Mirrors removed

Posted on April 11, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, claw hammer, endings, Fine Art, Friends, Life, Mirrors, Paintings, Spode studio, TimeLeave a comment

Portrait of my friend.

Today was a sad day, leaving my studio at Spode is a real wrench. I have had to gather up my belongings including paints, canvases, an easle. Even the mirrors on the walls and the nails that supported my paintings over the years I’ve been there.

How do you remove hexagonal mirrors that are glued to a wall? With a claw hammer and very carefully is the answer. Now some paintings are at a friends studio and others are here in my living room. Hopefully I will soon get sorted out.

Tree sketch

Posted on April 2, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 20 years ago, Drawing, Memory, oaks, Sketchbook, Sketching, soft pencil, Trees2 Comments

Twenty years ago I sketched these trees. I think they were probably oaks, a little old and tattered. I’d love to go back and see if they are still there, if only I could remember where they were!

I used to do far more pencil sketching. Maybe I should get a soft 6B pencil and start drawing again.

It would have been…

Posted on April 2, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Birthday, Him, Hubby, Lost, Missing, Pain, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Portrait, SadnessLeave a comment

His birthday,

He was no fool

We would have had on this day

A walk by a pool?

It would have been a grand day

Even if it rained

The sun is shining today

But he’s not here, my friend.

I’m sitting feeling lonely

His life came to an end

He had so much to give

Love and hugs, not only

A great wish to live!

An art school?

Posted on March 30, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged art school, Challenge, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1893, Idea, Life, Name, Reuse, School, Thought2 Comments

If you could have something named after you, what would it be?

I’d like to be able to open an art school for anyone that wants to be involved. If I had the money to open it, it would be free to artists and art enthusiasts.

Would I name it after me? Possibly. Or call it the CMB art school. I would like to think that it would encourage creativity in all aspects of art. I have an idea of saving a derelict building for perpetuity and the school would be housed within it.

I would also try and involve local schools to seed the idea of arts and crafts in the children’s minds. It’s a pipe dream. But I like it.

Cadmium colours

Posted on March 28, 2024March 28, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged analytical chemistry, Art, Cadmium, coffee jars, Fine Art, Memories, Paint, Pigments4 Comments

Back in the eighties hubby brought a whole load of cadmium colours back from the company where he was doing chemical analysis. I had about eight coffee jars full of cadmium ranging from pale yellow to red to deep maroon. But I didn’t know how to mix them, it was before Google and I had them on a shelf for a year. I also knew Cadmium is a heavy metal although these colours were pigments so hopefully they were safe.

Then a fellow art student asked about them. I agreed to give them to her. I know she used them in many paintings! I often wonder if she used them all, I haven’t seen her for forty years.

Packaging

Posted on March 26, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, black bag, Box, Bubble wrap, Canvas, Cardboard, Fine, Life, Post office, Postage, wrappingLeave a comment

How do I send a canvas in the post? I have wrapped it in bubble wrap but when I got to the post office they didn’t have any boxes big enough. They suggested I put it in a bin liner and tape it well but I didn’t think that would be secure enough. I asked them if they had any old cardboard boxes and they gave me two small boxes with low sides. I will try and unfold them and use them to strengthen the front and back. I was then going to use a black bin bag, but I went in the petrol station to fill up. They were chucking out a large cardboard box so I asked for it. I will use that as outer packaging with lots of tape. I’m glad I called in. Wish me luck, and the canvas a safe journey X.

Ginger cat

Posted on March 25, 2024 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Cat, Fine Art, Floral, ginger cat, Memory, Painting, Stray cat, WindowsillLeave a comment

I painted this ginger cat a few years ago. He’s based on a stray that moved in with us for a while. He would sit on a windowsill and stare out at the garden. I decided to make his view a bit more floral, and almost Mediterranean.

Unfortunately we had to rehome him because he would fight with our other cats and ended up with an abscess in his paw. I spoke to the vets and they agreed to find him a good home. I hope he was happy and it was sad to say goodbye to him.

Koish

Posted on March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, distortion, Fine Art, Fish, Koi, Memory, Painting, Reflection, Water2 Comments

Koi carp I pay a few years ago, it was part of my recent exhibition. I thought it was worth showing on its own here. I love painting reflections and the way some parts of the painting can be seen through so you can see the fish. Other things include the distortion of the window bars in the water. Acrylic on canvas.

Eccentric?

Posted on March 19, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Bee, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1882, Description, Eccentric, Fun, Humour, Limerick, Mad, Poetry, Short poemLeave a comment

What is one word that describes you?

I decided to use the form of a limerick poem to describe the one word ‘eccentric’ that I have chosen for myself. The painting is of me as a green woman…

I’m rather eccentric, that’s me

I prefer that to ‘mad’ you see

I love paint and mess

With nothing to stress

And my mind is a buzz, like a bee!

Air

Posted on March 18, 2024March 18, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Air, Art, Blue, Earth, Fine Art, Fire, Imagination, Painting, Time, WaterLeave a comment

A painting from a few years ago, a bit burry with camera shake. It’s one of four I did to represent Earth, Air, Fire and Water. It was a series I really enjoyed. Working with the flow of paint, allowing my imagination free rein. It’s acrylic on canvas. Two of the set had already been sold and I was thinking of painting replacement images. I wish I had, I’m not sure I ever will. X

Mallaband-Brown

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