Painting

Posted on October 8, 2023October 8, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylics, Art, Cheddleton Station, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2083, England, Fine Art, Life, Memory, Painting, skill, Staffordshire, Time, WatercolourLeave a comment

What is your favorite hobby or pastime?

This was a painting I did a few years ago, it’s of the upper story of Cheddleton Station, in Staffordshire, England.

I still love painting, but my health is affecting what I can do at the moment, I really want to do more. And somehow the anxiety over it is making me struggle to start. Because I’m worried whether I will be able to do a good enough job. I know I’ve been doing a lot of digital art, but it doesn’t have the same quality to me as actually painting.

I’ve spent years being an artist and I don’t want to stop. I admit some of my work isn’t as good as I’d like, I paint fast and rely on my skill to pull things into shape. I’ve certainly put in the hours to get to a good standard. But I wish I could go back in time and make better decisions about my art.

I haven’t stopped, but I might not do as much as I used to, I’m just hoping the physiotherapy I’m due to start will help.

I have too many!

Posted on October 7, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Books, Clutter?, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2082, disposal, Glass, Life, Loss, Memories, Objects, Paintings, possession, Prompt6 Comments

What would you do if you lost all your possessions?

Books, ornaments glass, clothes, paintings… Clutter.

In some ways to lose all my possessions would make life simpler as long as I had somewhere to go? Our house has got crowded with ‘stuff’, we have collected things over years and years, and we are trying to get rid of some of it.

But it’s easy to become attached, an object can encompass memories, look at it and you look back in time. Does losing your possessions give you freedom? Or is it oppressive? What if you only have the clothes you stand up in, no credit or debit card…. Knowledge of where you live would be important. Knowing how to light a fire, keep warm, find food and clean drinking water. The inhumanity of men to the homeless is a fear if I went through with disposing of my possessions.

An artist did do it. He crushed all of his belongings I think. It was a very powerful art ‘happening’, but what happened to him? Was he paid to do it, has he replaced things, did he survive? The problem is that in a world of thousands or millions of wonders each day, does anyone even notice.

It would be good to dispose of my belongings, to free up myself, but I’m getting too old to survive such a thing. I will have to keep at least some of my things..

More tiles

Posted on October 7, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Church, floor tiles, Minton tiles, Orange, Penkhull, Terracotta2 Comments

I thought I’d show you the other photo of the church floor I took last night. It’s a bit blurry but this is the main block of minton? tiles. It’s hard to tell what the central section depicts. I love the contrasting blues, oranges and terracotta colours. Using complementary colours makes the image pop even with using only blue and orange.

Sun and Moon

Posted on October 6, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Friend, Glitter, Metallic paint, Moon, Painting, Sun, University4 Comments

Old paintings I gave a friends daughter when she went to university. I have no idea where they are now. Small square canvases about 6 x 6 inches. Acrylic on canvas, Depicting the Sun and Moon. I may do some similar ones and add a star one. They were fun to do

Church tiles

Posted on October 6, 2023October 6, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Architecture, Art, Christmas concert singing, Church, Life, Minton, Pugin, Tiles4 Comments

I was rehearsing for our Christmas concert (we are doing it to fund another pantomime in 2025). I saw these tiles up by the altar. I think they are Minton tiles. I also think the church was designed by Pugin?

The acoustics are very good in there and we had great fun trying to get the right harmonies for silent night. The concert is due to happen on the evening of December 15th this year. As well as traditional carols there will be rock and roll songs and some solos and duets. There may also be recitals of poetry.

There are other tiles in the church, so it might be an idea to listen to the concert and have a good look round.

Pointellist portrait

Posted on October 6, 2023October 6, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, digital finger painting, Drawing, Pointellist, Prompt, Random, Sketching2 Comments

Using the glitter tool and then a thin brush in the Artrage app on my phone I created a head of a woman. It’s interesting because the dots are random so placing of the features becomes more inexact so the face seems more natural (not like my usual style). This was inspired by pointellist paintings, the #bandofsketchers prompt was inspiration.

Simpler

Posted on October 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2079, Exercise, Fun, pc, Phone, too addicted to my computer, TV, Walking2 Comments

Your life without a computer: what does it look like?

I do try not to be online all the time, I don’t use a pc or laptop, but who needs them when you’ve got a phone? I think sometimes my brain is permanently plugged in…..

It’s those little hits of seratonin? They give you a brief hit of pleasure, and if I am not blogging or drawing digitally I feel empty.

But I know it’s not good for me, I find myself following vlogs and different pages and sites. I’ve got worse since I hurt my leg, and I know as I recuperate I need to do more physical things. I have to take the phone though, to measure my steps!

Things I would do without a computer.

Not get lost, I can read maps,

Not miss my favourite TV shows

Get more exercise

Go to my studio

Actually paint and draw with real, physical art supplies!

Meet with friends more.

Nest

Posted on October 4, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bird, Blank verse, Blue, Bluebird, Eggs, Kingfisher, Life, Nest, Phoenix, Poem, Poetry, Sketch4 Comments

Little blue eggs

What will you be?

When your chicks emerge

Blue bird of happiness?

I hope

Or a kingfisher

Neon bright?

Tiny beings of fluff appear

Blind and hungry

Fed by parents

Blue Phoenix grown

From blue shells

Your imagination

Can choose….

Sky

Posted on October 4, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Artrage, ArtRage app, aurora borealis, digital finger painting, Drawing, Imagined, Northern lights, Sketching, Sky2 Comments

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Sky. I’ve always wanted to see the aurora borealis (northern lights). Apparently it’s been visible in the UK recently but as usual it was cloudy here. So here’s my imagined, finger painting in Artrage.

2.10.2016

Posted on October 2, 2023October 2, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 7years ago, Art, ArtRage app, Design, Digital drawing, Digitally manipulated, Memory2 Comments

Digital art memory from 2 October 2016. I have no memory of how I did this. I think I used a free app called Artrage oils. And I must have used the old layout app, but I don’t know how I achieved the different colours. Anyway it’s definitely a piece of my digital art. 7 years ago.

Mallaband-Brown

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