Got to paint more

Posted on August 16, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Commission, Craft, Design, Fine Art, Ideas, Painting, sales, small paintings, ThinkingLeave a comment

I’ve been asked to paint some of my small paintings, bees, birds, cats, maybe dogs, flowers. But I might add a few small mechanical paintings too.

How can I know my audience? Mainly by what has sold before, but also what is liked on social media. I cannot paint exactly what someone wants without getting a description of a commission from them, but I can try to get an inkling of what is interesting. For instance I have been painting more abstract images, but I feel they are more fine art subjects. If someone buys a tiny painting is that more of a craft piece. I need to know because if I carry on I need to earn a crust or two, even if it’s only a crumb sized one! We will see.

Filtering

Posted on August 16, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Flowers, Design, Photos, Pattern, Poetry, Plants, Poem, Fun, PhotodirectorLeave a comment

In love with a photo filter

Not my face!

Not altering my shape!

Just adding texture

Making entanglements

Shifting my perspective

Seeing into ideas

Let me play,

Have fun

Change up a gear.

Minature train

Posted on August 16, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Backache, minature train, Train, Trentham Gardens, Trentham Lake, Walk, woman train driverLeave a comment

Good to see a woman driver on the minature train at Trentham Gardens. We went there today because our neighbours are having some work done and had mini diggers rumbling all morning so I couldn’t open my windows because of the noise.

We decided to walk round the lake which was lovely because there was a cool breeze, but then we caught the minature train down half the length of the lake to make life easier. I still had a twinge in my back so had to get my hubby to help me get back off the train!

We walked round the rest of the lake and I took some photos of flowers around the lake which are still looking lovely. I might try and look at doing some small paintings of them.

Humid day

Posted on August 16, 2022August 16, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Building work, Escape, gentle exercise, Humid, Lake, Nature, Sitting, slow walk, Trees, TrenthamLeave a comment

Humid but no rain sadly. The air is sticky with moisture. The storms we have been promised haven’t materialised. We got out and walked round Trentham lake because our neighbours are doing building work and digging up the land next to our garden. This was despite my back hurting as I got in the car. But I think the walk has helped. We managed to get round slowly and the breeze off the lake has helped. It’s still humid but I do feel better.

More random thoughts.

Posted on August 15, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged a god?, Conversation, Ideas, Jupiter, Odd ideas, philosophy, Planets, Solar system, Thinking, Universe2 Comments

Chatting with hubby after watching a programme about how the solar system formed and that Jupiter might have migrated inwards towards the sun only to be stopped by Saturn’s gravity causing it to take a grand tack like in sailing back out to its current position. They also talked a out Neptune and Uranus being formed closer to the Sun but being pushed out by Jupiter and maybe another unknown gas or ice giant being flung out of the Solar system entirely. Hubby said this if course discounts the fact that the Solar system could have been created in the current state by God! The thought that he thinks this surprised me! If the Universe is random how can we think (or prove) anything like that? I’m was a bit nonplussed. I think about infinity a lot. If there is a God and it is infinite would it be outside the universe or would it be the Universe with the objects in it being like how atoms relate to us? Some very strange ideas. One for a philosopher not me!

Forgot to blog!

Posted on August 15, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Choir, Music, Pain, Practice, Random, sciatica, Singing, Thinking, Thoughts5 Comments

My mind was occupied by various things today. Mostly pain from Sciatica or something similar. I tried doing yoga in bed a few nights ago and pulled something in my lower back so I’ve been trying to rest it and it has got a little bit better. I did go to choir but wasn’t happy standing up to sing. Very annoying. Any art on the way? No just trying to delete some photos as my phone is 90% full!

Drought?

Posted on August 15, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Drought, Heat, heatwave, Lightning, Rain, Thunder, Water, Weather6 Comments

It might rain today, but most of England is parched. The south east, south midlands, and eastern counties look dry and brown from satellite images. We are in the same heatwave that has affected the rest of western Europe. Forecasts say the weather is due to break soon. But with thundery showers due there is not the persistent rain for many days that would replenish the ground water and because the soil is so hard and dry it is compacted and heavy rain could cause flash flooding…. Oh well, Brits always discuss the weather!

Another memory.

Posted on August 14, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Emulsion on lining paper, Fine Art, Leopardess, Memory, Murals, Painting, Stoke-on trent, the Leopard Hotel in BurslemLeave a comment

The Leopardess at the Leopard Hotel in Burslem. She was supposed to be a mixed race woman that married the owner of the hotel and came to England to run it. I was told several tales by the landlords of the Leopard while I was painting murals there and I really wish I had written them down. But you know what it’s like. You are standing on top of a set of stepladders and chatting while you paint. You have ideas for each mural and have to fit in with what the owners want you to paint. Sometimes I was in the Arnold Bennett suite on my own for hours (I’d go up after work), listening to old creaking timbers and odd noises. It could be spooky in there. My memory isn’t what it was.

Sundays were always boring…

Posted on August 14, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Boredom, Childhood, Home, Life, Memories, parents, spin dryer, Sunday, washing day, Washing machine2 Comments

Sitting around being bored. Shops shut, nowhere to go. Listening to the radio, parents doing the washing in a boiler and a spin drier in the kitchen. Steam coming up and then patterns in the water as the spindryer vibrated the bowl that caught the water. No fridge, just a cold pantry, food was usually bacon and eggs for breakfast and tinned peaches and evaporated milk with sliced bread and butter at teatime. It was always the same. Things did change, life got more interesting, but only when my parents got transport, which was two small motorbikes. Memories are strange, they suddenly appear, then what do you do.

Skyline

Posted on August 14, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, bright sky, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Moon, perseid meteor shower, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was skyline. I’ve been trying to see the perseid meteor shower that is currently happening but the moon has been too bright and has drowned things out with its light. I was hoping to see something because it’s been warm enough to stand outside late at night.. Felt pen drawing filtered in Photodirector.

Mallaband-Brown

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