A difficult #bandofsketchers prompt, Spread. A digital finger painting of cheese spread being put on toast wirh a knife. Used a lot of different texture tools in my Artrage app to give it a bit of a 3d feeling.
Spread
Foods ‘interesting’
I can’t get in the kitchen to cook meals, my ankle won’t take my weight and I can’t stand to stir things. So my hubby has had to discover the microwave and things other than boiled eggs (which he can do). He assumed a frozen potato and a chilled cornish pastie would take the same time to heat in the microwave on the same plate….
I pointed out that he should look on the packaging. Tea is a bit bland and boring, but at least it’s safe. My hubby can’t hear the alarm on the cooker that tells you the food has been in for it’s cooking time…
But very kindly, a friend came and did some shopping for us. Hubby doesn’t always get things that are on the list. He substitutes things like natural yoghurt for fruit yoghurt (probably healthier) or will buy three bunches of grapes and five tins of tomatoes instead of one. It’s not wrong, but I don’t have the cupboard space. BUT he’s learning, making decisions, working things out. And I am truly thankful.
Prompt : Play
Catching up with #bandofsketchers prompts. This one was Play. Playing with digital ideas and textures. I used Artrage and Sketchbook apps to create this semi surrealistic eye floating in an alien sky. Weird!
Helping people
Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone.
I try and help most people. I will not go into details, but in my previous job I used to try and help the people I was employed to look after. If they were not being helped by other staff I used to get involved and see what I could do.
I guess I’ve given someone an umbrella when she had nothing to help keep her dry. I’ve driven hitch hikers up to places I wasn’t even going to. Last week someone stopped us as we got in the car. He was a stranger but had a big bag of shopping and asked for a lift up our hill. We took him to his door..
I do things without considering how it will affect me. I think helping people is important. If you can help you should.
I’m deleting photos
If you find one of my posts without an image, it’s because I’m running out of memory on my Jetpack account again. If I had enough money I would increase my package. What I’m doing is to take the most boring photos away. I hope you don’t mind, but I thought if I explained people would understand what I was doing. The other thing to do would be to reduce the photo sizes to thumbnails, but that just makes the pictures to small to see properly.
Animal
I’m still doing digital sketches for #bandofsketchers. This animal is a roughly drawn Zebra in my sketchbook app. Using a black pen, white eraser, green pastel, and a dark green flood fill. Trying to make it look like a lino cut. X
Repetitive
#bandofsketchers repetition. Trying to catch up. My sketchbook has run out of pages and I’m stuck at home with a pulled ligament in my foot so I might do a lot of digital drawings. This has various repetitive sections using 3 different apps.
Cats protection
The cat has got really protective since I hurt myself. For the last two nights I’ve slept on my old armchair and our big tomcat keeps coming and sleeping next to me on the arms of the two chairs next to each other. It may be that my body is adding warmth to the room as its been cold for a few nights, so I’m a temporary heater? But I like to think it’s more like love or companionship. When he’s awake he puts his paws on my hand and gently kneads it. I feel like I’m being protected by him. It’s lovely.
I am generally cheerful
How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?
Long hair going grey, slightly downturned mouth, squinting eyes. I think I could be classed as ordinary. One of the crowd, slightly chubby normal woman?
How would an AI portray me? It’s hard to say. My skin isn’t smooth and blemishless! I’ve been looking at the free image library here but sometimes it comes up with weird ideas I wrote about an old TV show earlier and the selection of images that came up were Cyclists?! A description of me would be vague, no real distinguishing features? A bit worn out.
I would add that my body isn’t beautiful, it’s a mismatch of shapes and sizes. Bits keep failing. I don’t think I would pass an MOT. I have a Midlands accent and a reasonable singing voice. That’s it!
Foliage
Green leaves shine
Yellow flowers billow
Veins accentuate shape
Dark green splendor
Ladies mantel peeks out
Shy, pale green collars
Ready to catch water droplets
Flowers begin to turn to seed.
Mature summer garden.
Mallaband-Brown 