Mill

Posted on March 12, 2023March 12, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Etruria Industrial museum, Fine Art, Harecastle tunnel, Industrial heritage, Jessie Shirley's bone and flint mill, Kidsgrove, Life, Painting, Stoke-on trent4 Comments

Small ‘Mill’ painting sold.

It was very good to hear that my small painting of Etruria Flint Mill had sold to a friend yesterday. It was another in a new style I am experimenting with. I’m using more lines and textures to emphasise the patterns in the bricks and sky and trees. The image is based on a photo of the Mill and Industrial Museum, but I added more white to give a feeling of when it was in use, and the site was dusted with the crushed bones and flints that went into Stoke-on-Trents bone China, their attempt to replicate Porcelain. The canal is brown with rusty water. If you visit Kidsgrove which is to the North of Stoke you can see the canal there is often very orange. The Trent and Mersey canal runs through the Harecastle Tunnel which is another interesting part of our industrial heritage.

I have other work for sale at Arts and Minds Gallery at Harper Street in Middleport opposite Middleport Pottery, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

#motion

Posted on March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Devon, Dolphin, Fine Art, Georges, Life, Movement, Painting, Swimming4 Comments

One of the art groups I’m part of put a prompt of #motion on their Facebook page today. I thought of this painting. Acrylic on canvas called Georges from a few years ago. A painting from memory of when I jumped in the sea fully clothed and swam out to a wild dolphin at Challaborough? In Devon. There were people on the beach and people in wetsuits further out. Georges kept swimming past me because I was somewhere in the middle. He’d got lots of scars along his body. I found out from a poster the next day telling people not to swim with him as he was too friendly and had been cut by boat propellers. You can also catch illnesses like pneumonia from breathing the air from their blowhole.

Playing with silhouettes

Posted on March 2, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, Fine Art, Imagination, Jetpack, like a woodcut?, Photodirector, Plants, Sketch app, Trees, WordPressLeave a comment

A previous digital drawing of a fence against a colourful background. My Sketch app on my phone has silhouettes of trees and plants that I rarely use. I also added extra texture and overlays in Photodirector. These are a couple of the art apps I have on my phone that I use frequently and don’t want to remove if I have to get the Jetpack app. Am I irritated? Yes. Must stop going on about it. Creativity isn’t important after all is it (sulks)…. Sorry!

Whirlpool

Posted on February 25, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Astronomy, Digital drawing, Galaxy, large Magellanic cloud, Milky-way, small Magellanic cloud, Whirlpool galaxyLeave a comment

My digital drawing of the whirlpool galaxy. Visible through powerful telescopes, wouldn’t it be amazing if it was visible to the naked eye?

Why is our galaxy, the Milky Way, so faint? Partly because of light pollution which drowns out the hundreds of thousands of stars visible in a dark sky area, and partly because there are dust lanes n the way of the view to the centre of the galaxy. Plus if you live in the Northern Hemisphere your view is out of the galaxy. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere your view is towards the centre of the galaxy, plus the small and large Magellanic clouds.

Baker St Park, with flying dog!

Posted on February 25, 2023February 25, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Baker Street Park, Charcoal, Drawing, Fine Art, Landscape, Penkhull, Sketching, Stoke-on trent, winter view2 Comments

A cloudy sky (with an odd dog shape- I’m not changing it) flys above a park. The grass is shaded by the long shadows of trees. The sun is bright, but starting to set. I used various techniques taught to us by Jo Watson, an artist who comes out and teaches charcoal workshops.

Most of the group used images supplied by Jo, but a few of us chose our own images. This drawing was based on a photo of Baker Street Park in Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent.

I really loved learning about charcoal, I’ve used it before, but not been in control of it! ❤️

Mixed up phone photos

Posted on February 24, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Confused, Images, Life, out of order, Painting, Phone memory, Photos, PicturesLeave a comment

I decided to free up a bit of space on my phone yesterday as I was on over 90% full. I really need to get more memory on my phone as I have over 3,000 images. The trouble is when I optimise and delete photos it resets the date on them so sometimes they all reorder themselves and jump around in my gallery until they settle down. Then I end up with a lot of duplicated photos and I have to go in and delete the duplications, and I also try and edit the others and try and delete more of the ones I don’t like. I hope you don’t have these problems!

The featured image is a painting of frost on canvas where I edited it in a filter to change the colours. It just popped up in my photo gallery.

Stag and thistles

Posted on February 17, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Design, Fine Art, Pantomime, Penkhull, Robin Hood, saltire, Scottish, Stag, Stoke-on trent, thistlesLeave a comment

A stag and thistles against a Scottish Saltire. The Penkhull Panto is not having scenery this year except for some smaller A2 panels that I painted a few years ago of various scenes from around the world. I offered to paint something representing Scotland and found various images of Scottish jewellery depicting Stags and Thistles in a semi celtic design. This is my interpretation of the idea. The blue and white of the saltire is a good background to the design. I used two A1 boards glued together for strength (£10) and it is painted in acrylics with some silver metallic pen highlights. I hope they like it.

Final photo

Posted on February 14, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Beach, Commission, Fine Art, lapping, Ocean, Painting, Rocks, Sand, Sea, tide, Water2 Comments

I asked for a photo of my beach painting from the lady who bought it (it went to the person who had commissioned it and I had forgotten to take a picture). She was really happy with it. I tried to get that feeling of water washing on and out, flowing over the sand. A few dark rocks sit in the bottom right hand corner and I really tried to get bright sunny colours into it. I found the blue hard to get right, so I used a turquoise hue to get that marine feeling.

Twelve years ago

Posted on February 13, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged acrylic on plaster, Art, Bedroom, children's, Commission, Life, Mural, PaintingLeave a comment

When I used to paint murals I did a series of cartoon characters for a friends son. This was Fun to do! This was done about twelve years ago. I enjoyed painting it. I remember using acrylic on the walls, with a matt varnish on top.

Autumn and Spring painting

Posted on February 11, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Autumn, Description, Fine Art, Life, Painting, Spring, Thinking, World8 Comments

Sometimes I just have to create something different. I don’t do many paintings of abstracts, I find them difficult to do. I don’t want to have to write a long explanation of what the painting means. I love all sorts of art, but it’s hard to pin down what would be my favorite. This autumn /spring painting is acrylic on canvas. With colours that represent the seasons. The shapes are meant to represent middle age, complexity, confusion, a city scape, and the spring is simple nature. See I said I hate describing what I’m doing, and yet that’s exactly what I’ve just done! Maybe I should do a Winter/summer one?

Mallaband-Brown

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