Everything

Posted on October 2, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, attention, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2077, everything, Life, Planning, Plans, Thinking, Worry2 Comments

What details of your life could you pay more attention to?

Recently I’ve been putting my head in the sand and taking avoiding action. Anxiety will do that to you. Pulling my mind and life back up out of it is hard work.

A lot of it is external, caused by things out of my control. But even so I must pay more attention to things. I must not let things to continue to spiral out of my grasp.

The plan is to look at easy, medium and hard things to do. Trying to do one or two or even three of them a day.

What I found was that trying to do all three one day exhausted me, made me too tired the next day to do anything more. I think I am a bit burnt out? Maybe getting things done less quickly and trying to build up is the best way to go?

Anyway I’m going to try and get back to normal soon.

2.10.2016

Posted on October 2, 2023October 2, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 7years ago, Art, ArtRage app, Design, Digital drawing, Digitally manipulated, Memory2 Comments

Digital art memory from 2 October 2016. I have no memory of how I did this. I think I used a free app called Artrage oils. And I must have used the old layout app, but I don’t know how I achieved the different colours. Anyway it’s definitely a piece of my digital art. 7 years ago.

Ferns

Posted on October 2, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Collage, feathery, Fern, frond, Gardening, Green, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, undergrowth2 Comments

Fronds, split into feathery leaves.

Under the shade of trees

Unfurl in spring

Like curled question marks

Springing out

Bright green

A lovely scene

Covering the ground

In friendly frothy growth

Getting organised

Posted on October 1, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, daily prompt, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2076, Diary, Nerves, organised, priority, Thinking, World2 Comments

What’s your #1 priority tomorrow?

I’ve been disorganised and muddled for a while. I need to get some semblance of organisation back in my life.

So, I am trying to use my diary more, and not ignore it. I’ve got into the habit of moving things on instead of doing things. I’ve got to stop. I think I mustn’t overload myself with plans.

My main problem is procrastination. Like a rabbit caught in the headlights, I get worried about how I’m going to get something done, that leads to anxiety, and I find it easier not to do the thing that needs doing.

Life has a way of getting involved, things crop up and stop you in your tracks. Pain and anxiety mix into a cocktail of disasters. The world spins you round the wrong way and everything gets out of kilter.

So now I have to start getting over things, I need to break my fears down into achievable goals, or I will just sink into a deeper mess. Getting organised is definitely my number one priority.

Sleepy edited

Posted on October 1, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Asleep, Black and white cat, Cat, Photo, Photodirector, Texture, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

Just two of my cats. Sleepy, edited in photodirector. They are on a crochet blanket. I put the photo through photodirector, I like the textured look it creates.

Street

Posted on October 1, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, copy of a painting, Life, Prompt, Sketching, Stoke2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was street. I painted a street scene when I came to Stoke 40 years ago. I did a copy of it recently and I have a photo of the work in progress on my phone. As this is a digital sketch it’s not accurate and rather messy, but I thought I’d give it a go. Artrage app drawn with a stylus.

Size matters

Posted on October 1, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged America, Australia, Britain, country, Distance, John O'groats, Lands End, large, Life, Size, small, Thinking6 Comments

I was just wondering how big the UK is relative to the USA. Turns out according to Google it’s 40 times smaller than the USA! (also 32 times smaller than Australia).

We can drive across the country in a day. I could drive for maybe two or three days North to South John O’groats to Lands end, although it has been done much faster. The direct distance is 603 miles, but the road distance is 837 miles. So driving over the limit at 83.7 mph you could drive it in ten hours. But if you drove at just 40mph you could do it in less than 24 hours!

Goodness knows how long it would take to drive across America and I guess it also depends where on the coasts you drive from. America is wider in the north than in the south?

Alien?

Posted on October 1, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alien, anamometer, Garden, Humour, Life, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Silhouette, Silly, Strange2 Comments

What are you on the roof?

Looking quite aloof!

Are you an alien

Searching for the proof

That human life exists

Among our clouds and mists

What else can you be?

You look odd, you see

Wonder what YOU are?

An an-a-mom-meter!

Gardening

Posted on September 30, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2075, Garden, Growing, Hard work, Life, lopping, Pruning, time memories4 Comments

In what ways does hard work make you feel fulfilled?

Gardening makes me feel fulfilled, it’s not always easy for me to do work on the garden at the moment. But when I’m a little better I shall try and get out and do some pruning. The buddlea need cutting back once the flowers have finished. The other shrubs that are shutting out all the light need to be trimmed. If necessary to cut some of the lower branches of trees so that we can let lots more light in.

It’s heavy work, especially the lopping of branches, they are tangled and twisted in and out of the garden, overgrowing the fences. Our neighbours are a bit annoyed with us, but we can’t afford a full renovation and anyway the garden is natural, with frogs and squirrels and possibly hedgehogs.

I’m pleased we have such growth, it’s fun to think we have grown such a lot over the years.

Sleeping cat

Posted on September 30, 2023September 30, 2023 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Asleep, Black and white cat, Cat, drawing from life, Sketching, Stylus, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

Sleeping cat. Using Artrage app. I’m having fun using my stylus, much more control than finger painting. This was sketched quickly from life, but the cat moved before I could finishh his paws. The mat is made up, the real one is grey and blue.

Mallaband-Brown

Author: artbychristinemallabandbrown