No craft stalls

Posted on October 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artefact, Covid19, Craft stall, Limited sales, No meeting people, Product design, Sad, Tier TwoLeave a comment

Craft stalls are not happening at the moment but I’m not that good at doing them, but I do miss them. Not only talking to fellow stall holders, but catching the eyes of people passing by and saying hi, hello, how are you?

I’m not good at selling, I get nervous, I don’t want to push. I don’t like being false and over friendly. I could start selling things on line, but they would have to be bespoke, I can’t make thousands of objects.

Currently I’m trying to come up with ideas for a 3d artefact for my college course. I have an idea that I might be able to make or get manufactured. But I need to think about sustainability and ecological issues. Got to do a presentation tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Celtic art illustrations.

Posted on October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Celtic art, Drawing, Forty years ago, Illustrations, Ink pen, the Silent Eye, Thesis2 Comments

Illustrations I did almost forty years ago of pre Christian Celtic art for my thesis.

This is in response to a post on the The Silent Eye by Steve Tanham this morning on Celtic Art. It was very interesting and informative. It reminded me how I was influenced by the patterns they created. It also made me think about the Staffordshire hoarde of Saxon treasure that was found in this area about ten years ago. Similar but different.

The skills of the artesans that made these was immense. In an age that had no technology except for the hand eye coordination of the makers it is incredible what they could make.

Rail bus at Bury

Posted on October 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beeching cuts, Bury, Day out, Diesel engine, East lancs railway, keithley and worth Valley railway, Steam trains, Train, Train spotting, Train tripLeave a comment

This was a German railbus last year at Bury Station. This was on the East Lancashire Preserved railway that runs up to Ramsbottom and Rawtenstall. The line is run by volunteers. This was part of a line that extended up to the Keighthly and Worth Valley railway. But a section was lost when Dr Beeching cut many of the railways in the early 1960’s when masses of steam trains were scrapped. Some of this was done when passenger use was light (eg school holidays). Lines were shortened and diesel trains were bought in (which sometimes proved unreliable). Info from my hubby.

Age

Posted on October 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Age, Art, Crinkles, Design, Digital drawing, Jellyfish, Parrot, Tortoise, Wrinkles, Yew tree4 Comments

Dry skin, wrinkles, aging, it is the culminative effect of life. Very few animals and plants can live longer than 100 years. But trees, for instance Yews, can live thousands of years, some spread out and as the centre dies the outer skin continues to grow. In the case of things like jellyfish, some of them can revert back to a younger version of themselves (not sure of the science). Then there are more complex creatures such as Tortoises which can live over 100 years, another aged animal can be Parrots, they can outlive their owners!

Age is catching up with me. My arms and hands continue to wrinkle, I feel like I’m old in some areas of my body, and still have some youth in other parts.

Emotion

Posted on October 29, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Emotion, Face, Fun, Halloween, Humour, Permanent markers, self portrait, SketchingLeave a comment

Todays band of sketchers prompt was emotion. I tried to draw myself doing an evil laugh. Permanent marker drawing. I was drawing by the light of a standard lamp to excentuate the shadows on my face. It’s a bit scruffy and odd because some of the pens are running out and it was difficult to differentiate between the colours on the pen tops. I wanted to say ‘Grr Argh!’ which was the sound that was at the end of Buffy the Vampire slayer programmes, oh yes I was a Buffy fan.

Sleepy cat

Posted on October 28, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Cute, Fun, Happy, Humour, Scrunched up, Sleepy cat, Tired, Warm catLeave a comment

Ever seen a cat in this position. He’s properly asleep. Scrunched up on my hubby’s lap. He’s had a busy day chasing his sister bless him. It’s getting late. His ideal position is on my hubby’s chair, so this is second best. Cats, they know when they’ve got their human under their paw!

Mask

Posted on October 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eyes, Face, Hidden, Mask, Mouth, Poem, Poetry, Spooky, StrangeLeave a comment

You are a mask

You mask your face

You mask your mouth

Your smile is hidden

Dark holes

where your eyes should be

Hiding so much meaning

Muffled

Held in

Good or bad

How can I know

Cryptic?

Potbank and canal Roses

Posted on October 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blue, Brown, Canal, Canal roses, Flowers, Painting, Potbank, RosesLeave a comment

Painting, acrylic on canvas, from about three years ago. This is loosly based on the yin yang symbol. The blue is for water, the canal runs next to a lot of potbank, it was used to transport pottery around the country. The flowers are meant to represent canal Roses. They were a design that was used on metal objects on canal barges, like pots and tin watering cans and jugs. They are also painted directly onto the barges as decoration. The potbank shape curves round and is sometimes held in place by metal bands.

Ginger beer

Posted on October 28, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Ginger beer, New version?, Photoshop, Picture, Sketch, The LudfordLeave a comment

Digital sketch I drew in my old version of photoshop. I really ought to get the new version. The one I use was published in 2002 but I’m very nervous of changing because of the cost and whether I would still understand it. Maybe I should look into it instead of umming and ahhing. I need to find out what advantages it would give me. My old photoshop is glitchy, when I get near the edges of a drawing it suddenly will only draw straight lines at 90° to the sides. It never used to bother me, but as I use it more it bothers me…. Anyway enough moaning….

Autumn woman

Posted on October 28, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumn, Autumn woman, Colour, Design, Face, Female artist, Five years ago, Painting, PatternLeave a comment

Acrylic on canvas from five years ago. I get so excited by colours and patterns, sorry its a bit blurry. I don’t have the painting anymore. I think I did a second version of this, they both sold. I wonder sometimes whether I should do more paintings like this or are they too abstract/not abstract enough….

As people who know me know, I enjoy doing various things, that’s why I call myself an explorative fine artist, and perhaps an illustrator.

Mallaband-Brown

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