Horse at Trentham

Posted on September 21, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Celtic, Copper, Covid19, Grecian, Horse, Life, Sculpture, Trentham Gardens, VisitLeave a comment

Copper tree, copper sculpture. Photo taken at Trentham Gardens last year. I think it looks Grecian, or Celtic. I like to collect interesting images and this was very striking. I think it’s on the far side of Trentham Gardens Lake? I haven’t been back since with all the problems with the virus and the way things are going it might be winter or later before I go back? Various parts of the country have gone back into increasing quarentine measures. The threat for them is fines of up to £10000 for breaking the rules. So I will remember things rather than going out much. I will try and stay safe, and watch small businesses fail. The world is beautiful and sad.

Is it a robot?

Posted on September 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Life, Photo, Playing, Robot, Torso2 Comments

Playing with a photo of the light through my back door. Turned through 90°. Added a bit of texture to create arms and a chin for its apparent head. I sort of see the torso of a robot made of transparent plastic. I think it looks OK. Playing, again, for fun.

How do I sync my phone, tablet and PC?

Posted on September 21, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, creating a web site, Design, diital sketch, Fun, Humour, Illustration, Learning, new web page?Leave a comment

I have had a thing from Microsoft saying I can sync my information ( My gallery on my PC, Tablet and phone are all different) or I could move stuff to the cloud? But I really don’t feel safe doing it. What if there was a solar flare that wiped everything? (It could happen) we think our digital information is safe, but who knows? The earths magnetic poles might flip, or I might drop the phone in the sea? so many worries. Last night I was wondering what would happen when I die? Will I be a digital ghost? A friend died last year and yet I had a reminder of her birthday last month. The grim reaper can be cheated digitally!

I’m in the middle of preparing for another 12 week semester on my college course. Life will be getting complicated again. I need to set up a website just for illustrations and artworks, probably a separate page here. Or perhaps on Redbubble or Square Space? any recommendations….

Glass cabochons

Posted on September 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Design, Enamel, Fun, Fused glass, Glass, Learning, Wire weavingLeave a comment

These are glass cabochons with wire weaving around them that I did last year. I think because I did these I could learn to do enamels. But you have to make a base then metal walls that contain the glass powder that turns into enamel when it melts. I think that sort is called cloisonné? I will find out more…

Trying to design an enamel brooch

Posted on September 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Brooch, Design, Digital drawings, Doodling, Enamel, Enamel kiln, Life, Playing, Spotted dragon, Stick pin, Work in progressLeave a comment

Work in progress. Digital drawings of a ‘spotted draon’. I’m thinking of doing something like this for a course project. I thought I’d try and do some working out. It I wanted to make it I would have to learn enamelling techniques and get a kiln to fire it in. But then I would have to cost it and see if its feasible. Or maybe I can design it and then get someone to make it for me? I don’t know. I have a friend who does fused glass, maybe she could help. Life is interesting….

Window, band of sketchers prompt.

Posted on September 20, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Black and white film, Curtains, Felt pens, Hill, Industrial art, Ink pen, Life, Permanent markers, Roses, Sketching, View, WindowLeave a comment

View through the window, from our living room. Our TV is at the bottom of the page. We have a pottery (Portmeirion) opposite where we live. They do have some ground that they garden, but they used to have roses scrambling all up the building. Sadly some of these have recently been cut back so the view is a bit less colourful now. Higher up the hill they are still there, still in flower. This is in a small sketchbook and is drawn with felt pens, some permanent markers a few coloured pencils and a thin black ink pen. The image on the TV is grey because we were watching a black and white film.

Possible exhibition

Posted on September 19, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Excited, Fine Art, Illustration, Limited time, llife, New art, New paintings, Painting2 Comments

I might be having an exhibition in October. There is a slot free at a gallery where I have exhibited before. What I need to do is produce some new works. It might be based on my Urban sketches, or something totally new and colourful. I will have to be careful though as I start my next semester on my college course on Monday, so I will have to try and fit everything in to a limited timescale. Got to have a discussion.

Sunset seed heads

Posted on September 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged aabstract, Art, Design, Mirrored, Photo, Seed heads, Silhouette, SunsetLeave a comment

Walking as the sunset, I saw these seed heads silhouetted against the sky. I thought they would make a fantastic photo and by mirroring it I think it makes an interesting composition. I used layout to do this. I also rotated it 90 degrees and added some effects in the photodirector app.

Flowers

Posted on September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Flowers, Intricate, Layout app, Life, Patterns, Photo, Plant support, PlantsLeave a comment

Used layout app to create this image of pink busy lizzies and a metal plant support. I just have fun playing with images. The pink and green are nicely contrasting colours, the smooth surface of the plant support adds more interest. The symmetry of the mirrored leaves and stems complete impossible and intricate patterns. They are natural and unnatural in equal amounts.

Floating chimneys

Posted on September 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Floating, Layout app, Photo, Pigeon, Poem, Poetry, Sky, Surreal, WorldLeave a comment

Floating in the sky

A pigeon

on a chimney

High.

Floating on a breeze

Greenery and trees.

Floating up above

Roof and gutter

I hear you mutter….

Floating up and up…

Mallaband-Brown

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