lobster painting

Posted on December 6, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, blue lobster, crab painting, Environment, Fine Art, Lobster, neatness, Painting, professional, sea life5 Comments

A blue lobster I painted earlier in the year ( I used a stock image off Google to work from) I’ve now got to paint a purple crab to accompany it! I find it quite difficult holding my phone as I cant always print images off. It’s also interesting that I have reverted back to my old signature, I had started signing things “Mallaband-Brown” simply because my name is so long its not always easy to fit my full name on. Also it is meant to be my brand (my blog is called mallaband-Brown too). There are so many things I should be doing to improve the look of what I post. For instance this image is twisted slightly, so the edges of the canvas do not line up with the edges of the picture… I guess I should pay more attention, but my brain is more involved in the actual painting than being neat!

Cold night

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chill, Cold, Cold night, Description, Freezing, Snow, Thought, Weather, WinterLeave a comment

Will there be frost? It certainly feels like it. The sky has cleared and the damp air seems to be clamping down on the world tonight.

The chill from outside has sneaked in here. I opened the back door to let the cat out and a whole cold layer of air has run like a river through the house. My top half is warm but my knees and feet are cold.

It’s snowing around the country but I think its just going to freeze here tonight….

Wash your hands

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Colours, Digital art, Digital drawing, Fun, Photoshop, Picture, Texture2 Comments

Digital art I did in 2003. It feels very appropriate for the current situation. It’s based on a photocopy of my hand and then I put it through photoshop to add interesting colours and textures. It is called lifeline and it’s on my mantlepiece. I might try and do something else like this….

Time to draw or paint square 6.

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bonnard, Copy, Drawing, Fun, Life, Orme Art group, Painting, Wibter challengeLeave a comment

I’m doing a collaboration with the Orme art group. I have already done square 2, not very well, but I’ve also volunteered to do square 6 too. Today I went out and got some new permanent markers and some gel pens, so I will try and come up with a copy of the image. It’s a painting by Bonnard, but I can’t remember the title.

We have already done copies of a Picasso, a Monet, and a Matisse if I remember rightly. Fingers crossed 🤞

Playing

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Featured cat, Fun, Katzenworld, Kitten, Love, Playing, Relaxed, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

The ooutdoor cat is mostly in now. He’s Bern in for about four hours tonight.

He is getting happier. He plays like a kitten! It’s like he’s gone back to being a young cat, not a slightly scruffy middle aged cat. His coat is shiny, and the scratches he had on his nose have almost healed up.

By the way if you want to read a bit more about him, there is a short piece I wrote about him at the Katzenworld blog here at WordPress. He was featured today on their web page.

Numpty?

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Expressing myself, Fun, Humour, Mild rebuke, Numpty, Shouting, Talking, Verbal abuse2 Comments

There are certain politicians that deserve a word to describe them. And my favourite at the moment is ‘Numpty’

The Oxford English Dictionary has launched a search to find the first recorded use in English of the word ‘numpty‘, which means a foolish or stupid person. Since the mid-1980s, numpty has been used as a mild term of abuse in Britain.14 Jun 2015.

I like it because it’s not a swear word, but I can take a great big breath and shout ‘you great big NUMPTY !’ and put real heart and soul into it!

Pattern of hearts..

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colours, Cushion, Drawing apps, Fun, Pattern, ScarfLeave a comment

Digital drawing, I can’t remember when I did it. I don’t even know what application I used to draw it in. I guess it’s an abstract pattern. It could be used on a scarf or a pillow.

He nicked my chair!

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Cheeky, Happy, Poem, Poetry, Settled, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Sitting pretty

On My chair!

Check this out!

Cheeky cat.

Paws under the table,

Relaxed and happy!

Have you heard of ‘Thunder Snow’?

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cold, Digital drawing, Edinburgh, Lightening, Snow, Thunder, Thunder snow, Weather2 Comments

No? Neither had I.

But in Edinburgh yesterday they got it! Basically it was a thunderstorm but because it was so cold there was snow instead of rain. The descriptions were that the lightening was brighter then normal (the whiteness of the snow made the light reflect more brilliantly). The thunder sounded like an explosion (muffled by the snow and clouds). Some people even rang the emergency services. Apparently its a rare phenomena but not unknown.

Dresdener Streizelmarkt

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Christmas, Chrustmas market, Half hour sketch, Life, Painting, Watercolour, Watercolour sketchLeave a comment

Today I joined #uskstoke for half an hour and painted this watercolour for the Saturday virtual sketch out. There were only a few of us but it was a nice chatty time. Good to catch up with people. I liked the colours and interesting architecture. Painting the letters was most difficult, trying to add white paint on top did not work brilliantly.