Druid painting finished

Posted on June 12, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fine Art, four elements, Green man, Local artists, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Painting, the Rigger Venue, vision exhibition3 Comments

I started this in 2018, but it was sitting in my studio so last year before the pandemic happened I tried to finish it off, but I only went in a couple of times. So today I finally finished it, I tidied up some untidy lines, added various dark greens and black. Then I added some magenta, white and iridescent silver and gold to brighten it and add contrast.

I’m happier than I was with it. I think it’s going in the exhibition I’m part of next weekend at the Rigger Venue, Newcastle-under-Lyme. The works I have chosen are all mythical, based on the four ancient elements or the green man idea. Some have been exhibited before. Some haven’t been seen before. X

Paintings at the waiting room gallery.

Posted on June 12, 2021June 12, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Jupiter, Painting, Planet, Tryptich, Waiting room galleryLeave a comment

A post by @thewaitingroomgallery of my tryptich of Jupiter. I was there featured artist this week. The gallery is situated in Longport, Stoke-on-Trent and is linked with the British Rail Longport Train station which they are gradually restoring. They have won awards for their community work there.

I have a few paintings and glass jewellery on display there at the moment. There is lots of work by other artists there too.

Glass pieces done

Posted on June 12, 2021June 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, art glass lounge, Brooch, Fun, Glass, Glass workshop, necklace, pieces, ringLeave a comment

One and eight are my hubbies pieces, the rest are mine. Out of the kiln at Art Glass Lounge. I did them at a workshop. Some are being turned into necklaces, some brooches and a couple will be attached to rings. I’m collecting them tomorrow. I’ve really enjoyed learning such a simple technique of layering glass to get a sparkling result. Can’t wait to collect the finished pieces. I will take a photo of them when I get them.

Visiting cat

Posted on June 12, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cat Food, Life, Outdoor cat, Photo, Tuxedo cat, VisitingLeave a comment

Our outdoor cat, comes in for tea. Sniffing at the food bowls, and looking for a bit of love too. X can’t really say more xxx

Stuck

Posted on June 11, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Lost, Mind, Prevarication, Stuck, Thinking, Thought, Time2 Comments

Do you ever just get stuck in your thoughts. Lost and not quite sure what to do or where to go. Marathon prevarication. Held back by thinking too much. And heat doesn’t help. You wait in hope that it might cool down. Your mind isn’t working, it’s fused in place, clunking, square thoughts jammed in a round hole. You just want to break out of it. Find a way through. Maybe in a while I will feel more like myself.

I think I see a face?

Posted on June 11, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alien, Cropped, Ent, Ideas, Mirrored, Photo, rotated, sea monster, Sky, Thought, TreeLeave a comment

Look at me? Can you see my face? Am I man or cat? Or cyclops? So many options and shapes.

Photo rotated and mirrored. Blue grey clouds and salmon pink sky. Totem or monster alien. Unknown sea creature. Ent? Your choice. Playing and experimenting to create alien images.

Oh Rose

Posted on June 11, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, blushing, evening walk, Flowers, Gardening, Life, Persia, Pink, Roses2 Comments

When I see your blushing pink I can see why Shakespeare was so effusive about you.

Pink and packed with petals, this rose shone out in the twilight. The dark green contrasting with the fresh colour of the flower.

I wish I had the skill to weave a story about you, perhaps your antecedents were worn by Cinderella at the ball, or the scent of you enchanted Snow White.

I think I heard roses came from Ancient Persia. Wherever they originated, they are lovely. I saw these outside the Portmeirion factory in Stoke, they brightened my evening.

Hay-fever eye

Posted on June 11, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Breeze, Eye, Hay-fever, Nose, Photodirector, Poem, Poetry, PollenLeave a comment

Itch! Eyelashes scratch

Nose running

So fast

Doing 100 meter

Dash!

Red and bloodshot

The pollen high

A cloud of dust

Flowing in the sky

Need eye drops

Nose spray

Tablets too

You won’t beat me

Hay-fever, you!

The tools of my trade

Posted on June 11, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Drawing, Fun, mug of water, paintbrush, Sketching, WatercolourLeave a comment

I’m learning more about what I can do. I create using anything from post-it notes and collage to the simplest calligraphy pen and paper to the extreme using nail varnish! This is a quick drawing of the watercolours I use together with a mug of water and paint brushes.

Take a break

Posted on June 11, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Bodnant Gardens, Day out, Garden, Life, National Trust, Sketching, Wales, Welsh hills, Welsh mountainsLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was ‘take a break’ so I chose to draw this image from the front of the 2021 National Trust Guidebook. It’d just drawn in coloured pencil, charcoal pencil and fine liner black ink pen.

I need a break! So I would take it at Bodnant garden near Llandudno in Wales. It’s a National Trust garden. A beautiful place which drops into a wooded valley and is surrounded by the Welsh hills and mountains. We are missing the laburnum walk that will be in flower now. I hope to go there soon.

Mallaband-Brown

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