The Cavern and the Beatles

Posted on April 1, 2022April 1, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1960's, Cavern, Cavern club, Childhood, Childhood memories, Fun, Liverpool, Merseyside, Music, rock and roll, The beatles1 Comment

When the Beatles were famous I was a child. By the time they split up I was still not very old. One of my earliest memories was hearing them on the radio. ‘Help’, Love me do’, ‘Yesterday’, I can still remember a lot of the words and tunes and I really feel nostalgic when I hear their songs.

I was a bit older when I heard of the Cavern Club in Liverpool, Merseyside. I never went there but cavern came up as a word prompt for a friend and suddenly I remembered where I’d heard the word. So I looked it up on the Internet (where I got the photo). The original club opened in 1957 as a jazz club. They didn’t like rock and roll but when it was taken over the Beatles started to play there in 1961 (they were previously known as the Quarrymen). Apparently they played there over 270 times. The club itself was a cellar with a curved arched ceiling. It closed in 1973 and was demolished so a railway line could be laid. The Cavern club did reopen but I’m not sure if it still is open.

Rainbow cat

Posted on April 1, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Crystal, Fun, rainbow cat, Spectrum, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

The light, shining through the crystals hanging in my window, shone on the cat as he lay next to me. It was interesting to see how the colours affected how his coat looked. He was like a cat trapped in a rainbow. So sweet. So relaxed, lying in the sun, warm and happy.

The mirror cracked

Posted on April 1, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Face, faded, Fog, Life, obscured, Photo, Poem, Poetry, self portrait, split, third eye, Time2 Comments

I posted this on Instagram and my friend said she could see my third eye!

I like to be obscured

And obscure

Hide my light

Under a bushel.

Blue and red and grey

Like an old TV set

With a cracked screen

A play for today

Trying hard

Not to implode

But dissappear into

The fog of time

Faded in the light

Love

Posted on April 1, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned, Black and white cat, Cat, Garden, Life, Love, rescue cat, Sleeping, Sunshine, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

He loves me I think, it might be cupboard love, because I feed him. But he likes having his cheeks rubbed and his ears stroked. He still doesn’t like being picked up and soon wriggles free. I think he must have been handled badly as a kitten. He was abandoned (we found out from the cat charity we support) so we have looked after him for about five years now. He started out living in our shed and gradually came into the house at night. Now he’s next to me, curled up on the arms of our armchairs, he likes sleeping between us. I think it makes him feel safer. But he still goes out most of the night, even when it’s cold and wet. I think he must be eleven or twelve now. Cats that live outside have shorter lives so I think we have added a few years on to his life. X

Spring

Posted on March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colour, Daffodils, Drawing, Orange, Sketching, Spring, YellowLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Spring. I decided it was too cold to stand outside and draw daffodils so I decided to draw one from memory. Also couldn’t get my sketchbook page flat so it’s a bit curved… I have some with very strong orange trumpets and bright yellow petals so I think these colours are close.

Past times

Posted on March 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2004, Art, College, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Life, Memories, muscle memory, Portrait, Sketching6 Comments

Sketches from 2004. The main drawing was a friend and I think the other two were practice faces. I draw faces less now. I try and draw them convincingly but I think you can get tied down into the same lines, the same shapes. It’s hard to break through muscle memory when you have drawn and painted for more than fifty years! I must say I owe a debt to my mom who let me go to college instead of insisting I got a job at the end of my time at school. That time was instrumental in making me the artist I am! X

Tree sketches

Posted on March 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Facebook, Landscape, Memory, National Trust, Pencil on paper, Sketch, TreesLeave a comment

A few of trees I drew a couple of years ago. Pencil on paper. It’s nice to find these memories on Facebook. It reminds me of what I was doing then. I wish I was still going out and doing this. I think we had gone out to a National Trust property but have no idea where it was!

Just a face

Posted on March 30, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawing, black fine liner pen, Fun, Humour, Life, Poem, Poetry, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Just a face to look at

To assess and see

Is it friendly or anxious?

Or angry about me?

This face is slightly pensive

Thinking about the world

Everythings so expensive

As into the future she’s hurled!

This is a nonsense poem.

Not much point at all

Just keep the rhyme going

Or will this poem stall!

Report finished.

Posted on March 30, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Digitally manipulated, Fine Art, Illustration, Life, Mirrored, Painting, report, Time2 Comments

Feeling a bit less stressed. I’ve got my report in with a day to spare! Gives me time to try and solve another problem tomorrow! If only life was easy. I think I’m going to have another sleepless night while I worry about that. Then next I’ve got to finish putting my Illustration portfolio together. I have almost a month so time to do some more experiments and trials. I want to write some limericks for it too!

The future?

Posted on March 30, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cat, Design, Drawing, Fun, Idea, Miaow, Robot, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was the future based on the Potter Graysons Perry’s Art club on TV.

Oh my! What to draw. Bogged down writing my college report I decided to draw future ‘P. E. T’ a personal environmental trainer (and jukebox). Lol. It also purrs and mioaws! Just a silly doodle.