Stone angel

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Angel, Description, Holding a glass heart, Photo, Picture, Sitting, Soapstone, ThinkingLeave a comment

Probably soapstone. This little carved angel came from a craft fair a year ago. She sat with an open book, made of clay, sitting on her hands. Now that’s disappeared so she has a small heart made of glass, balanced there instead.

Is she something that requires a votive offering? An indulgence? No, she is just there. Pretty rather than profound. I don’t really know why I bought her, but she feels friendly….

It sits on the slim bookcase that holds the land line. The bookcase that holds nail varnish and glasses cases as well as other things. Not the tidiest house….

Choir practice

Posted on December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alto, Bass, Descant, Low voices, Music, Poem, Poetry, Soprano, Sound, TenorLeave a comment

We sang together

Here choirs

Stood and sang

The Music rose

And swirled

Susserations

Chords

Sybillance,

Words mix

Like kneaded dough

Pummeled and pushed

Descant rise

Low voices rumble

Carrying the highs

Above them.

Leasure and pleasure

Through sound

Alto

Bass

Tenor

Soprano

In harmony.

Quick sketch

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #skyportraitartistoftheyear, Art, Carlos Acosta, Drawing, Fun, Having a go, Life drawing, Portrait, SketchingLeave a comment

Fifteen minute sketch, #skyportraitartistoftheyear. I just tried drawing Carlos Acosta in mid air. Bit scrappy, charcoal pencil…

The winner of the competition, Curtis Holder is doing a ten thousand pounds commission portrait of Acosta for display in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

I wish the sitters were set up so you could watch TV and paint or draw them, it’s an enjoyable programme.

Eddie Izzard drawing

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #skyportraitartistoftheyear, Art, Drawing, Drawn from an image on the net, Eddie Izzard, Fine liner pen, Fun, Picture, Sketching, Twenty five minutesLeave a comment

Just watching#skyportraitartistoftheyear Eddie Izzard was the sitter. Found a reasonably close image to what they are painting today off the Internet. I haven’t worked out how to find images of the sitters on the Web page. I must be doing something wrong. Anyway this was a quick 25 minute sketch. Using a unipin 0.8 black fine line pen. Which was running out

Dove

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Dove, Drawing, Helo, Icon, Love, Peace, Safe, Sketch, Sketch app, SymbolLeave a comment

Someday Peace and Love will be more important than War. Nature and the Environment will become recognised for how important they are. Maybe symbols of peace, like the dove, will get the message across. We need to take these concepts seriously. We need to stop being selfish and realise we shouldn’t be self centred. People in all walks of life, in this country, and abroad, are struggling. War wastes resources and ruins lives. We need to support each other not attack and deplore. As the song says. Let there be peace all over the world…

Cats and trees

Posted on December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Baubles, Cat, Christmas, Christmas tree, Climbing, Fun, Humour, Idea, Jumping, Life, Watching funny videos, YouTube4 Comments

When you have cats sometimes you can’t have Christmas trees. Baubles and tinsel are just too tempting. Cats who climb will be up to the top of the tree in seconds. There is also the danger of them chewing on the tree lights wire. Also you don’t know if they are going to chomp on some of the traditional toys, like tiny Teddy bears, that might have been handed down from generation to generation. Granny’s baby jesus or the angel with real feathers can be casualties! I’ve seen a few videos of anti cat tactics, and the one of hanging the tree from the ceiling looks pretty good. One solution I once did was to cut out the shape of a Christmas tree and container and stick it to a wall, then sticking real baubles and ones you have drawn onto it. Make sure any baubles are stuck on well and are anti shatter. Other ideas include a bauble free tree… But it might still get climbed!

and finally

Posted on December 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Angel, Drawing, Dream catcher, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Summer2 Comments

Memory of summer

Im there again

amongst the scents

of floral heaven.

baskets of joy

lavender spikes

cornflowers glowing blue.

heady pinks

nasturtiums

and twining vines.

Over all

an angel

protecting and

providing

sunshine

rain

and light.

pink

Posted on December 15, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Digital drawing, Learning, photoshop7, Practice, Random objects, Sketching, Still lifeLeave a comment

Well its sort of finished….digital drawing on wacom tablet- oh Im out of practice….Random found pink objects with a green background for contrast and beige speaker and table top to show up the pink better…

a few years ago I would have been able to do better than this.. you know what practice does? It makes you do things better. In my case I used to do digital drawings virtually every day. I knew what buttons to press, what brushes to choose. So now I have to learn again and im definitly going to watch some videos on using photoshop and get a later version, this was done in Photoshop7… my very old version, I just don’t like the idea of paying a monthly fee to use the newer versions….

Digital drawing WIP

Posted on December 15, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digitsl draeing, Drawing, Random objects, Sketching, Still life, Stylus, Wacom, Work in progressLeave a comment

Trying to draw on the computer using my Wacom tablet. It’s hard because I usually doodle with a finger on my phone or with a stylus on a tablet. I actually find this harder to do, and I need practice. This is for a #bandofsketchers prompt for today. If I get it done I will post it here. Back to work…

🌰 Chesnuts

Posted on December 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bang!, Chesnuts, Christmas, Cooking, Eating, Food, Heat, Memory, Oven, Snack, Superheated2 Comments

Memory from seven years ago on Facebook. Hubby decided to bake some Chestnuts- but they were not cooked so he put them back in the oven- 10 minutes later- BANG! One had exploded, he was shouting ow- so I came down to find him taking the roasting dish out of the oven- and using my jumper as an oven glove, he proceeded to try and break them open first with the garlic press, then with the nutcrackers- the chestnut did not pop- it exploded all over the work surface, I grabbed some kitchen towel and we used that to wrap the superheated chestnuts to break them open….

Mallaband-Brown

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