New paintings and regular art updates.
I have a few miniature paintings for sale at the Etruria Industrial museum. They are pictures I painted a few years ago that I had left over. If they don’t sell I could glue magnets on the back of them and varnish them to be used as fridge magnets.
I have a small painting someone gave me which has built in magnets, that’s where I got the idea from.
I want to try and do something because I feel like my art life is ending… And I don’t want it to.
The leaves fall
Silver birch wilt
Sad trees heated
Beyond nature
Driven to drop
Their browning
Paper thin foliage
No doubt about it.
Climate change exists.
I wanted choccy biccys so I melted 85 % dark chocolate onto digestives in the microwave for 1 minute. I had put one square of chocolate on each biscuit.
The chocolate melted and started to slide off onto the plate so I got a knife and spread it back onto the surface then let the chocolate cool…..
Unfortunately the sweet liquid congealed and glued the digestives to the plate! I ended up having to prise them off with the knife. They broke up into bits but they tasted lovely. I might reduce the chocolate if I do it again… Now I’ve got to scrape the plate clean.
Mom was the driver in our family. She drove a Robin reliant 3 wheeler car. Fibre glass body. Me and my sisters would squeeze in it with her and sometimes my gran too. The three wheeler struggled with hills because it only had a very low cc engine. It was hard to drive in snow because the front wheel would have to push it’s way through fresh snow… Eek
One day on a very long steep hill l remember it boiled dry dragging 5 of us and our combined weight upwards. I remember a hot day and wondering how we would get home. Luckily mom found a house and they brought a watering can of water down to refill the radiator.
BTW Robin reliants got the nickname “Plastic pigs”!
If you could erase one event from history, what would it be?
What could I possibly choose? Like the beating of a butterfly or moths wings, what chaos would my choice cause?
We imagine that we can be all powerful, have the ability to alter history, but like the grandfather paradox (the one where someone goes back in time and accidentally kills his grandfather, so he can no longer exist), you don’t know what your action will do.
Stop the meteor that killed the dinosaurs? Lizards walk around in suits and ties. The Spanish Armada beat the English? Everyone in America is now of Spanish decent.
Steam engines are improved before automobiles, we have clean air and no climate change, but we are heading for an ice age instead.
So basically I would have to keep things as they are for fear of making things worse!
Tried to do a sketch of the partial eclipse using Artrage app. It’s using digital pens and tools which replicate things like soft pastels or brush marks.
The image is not based on a real picture, but is more of a doodle. X
Thoughts go astray sometimes, especially as you get older, but I’ve never said “I’ll have a trouser leg for tea”? before….
I was deciding what to have for my evening meal and thought chicken leg with rice and a tomato pasta sauce would be simple and tasty…
I did chuckle as I said it to myself, I immediately realised that I had uttered the wrong phrase, I’m glad I did, I’m not completely gaga yet!
Tomorrow night I might have mice pudding…… Haha!
The trees are starting to get brown. It’s August, it’s mid summer but it’s too hot. In some places there has been no rain for two months. We have had temperatures over 30°C for most of June, July and now August. Feilds are yellow, crops are failing. Cattle don’t have enough feed. Milk production is down.
There have been lots of grass fires and some forest fires, but today several houses in different towns were burnt to the ground. Even in the North of this city.
So Autumn of Climate change? Big business wants us to drill but it’s more like burn baby burn…..
There’s a meme going round which is something like “is this the coolest summer you will ever remember?” perhaps we will look back and wish we had listened to scientists and tried to do something about it?
Crescent patterns of light caused by today’s partial eclipse. Sunlight through leaves made the shadows act like camera obscura images. I couldn’t get out to see it safely but had heard of this method of viewing it, approx 7.10pm.the UK. 12.8.26.
Red bag and brush
Imitating a poppy.
I love you scarlet
The colour of lipstick.
Too hot to handle
Not cool but hot
Flamed and fierce
Like glowing lava
Starting to radiate.
Furnace cherry
Ready to be hammered
Into dragon shapes.
Mallaband-Brown