Don’t Get Scammed!

Posted on April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized3 Comments

Tiffanyarpdaleo has shared her experience of someone trying to defraud her. It makes interesting and helpful reading.

I almost fell for a scam today! 😞😞😞 I want to share my story in case it happens to you, beware!

A person messaged me through Instagram saying they really wanted to purchase my painting Split Personality, of course I was elated!

“Split Personality” the *almost* SOLD painting!!

After a couple of exchanges, she agreed on the price and shipping costs and she asked for my email so she could send me money via PayPal, very eagerly, I noticed.

Immediately after I gave her my email, I got a text from PayPal with a code that said “do not share this with anyone” then, she texted me asking for that code! 🤔 Then, she started calling me, through the Instagram app, pressuring me for the code. I didn’t answer. This is not my first rodeo!

If I had given her that code, she would have wiped out my bank…

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Delicate

Posted on April 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blossom, Colours, Flowers, Garden, Petals, Poem, Poetry, Spring, stems, TreesLeave a comment

Tiny, white.

Hint of pink

Shades of green

Soft yellows

Dots of paprika orange

On a denim background.

Green stems

Hold them together

Like a couple holding hands….

Gone to a good home

Posted on April 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Friend, Fused glass, Glass, Happy, Life, necklace, Wire weaving4 Comments

Just delivered this to my friend. She is really happy with the necklace I made. The others have gone to the Waiting Room gallery in Longport, Stoke-on-Trent. They are having an open day on Saturday along with Cherished Chimneys across the road from there. I like the way it lies flat, the wire weaving looks really neat and the colours look good together.

Raining

Posted on April 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ?, Block editor?, Digital drawing, drawn, how do I? Pane, Life, Pain, Poem, Rain, Rhyme, WordPressLeave a comment

Digital sketch filtered through photodirector.

I decided to write a verse
Which might seem rather perverse..
I'm learning the ropes 
For knowledge I grope. 
About WordPress block editor
And I might need a mediator?
It's like very heavy rain
It can be an absolute pain! 
Storm clouds gather 
I'm in a lather
Maybe I should write this again? 
Is there anything at all to gain.....

Upright

Posted on April 27, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, #bandofsketchers, Art, Black ink, Bottle oven, Charcoal, Drawing, From a photo, Metallic pen, Metallic pencils, Photo, seen on a walk, Sketch3 Comments

Upright bottle oven somewhere near the canal in Burslem, from a photo I took on a walk with the closer to home group on Saturday. I didn’t have time to stop and read the sign about it as I was at the back of the group. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt. Metallic silver pen, metallic colours, dried up black felt pens, black felt pen, charcoal stick.

I should be typing

Posted on April 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Design, Illustration, Learning, Microsoft, Project, Thinking, Typing, Writing2 Comments

I started with all good intentions this morning and wrote about 500 words of a 4000 word project I’ve got to do for my illustration course. But then things got in the way. We had an avalanche of carrier bags (my hubby buys them all the time). I put them by the washing machine but today they all slid down onto the floor. Cue a lot of folding and an offer to take them to the local food bank.

Then the cat decided she wanted a cuddle, she jumped up on the keyboard and knocked me out of the page I was on.

Hubby wanted to chat… Shuddup! Then Microsoft decided it wanted me to verify who I was before it would let me back into Word? What, how do you do that. I was halfway through a paragraph, had gone to have something to eat and came back to that!

Ugh!

For sale

Posted on April 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Chains, Fused glass, Glass cabochons, Jewellery, multi coloured, Necklaces, Wire weaving2 Comments

I have just been asked to put these necklaces in the waiting room gallery in Longport, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. They will be for sale over the next few weeks. I already have some small paintings on display there. The Waiting Room gallery can be found online on Facebook.

One has already been sold. I hope people like them.

LOTR drawing

Posted on April 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Frodo, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, Muzy, Sketchfu, Sketching, WebsiteLeave a comment

Frodo, drawn on a website called sketchfu a few years ago.

I liked it because it had simple tools to draw with, but you could get reasonable results. Unfortunately it was closed down a few years ago. I think the owners were overwhelmed by the amount of chat on it, the art started to become secondary to people writing fan fiction and stories, the site was getting full and they couldn’t afford to extend it. Then they started up a new site called Muzy and Sketchfu seemed to be forgotten. In the end I managed to save a lot of my drawings before the whole thing was closed down. It was very sad, a lot of people lost a lot of art that they had spent a lot of time over.

Seedpods

Posted on April 26, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Frost, Garden, Gardening, Green, Interesting, Life, Plants, seed pods4 Comments

Not sure what plant these pods are on. I just found the photo on my memories, I must have taken it because it was interesting. To be honest it’s not a good photo, so it could easily be deleted. Maybe that’s frost? I shall try and find out what it us. Might be good to try and grow it again.

Possible sculpture

Posted on April 26, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Ash Tree, Carving, Commission, Design, Fox, Green man, Owl, Sculpture, Tree trunk, WoodLeave a comment

We went for a walk last week and saw a fox carved into an old tree stump. Unfortunately the photo I took didn’t turn out (memory problem on my phone). I spoke to the person whose garden it was in and he told us the artist who had done it.

I decided to enquire about a carving, I have an idea of either an owl, a fox, or even a green man being carved into it. I’ve passed on my details and the size of the tree. Maybe in a few weeks I’ll be posting photos of a sculpture.