2018 drawing

Posted on February 23, 2024February 24, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2018, Art, Black and white drawing, Conway, Holiday, Sketching, the smallest house in Great Britain, Time, Visit, WalesLeave a comment

Smallest house in Great Britain, in Wales, is it in Caernarfon? (I’ve just been told its actually in Conway) If I remember it’s one up one down. If you spread your arms out it’s only just a bit wider than them (it’s smaller on the inside). I remember there was a woman called Carole dressed in Welsh traditional costume standing outside. We went in (squeezed in) and were amazed at how small it is.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some flats in big cities are actually smaller than this, although I don’t remember seeing a bathroom in it. It’s on the seafront between the castle and a bigger building than it if I remember correctly. It might be worth Googling it if you are interested. I didn’t realise how long ago it was that we visited it, hence the hazy memories.

Floating

Posted on February 23, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue sky, Collage, Life, Memory, Photography, Sunlight, Thought, Time, wispy cloudsLeave a comment

I used to do a lot of collages like this. I just looked back and saw this. Blue sky and wispy clouds with an old building suspended in the sky. I think I might try and do a few more if the rain ever stops! Grey skies and lack of sunshine makes me a dull woman. I need to try and do more art and experiment more. I don’t want to come to a stop. I hope when the sunlight comes back I feel more bright myself.

Floor paint

Posted on February 23, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acava Studios, Art, Ceiling, chipped, Cold, concrete, Memories, Scratched, shiny floor, Spode siteLeave a comment

Seeing the floor in the Spode Factory is a memory of what went before. Industry and creativity joined. Scratched and chipped, the surface is damaged. Most of it is hidden by studios on either side of a central corridor. When you go into the studios some have metal, single glazed windows that let in the cold of winter. And once the cold gets in it doesn’t seem to get warm again till March!

The building is solid concrete and brick, with arched, barrel shaped ceilings high above. I think any heat rises up there and is lost to us on the shiny, scratched floor.

But here people worked hard to create beautiful ceramics, magical pottery, a hive of hot activity that didn’t need heating because of the kilns and machinery, now long gone.

Mossy peeling paint

Posted on February 22, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged appreciation societies, Art, boring men, Life, Moss, Peeling paint, Spode, ThinkingLeave a comment

A miniature forest? No, moss and peeling paint on a windowledge at Spode Site, Elanora street, Stoke today. I like the look of it, but when I think of the deterioration to the buildings I realise they must be crumbling inside and out.

I took quite a few photos today, some of them seriously boring! I’m not sure how I will use them. There is a boring men Facebook page I think? I don’t know if I could post them there or if I want to. I might just post them to the peeling paint appreciation society and the moss appreciation society pages!

Pattern

Posted on February 19, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Colour, Digital drawing, Display, Drawing apps, Pattern, Photodirector, Rainbow, Sketching, WindowLeave a comment

I do like a pattern, abstract, curves

Colours and shapes

All in a swirl

Like a pine cone

Or succulent

Fibonacci shaped

Helical twisting

Rainbow

Or window

Sweet.

Duchovny portrait

Posted on February 18, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, David Duchovny, Digital art, Drawing, Fun, Memories, Sketchfu, Sketching, X filesLeave a comment

Digital drawing I did of David Duchovny about 10 or 15 years ago (when the X files was on TV?).

It’s another one of my drawings at Sketchfu before the website closed. I had a great deal of fun drawing there and it seems so strange not to be able to draw there anymore. I loved doing portraits on the site.

Light

Posted on February 18, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Artrage, Digital drawing, Drawing, Instagram, Light, Photodirector, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

I’ve just been playing with a spiral, like a pine cone. I added light and shade using the eraser tool on my Artrage app, this is the last one which went funny when I edited it on Instagram but looks OK now. There are about five variations using Artrage, photodirector and Instagram to et to this. #bandofsketchers prompt was light.

Doodled face

Posted on February 17, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Doodling, Drawing, keeping on going, quitting, Sketching, SpodeLeave a comment

Just doodling, keeping my hands busy. I might find something to paint but I’m going to give up my studio at Spode as I can no longer afford it. I’m sad because it feels like quitting and I don’t want to but you can only do what you can do. I’m going to try and find a cheaper studio. In the meantime I have a lot of art work that I hope I can get sold. It’s time I had a sale. We will see what happens.

“She wants to be an artist”

Posted on February 14, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Biography, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1848, Education, Knowledge, Learning, Life, Memory, my interests, ThoughtLeave a comment

If there was a biography about you, what would the title be?

If someone wrote a biography of me it would be about my art I think.

But I have a lot of lights hidden under a bushel. Lots of knowledge about different things, science, music, nature, history. I’m definitely one of those “Jack of all trades”, I seem to absorb information and retain it.

I can remember songs I haven’t heard for years. Name most of the bones in the body and know where they are located. I’ve had various jobs and worked for over twenty years for one company. I won a student award whilst studying on a college course. I’m reasonably good at using computers in this digital age. I believe I’m well read, but know my knowledge is not all consuming.

But, what gets me really going is art, ancient and modern. I love skill and technical ability, but also innovation and experimentation. I think I have good expertise at art. I must have done much more than 10,000 hours as a painter. But I can still learn. Education and thought are important. That’s me.

Stamp collecting

Posted on February 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Collection, Countries, Memory, Post, postage stamps, Printing, stamp albums, Stanley Gibbons2 Comments

Many years ago I joined a stamp collecting club. I don’t know if it was Stanley Gibbons? But every month you got sent sets of stamps in the post to add to your stamp album. I remember the gummed paper that you used to stick them in the album with. Or you could get albums with cellophane over the top of the page to hold the stamps in place.

I remember Noytia CCCP, Greek stamps, ones from Australia, Magya Posta, some British and American ones. As someone with an artistic eye I used to admire them. I loved the colourful ones. Ones with interesting perforations, old ones and different languages printed on them.

Talking to another WordPresser has bought them back into my mind. I remember leaving home for college as a young woman and giving my collection to my sister who also had stamps. I don’t know what happened to them. They might still be somewhere?

I remember using tweezers to pick them up carefully. The enjoyment of looking through the album. The excitement of waiting for stamps that I had ordered. Oh what memories!

Mallaband-Brown

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