Purple satin…?

Posted on January 11, 2023January 12, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cat, Experiment, Fun, Imagination, Life, Pattern, satin, soap suds, Thinking, WaterLeave a comment

Filtered photo, changed a photo of water and soapsuds by altering the colour of it. Then adding texture. In the end it either looks like crumpled satin or even red cabbage! Or it could be red wine, or a pool deep in the woods as autumn sets in.

You can describe anything by looking at it and deciding what it something you of, imagination is something you can cultivate. If you look closely you might see an eye or the profile of an imp with its mouth open? Bottom left/middle… Or a gorilla or a cat stretching…

Searching

Posted on January 11, 2023January 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Collected, documents, Hidden, Letters, Lost, lost cause, Paper, shredder, Time2 Comments

Five hours searching paperwork. I’ve still nof found everything I need. I have got to get some information in by the end of this month but can I find it? Can I Heck! It’s always the same. I put things away somewhere I think it will be safe, but then I’ve lost it a year or so later. So frustrating. I also blame the fear of identity theft. I keep more documents than I need to because I don’t want to put anything that identifies us in the waste bin. I should shred things but my shredder gets too hot so it doesn’t get used very often.

Which Saint so I pray to, to find things? Is it the Saint of lost causes?

Making a world

Posted on January 11, 2023January 12, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, imaginary, not satellite imagery, Photos, Reflection, swirling, Washing up liquid, WaterLeave a comment

Not satellite images. These are photos of my washing up bowl with the cold water tap running and a little bit of washing up liquid added. The bright patch and the dark curves are the sky and plant leaves reflected in the surface of the water and the running tap gave swirls and vortices that made the slight foam look like swirling clouds.

Crochet

Posted on January 10, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blanket, Crochet, Fun, Hobby, Knitting, Learning, Pattern, square, Stitches, Throw, WoolLeave a comment

Not knit one pearl one. Only one crochet needle and a finger and thumb required. Twisting and turning, wrapping the wool round and knotting it.

If you want to learn it have a go. You can make squares to create a blanket, or crochet round and round to make a throw. It’s a craft in the same way as knitting or macrame. There are plenty of patterns out there and you can make clothes too. If you look on line you can find some very strange crocheted trouser suits for men! I realise that it was more popular in the 1970’s…..

Grey day

Posted on January 10, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bug, four weeks, Illness, losing time, Memory, Rain, Thinking, three weeks, Time, TiredLeave a comment

It’s been raining a lot today, but I noticed it was slightly lighter this afternoon and the sun seems to be setting a little bit later. Soon the sun will be setting after five pm, that’s when I know we are getting through the winter. Sitting in the house with the curtains closed to help keep the warmth in makes me feel sad. But I realise how close to being a recluse I can be. I was thinking that I have only been out of the house for a few hours in the last month. Last week I took myself to the shop on my own for the first time in about three weeks (hubby has come out with me to keep me safe while I’ve been ill). Am I being lazy, or sick? I don’t know, I think I’m probably protecting myself, I don’t want to catch anything else and I don’t want to pass this bug on. It’s strange how your mind muddles and loses time when you are in the same place for a long time. It makes you think.

Cats

Posted on January 10, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged aliens, Art, Cat, Christmas cactus, doorstop, Fun, Mirrored, monsters, Pareidolia, Photography, SymmetryLeave a comment

Alien plants?

Symmetry makes interesting patterns. I took a few photos of my kitchen window ledge a few days ago and then tried using a vertical mirroring to create something different and unusual. Something you wouldn’t see unless it was in a reflection. I always think it’s worth doing this because it can look really alien. This photo has a large cat doorstop in it at the back, a Spanish pot with a tile design pattern and a large, dark pink cactus. But I can see a face, with pink hair and a moustache at the front with dark eyes and nose? The cats could be like conjoined twins, like a Greek mythological monster. And the cactus leaves in the middle seem to show a green face with an open mouth. Why not try this yourself?

Musical instruments

Posted on January 10, 2023January 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Music, Prompt, Recorder, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was musical instruments, I drew a recorder. I have a plastic one, but when I was a kid I had a lovely wooden one. The wood was golden and had an amazing grain to it. I’ve tried to remember how it looked. I didn’t do much music as a child and it was one of my sisters that tried to learn more complicated instruments such as the violin.

Close-up

Posted on January 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Close up, Cloth, Digital manipulation, Drawing, Life, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was close-up. I decided to try and draw a close-up of some plaid cloth. I used a digital filter from photodirector to add some texture. I think it makes it look more interesting.

Doodles

Posted on January 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink pen, Creativity, Design, Doodles, Drawing, Feelings, Felt pens, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sketching5 Comments

Sometimes my pen drifts

Across the paper

Black pen and colour

Shading over the lines

Faces and a donkey?

Why not play

Create a design

Learn and develop

Experience and experiment.

More wind and rain and satellites…..?

Posted on January 9, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bad weather, Boeing 747, Cornwall, Flight, historic, Rain, Space, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Please stop raining? It’s wet and windy, again. Gone are days of snow, I know we still have them, but instead whirling clouds come across the Atlantic and dump rain on mostly the north west of Britain. In fact in the last twenty four days it’s apparently rained on twenty two of them.

And amidst all of this stormy weather something unusual and historical is happening in the South West. At the moment (22.45pm on 9.1.23) a Boeing 747 owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin company is flying into the bad weather off the coast of Cornwall. It has a rocket tucked underneath one wing which is due to be launched from it. The rocket contains some satellites and these will hopefully reach space in the next few hours.

It’s amazing that Britain will have launch capability for the investigation and use of space. And in such a different way, not a huge rocket from the land but a more interesting method. I hope it works.