Limerick about hair

Posted on September 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Fun, Humour, Limerick, Limerick Monday, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Random, WritingLeave a comment

I write silly limericks each week on a friend’, Esther Chilton’s, blog. I don’t usually share them here but I thought I would with the one I wrote on her blog last week. I hadn’t been feeling well and I forgot I had written this. I can’t remember the word that we had to base the limerick on, I think it was State, you have a one word prompt. It does not have to be the word you rhyme with, it can sit anywhere within the limerick:

Just look at the state of my hair!

This lockdowns been really unfair

My mane has extended

Far more than intended

From the top to the foot of the stairs!

I hope it made you chuckle. Limericks have a two, two, one pattern, the first two and last line should rhyme and lines three and four are often shorter and have a different pattern to their rhymes.

Leaf

Posted on September 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Garden, Leaf, Mulch, Photo, Plant, Poem, Poetry, Regrowth, Time, WinterLeave a comment

One yellow leaf, fallen

Sitting with weeds and grass

Old brown leaves

Already over.

Leaves that turn to mulch

Rotting

Nutrients

Sinking

Into the ground

To renew next year

Feed the roots

To grow new shoots

After winters sleep.

Hedgehog photos

Posted on September 27, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Catfood, Environment, Evening, Feeding, Food, Garden, Hedgehog, Life, Mammal, Nature, Night, PhotosLeave a comment

The hedgehogs are about tonight eating catfood again. I quietly opened the back door and saw one of them eating the catfood I’d left out for the abandoned cat. When it realised I was there it slowly scuttled off up the yard. When I looked again later all the cat food had gone. When the abandoned cat arrived I gave him a couple of pouches of wet cat food to make up for him missing supper.

I love out hedgehogs, I’m hoping they will weigh enough to survive winter. I think they are living in the back of the shed. My hubby says he hears snuffling in there late at night.

digital background

Posted on September 27, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Artrage oils, Colours, Design, Digital doodle, Digital drawing, Drawing, metallics, Sketch, Woman artistLeave a comment

Another doodle, this time a possible background for something, or even a stand alone piece of art. Created in ArtRage oils and sketch app, digital drawing. learning to use different tools in the apps. I did this a while ago. If I’m not learning and playing with things I get really bored.

that’s it for now, I really have tired myself out just sitting at the computer and typing. Need a rest. Phew! Plus I have not had an evening meal yet and I will have to cook it, might be back later if I feel a bit better.

tired out

Posted on September 27, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Drawing, Illness, Pen and ink, people walking, Sketching, Thinking, Tired4 Comments

That’s not what I’ve been doing this last week, in fact almost the exact opposite! I think I have realised what has been wrong with me. A bout of tonsillitis. It’s tired me out, I feel washed out and slightly dizzy. Today I actually left the house and did some shopping. I needed to get some watercolour paper and new drawing pens. I’ve been meaning to do it for a week. I had to get my hubby to come along to help me carry things and ended up spending far too much on some plants for the winter months in the garden. I also haven’t done much of my college work and can see it spiralling away from me. Will I catch up? seriously I need to be better now. I cant afford to get too behind with the course work.

life! sometimes it sucks.

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt, old.

Posted on September 27, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cartridge paper, Drawing, Eating, Face, Food, Hubby, Ink, Kept moving, Pattern, Permanent markers, Picture, Portrait, Tea4 Comments

My hubby, forty years together and we are both getting old. Various marker pens on cartridge paper. He didn’t keep still or I would have done a better job on it. I’ve bought a few more permanent marker pens. Some are OK, but some seriously smell of something like acetone? I used a silver pen to try and add grey to his hair and reflections/highlights on his face.

Using photodirector on a cat

Posted on September 26, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged App, Black and white, black and white cat on a box, Cat, Fun, Image, Learning, Photo, Photodirector4 Comments

Rather a painterly effect. The cats fur has an interesting pattern in it. The newspaper layers are defined. The surface of the box has a slight mottled effect. This was all done by using the style tool and choosing effect number two. The background colours add to the composition. I would have liked to get the cat looking more directly at me, but she wasn’t playing tonight! She does like perching on boxes as you can see. I think it looks quite good.

You know its coming…

Posted on September 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Cold, Dark, Earth, Equinox, Life, Long evenings, North, seasons, South, Tipped earth, World6 Comments

In the northern hemisphere at least. We’ve hit the equinox, when the day and night lengths are the same. Cold, arrives, now. Unless we get some late summer heat. There’s been hailstorm in the North East of England and heavy rain in Scotland. Across the Northern hemisphere there have been hurricanes in North America and Typhoons in Asia.

The other side of the world is experiencing Spring. The South is getting warmer as the Earth starts to tip its south Pole towards the sun. The tilt of the Earth means that we have seasons. If the world was at 90° day and night would be equal across the whole world. 12 hours of light, 12 hours of dark. No glorious late evenings in summer or long dark nights in winter. What an interesting world we live on.

And it’s not flat!

Complicated

Posted on September 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Icing, Ideas, Image, Layout app, Leaves, Photo, Poem, Poetry, SculptingLeave a comment

Tasty roses, like cake

Spread out like icing flowers

Sculpted into petals

Shaped and molded

Moulded? Moldering?

Complications

Convolution

Like a convolvulus

Flowers that multiply

Given in friendship

Pattern of mind and ideas.

Flowers from a friend

Posted on September 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Flower press, Flowers, Freesias, From friends, Illustration, Photo, Plants, Pressed flowers, Roses2 Comments

In exchange for some pears my friend gave me some flowers. I thought how kind, I wasn’t expecting anything back. The roses are a mellow red colour, and there are pale purple Fushias and white roses and some different white flowers.

Apparently the Victorians used to give different meanings to different plants. For instance Forget-me-nots. I think also Pansies and Lily of the Valley. I don’t know the meanings, but I know people used to press flowers within the pages of heavy books. Or even flower presses. The idea was to squash the flower so it became dried and flattened. If the person pressing it was artistic it could be used in artwork, some of them would be used for illustration purposes. I’m not sure how they would have coped with larger flowers like multi petal led or stemmed flowers. I guess they would have needed more steady pressure? Sorry, a lot of this is speculation. My mind wanders across different thoughts….

Mallaband-Brown

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