How the Leopard looked

Posted on February 9, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Burslem, Emulsion on lining paper, Fine Art, Leopard Hotel, Memory, Murals, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

This was the function room, the Arnold Bennett suite, in the back of the Leopard Hotel with my murals visible on the walls. They were quite high up and I’m only short, so I spent a lot of time climbing up and down ladders! If I had realised it was likely to take me almost two years to paint them (there were eleven? ) seven on one side and four on the other if I remember?

Titles were :

The Leopardess

Umbrellas by Clarice Cliff

Arthur Berry, artist

Walter, the regular

Pot banks and woman worker

Murdered woman

The Leopard coat of arms

The Burslem Riot 1842

Wedgwood and Brindley

Molly Leigh, Burslem witch

Burslem Angel

I cannot remember if there was another one. I’m hoping to collect a full set of images of them. I hope that local people will be able to help me.

Monsters?

Posted on February 9, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged aliens, Art, Cold, Design, Experiment, Image, monsters, Photo, Photodirector, playful, SkyLeave a comment

I look up and see two monsters looming over me. They are staring at each other. Air swirls round them. Crystallising ice makes frost sheets over everything. ALIENS!

Created this photo from four mirrored images of sky, cloud, bushes and houses. Then added texture in Photodirector. The images look like huge baby chicks but with added claws waiting to grab you. Ready to pounce and fight with each other. I was interested in the colours of the sky. It gives a feeling that the air is chilled to a minus number.

Old card

Posted on February 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bat, Birthday card, College, Dragon, fire extinguisher, Fun, Memory, shiny designLeave a comment

Spring cleaning and I found this card. It’s off a relative and it must be twenty or thirty years old. I was moving a bookcase amd found it down the back together with an A to Z of Stoke-on-Trent. Its so cute with the fire extinguisher and the startled bat!

It would be good to find more interesting things. Maybe a gold ring, or an earring that matches one I’ve lost. But no doubt I’ve already vacuumed them up!

Anyway I like this dragon, I will take him as a good omen for my college course project. Its about the mythology and history of dragons, and a children’s book based on a dragon story. So fingers crossed that I can get it done. X

First Aid

Posted on February 8, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, bandage, Black and white drawing, Drawing, Hand, left hand, outline, plasters, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

My hand is OK. I just bandaged it roughly and stuck the bandage together with plasters so I could draw it. The prompt for #bandofsketchers today was ‘First Aid’. I always like the challenge of drawing hands. I drew round it’s outline to accomplish this.

Change one letter. Word play.

Posted on February 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Change, comical, different letter, Food, Humour, Silly, Social media, Word playLeave a comment

Lots of these things on Facebook. I posted change one letter to make a different meaning to a food and drink…..

I started with ‘Gin and Toxic’….

People have written ‘mice crispies’, ‘ baked jeans’, ‘rile noodles’, ‘hop dog’, ‘fish and ships’, ‘car food’ and ‘hot fog’. I think playing with words is fun. Most of the posts you see online are changing a letter in a song or a band, but food and drink seems to work well. I hope you think these are funny!

Chimaera

Posted on February 8, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged amalgamation, Art, Cat, chimaeras, Design, Drawing, holographic paper, Ink drawing, SketchingLeave a comment

I’m looking at different amalgamations of animals for my college project and remembered chimaeras. This is a cat dragon idea I came up with.

I did a multiple image drawing by using two pens, then added holographic paper to give it a different feeling and to change its appearance.

Wikipedia gives this definition of modern Chimaeras :

Beat

Posted on February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, beat, Bird, Drawing, Felt pens, Fine line pen, Life, Nature, Sketching, Wings3 Comments

I finally decided to draw something different to a whisk which was what other artists in the group had done. I’ve drew a bird beating its wings to take off in the garden. This is for Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt Beat.

Wizard glass

Posted on February 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Collection, Colours, Fun, Glass, Glass paperweights, Windowsill, wizard2 Comments

A wizard presides over some of my collection of glass paperweights. I made sure the sun doesn’t shine in too brightly on this particular windowsill. There are no curtains so the glass orbs cannot set fire to anything – they could act as magnifying lenses. I think the first ones I got were a present about thirty years ago, but I then started collecting them. They are colourful and tactile. Creativity comes in many guises.

Cracking up

Posted on February 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cracked, crazed, Filtered, Funny, Nonsense, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Selfie, SillyLeave a comment

I’m cracking up

I have to say-

I’ve really had

A funny day.

It wasn’t droll

It wasn’t bad

It wasn’t silly

It wasn’t sad

It has just been

A little odd

I’m wondering whether

I need a pod

Of dolphins –

Who’ll swim with me

Till my head spins

No more, and I am me!

Summer house doorway

Posted on February 7, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Black ink fine line pen, Cat, Feelings, Garden, Life, Sad, Summerhouse, Thinking, Tuxedo cat, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

May 2020. This is an urban sketch because its ouside drawn in real time. I’m pleased with some of the details I added, like our plastic garden chair with the cut out curves in the back. When I sat and drew our then outside cat sitting by the summerhouse door. I haven’t been in the summer house much since then. I guess things got to me a bit. I didn’t shake then… I need to start feeling like I can be less isolated. But because my balance isn’t as good I always feel like I might tumble over. My hubby is good at leaving things in the way and I’m rubbish at bending over to move them. How did I get like this? It’s easier to hide away in the house. I need to try and sort myself out, but just getting doctors appointments is difficult. Anyway enough feeling sorry for myself. X

Mallaband-Brown

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