!!

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I have made page inspired by remembering this visit to Belvedere Palace.

There are lots of layers here of stencils, stamps and pen marks as well as washi tape

I used a face by Kate Crane for Carabelle Studio stamps to represent Adele Bloch-Bauer (The Woman in Gold from the film of the same name)  

A piece of mop up paper that I used to clean off a stencil was used for the body.

Klimt used a lot of gold in his art.

I think the words(a Dina Wakley stamp)could well have been said by Eileen 

I think Eileen would have enjoyed this exhibition too and would consider it okay for her 'Influenced By' theme at Art Journal Journey that Erika and I are co-hosting this month.

Thanks for looking, Chris