Sixty years

Posted on August 11, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autons, Childhood, cybermen, Daleks, Dr Who, monsters, Sci fi, Science fiction, sixtieth anniversary1 Comment

There is an anniversary this year, the sixtieth year of Dr Who. I can remember hiding behind the settee when I was a child when I saw the monsters on TV in the programme. Not only Daleks were frightening. Cybermen and Autons too. The Doctor would always be caught in a cliffhanger situation at the end of an episode. In the next one he would solve the problem and rescue people on the planets he had landed on. In those days stories lasted four or five weeks. After a hiatus of a few years when the series seemed to have stopped for good it came back in the form of a film starring Paul McGann. Followed by a resurrected Christopher Eccleston in a brand new series. I know they are planning a spectacular story for the sixtieth story. I hope it lives up to expectations. I’m still a fan.

Curves

Posted on August 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Abstract, Art, Curves, Drawing, Felt pens, Lines, Masking tape, Random, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was curves. I drew random curves with a few felt pans taped together. Then I used Masking tape to block out lines. Finally I coloured in the uncovered paper, then removed the Masking tape and coloured the rest I’m slightly differently. I left the pad on the floor after taking a photo and the cat who had wet paws from sitting in the water that had spilled out of the hanging basket came snd sat on it and smudged it badly. So I added more colours to define the patterns again. That’s why there are two photos.

Cat

Posted on August 11, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Bat, Cat, Flat, Fun, Life, Mat, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Silly, WordsLeave a comment

Pat and bat

Vat and Mat

So many words

Rhyme with Cat.

Like sat and drat

Fat and splat

Is it the at

On the end that

Makes what

I write flat

ter…

ing

I love steam

Posted on August 11, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, History, Industrial archaeology, Metallic, regulator?, Steam engine2 Comments

Small painting from 2018 that was on display at Etruria Industrial Museum. I used an image off the Internet to work on. I think it was from a photo of a pumping station in Derbyshire? I loved trying to get the metallic reflections. I looked at the price and I wad only selling it for £25! The amount of work I put in means I constantly undersell myself, but people just don’t seem to have money for art these days. As to what it is I think it’s a regulator? Ith weights hold the arms down if it starts to spin too fast?

Umbrellas

Posted on August 11, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Burslem, History, Leopard Hotel, Life, Memories, Mural, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Time2 Comments

Memory from 2017 of a mural I painted in 2007. This was at the Leopard Hotel in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. I have a strong connection with Burslem from doing a series of murals in the hotel. Who knows whether I will do anymore?

I would love to do a bit more mural painting, or scenery, or large paintings. I’m hoping if I can get my shaking arm under control I might be able to do it.

Memories are a great thing, but also they can be tinged with sadness when you think of all the things you could have done. I do wonder about the pandemic times. Could I have done more to keep my art business going? What things can I do to actually sell my work? I’m not a sales person, I’m an artist…. I don’t think I’ll ever have a USP!

Gratitude

Posted on August 11, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Diary, Drawing, gratitude, Life, Ptsd, rewiring your brain, Sketching, small gratitudes, Thinking, three, World3 Comments

I’m due to see my doctor about anxiety and my hubby has ptsd so I need to find strategies to cope. I think counselling helps but I’m going to try and keep a gratitude diary, where you write three minor gratitudes a day every night for at least 28 days. It helps rewire your brain towards more positive thinking. I’m going to start a little sketchbook and do simple sketches of them. Like the traffic lights stayed on green for me yesterday when I was going somewhere and was late, so that was a little gratitude, I met someone who gave me this idea, that’s a small gratitude, and someone cleared away some flytipping in the alley next to our garden, that’s the third. I will add small sketches to illustrate mine. I think it might help my creativity and give me new ideas, but if it doesn’t I’m not worried because I think it will help me cope. You don’t record big things, just small gratitudes.

Gratitude for seeing beauty could be one thing for my diary.

Where have all the clouds gone?

Posted on August 10, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged carbon di oxide, carbon emissions, Clouds, Earth, global warming, Heat, Learning, Life, Science, Thinking, Water, weather rainLeave a comment

Parts of Britain and France are turning brown, fires are burning in France. Its happening across Europe. Its happening in America. Where has the rain gone? Crops are withering in places where the monthly rainfall has dwindled to almost nothing. Will the climate recover? Will rainfall be abundant again? The weather has only been overheated for a short time, but the damage is being done. What will happen in the future if we don’t reduce Carbon emissions and slow the increase in temperature we are currently experiencing? We are such a destructive species and we have started to overwhelm Earth. We only have one planet. Let’s try and take care of it.

Magic money tree?

Posted on August 10, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, contorted, Money plant, Owl, paperweights, Photo, wizard, wizards hatLeave a comment

A money plant on our windowledge that has become very contorted. The wizard and black owl in a magic hat below it seem appropriate because they represent magic. There are glass paperweights next to them which I also think look quite magical. I could paint it, not sure, it maybe looks like an illustration from a children’s book….

Pattern

Posted on August 10, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colour, Digital drawing, Dots, Finger painting, Patterns, RainbowLeave a comment

Drawn in ArtRage oils. A picture made up of dots then mirrored to give it symmetry. This took about half an hour to draw the pattern (a quarter of the image). I used the metallic pen option. The colours are darker with this but you get a rippled affect on the surface. I decided to draw a rainbow of colours that gradually move across the screen. It could also be used as a pattern on fabrics.

Hand painted jug

Posted on August 10, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Drawing, Painting, Pottery, Sketching, Stafford Pottery, Stoke-on trent, Tortoiseshell cat2 Comments

I did this a few years ago. Living in the city of Stoke-on-Trent means there are places where you can pay to paint pottery with glazes and then collect the finished piece a week or so later. I found a place in Burslem which was about half the price of other potteries and the vase was double the size. I think it was called Stafford Pottery, its on the opposite side of the road to Burslem Town Hall. I gave the resulting jug as a Christmas gift. I usually paint cats but have been known to paint horses too… I know it’s mainly a kids thing, but it is fun.

Mallaband-Brown

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