Sunset last year

Posted on February 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged A year ago, Art, Landscape, Life, paint sky, Sketching, Sunset, Time, Watercolour, Watercolour sketch2 Comments

Sunset, watercolour, February 2021.

I had been for a walk with a good friend and walked a lot further than I thought I could. Oh what a difference a year makes. I couldn’t walk a third of that distance now. Every time I think I’m going to go for a walk something seems to stop me. For instance this weekend was lovely, but I had an upset stomach (too much information?), so I stayed home. I’m getting increasingly frustrated by this. I want to be out there, walking, painting, being back to normal. Instead I’m just burbling away here. Spinning out my old memories into a web of comfort that doesn’t equate to doing things for real.

A year ago

Posted on December 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2020, A year ago, another year, Cider, Covid, Life, Memory, mulled wine, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

I wrote this poem on Facebook a year ago. The Wassail which would have been in January, had been cancelled so I wrote this poem. It might be cancelled again in January 2022.

Drink mulled cider

Dance and turn

beat the apple bough

Sing and burn

Fires to fight

And defeat the dark

Bring good fortune

To the bark.

Wassail the folk

Who sing in praise

A happy new year

And prosperity raise.

Remembered wassail

But not this time

Socially distanced

Won’t be the same.

Sunset glow

Posted on December 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged A year ago, Cold, Fog, Glowing sky, Landscape, Life, Photo, SunsetLeave a comment

I just found this photo from a year ago. When we had a series of clear cold nights and the sunsets were amazing. This was taken at Alsager mere I think, although you can’t see many reflections on the water (mere is another name for a lake for example Windermere in Cumbria). I remember driving home after this and banks of fog were drifting across the road as I got close to home.

A year ago

Posted on August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged A year ago, Environment, Life, Moss, Nature, Photo, Red Cow pub, Tree, Tree bark, Werrington2 Comments

Looking out of a window of a restaurant looking at the trunk of a tree covered in moss. The trunk was cracked and split. It might have been diseased. It was just interesting to see. It made an odd thing to photograph.

Its outside the Red Cow pub up in Werrington. There are views out into the countryside there and the food is really good (if its being served still).

Owl

Posted on May 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged A year ago, Acrylic, Acrylic on canvas, Animal, Art, Bird, Canvas, Memories, Owl, Painting4 Comments

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A year ago I was painting this owl. I was working towards a couple of craft fairs, including one at Endon Well dressing. Now things are quiet and I just don’t have the motivation to paint, although I am doing drawings every day. I just can’t be bothered to faff about getting my paints out and I need some canvases, I shall have to buy some more.

Last year’s scenery

Posted on July 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged A year ago, Acrylic on hardboard, Art, Fun, Life, Painting, Penkhull, Penkhull mystery play, Scenery, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

FB_IMG_1562490907053 this is the scenery I painted last year. Two eight by four boards attached together to make an eight foot square panel.

In some ways painting on calico is more difficult because of the way the paint sits on it. However at least I’m not struggling to line up the two sections. I do love doing this. It makes my year.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: A year ago

Sunset last year

A year ago

Sunset glow

A year ago

Owl

Last year’s scenery