Drawing and painting

Posted on March 17, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1877, Drawing, Flow, hours, Illness, Life, Sketching, ThinkingLeave a comment

What activities do you lose yourself in?

I have always drawn and painted. Hours can disappear and I don’t notice them. I think that’s called ‘flow’, I’m immersed in it. Even now when my left arm shakes I can’t stop. I end up with shake lines or I have to put things on an easle to stop it. I now have golfers elbow in the same arm and gout and trigger finger in my right hand. But I keep being creative. I really think its my reason for living. When I stop drawing that will be the end of me. Even if I can’t hold a pen or paintbrush I can doodle on my phone and finger paint as in the digital drawing above.

A few years ago I was in hospital. I made my hubby bring me a sketchpad and pencils, I think that was proof I was getting better!

Clown puppet

Posted on March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Clown, Design, Drawing, Funny, Idea, Odd, Puppet, SketchingLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was puppet. Clown puppet idea. I didn’t want to copy another photo so I made my own design. I know clowns paint their faces on eggs to register their pattern, no doubt this is someone’s design?

Mushrooms

Posted on March 16, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Fungi, Mushrooms, Prompt, shaggy ink cap, SketchingLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was mushrooms. I drew Shaggy ink caps. Very recognisable. They look like drumsticks as they grow, the cap is tall rather than flat like a parasol. They have scales and they turn black at the base which gradually moves up the cap and makes them seem to melt back into the ground.

Fairy Wren

Posted on March 16, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, fairy wren, Felt pens, Life, Nature, Pretty, Prompt, Sketching2 Comments

PNCO posted about the Australian Fairy Wren a few days ago and I decided to use the photo they posted as the subject for Sundays prompt pretty. I finally got round to doing this today. Sunday seems a long time ago. Still got to catch up on Tuesdays and today’s prompts. Felt pen drawing.

What first?

Posted on March 16, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Flower, Gardening, Green, Life, Photo, Purple, scrambling, Shady, spiralling, Spring, Vinca9 Comments

Do you post a picture or the title first? I generally choose a picture to write about then decide on the title. Sometimes there is an ambiguity because my image may have nothing to do with the title or the actual wording of the post.

So why Vinca? It’s a cheery little flower, nice colour, it scrambles over the ground in a green mass and then in spring these lovely, twirly flowers pop up. I just wish I could get it to grow better, but I think our garden is too shady. Also if you look closely the five petals of the flower spiral inwards in a whorl.

As to the question ‘what first?’ it all depends on how I’m feeling, how inspired (or uninspired) I feel.

Has to be Star Trek

Posted on March 16, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1876, fifty years, kirk and spock, Life, Memories, sci-, Star Trek, star trek the original series, voyager5 Comments

What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?

I have watched Star Trek, the original series over fifty years. I keep coming back to it. I’ll leave it a few years and then watch then again. My favourite character is Spock, although I do like James Kirk too.

I also enjoy Star Trek Voyager and The Next Generation and try and catch them occasionally too. I guess I like the fairness and attempts at diplomacy in the series. I’ve enjoyed the films, especially ‘The voyage home’, there is a charming humour to them. Yes there are anachronisms and things that would be depicted differently now. I would like to see more recent series but as I can’t afford a streaming service, we’ll I don’t know anything about them. I would like to catch the Picard series if it ever comes on terrestrial TV.

Need to catch up

Posted on March 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Blocked, Creativity, Down, Memories, Prompt, Sad, Sketching, Thinking, Time2 Comments

#bandofsketchers?

What’s happened? I’ve been ill again and I haven’t had the energy or will to draw. I’m behind on these prompts. I have ideas but the sketchpad is across the room and I can’t make myself go and pick it up. I think I’m a bit overwhelmed. I don’t think the cold, wet, grey weather we have been having has helped. Shivering and shaking is not conducive to drawing and sketching. Oh I must not moan, but sometimes you just get stuck. Bad mood and memories don’t help, I guess I’m a bit blocked in my creativity. Sunshine might help.

Catnip

Posted on March 15, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged belly, biting, Black and white cat, Catnip, Fun, Play, rolling around, Silly, Treat, Tuxedo cat8 Comments

I saw some catnip for sale today, I usually get the cats catnip toys, but this was a bag of shredded plant material.

Basically the cats loved it. They all rolled about and snuffed it. One of them started chewing my slipper…while I was wearing them. He even chewed at my trouser leg. He also started playing and chewing my straps on my sandals. He ended up rolling round on his back where he’d scattered the catnip on the carpet, he had got underneath the towel I’d put it on and spilt it on the floor.

Now? He’s sleeping like a baby like butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth!

Red Nose Day Friday 16th March 2023

Posted on March 15, 2023March 15, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Africa, Charity, Comedy, Funny, Lenny Henry, red nose, Red nose day, the UK2 Comments

I got my red nose today in aid of Red Nose day on Friday. Its a tellython thingy that began in the eighties when comedian Lenny Henry and his friends started collecting money to support people in Africa and in the UK. The programme on Friday evening will have lots of comic skits and sketches interspersed with short films about how the money they raise is being used to hrlp people around the world. You might be able to Google Red Nose day for more information. This year the nose is mainly paper which is less polluting. I have collected red noses from the first one. X

I think Red Nose day is every couple of years, but time flashes by so fast. Anyway it cheers me up and makes me think about others at the same time. X

Not really

Posted on March 15, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged belief, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1875, ladder, Magpie, Superstitious, thirteen, WritingLeave a comment

Are you superstitious?

I have to say I usually walk under ladders, but I always say ‘hello Mr magpie how’s your wife’ if I see a lone magpie. I wonder why black cats are lucky in the UK and unlucky in the USA? I used to avoid cracks in pavements but not any more.

So no, I’m not superstitious. Thirteen is an interesting prime number to me, a bakers dozen, not something to fear. I’m not interested in Halloween really. I don’t bother with trick or treaters and sometimes even shout ‘boo!’ at them and say ‘here’s your trick!’ Does it matter?it depends on the person. I can’t disabuse you of your own beliefs so let’s agree to disagree if you are superstitious.