Things I draw

Posted on July 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Closed website, Digital art, Digital drawing, Gravity, Imagination, Sketchfu, Thinking, Time, Whirlpool galaxyLeave a comment

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A few years ago I did this digital drawing of the whirlpool galaxy. This was done at a website called sketchfu. I’ve written about it before.

When you think of how many billions and trillions of stars there are in a galaxy, and how many millions or billions, or many more, galaxies there are in the universe. It is awe inspiring. Looking out across space is looking back in time. The visible stars light, and the light from distant galaxies, has been travelling towards us for great lengths of time. Even the light from the Sun takes eight minutes to travel to the Earth. Is it that we are ahead in time compared to the rest of the universe? Or maybe not? Maybe we are behind? Because if something happened on another world or star, we would not find out till their light reached us, by which time that occurance would be possibly billions of years in their past.

Time, intriguing, confusing, we can only travel with it. Gravity can distort it, lengthen it. So much to know… So much to find out.

1980’s drawing

Posted on July 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1890's, Art, Derwent pencil colours, Drawing, Friend, Pencil drawing, Random, Sketching, StylisedLeave a comment

Photo taken from my computer screen which explains the distortions and shadows. But it was a drawing I did in the 1980’s. I used derwent pencil colours to do the shading. I did a series of drawings that were included in an exhibition in Stafford or Lichfield. I don’t remember it’s so long ago.

I would like to go back to some of my old ideas. I’m going to try and find the pencils again. I don’t think they will have degraded over the years.

Youdraw.com

Posted on July 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Blogging, Drawing, Fun, Sketching, Youdraw.comLeave a comment

Youdraw.com where I drew for years before having problems logging into it a few years ago. But unlike other Web pages they have tried to modernise it. In the past it relied on java script, but now they have got rid of some of the glitches. There are still a few problems but I’ve done three drawings recently.

I’ve now counted that I’ve done 13690 drawings there! That’s mad, but true. I love the simplicity of the site. Two blacken, two erasers. Simple.

He’s OK!

Posted on July 7, 2020July 7, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Cardiomyopathy, Cat, Heart problems, Life, Love, Muscle, vets, Worry2 Comments

He has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

In other words he has thicker than normal heart walls which make it harder for the blood to flow through his heart. It also means that it can swirl about instead of flowing easily through his left ventricle. But at the moment he’s OK. Just got to watch out for deterioration. He’s not showing any signs and he is a young cat.

I was so worried. He will be looked after. No meds required yet.

Spirals and patterns

Posted on July 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bricks, Drawing, Ideas, Leaf, Life, Photo, Plants, Rain, Roof tilesLeave a comment

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My drawing challenge today is to sketch some repetitions. I’m not sure what it’s going to be. Might be roof tiles, bricks or leaves.

It’s pouring down with rain outside so I might wait a while for the rain to pass over. The picture above is a house leek that I’ve duplicated to bring out the pattern more. That brings in the idea of repetition, the leaf shapes twist and turn. I shall ponder on what to draw….

Waiting…

Posted on July 7, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Appointment, Cat, Ill cat, Nervous, Poem, Poetry, Time, vets, Waiting, WorriedLeave a comment

Waiting for the phone to ring,

Waiting for the vet to call.

What will be the scan result?

Will he be on medication?

Worried, waiting, hoping, aching.

Shall I ring, or shall I wait?

Will the treatment be too late?

Nervous, thinking, imagined perils.

Cat must be OK, I prey.

Kitten

Posted on July 6, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Appointment, Cats, Kitten, Medication, Memories, Rehoming, Thoughts, vets, Worried2 Comments

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One of my cats kittens from three years ago, popped up on my Facebook page a few weeks ago. She was rehomed with her sister and they are grown up and happy. We are thinking about taking in another adult stray cat, but he needs checking over at the vets, and my male cat is going to the vets for treatment in the morning. Life is complicated. Then if my cat is OK I need to find out about treatment, tablets, worst case scenario.

Oh dear.

Reflecting

Posted on July 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acava Studios, Art, Blogging, Eleanora street, Lfe in lockdown, Life, Memory, Spode site, Spode studios, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

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This is from last year or the year before when I was taking photos at Spode and manipulating them in the layout app that I use to mirror and duplicate photos.

I haven’t been down to my studio at Spode for months with the lockdown, it just didn’t feel safe. The studios are not easy to socially isolate at, with mixed toilets and narrow corridors. I need to go back and build my confidence again. I’m still paying the rent though. I won’t give up on the idea. Just wait! I hope I will soon be creating there again

For the birds

Posted on July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Birds, Blogging, Cherries, Environment, Fledglings, Food, Fun, Garden, Nature, Seeds, Species, TreeLeave a comment

The blackbirds sing,

The thrushes too

The robins nest,

Their fledglings new.

A magpie there

And pigeons too?

They congregate

And feed on seed.

Blue tits

and house sparrows,

All had their nests.

Feeding them all

Is our happy chore.

Yes eat your fill,

Of cherries ripe.

We’ve had ours now

The rest, enjoy.

Home made lunch

Posted on July 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Coleslaw, Colour, Food, Fun, Home made, Plate, portmeirion, Post modern painters, Random, Still life, TasteLeave a comment

Home made coleslaw (cabbage, carrot, red onion) with reduced calorie mayonnaise. A small piece of brown seeded bread with a bit of pate, a couple of chopped up tomatoes, half an avocado pear and some de-stoned red cherries. Also a few cheese and onion potato crisps. On a Portmeirion plate. Why? Because I liked the colours mainly. I watched a programme about still life last night and the interest that images of food created was fascinating. At one stage still life was seen as the lowest form of art, but the innovations of artists gradually made it more accessible and acceptable. Artists like Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso bought new definitions of what still life meant. Art is fascinating. It’s funny the ideas you can get by staring at a plate of food. X

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