Woof

Posted on June 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blogging, Dog, Fun, Painting, Picture, Tiny painting, Woof8 Comments

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The colours are a bit out in this picture. It’s nose isn’t that red. I might change it to tone it down a bit. It looks like it’s owned by a clown! I wanted to paint a dog because I’m always drawing and paintings cats, so it makes a change. I’m not sure if I should look at a picture of a red setter. This is from an old black and white photo that I found in a book. So the colours are made up… I haven’t used it here because it might be copyright.

Another acrylic on canvas, for the craft stall on Saturday.

Wave, after Hokusai

Posted on June 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Beauty, Blogging, Design, Hokusai, Illustrator or painter, Japanese art, Mount Fuji, Ocean, Sea, WordPress2 Comments

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Hard to copy, this is a small acrylic on canvas, based on the Japanese artist Hokusai’s picture of a massive wave seemingly threatening mount Fuji and boats fighting the turmoil of the water.

How does he draw that wave? Finger like curves protrude from the water, white wavelets curve all in one direction. The water becomes a threatening mountain about to collapse. The height of the wave threatens not only the people in the boats, but it even dwarfs Mount Fuji itself.

When did he draw and paint it? He was a famous artist I think for a long time. We’re there other pictures and sea in his career? I think there were.

The image is so well recognised. Type in 🌊 wave on your phone and you get an icon which seems to symbolise Hokusai’s wave and mimics it.

How do you analyse such amazing work. How can you understand it. He makes me wish I could copy his style.

Hedgehog dining.

Posted on June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Blurred, China bowl, Eating, Environment, Feeding, Food, Food bowl, Fun, Garden, Glad to help, Hedgehog, Humour, Nature, Photos, Poem, Poetry, Random, Rattle a bowl, WordPress2 Comments

A shady, spikey creature

Banging bowls together.

Clattering crockery,

Hog food left out for him.

Gobbling and scoffing quickly.

I opened the back door.

A glint in his eye and..

He scuttled off into the dark…

I imagined him saying

“I’ll be back……..”

On the easel today

Posted on June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, End of block, Fun, Hard work, Hokusai, Incentive to paint, New ideas, Sea theme, Seascape, Seaside, What next?, Works in progressLeave a comment

My artistic block seems to have ended with a sea theme now emerging.

These are works in progress. The latest is an homage to the famous japanese artist Hokusai. Based on one of his most famous works The Wave. Mount Fuji is sitting calmly, surrounded by a stormy sea. I’ve left the boats out as this is a small canvas and I’m struggling with the breaking wave. It is not going to be an accurate copy as I say. More a homage.

So why can I suddenly paint again? I think all the art work and drawing in doing might have helped. But I think it’s the thought of having a craft stall this Saturday that I’ve been invited to display my work at. I’m hoping things will be safe enough to do it. If not I will have some new art to display somewhere else.

Shock!

Posted on June 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cat Food, Eating, Environment, Fun, Hedgehog, Life, Nature, Night, Shock, Wild gardenLeave a comment

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My hubby just opened the back door and started shouting ‘come here quick’, I rushed over, expecting to see the stray cat we feed by the back door. Instead there was a huge 🦔 Hedgehog. It was scoffing the cat food we had put out for the stray! It’s as big as a small cat. It rushed off into the night when it was disturbed. I know we haven’t had many slugs and snails lately despite the wet weather. Now I think I know why! Still a bit of a shock to see it in the middle of a city. As long as it keeps away from roads it should be OK.

Crab

Posted on June 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Crab, Fun, Humour, Life, Love, Poem, Poetry, Red, Sea, Swimming, WaterLeave a comment

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Small red crab

Swimming in a rock pool

Waiting for the tide

To wash you into the sea.

Little legs paddling,

Scuttling sideways.

Sneaking past the gulls

To find your true love.

Barnacles surround you,

Seaweed lashes you.

Waves crash over you,

Still you scuttle

Creeping along the strand,

Till round a rock face,

You meet her…

And you both swim

Into the sunset.

Started painting a lobster

Posted on June 28, 2020June 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blogging, Fun, Lobster, Ocean, Painting, Random, Sea, Sea creatureLeave a comment

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I’m not quite sure what sort of lobster it is? Maybe a blue kneed one? Acrylic on canvas. Will try and finish it tomorrow.

I was talking to someone months ago and discussed painting a lobster. But this is just a small canvas, a bit of fun. Seeing if I can capture a crustacean in acrylics. It belongs to the same family as crabs and scorpions I think?

Started in March…

Posted on June 28, 2020June 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Birds, Blue, Fisher, Four months, June, Kingfisher, March, Nature, Orange, Painting, RiverLeave a comment

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Finally finished in June.

After a long hiatus, I’ve finally started painting again. Mostly because there is a socially distanced craft fair on next weekend and I need to earn some money.

This is a kingfisher taken from a shutterstock photo I think. I’ve had the photo on my phone for months.

I love the blue/orange contrasting colours. I’m going to do a few tiny canvases and then one or two nature paintings and flowers from the garden… Plus lots of college work, so it will be a busy week for me… Wish me luck.

Horse

Posted on June 28, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, College, Corel Painter, Digital art, Drawing, Horse, Inspiration, Learning, Picture, Playing, Random, Sketch, WordPressLeave a comment

horse woodcut style painter

I’ve just downloaded a trial of Corel Painter Essentials 7

In English I mean I have downloaded a drawing package onto my computer. I hope it will be easy to use, I have got to explore it. What I ended up with after five minutes of playing is like a cave painting! so I guess that’s appropriate as I’m learning.

There are lots of things you can set on it, various AI things (artificial intelligence) like an AI Van Gogh. But I haven’t sussed out how to use them, I clicked on the buttons but wouldn’t say that I could see any difference to the mark making.

Later I’m going to read “Where the Wild Things are” by Maurice Sendak (if that’s how its spelled). Its a book I read in my childhood and I am interested in using it as part of a case study for my course, what fun!

Bottles

Posted on June 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Blue, Bottles, Challenge, Drawing, Fern, Glass, Goldfish, Perfume, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Stoke-on-Trent urban sketchers challenge today. The prompt was bottles so I went and drew the ones I have on the windowsill in my bathroom. My favourite is dark blue. Then there is a ‘poison’ bottle of perfume a glass cat with a glass goldfish trapped in it. A square small gin bottle and an old chemistry bottle with a cork… I do like collecting stuff…

I used brush pens and permanent colour pens and a fine liner. On cartridge paper in my sketchbook…

Just enjoying the challenge of drawing the fern that has spread everywhere in the bathroom.

Mallaband-Brown

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