My art and friends art.

Posted on August 10, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged AI, Art, Artists, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2026, Digital drawing, Fine Art, Painting, Prompt2 Comments

If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?

I’ve accumulated a lot of physical and digital art over a lifetime of being an artist. A lot of it is still in my house. I would set up a shop to clear some of it so it could go to good homes. I’m sure friends would do the same.

I realise people like to be clutter free, and now AI is creeping in they could press a few buttons and make something. But wouldn’t it be nice to have a creation made by a human that suits your taste and is created with love and attention? Go on, give an artist a try.

Stolen cat photo

Posted on June 1, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Artists, Cat, Colours, funny images, fur, Legs, Odd, Silly, strange cats, Tail, triangular face, WhiskersLeave a comment

My favourite image is on the top right. It’s a bit hazy but I just love the face! I do wonder if the artists had actually looked at cats or just had them described to them?

Four legs, long tail, almond shaped eyes, pointed ears, sort of triangular face, nose sticks out a bit but not long snout. Sharp teeth and claws. Fur in oranges whites or black and browns or combinations or single versions of these. Don’t forget they have whiskers, and of course needle sharp teeth!

Make your own image out of that. Don’t forget size, about the size of a small dog but Maine Coone cats are much bigger!

Artists

Posted on December 24, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2162, Fine Art, Influence, Knowledge, Learning, Painting4 Comments

Who are the biggest influences in your life?

Of all the influences on my life various artists stand out as the main contenders. These include in no particular order:

Michaelangelo, Leonardo Davinci, Berthe Morissette,the French Impressionists a lot of the surrealist movement, David Hockney, Maggie Hambling, and so many more.

I don’t paint in any of their manners, some of their techniques are totally beyond me. But I do feel excited by their work.

Colours, patterns, shapes, the way they deal with light and shade. Perception, composition, knowledge, understanding. Looking and learning. Painting is a wonderful skill, I wish more people practiced it.

I cannot say that

Who to invite?

Posted on July 14, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Artists, Burslem, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1997, Friends, Life, Old friends, People, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, The Leopard Hotel4 Comments

If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?

I would invite all my artist friends from over the years. Plus all my family. I would go to the Leopard Hotel in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. It would be fully restored (it was destroyed in a fire) and all my murals would still be there.

We would chat about the old days, and what they had been doing. Find out about where they had lived after I lost touch with them. I would lay on a good meal for them depending on what food they liked. I don’t remember what they used to eat? How could I after 40 years or more in some cases… But to know their life has gone well and hopefully they have been successful.

Who wouldn’t I invite? Famous people. I would be in awe and unable to talk. Can it be possible to meet someone who is important and speak with them at their level? I just don’t know.

Questions like this trouble my imagination. It’s wonderful to think of great people, but I would be too nervous and shy!

Before covid?

Posted on August 25, 2022August 25, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists, Colour, Dorset, Fine Art, Holiday, Life, Lulworth cove, Painting, shingles, StonesLeave a comment

You could go to a beach and find someone just painting stones as a job (Lulworth Cove in Dorset). A respectable way of earning some money as an artist. Sitting in the sunshine, working on imaginative designs. We bought one with a blue octopus painted on it. The stones were probably collected off the shingle beach (yes I’m writing about different shingles). I would love to go back there but I doubt this artist would still be plying his trade. Yes the world has changed.

Willow pattern

Posted on January 4, 2022January 4, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists, City, Clay, Close up, Creative, Painting, Poetry, potters poem, Pottery, Stoke-on trent, Willow patternLeave a comment

A bad, fuzzy close up

Of a painting I did

A willow pattern plate

That Spode pottery made

Based on patterns

That came from the east

So many variations

That you find all around.

Blue and white pottery

Glazed and painted

By skilled, creative artists

Paid by piecework,

(the number they did) .

Stoke on Trent city

A fading of clay,

But once so many people

Gave their art to the day.

Beehive project

Posted on July 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists, Beehive, Bees, Collaboration, Etruria Artists, Fun, Hexagon project, Hexagons, Individual images, Photos, ProjectLeave a comment

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I started this month asking friends to share images that could be cropped into hexagonal shapes. Most of them have been added and I will share it next week. The idea was to have the selection finished by the end of July. I’m just hoping a couple more people come on board. I am a bit uncertain how good it will be to look at. But the individual images should work well together. Watch this space?

Exhibition ends tomorrow

Posted on November 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylics, Art, Artists, Brampton museum, Design, Life, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Orme Group, Paintings, Water coloursLeave a comment

It’s amazing how fast a month goes. The last day of the Orme Group’s show at the Brampton museum and art gallery in Newcastle-under-Lyme is tomorrow. Sunday 10th of November 2019. The paintings are in the corridor as you turn left at reception. So if you haven’t been and you would like to see what we get up to on a cold and wet Sunday, nows your chance.

There is a good selection of artists and ainting there. Maybe you will also find an early Christmas present. Maybe even have a walk round the grounds and have a look at the autumn leaves if there are any left on the trees.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Artists