Poppy

Posted on May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Fine Art, Life, Orme Art group, Painting, Poppy, Red, Staffordshire, Stone, the Artisan BoutiqueLeave a comment

This acrylic on canvas Poppy painting will be on sale in a shop in Stone, Staffordshire later in the week. I will try and get a few photos of our group display when everyone has hung their work.

Poppies come in lots of colours from large red, magenta, pink and white ones to smaller common poppies with red patals and black splodges in their centres. Also white and pink variations. Then there are the bright oranges of Californian poppies, orange and yellow Welsh poppies and blue, hymalayan poppies. Just gorgeous.

Orme Group Art in Stone, Staffordshire.

Posted on May 30, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Group exhibition, high street, Life, Orme Art group, Painting, Staffordshire, Stone, the Artisan BoutiqueLeave a comment

Our group of artists will be exhibiting work for sale in the Artisan Boutique on the High Street in Stone, Staffordshire from the start of June. Six of us are exhibiting there so we will all have a few pictures on display. It’s a great opportunity for us to get seen a bit further afield than usual. Wish us luck!

Back to Spode

Posted on May 27, 2022May 27, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Fine Art, Landscape, Painting, Portrait, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent8 Comments

Today, for the first time in two years I went back to Spode. I have a lot of paintings that I have done over the years. I’ve avoided going because of Covid and it felt so strange being there. Like the time hasn’t passed, and yet there are new people there. If I want to carry on being an artist I need to get my act together again. I called myself an explorative fine artist and I want to be one again.

Life study

Posted on May 23, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 20 minute sketch, Art, Drawing, figure study, Fine Art, Life, life study, Light, Shadows, SketchingLeave a comment

Twenty minute sketch at a life drawing day with the Orme Art Group. The dark areas are grey and brown felt pens. The light brown, red, orangey brown and white were pencil crayons. When you draw or sketch quickly you need to get all of the figure down, so I do a basic outline and then try and fill in with blocks of colour. I work out where the shadows and light falls. I think I need to start doing it more regularly. Is it sketching or fine art? Not sure….

Feeling owlish

Posted on May 17, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Beak, Bird, Environment, Fine Art, Nature, Owl, Painting, silent, talons, WingsLeave a comment

An Owl painting I did a couple of years ago. They are intriguing birds. Their ears are set at different heights underneath all their feathers so that they can differentiate which side their prey is on. Their wings are silent as they fight through the air, making it hard for animals to know they are being hunted. Sharp talons for gripping and hooked beaks for tearing into their prey make them a top predator. Beautiful but deadly.

Poppy painting

Posted on May 16, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Flower, Gardening, Painting, Plant, Poppy, Red, White2 Comments

Nine years since I painted this poppy with a white centre. I think that makes it look fresh and cool. Poppies have paper thin, crinkled petals. They look so delicate. I have lots of yellow, Welsh poppies in the garden, but not as many red ones that seem to need more sunlight. This was an acrylic on canvas and I think it sold quite quickly? But after almost a decade I still love it.

Jay

Posted on May 11, 2022May 11, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Branches, Cold, Frozen, Jay, metallic paints, Poem, Poetry, Small painting, Trees, WindowLeave a comment

Strange little painting

Came from my mind

A little idea

Of a bird in a tree

Old window bars

Rusty and dry

Frame a bright view

Of a frozen blue sky.

Jay at the centre

Waiting to fly.

Leopardess

Posted on May 11, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Burslem, Fine Art, Fire, Life, Painting, Photo, Stoke-on trent, the Leopard Hotel in Burslem2 Comments

Here is a better photo of my mural that was destroyed in a fire at the Leopard Hotel in Burslem earlier in the year. The landlady was said to have come over from the Caribbean and married an English man. She then ran the hotel. The trouble is I painted this in 2006? I honestly can’t remember the story I was told and now the hotel is gone.

Leopard Hotel sheild

Posted on May 10, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Burslem, coat of arms, Design, Emulsion on lining paper, Leopard Hotel, Mural, Painting, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

A friend took a photo of my coat of arms design at the Leopard Hotel in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. The building burned down a few months ago and I have been trying to find good images of my murals. They were burnt in the fire and the photos are all I have of them.

Talking to people?

Posted on May 7, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Art, Covid, Crowd, Nerves, Painting, sales, socialising, Talking, Thinking, Time4 Comments

I love painting but I find it hard to sell. My mind sometimes goes into panic mode and I say strange things instead of pleasantries. I can hear my voice coming out with odd comments, about someone’s walking stick, or immesaying I will discount the price of a print when they have barely looked at it. Today was odd and difficult. It’s been a long time since I have had to talk to people about my art. I was not fluent with my thoughts. I was nervous, sometimes tounge tied. As the number of people increased it got worse. My throat got dry. I wanted to talk but I just stayed silent. It was better towards the end, but I’m an artist not a saleswoman. Anxiety and covid make it harder.

Mallaband-Brown

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