Sunflower and Cyclamen

Posted on October 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Back yard, Colour, Cyclamen, Gardening, Hanging basket, Life, Summer, Sunflower, weather Station, YardLeave a comment

It’s amazing what will grow in a hanging basket. There are cyclamen that my hubby recently planted at the back of this basket, plus miniature sunflowers he planted the seeds of in the spring. An interesting combination at this time of year….

Today is cold, wet and windy. You can see the raindrops on the window, but as long as the temperature does not fall too low these should last a little longer. Below the basket you can see begonia leaves. Their flowers are still surviving too. Any little bit of food for insects. I hope the bees got their fill this summer.

The thing on the fence is our weather station, I can see the weather when I look out the window, but it’s good to watch the air pressure going up and down…

Jupiter reflection

Posted on October 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Craft shop, Design, Great Red spot, Jupiter, Looks knitted, Painting, Reflection, WindowLeave a comment

A painting of Jupiter I did about seven years ago. My friend had a craft centre and this was for sale at her shop. It went to a good home. I always thought the pattern I painted looked a bit like knitting!

His came up on my Facebook memories. I have done so many paintings that I often forget what I have done! This was a large acrylic on canvas. I like the way it appears to be floating in the window. X

Cat on knee

Posted on October 5, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Comfy cat, Gently sleeping, Knee, Life, Poem, Poetry, Purring, Resting, SleepingLeave a comment

Warm and soft

Gently sleeps

On my knee

Feel it’s breath

Happy purring

Curled up, warm,

Paw stretched out,

Tail wrapped round,

Pinning me down!

Caught in a soft embrace

Of fur and claws!

Accident?

Posted on October 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ambulance chaser, Bad jokes?, Funny, Humour, Jokes?, Odd ideas, Phone call, Random, Unsolicited, Very short story, WritingLeave a comment

A phone call.

‘Hello, I’m ringing because I believe you were recently involved in a traffic accident that was not your fault?’

Me ‘oh yes, twenty years or so ago..’

Caller ‘er’

Me ‘oh yes, that time the icecream van hit my car.I gave him a freezing look!’ or when the trapeze artist hit us, I said ‘I could swing for you!’ ‘Or maybe the time I got hit in the rear by a tractor? He ploughed right into us,’

Actually all the caller said was ‘Goodbye’ so sadly I didn’t get a chance to try out my bad sense of humour on her!

Gemini

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage oil app, Astrology, Astronomy, Digital art, Digital drawing, Fun, Gemini, Life, Sketch app, Sky, StarsLeave a comment

I’m into Astronomy not Astrology, but I do like the symbols that are used, I just tried this out as an idea to symbolise the Gemini ♊ twins. I wanted to capture the feeling of identical and non identical at the same time. I did consider different skin tones and eye colours. This is also female, but I could have drawn male instead. Drawn in ArtRage oils and Sketch apps, it is again an example of digital drawing. I might put it through a few filters and see what results.

Basis for a drawing

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Drawing, Life, Photo, Picture, Shade, shadow, Sketching, ViewLeave a comment

This was the view I was looking at when I did my Sketch earlier on. As you can see things were a lot darker in reality. I looked more at the shapes, concentrating on drawing them in first, then adding trees and branches afterwards. The silver grey seems to sit back in the background, the tones do not match this photo but does that matter? I keep drawing and hope I’m progressing. X

Fruit

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Dessert, Eating, Food, Fruit, Humour, Juicy, Photo, Pineapple, Poem, Poetry, Succulent, Sweet, Tasty, YellowLeave a comment

That pineapples looking sad,

Spotted leaves are wilting

It looks like it’s ripened

I must carve its flesh

Before it’s too late

Sweet yellow and sharp

Shall we have custard or cream?

Or just plain and succulent?

Last time we had one..

Ten years. Fifteen

Really..

Looking forward to it.

But is the pineapple?

Band of sketchers prompt. Industrial

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Drawing, Front door, Metallic colours, Picture, Portmeirion pottery, Sketchbook, ViewLeave a comment

View out of my front door of Portmeirion pottery. Tried to emphasise the trees. Actually sat in the car as I was letting all the warm air out of the house. I used a gold and a silver pen and a slightly metallic blue and green to make it more interesting. If you’ve got to live opposite a factory I prefer something like this with some trees rather than completely blank walls and nasty smells!

What apps to do digital art?

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Don't buy, Fun, Google app store, Ipad, Learning, Learning digital art, Some appsLeave a comment

A friend has asked me what simple apps can be used to do digital drawing? I said there are various apps you can add to your phone, there’s sketch, sketcher free, artrage oils which are ones I use. Most have simple tools and you have to play to learn how to use them. I’m on Google so I use Google play to search for them. Other platforms have different apps as they don’t all work on the different platforms….

I know you can also download various corel programmes, plus ones that work on ipads. Choose ones you don’t have to pay for or have to subscribe to. If you are new to digital art you could pay a lot for a package you might not be able to use. You can also download free trials that you don’t have to use and can uninstall.

Hope this makes sense?

Trike trouble

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Accidental, Aged, Fixable?, Life, Oops, Rust, Seventy years old, Still going, Time, Trike, Trike conversion kit, Wear and tear2 Comments

! One of the trike wheels collapsed when hubby did a tight turn. The rim had rusted on the inside and lost strength. We are going to try and have new rear wheel rims and spokes fitted for both wheels as it’s an old kit that can be attached to a bike frame. It’s old but worth restoring.

There’s an old fashioned bike shop up the hill. We are hoping to get the rims sorted at not too much expense. I would prefer to get both done.

Fingers crossed 🤞

Mallaband-Brown

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