Hopefully still alive!

Posted on April 13, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged 2061, Age, ambition, Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1907, Halleys comet, Life, SurvivingLeave a comment

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

I’m out of my studio, and I’ve lost my partner, but I don’t want to give upon life just yet. I’d like to future proof my life, make it more stable again. I don’t know how I’m going to do that but I’ve got to try.

I’ve always said I want to be around when Halleys Comet comes back. That’s not till 2061! I know it’s a big ambition to last such a long time, but why not? I’ve got to have some goal, yeah, the next ten years will be hard but I want to last longer than that!

Digital art 8 years ago

Posted on April 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Facebook, left handed, Life, Memory, Profiles, right handed, Sketching, TimeLeave a comment

Another semi abstract digital drawing that popped upon my Facebook memories, long enough ago that I can’t remember the apps I used.

I’ve noticed that if I draw profiles of faces I usually draw them facing left. That might be because my right hand might obscure the drawing of they faced right. I did ask some other artists and concluded the left handed ones draw profiles facing right? But the sample size (3 or 4 people) is far too small to draw an accurate conclusion. I also draw horses heads and other animals facing left. I do wonder why.

Clutter

Posted on April 13, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Brushes, Canvases, Clutter?, contents, not hoarding, Painting, Storage, StudioLeave a comment

Artist ‘stuff’, paints, paintings, canvases, brushes, boxes, sketch pads, heaters, all my ornaments on the mantelpiece. Carrier bags. I’ve never been this cluttered. Some of its going to have to go. But it’s cheaper than renting the studio. I not letting many people in till I sort it out! But it’s storage not hoarding (yet!)

Empty studio

Posted on April 12, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Elanora Street, Fine Art, Painting, Spode, Spode studios, Stoke, Studio2 Comments

All that’s left is a small bag of rubbish. My studio was a small space but I fitted a lot in it. Now my living room looks like one of those TV programmes about hoarders! I didn’t realise how much space it would take up and a lot of my paintings have gone to a friend’s studio for a while. I’m going to have to learn to throw things away. It’s not an exciting photo but it means a lot to me. Maybe one day I’ll be able to afford to go back. I’ve got to have some hopes!

Good question

Posted on April 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Biology, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1905, Learning, Memory, School, Sixth form, Time12 Comments

Describe something you learned in high school.

I’m not sure what high school is? When I was at school we went to primary, then secondary school. The top (final year) was the sixth form where you took your final exams.

One of those was biology, we studied a lot of information, photosynthesis, stomata in leaves (the holes underneath leaves that allow gases in and out. Things like the function of the kidney (was there something called a glomerulus?), the layers of skin, probably the structure of the eye? I think liking art helped because I could draw diagrams.

I enjoyed biology and am glad I chose it as one of my subjects.

Mirrors removed

Posted on April 11, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, claw hammer, endings, Fine Art, Friends, Life, Mirrors, Paintings, Spode studio, TimeLeave a comment

Portrait of my friend.

Today was a sad day, leaving my studio at Spode is a real wrench. I have had to gather up my belongings including paints, canvases, an easle. Even the mirrors on the walls and the nails that supported my paintings over the years I’ve been there.

How do you remove hexagonal mirrors that are glued to a wall? With a claw hammer and very carefully is the answer. Now some paintings are at a friends studio and others are here in my living room. Hopefully I will soon get sorted out.

Celtic knots

Posted on April 9, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, blue ink, Celtic, Drawing, Europe, Halstatt, Knotwork, Memory, Sketching, Sutton Hoo, ThesisLeave a comment

My college thesis was on Pre Christian Celtic art. I have continued to love the knotwork designs they created. I was interested how the Celts moved westwards across Europe and into the British Isles. Their art was stunning. Various archaeological discoveries of intricate gold and bronze artefacts showed the sophistication of their culture. A massive horde of treasure was found at Sutton Hoo and historical artefacts were found in Halstatt in Austria? I’m sorry it’s 40 years since I wrote it and memory fades.

I continued to draw celtic knotwork, but this style of art needs practice and I haven’t done much of it recently.

Card design

Posted on April 9, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, biro sketch, Bottle oven, Card design, Cat, Drawing, Keeping warm, Pottery, Sketching, tabby catLeave a comment

A giant cat wrapped around a pottery bottle oven, called keeping warm. I drew this along with a few more cat and pottery designs back in 2017. It just came up on my Facebook memories today. Black and white sketch using a black biro if I remember correctly.

Yellow

Posted on April 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Colourful, Drawing, Fun, Sketching, Uranium glass, YellowLeave a comment

Yellow vase, imagined drawing in Artrage app. My mom used to collect vases made out of Uranium glass. It’s called that because it uses Uranium to colour the glass. It can glow in he dark I think? It’s usually a cloudy greenish yellow. #bandofsketchers prompt was yellow.

2004 drawing

Posted on March 31, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2004, Art, Art group, Drawing, Facebook memories, Five years ago, Life, Pencil, Time2 Comments

Facebook Memory

Sometimes things just pop up on my status and I don’t remember when I drew them. In this case the memory was from five years ago, but the comment said I drew it in 2004. I think that’s right because I wasn’t doing many pencil drawings a few years ago. I think this was from a monthly drawing group. Friends met up at a pub and we would draw each other or customers. I have the Sketchbook somewhere in the house. One of a miriad of them.

Mallaband-Brown

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