Getting up late

Posted on June 12, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blue, Colours, Late night, night owl, Owl, Painting, Palette, Sky, Thinking, Yellow2 Comments

I am what they call a night owl. One of those people that stays up too late, can’t sleep and then get up too late. Half the day has gone before I see daylight.

Sometimes I don’t start painting till the afternoon. Then it means that I end up painting under artificial light. That’s OK but it affects he colours that I paint with. The light does make everything look more yellow and you cannot really see blues properly. I will wait till daytime to check the real colour (we live on a planet with blue skies and everything has a blue cast to it, but we don’t see it because our eyesight adjusts to it).

What shall I paint next?

Posted on June 12, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Calm, Creative, Fine Art, Fun, Happy, Painting, Sad, Thinking, What next?4 Comments

I don’t know what to paint next, I have so many paintings, maybe too many? If anything ever happens to me will they end up in a charity shop? Should I donate some to my local museum? I’m responsible for a lot of acrylic on canvas! The thing is I love painting and drawing so much. I hope I bring as much enjoyment to other peoples lives as possible. Art makes me feel better, more relaxed, happy, or sometimes sad, contemplative, thoughtful, or just calm.

North

Posted on June 12, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cat, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, North, Sketching, weather vaneLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was North. I decided to draw a design for a weather vane that points North. I thought I’d rather draw this rather than someone standing at the North Pole. Either that or a compass could have been a choice. Felt pen drawing in my sketchbook.

Never say bad art

Posted on June 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, black pen, Bricks, Chimney, Design, Drawing, Etruria, Hubby, Life, Sketching, Stoke-on trent2 Comments

When we went to the canal festival a few weeks ago we both sat and drew. My hubby did a quick sketch of the large chimney at the back of the museum. You can see that although he doesn’t normally draw he’s got the idea of perspective and the regular lines on top of the bricks are the iron bands supporting the chimney all the way up its length. He’s also included a roof and trees and a brick wall.

Art isn’t something he generally does. He will pick up an adult colouring book sometimes but he tends to colour in with lines rather than shading things in fully. I think that is because he has a lot of anxiety and his mind bounces about and he doesn’t settle to one thing. But he is willing to try. I think that’s important. Art should be for everyone. They might not be Raphael or Titian but who knows what might emerge? Art is, I think, very important to humans, for aesthetics or design, communication or lifestyle. Just do it! ❤️

I can’t show the finished painting yet!

Posted on June 11, 2022June 11, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, blue crab, Crab, Easle, Fine Art, Life, Painting, posting, Present4 Comments

What WAS on the easle. The crab painting is going to a relative who may see it and I don’t want her to see the finished article. It’s boxed up and ready to go. Acrylic paint means I could get it finished today, but I’m too late to catch the post. I always dither about posting things, I try and use boxes I’ve received things in so I use a LOT of parcel tape. Also bubble wrap. I hope it will arrive safely…. I’ll post a picture of the finished work when it has got to its recipient. X

Work in progress

Posted on June 11, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, blue crab, crab painting, Painting, Seaside, Work in progress6 Comments

Blue crab, I’m going to lighten the background of this acrylic on canvas. This was promised a year ago, but I was struggling with the complexity of it. I’ve overpainted some on the legs. It’s hard to work off a photo on my phone which is all I had to go on. And it’s very easy to get bits wrong. I didn’t draw it out or draw a grid, I always go for things freehand. I get bored with drawing out then having to paint out lines!

Degree shows

Posted on June 10, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cartoons, College, Degree shows, Design, Fine Art, Graphics, Life, Painting, Photography, Print making, SculptureLeave a comment

Staffordshire University is holding its first degree shows for a couple of years. We went to see the fine art show today. Its also on tomorrow. I thought the show was one of the best I had seen in years. (we go most years). There was a lot of interesting images and ideas. Some exceptional painters and thought provoking installations. I decided not to take photos as each of the students will have their own copyright and I didn’t have permission to take pictures of their work. If you are in the area tomorrow pop in and take a look? Check on Google for opening times. Staffordshire University, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Finished?

Posted on June 10, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Cliffs, Coast, Design, Fine Art, Painting, Pattern, TextureLeave a comment

Clouds pile up above a dark blue sea and waves rise, ready to crash against a rocky coast. Cliffs covered in boulders and vegetation stand above a small sandy area.

Having to describe what I have painted is hard, I know what I can see but finding a description that adequately explains it is difficult, especially since I’ve added texture and patterns. I’ve entered it for a local open art exhibition. It’s a bit of a risk, but I wanted to try. X

Eye

Posted on June 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Drawing, Eye, flames, Life, Photodirector, Sight, Sketching, Star, YellowLeave a comment

Look at you,

Star-ing out at me

Flame of yellow eye

Iris shaped and twisted

Sight burnt by the light

Scrunched into a small space

Tears flood your lashes

Dark shadows cast

Hard stare

Thoughtful and sad.

Movement

Posted on June 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, cartwheel, Doodle, Drawing, Falling, Felt pens, Fun, hop, Jumping, Life, Movement, Scribble, Sketchbook, SketchingLeave a comment

I do odd doodles in my sketchbook. This wS a drawing of someone falling, then I added stick figures of jumping and handstands and other movements. Why not? It’s a good mental exercise to try and think what the positions of limbs are when the body moves. It’s a bit scruffy, but I’m trying to get the shapes right. I think the falling one was hardest. Positioning of hands and arms from a memory of someone falling is not easy!

Mallaband-Brown

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