Old cat paintings

Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylics on canvas, Art, Cat portraits, Cats, Colours, Old friends, Old paintings, PatternLeave a comment

Two of my old cats. From these you can see I’ve been interested in patterns and cats for a long time.

I did have a box kite someone made me for Christmas although I never actually flew it. The cat jumped into it and I drew a quick sketch. This was the result. I wish I had taken a photo. The other painting was my old cat lying on a colourful throw. She was very old when she passed away. In her twenties!

I’ve done many portraits of animals from photos but these are more personal and painterly. I also enjoyed playing with colours.

Cat in a box

Posted on August 2, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white, Black and white cat, Blogging, Cat, Drawing, Life, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent challenge today was to draw an animal. It was easy to choose my cat. He loves sitting in his box in the kitchen. He’s got a few boxes around the house he sleeps in. He likes putting his paws out and was after my pen as I started to draw him. He didn’t stay very still, but I’ve got a good idea of what he looks like.

Mural of The F Frame

Posted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1990's, Art, Emulsion on board, Florence Colliery, Florence near Longton, Mural, Painting, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

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This was a mural I painted quite a few years ago of a local colliery at a place called Florence, near Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. I was commissioned to paint this as a piece for the working men’s club there back in the 1990’s. The image is based on various historical pictures and photos. I had fun putting it together. It took me about six weeks to complete during weekends and evenings. It was painted in the corridor inside then installed later. X

Boat Band live!

Posted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Afternoon, Art, Boatband, Books, Careful, Design, Drink, Environment, Fun, Gin and tonic, Life, Music, Pub, Science, Socially distant, SpaceLeave a comment

I went out for a walk today up our steep hill and then called into the local pub to see our friends in the Boatband who were playing outside in the beer garden. We stayed to listen to the music, it was the first time we had been there since March. Everything was socially distanced with a one way system in the pub so you could use the facilities. The music was cajun. You can find them on YouTube. We had an excellent socially distanced afternoon although I drank far to much gin and tonic! (it’s taken me three goes to type something coherent here).

creating a portfolio in word

Posted on August 1, 2020August 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Confused, Design, file size, Help, Illustration, Images, Learning, Portfolio, Technology, word 10, WorkLeave a comment

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I’m trying to create a portfolio of all my images I’ve made so far on my illustration course. I have managed to add them to a Word document, but I need to know what the file size is and as I’m not up to speed with Word 10 I’m not sure where to look. If the file size is too big I will struggle to upload it to the college. Any ideas? I know I’ve got to convert it to a PDF but I wanted to find out how big it was before I did that… Duh!

Pattern again

Posted on August 1, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blogging, Cat, Design, Fun, Green, Pattern, Purple, Shapes, SpiralsLeave a comment

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I found this last night after posting about patterns yesterday. Clearly I have a thing about spirals and cats x.

I wasn’t trying for reality here, I enjoyed using these colours and the heavily patterned surface. This is about three years old.

I might do more of these. It depends if people like something quirky…..Right better get on and do some work.

Pattern

Posted on July 31, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Design, Drawing, Fun, Pattern, Play, Poem2 Comments

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Oh big eyes,

What eyes you have,

The better to see the pattern

Around and in you

Little trailing thoughts

Of spiders you chase

Of feathers you catch

Of fun you have.

Pattern and spirals

Mini mad thoughts

Play…

Taking notes

Posted on July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Collage, Design, Grids, Ideas, Illustration, Interest, Light box, Techniques4 Comments

Two of our tutors were in conversation today. One was nterviewing the other. It was interesting and helpful to see how they went about doing their work. Taking rough photocopies to add texture, cutting out black paper shapes to create shadows, and white paper to add highlights. Using a broad brush to paint quick marks, creating people and buildings. There were so many techniques I’d not even considered. Also using a grid to place the work on so that the images would all be the correct size…. And a light box. I don’t even know how to use one of them.. Very interesting.

Summer Dream

Posted on July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1982 to 1983, Art, Burial mound, Fun, Large picture, Memories, Oil painting, Painting, Standings tones, Summer dream2 Comments

One of my largest paintings, done between 1982 and 83.about five foot by four foot. The man is my hubby and the cat our old lady cat we had several years ago. The rest is completely from my imagination. I’ve always been interested in standing stones. It’s based neolithic burial sites. The foxgloves and poppies are about medicine in the past. I think we must have visited Devon or Wales, because of the waterfalls. It’s oil on canvas. No idea what the book is about. But he’s always reading!

Idea

Posted on July 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Architecture, Art, Blogging, Creativity, Design, Learning, Life, Poem, Poetry, Thinking2 Comments

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How to depict art cuts?

Hear no, see no, speak no art?

Art is the senses.

Art is creativity.

Art is music, words, poetry.

Art IS life.

Take it away

Stultifying, crippling.

Education should educate

Should help create.

Where will our designers be?

Our musicians,

Architects?

Hairdressers?

Anything that adds something.

To bland and boring

Hard working

Reality.

Mallaband-Brown

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