Gargoyle

Posted on September 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Architectural salvage, Architecture, Carving, Chain, Cherished Chimneys, Dog, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent, Stone carvingLeave a comment

Or some sort of stone carving. Whatever he is, he’s a bit frightening!

Seen in Cherished Chimneys in Longport he was staring out from among the chimney pots and pottery. I had to take a photo as he was so cute (for an angry dog!). I was impressed by the carving of the chain round his neck and his huge canine teeth. I guess he is a piece of architectural salvage, though I’m not sure which building he would have come from. Or maybe he was on a gatepost at a large country house? I suppose Britain’s heritage means we have a lot of things like this from when buildings are torn down. A lot of old houses have been demolished, fallen into ruin, or just been abandoned over the centuries. Their loss is our gain.

Cushions

Posted on August 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging., Couch, Cushions, Life, Random, Settee, Sitting, Soft furnishings2 Comments

What is it about cushions? I suppose they support your back or your head, but sometimes you end up with too many. Not because you bought them. Not all of them, some are presents, some were going to be presents for others, but you failed to give them in time. Then they just stayed, sitting on the couch, waiting for the chance to be used when a friend stops on the settee for the night, or to be hugged hard when watching horror films. Holding the cushion up to blank out nasty scenes….

Make up?

Posted on August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acting, Blogging, Character, Last year, Make up, Mask, Mystery Play, Play, Potter, SadLeave a comment

More a mask? Made of papier mache for last years penkhull mystery play in July 2019.

My hubby played the master Potter. At the start he was like a shop dummy, wearing a painted mask. Then as two children go back in time to experience life in the 1840’s for poor children, the Potter discards his mask and turns into a real person. We couldn’t do a real potters wheel so I painted a papier mache pot to look like wet clay.

Hubby made a perfect potter. He really enjoyed the play. We were really sad that it didn’t happen this year.

Slow

Posted on August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, blocks, Blogging, Frustrating, Irritated, Life, Poem, Poetry, Slow, WordPressLeave a comment

Slow connection

Slow to load,

Blocks are irritating

Words don’t work.

Finding my footing

Muddling through

Finding it painful

To work it out.

Don’t try spaces

Don’t type lines,

Everything jumps

And moves around.

Poems in WordPress

blocks are hard to do.

Cat integration isn’t going well.

Posted on August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Blogging, Boy cat, Cat, Girl cat, Integration?, Life2 Comments

Hubby decided it would be a good idea to bring the outside cat in, so he bought it into the living room. But it was not happy and struggled out of his grip. Our boy cat followed him as he’s friendly, but the outside cat turned round and hissed and swiped at him. I showed him where the cat flap was. He scarpered. Then as our female cat came to look at what was happening by the backdoor the abandoned cat lashed out again, this time from outside the cat flap. Result three confused and upset cats! So next time we will try a more gentle integration.

Thesis illustrations

Posted on August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Bronze, Celtic art, Drawing, Horse, Horse gear, Illustrations, Ink drawings, OrnamentsLeave a comment

I’ve posted these ages ago but since I deleted a lotof photos everything is jumbled up. These were drawings I did of a horses bit, and cast bronze fittings for a cart or chariot wheel.

I tthink I might have used a cartridge pen or a fountain pen to draw these. I can’t remember, they are almost forty years old. I can’t even credit the book I drew them from as I don’t remember and I’m not sure where I have put my thesis. I still like these…

Deleting photos off my phone!

Posted on August 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blank squares, Blogging, Delete, Deleting photos, Making space, Memory full, OptimisingLeave a comment

When you have over 8000 photos on your phone it’s time to downsize. I decided to use a cleaning app and optimise my images. I’ve done a few hundred before, but feeling optimistic I decided to do 4000!

Mistake. I decided to delete the originals as a lot of them are megabit or high kilobits sizes. Plus I don’t really want to store things on the cloud. It started well, but I found that sometimes I’m getting messages ‘could not delete, please try again’. I’m going back in months, and sometimes the black deleted files are in blocks, other times in a checkerboard pattern. It reminds me of defragging my computer years ago.. Does anyone even do that anymore?

Anyway, back to work…

Sun fire

Posted on August 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Digital drawing, Fire, Life, Paintings, SunLeave a comment

This popped up in my memories on Facebook and I remember doing four of these, Earth, Fire, Water, Air in ArtRage oils, but I can’t find the other three. I did them as companion pieces to four acrylic on canvas paintings of the same subjects that are in my studio down at spode which I really need to start going back to now things are a little more normal.

I’d like like to do some illustrations for a child’s book using ideas like this. Anyone interested?

Dooubled letter gllitch

Posted on August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Double letter, Glitch, Happens when leaving a space between lines, Humour, Irritating, Poem, Poetry, Second word, Tearing my hair outLeave a comment

Word press

You’re mmaking me dizzy!

When iI write poetry

You aadd a second letter

To the second word

Sometimes…

Then you stop

For no apparent reason..

It’s like you are toying with me

Playing wwith my mind

See yyou stuck another

Double iin again….

What aare you doing?

Laughing at me?

Doing mythological

Posted on August 31, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, Blogging, Design, Digital drawing, Learning, Playing, Sketching, UnicornLeave a comment

and why not…? If you’ve got a dragon, why not go all unicorn… I tend to draw dragon heads a bit like horses heads. Unlike the dragon in ‘how to train your dragon’ where toothless the dragon reminds me of a black cat.. I digress. The app I used to create this is called something like free sketch? The trouble is I use so many of them that I don’t always remember which one I’ve used!

On this sketch I tried using a fountain pen, but for some reason it won’t make marks? This is why I say experimenting is so important. Learning how to use a tool in an app so that you can understand what it does.

I’m just getting the hang of it…

Mallaband-Brown

Author: artbychristinemallabandbrown