Zoom talk on Nepal

Posted on November 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Fun, Interesting, Mountains, Music, Nepal, Nepalese, Photos, Talk, ZoomLeave a comment

We just attended a Zoom talk on Nepal. Our friend went walking there in 2006 to raise funds for eye surgery for the residents of Nepal. The talk included beautiful photos of the mountains including the Anapurna range. They were close to the eighth highest mountain in the world. The scale of the mountains is incredible. The villages in the valleys are tiny in comparison.

Through wonderful photography of the landscape and the Nepalese people my friend gave us such an informative talk about the country. He also included the music of the people with sweet, calm songs. A very pleasant couple of hours with many friends attending.

will the counting ever end?

Posted on November 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged counting ballots, Election, looking on, News, Thinking, UK, USA, watching the news2 Comments

Will the counting ever end? 200,000,540 or 74,002,350 or 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ….

I’m sitting in the UK watching the news about the USA election. Thinking about how disorganised it seems. Clearly they needed mail in ballots ( we call them postal votes) because of the pandemic. How can that be argued against. Then it said Pennsylvania is supposed to be causing problems because the mail in ballots were counted after the polls closed, but thats because the Republicans would not allow them to be counted before then!

The delightful Donald is tweeting that they should stop counting in one state but he is behind, so that would give the win to his rival?

I am being disparaging I know. I apologise, but when you sit outside and look in it does seem peculiar. It feels like one of the greatest countries in the world is being run by a toddler. I’m expecting him to say he’s not playing football anymore and is taking the football with him. He may be very good, what do I know? And I can’t claim we have got the best government ourselves. I guess democracy is not an exact science, humans get in the way of sensible ideas.

Apologies if I have given offence to anyone.

earth

Posted on November 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bee, Earth, hexagon, Life, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Thinking, WorldLeave a comment

Earth in a hexagon.

I guess that makes me think of bees?

What are we doing to our blue marble?

life will cling on

if we are gone,

hiding in cracks and crevices’

finding the light

maybe

if we are gone

the bees can come back

and re-colonise

earth….

so long ago

Posted on November 5, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Analogue, Artefact, Design, Environment, Fun, Ideas, Life, SketchingLeave a comment

I drew this back in August, I can’t believe its so long ago! I was mooching through my pictures because what I have on my computer is not synced with my phone ( which has most of my images on it). Whatever happened to digital cameras? Ive still got one in a drawer somewhere, probably with leaking batteries in it, now I just use my phone. How much technology has been discarded because it no longer works?

For instance i have an idea to use little watches in an artefact for a college piece, what I want to find out is whether you can use reconditioned watches instead of buying in new and wasting resources.

So I come back to my little sketch, analogue, ink on paper. I dont know what I was channeling, but it makes sense, dont waste, use less…..

Heated wheat bag

Posted on November 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ache, Age, Fed up, Life, Pain, Shoulder, Sore, Sore shoulder, Tired, Wheat bag3 Comments

My shoulder has decided to play up, I’m in a lot of pain, I’m trying to get a doctors appointment but in the meantime I’ve got a lavender scented wheat bag that you microwave and then put on the affecting ed area. It smells nice but I’m not sure it’s actually helping. Maybe I need embrocation! The worst thing is how tired I feel. That’s why I’ve not been here today….

Wish I was happy

Posted on November 4, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Information soon, Life, Longport, Online gallery, Painting, Waiting room gallery, Want to paintLeave a comment

If I was happy I would be painting, I would be relaxed. I would not have the weight of the world on my shoulders. My chair that I rest paintings on is empty. I have things to do. It’s just the world turns and I want to get off as the old saying goes.

The photo is the underpainting of a painting of Spode in Stoke-on-Trent. Also a portrait of my friends cat.

I’ve just had a few paintings accepted at a local gallery (the waiting room gallery in Longport) that I’ve had work in before. Those are 2019 paintings, but they still are for sale. They will be on display in their on line gallery. I will post details when I have them.

Doodling

Posted on November 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Added textures, Art, Artrage oils, Filters, Horse, Instagram, Layout app, Sketch app, Sketching, Woman artistLeave a comment

When I’m drawing, whether it’s in analogue, or as here digitally, I love to play and mess about. Why stick with one idea? After I’d drawn this I decided to put it through a another a called sketch and I added the cracks. Finally I duplicated it in Layout and changed the filter when I posted it to my Instagram account.

I was bored

Posted on November 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art?, Bored, Drawing, Fun, Funny face, Humour, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Silly3 Comments

When your hubby

brings a cabbage home

Do you draw

a face on it?

Do you knit a scarf

For your leafy friend?

Hold a leafy party?

Do you dress it

In dolls clothes

Put tiny ballet shoes

on it’s roots?

Blusher on its cheeks?

What do you do

When you’re bored?

Blue rose

Posted on November 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Challenge, Colour, Copying photo, Digital drawing, Fun, Rose, Sketchfu, Sketching, UltravioletLeave a comment

Another digital drawing done at sketchfu a few years ago (site now closed). This was a drawing challenge. Artists would post photos and then challenge others to draw the image just using the sites simple tools. I don’t know if the original picture was photographed with ultraviolet light or with blue dye injected into the flowers.

When I say digital, I mean finger painting.

Posted on November 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Drawing, Finger painting, Fun, Horse, Metallic sheen, Sketch, SpiralsLeave a comment

I did a drawing in ArtRage oils today, it’s a drawing app with pens and a metallic/non metallic slider so you can add a sheen of apparent oil paint if you want. In this case I drew with my finger although I do have a stylus to draw with if I want. I have this free version and I also have the paid for app with more pens and brushes. I like the freedom it allows me.

Mallaband-Brown

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