After Hokusai

Posted on July 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, After Hokusai, Art, Copy?, Japanese artist, Life, Painting, Picture, Woodblock print2 Comments

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I painted this small painting a few weeks ago. I was seeing if I could even get close to the great artist Hokusai’s work. If I’d painted on to paper I might have added the fishing boats that are being dragged into the great wave while the fishermen in them try and row away from it. It was so hard to get the fingerlike protrusions that show the wave breaking. The colours are not too far off. I think the sky is greyer? When you try and analyse a picture its hard not to miss the the mistakes you have made. Being self critical is important because you try and improve each time.

Stop talking!

Posted on July 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, Discussion, Frustrating, Habits, Irritating, Life, Poem, Poetry, Thinking2 Comments

He never stops

Talking..

TV film?

Talking

Interesting news?

Talking

Mystery programme?

Talking…

So what?

I never hear that important news

I never find out if the butler did it?

I never listen to the last notes of the symphony.

Why?

Because he’s talking.

Important stuff?

What car is in the TV programme.

Whether that’s a Highland cow.

Something in the paper I’d already seen on the news.

What he was doing in 1974!

Is this hell or just purgatory?!

Comet Neowise

Posted on July 22, 2020July 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Astronomy, Comet, Comet Neowise, Dust tail, Ion tail, Life, Meteor shower, Out gassing, Persid meteor shower, Random, Spaceweather.com, SunLeave a comment

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I have not seen it. It keeps being to cloudy. But I just read this at Spaceweather.com so I tried to draw it.

COMET NEOWISE APPROACHES EARTH: Tomorrow night might be your best chance to see Comet NEOWISE for the next 6,800 years. On July 23rd, the comet makes its closest approach to Earth. The fading comet is still visible to the naked eye from dark-sky sites and an easy target for photographers everywhere. Get the full story at Spaceweather.com .

There is then the Persid meteor shower in August. Around the 15th? That might be a good show. Meteor showers are caused by the dust thrown off from comets as they get close to the sun. It’s called out gassing when cometary ice is heated by sunshine and boils off into space taking dust with it. A comets tail is made up of two different parts, the dust tail and an ion tail which is made up of ionised gas. The comets tail always points away from the sun because it is blown by the solar wind.

USK challenge 21.7.20

Posted on July 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white, Drawing, Hill, Picture, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke, Usk Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

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Out and about. A local street I have not walked down since March. Got to it by going up our very steep hill. It was only a couple of miles but I’m shattered. Black and white sketch taken from a photo. I wish I had drawn it in situ, but I didn’t have my sketchbook with me.

The plant really was growing out like a triffidcacross the pavement. I really liked it. Very interesting.

Today’s variation

Posted on July 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Fun, Illustration, Playing, Sketching, Tarot, VariationLeave a comment

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Work for my course. Take four images, a person walking, an animal, a recognisable plane and a building or part of a building. Three of them are mine and the fourth is a fellow student. I turned the images into tarot cards this time. I enjoyed doing this one. I tried to make it more coherent than the other three I’ve done. I’ve also got an usk challenge to do. I might try and get it done today.

Where have I been?

Posted on July 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Covid, Escape from lockdown, Exercise, Friend, Hill, Lockdown, Sleep, Steep hill, Tired, WalkingLeave a comment

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I actually walked a reasonable distance today, about two miles up a steep hill, down a steep hill and along the main road. On the way I walked past this triffid growing out over the pavement.

I have not been out for a walk since March!

Well I got dragged out by a friend that walks miles every day. It made me realise I can do it. I just need to make the effort. But for now my knees and ankles ache. And I fell asleep when I got in. But it was worth the effort.

Pears

Posted on July 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Food, Fruit, Garden, Gardening, Life, Nature, Pears, Photo, Ripe, TreeLeave a comment

This year we have a good crop of pears on the tree again, the tree almost fell over last year because of the weight of the crop. It now has a post unfer the trunk to support it. The pear cro is already ripening with the skin turning slightly yellow.

Our pears are usually quite big, we collect them in September generally, but they might be ready earlier than that.

With pears they are generally unripe, unripe, unripe, unripe, ripe, mushy. They go from being hard to soft virtually overnight. I’m thinking of poaching some of them. Should be nice.

Colours

Posted on July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Carrier bags, Cleaning cloth, Colours, Design, Layers, Layout ap, Pattern, Photos, Playing, Rainbow colours, Random, Tee shirt, ThrowLeave a comment

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Remind me not to play with colours! I have stacks of samples of colours on my phone. Sometimes, like this, I put them together in a simple pattern. Different layers and shapes, folds and twists. I chose rainbow colours, but I think the red is actually a deep orange.

Interesting how colour perception differs from person to person.

I like the way there is a definite hard line seperating each line of hot colours from the blues, greens and purples. Interesting what you can do with photos of carrier bags, tee shirt material, yellow paper, a cleaning cloth and a patterned throw.

My cat

Posted on July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Can't see over the top of him!, Cat, Happy, Humour, Micro poem, Poddles, Poem, Poetry, Purr, SleepLeave a comment

My cat wants love,

jumps up

headbutts my hand

sits on my stomach

poddles,

purrs loud with happiness.

Curls up

goes to sleep

Happy

It’s a tight fit!

Posted on July 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back yard, Blogging, Colour, Flowers, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Life, Overgrown, Plants, pots, Random, Sunshine, TreesLeave a comment

The yard is now so full of flowers you have to walk sideways down it to see all the plants and water them. There is a great variation in leaf size. I noticed my hubby has snuck in a couple of oOak trees and an Ash tree. I keep telling him we don’t need anymore. I have a friend with a large field. She has offered to take our walnut saplings and I think she will take these as well.

As the season continues more mad things appear! Hubby has put irises in hanging baskets and sunflowers to bring more colour into the yard. Morning glory seedlings will go out this week if the weather picks up a bit. Some of them have started to throw out tendrils that are clinging to the ferns in the bathroom.

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