Tree spirits

Posted on March 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Colours, Design, Facebook, Memories, Painting, Surreal, Time, Tree, Tree spiritsLeave a comment

Four years ago. Tree spirit painting.

This is an idea I have painted a few times. I’m convinced that we need to do more to encourage tree planting. I guess I’m a bit of a tree hugger on the quiet!

I’ve painted trees with faces in them from spring, to autumn and winter. I’ve not done a summer one so far.

This went to a friend who really loves it. There are three faces in the painting as you can see. I did have a picture of it from the front but can’t find it. This came up on my Facebook page ( a useful way of recording my art). I was really pleased with the bright colours in this. I wanted it to look like a glowing sunset. The faces are mysterious and stare out at each other. I think it’s slightly surreal. I admire the movement but it probably needs more of a twist to it to actually be classed as surreal art.

Pawprints

Posted on March 9, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic paint, Art, Blank verse, Cat, Footprints, Humour, Micro poetry, Paw prints, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

Oi you!

That’s my pallete

What now?

Jumped on a footstool,

Walking round.

No don’t lie down!

Look at the mess,

Cat tracks in acrylic paint.

Pawprints in bright colours,

Messy kitty.

I suppose it’s art!

Urban sketchers yesterday

Posted on March 8, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Brick, Drawings, Eccleshall, Sketches, Staffordshire, Stone figure, Tree, Trees, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent, WorkshopLeave a comment

The cat? He got in front of my sketch pad as I tried to take the photos of my drawings from yesterday. They are a large tree and workshop, a gate with a seated artist hidden behind it, and a stone figure half hidden in the bushes. These might make the basis for some new paintings as I work towards creating art for a new exhibition. I took a few photos too so I can use them to work out the colours.

Rocking horse

Posted on March 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Digital drawings, Drawing, Filters, Fun, Humour, Inspiration, Learning, News, Playing, Rocking horse, Sketcher freeLeave a comment

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Another of my digital drawings, and variations by using filters.

I tend to try different filters to see what the results are. Can you flip the image? Change the background? Alter the hue, colours, brightness, contrast, size, sharpness, solidity, edges.. Make a change, if you don’t like it click the back button, or save it and put another filter over it. When I had photoshop I used all sorts of filters that I don’t have now. But what I have on this small phone is so much more than I had on one of my early smart phones. You just have to try it out.

Tidying up

Posted on March 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Etruria, Etruria Artists, Etruria Industrial museum, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, This morning, Tidying up, Trent and mersey canalLeave a comment

We use a warehouse (old, small, with hardly any facilities) next to the Trent and Mersey canal for our art group. Most weeks we do art, pottery, painting, drawing etc. Thus week we had to clear out the kitcgen/store so that it can be demolished and rebuilt as a kitchen and a disabled toilet next to it. So we had to clear a lot of stuff out, including a lot of clay. This is only half of the stuff. It was quite heavy to move. I was going to take it away in my car but compromised on storing it in the building. It’s pleasing to be able to do something physical for a change.

Blue and orange

Posted on March 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Design, Fun, Orange, Painting, Patterns, Tiles, Tiny paintingsLeave a comment

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Patterns created to look like tiles.

Taken from tiny paintings, duplicated and made into a grid. A couple of years old, I think it is probably too jazzy for today’s minimalist people.

I call it having fun with blue and orange. Not much else to say really.

Floral

Posted on March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Design, Filters, Kaleidoscope app, Layout app, Manipulation, Not another pattern, Pattern, PhotoLeave a comment

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I don’t remember when I created this. I know from looking at it it’s been manipulated in layout. I probably used an old app called kaleidoscope but I don’t have that any more. There appear to be eyes looking out, and some spikey bits? What are they? I think I took a photo of some sort of cactus.

Anyway I still enjoy looking at the image so I’ve shared it.

Poppies

Posted on March 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fruit, Painting, Poppies, Poppy, RedLeave a comment

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One of my favourite plants is a poppy, the red of them is beautiful and I painted these to try and express their beauty. They are on a long thin canvas. Painted in acrylics and made to look a bit like pottery tiles. I showed this here a while ago but saw it on Facebook so thought I would share again.

Red is a colour that not many mammals can see. Apparently we see it because it’s the colour of some sorts of ripe fruit. Humans were attracted to it so red became a special colour. Red lipstick, red racing cars, red fruit, so many things that are visible only to a few animals in the world.

Morning glory plants

Posted on March 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blogging, Blue, Flowers, Gardening, Green, Hanging basket, Landscape, Morning glory, Painting, Plants, Summer2 Comments

A few years ago painted this morning glory as it flowered. I’d nurtured the plant on a windowledge, carefully watered it. Put it outside when the summer was warm enough so it would stay alive.

It was in a hanging basket outside in the garden when I decided to paint it in situ. As I painted the flower opened and then at the end of the day closed and wilted (the same thing happened with the following days flowers). Hard to capture but beautiful. I might do a copy or similar painting.

Acrylic on canvas. Small flowers are lobelia, and the cream ones are surfinias.

Today’s art lunch

Posted on March 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Art lunch, Chatting, Discussion, Friends, Fun, Light, Lunch, Photos, Sunlight, Talk, Tired4 Comments

Today’s art lunch was spicy vegetable soup served with chats about funding streams for artists and how to apply for them. Discussing organising workshops. Chatting about doodling. Working out about clearing a work space at the Etruria Artists warehouse.

We were serenaded by lovely jazz music on my friends record player, so stylish. The light was streaming into the living room so I took photos of the sunlight shining on the wall and painting patterns on to it. It was a fun afternoon but I came home shattered and fell fast asleep. I’m struggling to stay awake while writing this!

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