Art

Posted on March 14, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1877, Enjoyment, Flow, koi carp, Painting, ThoughtLeave a comment

What activities do you lose yourself in?

Painting makes my mind flow…

Koi carp painted a few years ago. I love all sorts of art. It engages my mind as I create. The world and time just seems to disappear.

I might start painting or drawing in the afternoon, then suddenly realise I’m hungry or thirsty and find it’s 3am and I’ve lost half a day….

It’s just hand eye coordination, and often putting liquids onto a surface, or shading with pencils or pastels, but something grips me and I am embedded into art.

I love visual art, taking photos, and sometimes I even attempt 3d art in ceramics. I have only ever tried to carve stone a couple of times but didn’t have the strength.

Art encourages creative thoughts. I’d recommend it to anyone. Try it, you might enjoy it. X

Another Spode window?

Posted on March 13, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged boarded up, brickwork, Decay, painting subject matter, Peeling paint, Photograph, Spode studios, WindowLeave a comment

The bottom of the stairs at the studios at Spode. The windows have been revealed after boards have been taken off them. Unfortunately my hands shake and I should have tried leaning on something to support the camera. But you get the idea of how the history of the place is there, sadly likely to disappear in the chaotic entropy of decaying historical buildings. I might well paint this. I love the peeling paint!

Ginger cat

Posted on March 13, 2024 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged aacrylic on canvas, Art, Cat, courtyard, Fine Art, Flowers, ginger cat, Imagined, Life, Painting, WallLeave a comment

An imagined cat on a white wall. The plants make it feel like a courtyard. I had fun with the paint mixing different tones and colours . The cat is a ginger tabby staring out of the painting. Acrylic on canvas.

Green woman self portrait

Posted on March 13, 2024March 13, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Fine Art, Green man, Green woman, Hubby, Life, Memory, self portrait, Time2 Comments

This is the partner painting to the green man portrait of my hubby. They mean a lot to me. I intend to put them up together in my house once my exhibition is over. It’s about A4 size, probably a little bigger. I used some silver metallic paint on it to give it a slight shimmer. Acrylic on canvas. Painted a few years ago.

Peeling paint

Posted on March 12, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blue sky, Clouds, Fine Art, Peeling paint, Photo, Spode, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

The window panes are solid, but the wood is old and the paint peeling. One of my paintings of Spode, I just had to paint it with the blue and white reflected sky. I put a photo of it onto the peeling paint group online, but they were a bit sniffy because it wasn’t actual peeling paint, but a painting of peeling paint. I was let off with a gentle warning to photograph the real thing, which is strange, because a photo is just another representation, and as we have seen on the news recently photos can be manipulated with filters (I’ll say no more!).

If you look closely you might see my fingers clutching my phone as I took the picture (bottom right hand window pane).

Feeling a bit down in the dumps so decided to post this, it’s a favourite X

Those paintings

Posted on March 11, 2024March 12, 2024 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 1980's, Black and white cat, Cat, Gift, Memory, Pencil sketch, Poppies, Tortoiseshell cat, Tuxedo cat, WatercolourLeave a comment

Here they are, quickly painted. I think the date on the bottom one is 1988? I am sure they are watercolour and pencil drawings now I look closely. I’m not sure if they were a birthday or Christmas gift? It’s lovely to see work I did over 35 years ago! To think they still exist x

Lands end

Posted on March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged farthest north, farthest south West, Fine Art, Holiday, John O'groats, Lands End, Life, Painting, SeascapeLeave a comment

The end of the land, a toe dipping into the Atlantic Ocean, most South Westerly point of Mainland England. The destination or leaving point you can go to or from if you want to travel the length of Britain. The other end of the trail is John O’Groats in the very far north of mainland Scotland.

We only visited once in the 1990’s and didn’t get to the actual Lands End sign because the area had been taken over by a company and we couldn’t afford the admission fee! We went up the coast into the next bay and stopped off for a clotted cream tea before going back to out camp site. I’d like to visit again one day, although I think that’s a remote possibility, (pun intended!). This is a painting I did after the visit.

Jupiter blue

Posted on March 9, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Atmosphere, Blue, Clouds, Juno probe, Jupiter art, Life, Memory, Painting, SwirlsLeave a comment

One of my favourite paintings, Jupiter Blue is based on a photo of Jupiters South pole if I remember correctly. The photo was taken by the Juno probe a few years ago. Astronomers were astounded by the colour of the gas giants clouded atmosphere.

I found it incredibly difficult to paint. It was so hard to get the softness of the clouds and I still think I can see a birds head or a witchy face in the painting. It’s acrylic on canvas large painting.

Exhibition was lovely

Posted on March 8, 2024March 8, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Anxiety, Fine Art, Fun, Life, Oil on board, Painting, retrospective, Spode, thanks4 Comments

Lots of friends came to my exhibition and it was lovely to see them. I’d taken a box of wine and some orange juice and I really was scared that no one would come. It’s strange how anxiety can affect you, but I shouldn’t have worried. I think its like a performance anxiety, stage fright, having to talk about your work, explain the thought behind it. I luckily knew most of the people there so I didn’t need to panic!

The exhibition is on for another week so I should be able to show more people round during the week. X

Yellow tree

Posted on March 7, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumn, Exhibition, Life, Memory, Painting, Spring, TreeLeave a comment

My autumn into spring painting at my exhibition. It’s going to a new home as it’s been sold. I love the feeling that someone has found something special about it.

But I have to say I find selling art difficult, it’s not my thing, I’d much rather just create. I think that’s why I paint what I want, I can’t paint the same idea over and over again. I get bored and have to move onto something else.

Mallaband-Brown

Category: Fine Art

Art