Necklace

Posted on February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Escape, freedom, Glass, Jewellery, Life, Memories, Prevarication, Thinking, Wireweaving8 Comments

I thought I would post an old picture of one of my necklaces from my Facebook memories. I made the glass cabochon at a glass workshop with someone called Angela Ashton. She has moved away and I would like to find somewhere else to do this. The wire weaving is by my friend, I need to chase her to try and get some pieces back off her, but I’ve been preoccupied and keep forgetting to contact her. I don’t think it’s anything to do with my age, but when you are busy with other responsibilities it’s hard to keep on track.

Sometimes I just wish for freedom to be myself, and sometimes I feel I’m using it as an excuse not to do things.

Maybe I can pull things back together soon. I need to escape my cocoon and be a butterfly.

At Art Lunch, February.

Posted on February 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Art lunch, Cup and saucer, Drawing, Friends, Fun, Pen and ink, TeapotLeave a comment

Art lunches are happening once a month now. While I was there I drew a couple of visitors, my teacup and the tiny teapot that went with it, and also the view out of the kitchen of my friends house.

Art lunch is the opportunity for local artists and creative people to get together and talk about their art and network, or maybe just chat and relax.

Had a lovely time. X

Thinking about Art

Posted on February 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Drawing, Inspiration, January, Life, Not satisfied, Painting2 Comments

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I just posted this as a comment on a friends page… “I always feel I could do better when I’ve finished a painting, I look at the mistakes not the good bits….”

That made me think, is that why I paint, draw, and create?

Tomorrow I’m going to another friends, she is running an art lunch once a month. I’m hoping I can draw some inspiration to work out what I’m doing next. I have let things slide in January, now I need to try and make more of an effort….

Spock drawing

Posted on January 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Digital art, Digital drawings, Drawing websites, Fun, Life, Sketchfu, Spock, Startrek2 Comments

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A few years ago I was on a website called Sketchfu which eventually closed

It had very simple tools to draw with but I enjoyed drawing all sorts of portraits, including Lord of the Rings characters. I put a lot of them on here a year ago. But my favourite is Spock from the original Star Trek series. He was not easy to draw but I think I got a good representation. The little pink face in the background was the icon for Sketchfu. I do miss it. It was a great site but it was difficult to communicate with the site owners even though I was a Moderator on there. I can’t believe how long it is since it closed.

Jupiter Blue

Posted on January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Astronomy, Blogging, Juno probe, Jupiter, Layers, Painting, Painting for sale, Pluto, Space, Technology2 Comments

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Would you buy a painting of one of the poles of Jupiter? I’ve done a few paintings os astronomical objects. This is from a photo from the Juno probe a few years ago. I’m thinking if doing a ainting of Pluto’s heart. But although I love it I wonder if anyone out there is actually interested. Maybe I’m too interested in tech. I can’t help it though.

It’s not easy to hand paint these images, it takes ages to blend the colours and build them up. Then you have to make sure it’s accurate, although I don’t measure everything exactly. I can’t compete with photography but I do try my best. Anyway this is a large acrylic on canvas and it is for sale.

Shattered

Posted on January 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on board, Aladdin, Art, Design, Landscape, Painting, Panto, Pantomime, Scenery2 Comments

I’m only showing you a bit of sky and some rocks I painted today as the scenery for the panto is secret. Basically I painted a desert. I had help with the sky (the black is a short curtain above the scenery). I’m too short to reach the top of the scenery. I am absolutely shattered now. 2.30pm to 6pm!i know I paint fast but that’s ridiculous….. About ten foot tall by 30 to 40 foot wide. I will publish the full image when the pantomime is over. Its thin acrylic paint on flat boards.

Penkhull Mystery Plays

Posted on January 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Community, Design, Drama, July 2020, Music, Penkhull mystery play, Performance, Play, Stalls, Titchy theatreLeave a comment

The time to organise this year’s mystery play at penkhull is here. But people need to get involved. After fifteen years of hard work some of the organisers are standing down. We have various deadlines and need to decide by early February whether it’s going ahead. The committee are meeting tonight and hopefully those that were involved and are involved or might want to be involved will attend. It takes a lot of effort from over 400 people to put the day on. The centre of it is usually a Mystery Play although a couple of years ago we had a ‘fallow’ year where there was no play, but the rest of the day went ahead. I guess people are busy, but it would be good to keep it going….

One of those days.

Posted on January 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Campbell Place, Car, Design, Garage, Grey day, January, Life, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Stoke-upon-Trent, Thinking, Time, Trying to sell artLeave a comment

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Grey and depressing, icy cold, big droplets of rain. Disappointing as well, I keep trying to get the car mended (someone broke my wing mirror, the glass is cracked, and someone must have reversed into my nearside wing, it’s all scraped and dented. But I rang up, and the mechanic, who is trying to find the right mirror rang in sick this morning. I will have to try again tomorrow. Then I collected some paintings from my studio to try and get into a local craft centre. But the owner has been inundated with local artists. He is interested in more work but needs to sell some art first. He has had people in but one comment he got was “is it really That much?” for one if the pieces in there. It’s the usual thing in this area, people don’t have money, or if they do they don’t want to spend it. It’s depressing (oh I’ve already said that)……

Tabby cat

Posted on January 29, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Cat, Cat portrait, Design, Poem, Poetry, TabbyLeave a comment

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Cat painting, a small little picture I did a couple of years ago.

Little cat,

Slightly stern,

Not too grumpy,

Staring out.

Where are you from?

Who is your friend?

Tiny cat,

Playful Tiger,

Bright and clever,

Looking out,

Green eyed

Neat.

Layers of a collage.

Posted on January 28, 2020January 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, Colours, Design, Glue, Landscape, Orme Art group, Paper, Paper cutting, shiny paper, Tissue paperLeave a comment

From two years ago. Turning a drawing into a collage using Christmas wrapping paper, tissue paper and a shiny, metallic party bag.

I layered up the paper using dark urple tissue paper over a pale background to try and give the idea of silhouetted trees. Having stuck the purple colour down I then cut out the metallic paper to simulate the wire mesh fence. When I cut out the tree shape I wanted to give a feeling of the texture of tree bark. Finally I added paper on either side to act as curtains.

This was at an interesting collage workshop with the Orme art group about two years ago. I enjoyed learning a new skill.

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