Looking

Posted on March 19, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Artrage oils, Digital art, Digital drawing, Eyes, Fun, LifeLeave a comment

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I used to spend a lot more time on digital drawings. This one got printed on a mug just for fun. It’s based on cats eyes. I decided to duplicate it in the layout app I have after initially drawing it in ArtRage oils. I don’t quite remember how I managed to draw the details, probably using my computer tablet not my mobile phone which I tend to use now.

I’m gradually collecting these images off my computer as they pop up on my previous memories page on Facebook. Every day something different, that I forgot about, is there, and I ponder what thoughts were going through my mind all those years ago.

Artist Rob Pointon

Posted on March 19, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artist, Council chamber, Fish eye lens, Oil on canvas, Oil paint, Painter, Rob PointonLeave a comment

I was at a meeting at the local town hall tonight and saw a huge painting (made up of four panels) by one of my favourite artists Rob Pointon.

Over the last few years he has become recognised as one of the best known artists in Stoke-on-Trent. His characteristic fish eye lens style adds animation to his colourful paintings.

Recently he has painted in towns all over the country and I think he has exhibited at the mall galleries in London.

Whatever your feelings about his art I think it adds energy and interest to the local arts scene.

Footstep

Posted on March 19, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fun, Humour, Micro poetry, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Rainbow, Splash, WaterLeave a comment

Dewy rain sprinkles my steps

The tread outlined in light.

Rainbow sparkles shine so bright

Spray of water leaps

My feet jump with delight

Puddles to splash in

Waves to make

Fun and frolics, frog like.

Cat sculpture

Posted on March 17, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged 3 dimensions, Art, Blacksmith, Cat, Cat sculpture, Design, Sculpted Steel, Sculpture4 Comments

My cat sculpture that I bought from a local blacksmith has moved since we had the shed put up. You can rest a plant pot on its tail. I love the glass eyes that she put in.

I would love to do a blacksmith workshop and learn how to do some basic twirls and twiddle.

I was so impressed by the skill of my friend. She has also got the ability to translate a 2d sketch that I did to a 3d sculpture.

Copper horse

Posted on March 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Copper, Copper beech, Horse, Sculpture, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Trentham GardensLeave a comment

I took this photo a few months ago with the intention of doing a painting. It struck me that the copper beech behind it shows off the verdigris of the horse really well and the wooden plinth it is on mimics the tree trunk behind it. Trentham lake is in the distance. I’m not sure if it’s significance but I do like it. I’m guessing it could be based on a Greco-Roman or Celtic design? I could try and find out, but I just like it as it is.

Marching winds

Posted on March 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Anti social behaviour, Children's protest, Climate change, Flooding, March winds, Noise, Party, Rain, ResponsibilityLeave a comment

It’s still blowing a gale out there as the partygoers shout and swear and slam their car doors shut and head off into the night.

There’s been flooding in the Conwy valley in Wales and in the north west of England. Scotland and Northern Ireland have also had their fair share. The situation is relatively normal for this time of year, but the number of floods we get most years seems to be increasing.

In the meantime on Friday young people from across the world went on strike again from school to protest about the state of the climate and how it is getting close to more than a 1.5 centigrade rise in average temperatures. If this happens the world climate may not recover and it is the young who will have to live with the consequences. Scientists have said that if things don’t get better in the next 12 years the world will reach a tipping point into climatic chaos.

It is interesting to reflect the differences in attitude of the partygoers tonight and young people across the world. It seems a tenuous link, but I think it may be valid. The difference between bad behaviour, fighting, swearing and a peaceful protest.

I leave you to decide.

Bump bump bump

Posted on March 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Angry, Annoyance, Anti social, Blogging, Can't sleep, Deafening, Disturbance, House music, Life, Loud, Loud music, NoiseLeave a comment

It’s 1.30am and I’m being kept awake by a fast low beat and occasional bursts of shouting from the pub across the road. I will not identify them because I don’t wish to have trouble from them. But there are young families in the street and the noise has been getting worse recently after quietening down for a while. So I’m sitting here plotting revenge like raw prawns tucked under the seats? (Imagination only, I won’t follow through). But when you can hear the music over an adventure movie we were watching earlier you know its loud. Im hoping this is the last record as they tend to turn the sound up at the end of the night? No another record has come on. More thud bump thud. Like a fast heart beat.

The volume goes up and down. Like someone is opening a door and letting more sound out then closing it again. I think the people listening will be stone deaf by the time they are in their fifties! Me. I’m going to make a nice big mug of cocoa and try and relax… Oops loud again! Grr

Sunset

Posted on March 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blank verse, Earth, Equator, Life, Light, Poem, Poetry, seasons, Sun, Sunset4 Comments

The night draws in again

Sunset and its rosy glow is gone

Eight minutes before the sun set

Light travelling ultra fast,

Eight minutes to shine from sun to earth.

Energy in motion, then lost

Behind the hill

Night infects the light

It’s inky blackness sometimes reduced

By moon and stars

Or reflected light on clouds.

But the dark cannot hold as the earth turns.

Tipped slightly, seasons prevail North and south.

As spring arrives days grow longer

Now sunsets late or never

While equator stays the same

the North and South vary.

Sunset later every day till mid summer

Then decline.

The Beatles

Posted on March 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Documentary, Help, Life, Memories, Music, The beatles, TV6 Comments

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I was bought up in the 1960s so although I was there I don’t remember a lot about the Beatles – I was too young.

But even now after over 50 years if a Beatles song comes on the radio or TV I can pretty much sing along with the lyrics.

I remember hearing them, some of my favourites are:

Love me do

Help

Can’t buy me love

Hey Jude

Eight days a week

There are others but I’m useless at remembering names of songs!

I loved their harmony, I loved their funny ways, I loved their experimental music as they evolved.

I’m just watching the Ron Howard documentary about them and it’s bringing a few memories back but as I say because I was a child I missed anything about them on late night TV so I’m learning a lot from the documentary.

Finding panorama mode.

Posted on March 16, 2019March 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour photo, Geese, Lake, Panoramic view, Photos, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Sunset, Westport lake2 Comments

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It took me a few months to realise that there is a panorama mode on this phone. This was westport lake last month. I like that my partner is at the far right and the path continues at the far left. The geese are at different heights which seems to work with the step where the landing stage cuts into the waters surface. Mine and my friends shadow are a bit annoying but the sun was setting behind us and all the shadows fan in towards the lake. I like how the path on the left is straight and not curved like the rest of the photo.

I’m picking random photos to look at because often they just get a glance and then I move on……

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