Why?

Posted on March 23, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged arm, Art, Back, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1883, Drawing, Eye, Hidden, Leg, Sketching, Tattoo2 Comments

What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?

I’m not sure I want a tattoo, I’ve managed not to get one so far in my life, but I might be persuaded if someone could give me a good argument to get one?

So what should I get an image of and where should I have it….? Perhaps a discrete one on a hidden part of my anatomy, my upper arm, back or leg? I’ve got no one to hide it from though, and they are much more beautiful than the old fashioned love and hate words on peoples knuckles. I know people with sleeves and huge tattoos on their backs or legs. I’m not afraid of being tattooed but I would rather design something for someone else..

A tattoo for me? My hubby always says I have eyes in the back of my head….

Hot

Posted on March 22, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Burning, Chilli, Food, Hot, Life, pepper, Poem, Poetry, preference, sensation, spices, Taste2 Comments

I am not cold tonight

I’m hot

Spicy food got me

I feel heated up

My blood boils

Thirst grabs my throat.

A bit of spice attacks

Makes me blaze

Too much flavour

I like some spices

But chilli does not make me chilly

It makes me hot

Burning mouth

Need water

Less next time

Please

Glass

Posted on March 22, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Architecture, Blue, factory floor, Glass, Industry, Photo, Photography, Sky, skylight, SpodeLeave a comment

Glass roof and glass bottles letting the light through. Rain water running down the surface from a drainpipe on the wall above. Glass bottles are perched like pigeons on a beam below the skylight. Bright blue sky and white clouds scud past high above. The roof of the Spode museum building is visible behind the bottles. This was in the ‘Factory Floor’ conference and party room at Spode. I like the conjunction of the glass roof with the glass bottles is pleasing, it is also interesting to see the metal industrial chimney rising above the roof.

Need more….

Posted on March 22, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Craft, Craft fair, Creative, Fun, Life, minature, more, Painting, replacement, Sketching4 Comments

I’m running out of minature paintings, I’ve sold a few and given some as presents. They are all different and I need to paint some more. What to paint? I’ve done anything from a Morris minor car to the planet Jupiter. I’ve also painted the moon, birds, flowers, hearts, patterns and giraffes in the sunset. Cats of course and stained glass windows.

They are more craft than fine art I think, but if someone wants a tiny painting, matchbox sized, they don’t need much space to display it! It can go on a shelf or a bookcase, or anywhere else. They are not expensive despite the time it takes to paint them. I just love sharing art.

Lesser Celandine

Posted on March 22, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged daisy like, Environment, Gardening, Lesser celandine, Nature, Plants, Spring, YellowLeave a comment

One of the plants that appears in Spring, this is lesser Celandine. It has mid green shiny leaves and yellow and white daisy like flowers. This plant is one of the things that used to be on a website where people recorded when things appeared in the Spring, like butterflies, moths, flowers, tree blossom for example. It was a citizen science project. I don’t remember what it was called.

Lesser Celandine spreads by little bulbs (bulbils) that can stick to shoes or animals feet. It’s pretty, but if you get it in your garden it can spread like mad. I’m not sure if animals van eat it, it just looks cheery in Spring.

Wet!

Posted on March 22, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cold, Lamb, Lion, Low pressure, March winds, Rain, Sleep, Storm, Tuxedo cat, Weather, Wind5 Comments

There is a saying ‘in like a lamb, out like a lion’ (and vice versa) when it comes to March weather. We also talk about March winds.

After a very dry February, March has turned wild. It started quietly, but as the month has progressed the rain and wind has blown in over the Atlantic, causing low pressure systems to scud over us with record levels of rain falling.

Last night the wind was howling, one of the cats ran in, his coat glistening with rain. He looked like an otter that was just out of a river! He slept under the cover of my chair, like it was a little cave to keep warm in. He knows when to stay warm despite seemingly loving the awful weather.

One word?

Posted on March 22, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Creative, Creativity, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1882, Description, one word, Sketching, summed up3 Comments

What is one word that describes you?

How to choose? I have a few in mind, but I guess the main contender is Creative. That’s because of all the art I create and things like this blog. I love experimenting with images and working on them in different ways, I am quite eclectic, I might never have used a technique before, but I will go through different stages and steps to come up with a fresh idea. My mind thinks about all sorts of things all the time so it could also be the word Chaotic, but I have discounted that because I do plan things sometimes. I am not totally disorganised.

Hot

Posted on March 21, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Fire, Hot, Life, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was hot. I drew flames and then use photodirector to add texture and pattern. I liked imagining the different colours in flames. I think this has a watercolour feeling to it. The app gives it a more even look, as without it the felt pens I have used look a bit rough because the tips of them are wearing out and getting broken and the ink is drying up.

Full on day!

Posted on March 21, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Choir, Choir practice, Enjoyment, Happy, Music, Singing, Spode, the factory floor, YogaLeave a comment

I started out today at the Factory Floor at Spode singing with our choir and another choir. We were with the Boat Band who played cajun music first. Two of the band are our choir leaders. We sang before lunch was served and then again afterwards. It was great fun.

Then I went home for a rest, but I decided I felt well enough to go to yoga class. I haven’t Bern for a couple of weeks. I do chair yoga because I can’t get down on the floor and I can’t do inverted postures. My blood pressure is too high for that. Even so I felt tired afterwards, but it made me realise I have got over the cough and chest infection I’ve had for a few weeks.

Straight after yoga I sang with the other choir I am in. Each song was fun. I felt my voice getting clearer and I was able to hold notes I hadn’t been able to last week. We are learning some new songs and I was pleased that I could hear the tunes and pick them up. I had a really good day. I hope it carries on like this. X

Need to take better photos…

Posted on March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Fine Art, Jug, Painting, Pottery, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Teapot, Willow pattern2 Comments

Three pottery paintings I did a few years ago. The one of the jug is going to a new home soon. ❤️

I took them to a joint performance of our Clay chorus and the Starfish choir because we were singing a song about the Willow pattern (this is based on a Spode platter) and also a ship called Hispaniola bringing pottery clay from across the seas that had been written for us by Mark Whitter. I was very proud to have my work appreciated.

I am making cards from these if I can so I need better photos to show them clearly .

Mallaband-Brown

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