Flutter by

Posted on October 30, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Butterfly, Colour, Cshine, Drawing, Felt pens, Flutter by, Fun, Nail polish, Reflections, Sketching2 Comments

I like messing about as you know. In this case it’s a butterfly drawn with nail polish. I also used some felt pens to fill in the gaps. Yes it’s a bit strange, but I prefer doing this to just throwing the stuff away. At least the nail polish is locked into the paper and not sent off to landfill somewhere.

I will carry on doing drawings with them till they run out. They could be used to do illustrations. I wouldn’t use them in a children’s book! It might give them the wrong ideas and I am careful to apply a bit at a time to reduce fumes.

I did draw with boot polish once as part if a mark making class. It’s amazing what you can do…. Didn’t JMW Turner add mud and sand to his paintings?

Twins?

Posted on October 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black and white, Black and white photo, Friendship, Life, Memories, Photo, Portrait, Toy soldier, Two years agoLeave a comment

Christmas a couple of years ago. My friend took this of me taking a photo of my other half… Can you tell which one he is? He’s definitely an eccentric. I think this was round the back of the German Market that was held locally. I’m not sure why the wooden soldier was parked there but it was an interesting object.

This is good because it is black and white, so the details of textures stand out more than they would if it was a coloured photo.

I was cheered by receiving this photo today. It bought back happy memories. I can’t find the photo I took though!

Fruits….

Posted on October 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blackberries, Colours, Duplicated, Fun, Insect eyes?, Insect like, Mirrored, Pattern, Photo, ShapesLeave a comment

Blackberries, before they are ripe, before the sun ripened them. Turning them juicy and sweet. I thought this image that I’d duplicated and mirrored made them look almost like insect eyes.

There are patterns that seem to replicate each other in the world and the universe. By playing with images you can get some startling effects.

Quiet day

Posted on October 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Academic, Busy, College, Drawing, Illustration course, Life, Semester, Typing, WorkLeave a comment

I can’t share my college art work, but I’m busy trying to put a project together to create an artefact that can be used either as a promotion of my work and/or a product to sell.

So what do I have to do? Convert a two dimensional image to a three dimensional object. Something that can be used by people, that is not expensive, non polluting, useful, environmentally friendly.

I have to investigate its context. Whether there is a historical precursor to my idea and research it’s audience, it’s possible outcomes. I’ve got to do a lot of writing now. I hope I can make sense of it all. Fingers crossed.

If he loses?

Posted on October 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Election, Humour, Next week, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Salesman, Showman, Ticking clock, TimeLeave a comment

A non partisan poem?

The clock is ticking.

If he loses

Will the World end?

Will my heart stop?

No.

Will a war start?

Things will change slowly

Life will continue

Death will continue

But

He will sell snow

In the Arctic

He will sell coal

To Miners

He will make himself

Great again.

Oops I broke the mirror

Posted on October 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Face, Filters, Fun, Humour, Messenger, Photodirector, Photos, Scary?, Selfie, Silly, Spooky selfiesLeave a comment

Playing with Messenger filters overlaid with Photodirector filters, just for fun. I hope they aren’t too scary! Sometimes you’ve got to just go for it! Apologies if these are upsetting. I wasn’t harmed in the making of them…..

No craft stalls

Posted on October 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artefact, Covid19, Craft stall, Limited sales, No meeting people, Product design, Sad, Tier TwoLeave a comment

Craft stalls are not happening at the moment but I’m not that good at doing them, but I do miss them. Not only talking to fellow stall holders, but catching the eyes of people passing by and saying hi, hello, how are you?

I’m not good at selling, I get nervous, I don’t want to push. I don’t like being false and over friendly. I could start selling things on line, but they would have to be bespoke, I can’t make thousands of objects.

Currently I’m trying to come up with ideas for a 3d artefact for my college course. I have an idea that I might be able to make or get manufactured. But I need to think about sustainability and ecological issues. Got to do a presentation tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Celtic art illustrations.

Posted on October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Celtic art, Drawing, Forty years ago, Illustrations, Ink pen, the Silent Eye, Thesis2 Comments

Illustrations I did almost forty years ago of pre Christian Celtic art for my thesis.

This is in response to a post on the The Silent Eye by Steve Tanham this morning on Celtic Art. It was very interesting and informative. It reminded me how I was influenced by the patterns they created. It also made me think about the Staffordshire hoarde of Saxon treasure that was found in this area about ten years ago. Similar but different.

The skills of the artesans that made these was immense. In an age that had no technology except for the hand eye coordination of the makers it is incredible what they could make.

Rail bus at Bury

Posted on October 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beeching cuts, Bury, Day out, Diesel engine, East lancs railway, keithley and worth Valley railway, Steam trains, Train, Train spotting, Train tripLeave a comment

This was a German railbus last year at Bury Station. This was on the East Lancashire Preserved railway that runs up to Ramsbottom and Rawtenstall. The line is run by volunteers. This was part of a line that extended up to the Keighthly and Worth Valley railway. But a section was lost when Dr Beeching cut many of the railways in the early 1960’s when masses of steam trains were scrapped. Some of this was done when passenger use was light (eg school holidays). Lines were shortened and diesel trains were bought in (which sometimes proved unreliable). Info from my hubby.

Age

Posted on October 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Age, Art, Crinkles, Design, Digital drawing, Jellyfish, Parrot, Tortoise, Wrinkles, Yew tree4 Comments

Dry skin, wrinkles, aging, it is the culminative effect of life. Very few animals and plants can live longer than 100 years. But trees, for instance Yews, can live thousands of years, some spread out and as the centre dies the outer skin continues to grow. In the case of things like jellyfish, some of them can revert back to a younger version of themselves (not sure of the science). Then there are more complex creatures such as Tortoises which can live over 100 years, another aged animal can be Parrots, they can outlive their owners!

Age is catching up with me. My arms and hands continue to wrinkle, I feel like I’m old in some areas of my body, and still have some youth in other parts.

Mallaband-Brown

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