Trick or treating

Posted on October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digitally manipulated, Fun, Halloween, Life, October 31st, Pumpkin, Sketch, trick or treaters4 Comments

Only one lot of trick or treaters called round tonight. One of them had a pumpkin on his head that was lit up with LEDs. There were three boys and they were soaked to the skin because it was raining so heavily. We gave them fifty pence each because I don’t usually get sweets or candies for Halloween night. I have to say they seemed a friendly bunch so I didn’t mind it, but it’s not my most favourite festival. I actually prefer Carol singers, and I encourage them to sing a couple of verses because often they come round and sing one line of we wish you a merry Christmas and expect to get money for it. I guess I’m a bit like Scrooge! Oh dear!

Pumpkin cat

Posted on October 30, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Carving, Cat, Etruria Industrial museum, Fun, Life, Memory, PumpkinLeave a comment

I carved this pumpkin cat last year for Halloween at Etruria Industrial Museum. It is meant to be a black cat if it was lit at night. I think they used battery tea lights for safety. I think I carved three or four with different designs. Memories of a more cheerful time. I should say be careful carving out pumpkins. I thing I cut a finger slightly while I was doing this x

Jigsaw!

Posted on October 29, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Christmas, Design, Flowers, Fun, Jigsaw, opportunity, Painting2 Comments

The gallery I have my poppy paintings in has used my poppy meditation to create a jigsaw puzzle. I need to see it in reality to check the colours and clarity of it but was a lovely surprise. Lots of thoughts about other ideas too. Cushion covers, tee shirts? A whole new world of opportunity.

Clocks going back

Posted on October 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, clock change, Dark, fall back, Life, Sad, Solstice, Time, WinterLeave a comment

This morning it was dark at seven am. Tomorrow night our clocks go back an hour in the UK. On Sunday morning it will be getting light an hour earlier and we will get an extra hour in bed. Fine, but then we lose that hour in the evening, so it will be going dark at five pm.

I Hate that. I find my spark going out in the winter. I feel like a wraith wandering through the gloom. I don’t think I have SAD, but I am Sad. I wait till the sun starts to go down later every day, as the winter Solstice passes, and the returning Sun starts to cheer me up again.

A favourite

Posted on October 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumn, Autumn woman, Fine Art, Fun, Life, Painting, Seven years ago2 Comments

A favourite painting done seven years ago. It was called Autumn Woman and was snapped up by an old friend. I like slightly surreal images, thinking about traditional art and giving it a slight twist. I may do a painting that includes leaves and fungi using this as an inspiration. I’m so happy with the colour combinations, I forgot that you can include blue as an autumnal colour.

Two finished

Posted on October 28, 2022October 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, art's and Minds, Close up, Fine Art, Finished, Harper Street, Life, Middleport, Painting, Plants, Poppy, Rememberance, twoLeave a comment

I decided to do a bonus small painting to go with my bigger close up of a poppy. It’s called red poppy. It’s hard to come up with an original title. Lots of red used in these but I’ve tried to vary them and give that wrinkled feeling that poppies have.

Close-up poppy

Posted on October 27, 2022October 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Black, Colours, Flowers, Plant, Poppy, Red, White, Work in progressLeave a comment

I think this might be finished but I’m waiting for daylight to check the colours. I might tone down the white and I may add some blue tones to make it feel like the sky is being reflected in it. The poppy was real, but I took this from a painting I did of a photo so I might look at some images of poppies.

Poppy close up

Posted on October 27, 2022October 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Life, Painting, Plant, Poppy, Red, Texture, Work in progressLeave a comment

Work in progress. I want to try and get more realism into this. It’s based on a previous painting, but I decided to try and get in closer and give a finesse to the petals texture and the central structure of the poppy. I’ll post again when it’s finished.

Mad idea!

Posted on October 27, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Australia, Cartoon, Drawing, Fun, hot air balloon, Humour, kangaroo, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Australia. I had this mad idea to draw a giant kangaroo balloon. It has to be tied down to stop it blowing away. Hence the speech bubble ‘I tied my kangaroo balloon down’ it’s a bit silly but it cheered me up!

Bright idea

Posted on October 27, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, pattern colour, Sketching, tee shirt designsLeave a comment

I keep getting told I should try and get some of my designs printed on tee shirts. I love colour and patterns and I just keep creating them. Some of them are tweaked digitally, some are drawings in sketchbooks, others are digital patterns. I have thousands of drawings. My brain just keeps going on and on and on…..

Mallaband-Brown

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