Another WIP

Posted on March 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Animals, Art, Birds, Blue, Green, Iridescent, Kingfisher, Nature, Orange, Painting, Work in progress2 Comments

After finishing my ‘green people’ I’m about to start work again on this kingfisher painting. I intend to try and leave the background quite blurred and try and get a lot of detail into the Kingfisher. They really are the most beautiful of birds, with iridescent plumage. It’s acrylic on canvas as usual. About 10 x 14 inches? Maybe slightly bigger than that. Might do some more to it today.

I think you can see these down on the river Trent, although I don’t know if there is too much fish there for them.

Fruit

Posted on March 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Chain saw, Colour, Exhibition, Fruit, Garden, Gardening, Life, Painting, Photo, Subjects, Tree2 Comments

Just found out I have been offered an exhibition at the Waiting room gallery in April. The theme will be gardening, green men and women and spring, but I also want to do colourful work. I’ve been going around looking for subjects in the house as the garden isn’t growing yet, just a few buds.

The light was streaming in through the kitchen window and illuminating all the fruit my hubby bought yesterday. So I took a photo of it.

I will try and get some more interesting shots later. At the moment a neighbour is cutting down a tree, so I’m staying out the way. The sound of chainsawing doesn’t fill me with confidence!

Cheeky cat

Posted on March 1, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Fun, Humour, Jump, Leap, Life, Love, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

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He saw a bird,

And in a whirl,

Twirled!

Knocked the African violet

Onto the floor,

Bowl smashed,

Flower buds mashed!

But he was happy,

Seeing the blue tit

What a twit!

My cat

Mad as a bat!

Bad week!

Posted on March 1, 2020March 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Cold, Ill, Stats, Tired, WordPressLeave a comment

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Oh what a week! My stats are down because I haven’t been writing much here. That’s because I’ve been ill. And that’s because someone in our panto cast decided to come in with a bad cold and proceeded to cough and sneeze over the rest of us. So grrrr!

I’ve finally started to feel a bit better today, taken a couple of paintings up to a local gallery and come home. Phew, I’m tired now!

St David’s Day

Posted on March 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1st March, Blogging, Church in Wales, Daffodil, History, Quote, Religion, St David, Today, WikipediaLeave a comment

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“Saint David’s Day is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March, the date of Saint David’s death in 589 AD. The feast has been regularly celebrated since the canonisation of David in the 12th century, by Pope Callixtus II, though it is not a national holiday in the UK.” Wikipedia

Sorry to use a quote from Wikipedia but it was easier than writing it all out!

St Davids is also the smallest city in Britain. It is in South West Wales. Its somewhere I’ve always meant to visit, but never got there.

Jug photo

Posted on March 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Floral pattern, Jug, Longport, Orange, Photo, Pottery, Sprig molded?, Staffordshire, Still life, Stoke-on trent, Waiting room galleryLeave a comment

I was visiting the Waiting room gallery today to take in my two new paintings. I saw this jug (is it sprig molded?)

It looked classical, it might end up being a pottery painting. The dark green really brings out the colour of the jug, while the shadows help give it a three dimensionality. The shelf it is on is white painted wood which gives it a nice texture. It’s owned by my friend Alison. I think she said it might be a Portmeirion piece although there is no backstamp or other marks on its base.

Taken in natural light from the gallery window on my mobile phone.

New green man

Posted on March 1, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Based on Sam Fender, Design, Elf, Green man, Leaves, PaintingLeave a comment

A new green man is emerging, the face is based on a photo of someone called Sam Fender? He’s a musician apparently. I liked his angular, thin face. It looks rather elf like. I’m working on the tones and shades. Will try and finish it tomorrow.

I’m trying to get this and the self portrait finished for international women’s day next weekend. I haven’t been doing much but I feel like I’m emerging from a long black tunnel. Anyway it’s after 2am.i wil take my cough medicine and get off to bed.

Broccoli

Posted on February 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Broccoli, Chaotic, Fibonacci, Food, Garden, Life, Photo, Plant, Spirals, Vegetables2 Comments

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It’s a particular type, but I can’t remember what it is called. Something like romancero…? Not sure. Anyway I think its spirals are based on fibonacci numbers. You see the same pattern in flower petals or the seeds on a sunflower head. These remind me of fractal patterns and apparently there is computer code you can use to draw patterns like the Mandelbrot set. A attern out of chaotic numbers. Nature is amazing!

Green Woman self portrait

Posted on February 29, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Fun, Green woman, Leaves, Painting, Playing, self portraitLeave a comment

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Suddenly I’m painting again! I decided to do something with this picture. It was only roughly worked out. I decided I wanted to make a self portrait as a green woman. I used a photo of myself on my phone and overlaid leaves onto it. I don’t know if it’s finished but I liked trying to bring out the shaping and shadows on it.

Sitting in the living room, I should go down the studio, but my cold is worse. Anyway I will work on another partially painted picture.

Unearthing old art

Posted on February 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Life, Micro poem, Pattern, Poem, Poetry2 Comments

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A drawing turned into a pattern

Played with it

Distorted it..

It could be cotton,

Or printed silk.

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