Online lecture

Posted on November 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Backgrounds, College, Fun, Ink, Learning, Lecture, Life, Painting, Student led, WatercolourLeave a comment

Just watched a lecture by one of our fellow students. It was fascinating to watch. About watercolour and ink and how to use it. She showed us how to use salt and also cling film to add texture, masking fluid to preserve white areas and glue mixed with paint and ink to created textured backgrounds. I will certainly have a go at using some of them.

She also showed us her sketchbooks, she mainly does abstract work, but also does realistic work, (she showed us a lovely painting of a friends dog). It’s great that students are adding to the teaching experience at college….

Zooming

Posted on November 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Choir, Fun, Meeting, Music, Poem, Poetry, Singing, Video calls, ZoomLeave a comment

Zooming around and singing

Looking from face to face

Video calls are booming

Talking around all night

Ladies and gents

Are choiring

Baritone, alto and bass

Having fun with music

Playing a lively tune.

Descants and sopranos

Fun around half past eight.

Outdoor boy is sitting next to me!

Posted on November 24, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Boy cat, Cat, Coming in, Happy, Life, Outdoor cat, Purring, Settled, Sitting2 Comments

That ppaw came out and touched my arm! He’s purring, eyes closed and allowing me to stroke him. Ideally I’d like to get him down the vets to check him over, but I don’t think he’d play and he’s a much bigger cat then my boy and girl… At least he should be safe over winter….

Windowsill

Posted on November 24, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cat, Cat tree, Geodes, Glass, Metal sculptural objects, Metallic pen, Painting, Watercolour sketch, WatercoloursLeave a comment

Todays #bandofsketchers picture, watercolour sketch of my windowsill…

The cat has her own cat tree because the window sill is covered in glass, geodes, metal sculptural objects and more. I can’t show them all as the cat tree is in the way…. The cat loves sitting there as it’s right over the radiator. I think the diagonals sort of have a flattening, almost japanese woodblock effect? Anyway it was nice to do something in watercolours for a change. I just used a bit of metallic gold and silver marker pen to highlight some of the objects.

Ginger

Posted on November 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animal, Clever, Cute, Dog, Guide dog for the blind, Photo, Puppy, Sweet, Training2 Comments

For a couple of years now I’ve sponsored a guide dog for the blind. I get regular ‘pupdates’ to tell me how the trainee puppy is doing. Ginger is my latest puppy and when I saw this photo I just had to share. The thought that this cute dog can turn into a kind helper to a person in need is so wonderful. I hope Ginger learns well and qualifies with flying colours.

Watches

Posted on November 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Artefact, Clock, College, Life, Object, Recondition, Repurpose, Reuse, Time, WatchLeave a comment

A collection of watches, new and old. Broken straps, flat batteries. I’m thinking of using some of them in my college course. We have to create an artefact that will show our artistic practice. I can’t show you my ideas as it’s for the course only but I will discuss what I’m thinking about.

My idea is to re use old watches and clocks and repurpose them. A lot of the time (no pun intended), watches don’t have their batteries replaced or their wrist straps break, or they just go out of fashion. There must be old watches in drawers or cupboards all over the country.

My idea is to incorporate them into something else, so that they are useful again. It would mean trying to find watches that could be fixed or reconditioned and then fix them into the body of an object that can then be used a a decorative time piece.

Leaves and broken pots.

Posted on November 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Broken pottery, Crocks, Gravel, Leaves, Litter, Photo, Pothole, potsLeave a comment

Found in a pothole on my walk, someone has tried to fill in a hole with shards of broken pots. I’m not sure why, and if anyone was to fall onto them as they are partially hidden by fallen leaves. I guess whoever did it was trying to be helpful, but surely using gravel might have been more sensible idea? But it did make an interesting photo. I suppose it makes a change from bits of litter and plastic.

Old Wood..

Posted on November 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fruiting bodies, Fungus, Landscape, Poem, Poetry, Rotting, Saporophyte, Tree, WoodLeave a comment

Wood rots and crumbles

Fingers of fungus bore in

Fruiting bodies bloom

Blossom and grow.

Saporophytic feeding

Sucking nutrients

From cellulose.

From dead wood

New life grows.

Found drawing

Posted on November 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Digital drawing, Drawing, Face, Fun, Memory, Printed, Printed on paper, Sketchfu, Ten years ago2 Comments

I was looking for a digital drawing to show a friend on zoom because I was trying to explain you can draw with a stylus on a drawing tablet, and without having to add layers. I drew this on sketchfu about ten year ago. This is a print off on paper. I have not got many printed versions of my digital drawings….

Old crow

Posted on November 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Bird, Clever, Corvid, Craft fair, Crow, Tiny paintings2 Comments

Its odd what comes into my mind to paint. This again was a few years ago and a tiny painting, acrylic on a small canvas. I think this was a crow. They are such characters, intelligent and cheeky, known to use tools. They are part of the Corvid family, which includes Ravens and Rooks I think? All of them have the same clever characteristics.

This was another one of the small paintings I did to sell at craft fairs and it was sold. I think to a lady who als bought a small painting of a skull…..

Mallaband-Brown

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