Delamere

Posted on April 1, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumn, Blues, Cheshire, Colour, Delamere forest, Distance, Fine Art, Leaves, Life, Reds2 Comments

Third painting. I used the reference photo less and added leaves on the left hand side that were further towards the centre than was on the original photo. The lady who lent me the photograph told me this was taken at Delamere forest, which I think is in Cheshire.

I tried to emphasise the blues in the background to give it a distant feeling. Then I emphasised the reds and greens to ring them to the fore. The leaf litter was fun to paint trying to shape it and add light shining through the leaves onto the ground. It’s a small acrylic on canvas.

Two paintings done

Posted on April 1, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art Fair, Artisans, Autumn, Coast, Life, Paintings, small paintings, square canvases2 Comments

As part of the Art Fair today I completed the three small paintings that I started in our Art group meeting recently. I think these are five or six inches square. One is called Autumn and the other Coast. I enjoyed doing this as it kept me occupied. It was a quiet day, I think there was a big event going on in the town, but I sold three small paintings for a small amount of money, by the time I’d paid for my table it was £10 in total for the day, but at least I enjoyed painting, much better than sitting quietly and getting a bit bored!

Bench view

Posted on March 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Horizon, Leaves, Life, Photo, Sky, Spring, Time, Trees, View, Weather, WindLeave a comment

I wonder how long it will take for the leaves to come on these trees in the park. Then the view of the horizon will be covered for another six months. The hills in the distance will be gone. My hubby, sitting on the bench before me will be in shade during the morning and in light in the afternoon.

The clouds will drop their rain and the leaves of the trees unfold. Every day they will take in sunlight, until the temperature drops and the light levels fall. Then the wind will blow and the leaves, that have now rurned to brown and orange, will fly from the trees and uncover the view again…

Sour

Posted on March 20, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, apples, Art, Autumn, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, Green, Life, Sketching, Sour2 Comments

Slightly late for Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt sour. My sour is really gentle, crab apples. You can add lots of sugar to calm them down and make crab apple jelly. Felt pen drawing, tried to make it a bit impressionistic.

Autumn and Spring painting

Posted on February 11, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Autumn, Description, Fine Art, Life, Painting, Spring, Thinking, World8 Comments

Sometimes I just have to create something different. I don’t do many paintings of abstracts, I find them difficult to do. I don’t want to have to write a long explanation of what the painting means. I love all sorts of art, but it’s hard to pin down what would be my favorite. This autumn /spring painting is acrylic on canvas. With colours that represent the seasons. The shapes are meant to represent middle age, complexity, confusion, a city scape, and the spring is simple nature. See I said I hate describing what I’m doing, and yet that’s exactly what I’ve just done! Maybe I should do a Winter/summer one?

Summer has gone

Posted on November 22, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Back yard, Flowers, Gardening, latitudes, northern and southern latitudes, Plants, Spring, SummerLeave a comment

The back yard in summer, there are still a few flowers out there now at the end of November, but nowhere near how these looked. Summer is a wonderful season if you live in the northern or southern latitudes you have that wait when the sun gets lower in autumn and only returns in the spring. I’m sure equatorial countries have some variations, but I don’t think there is such a change in temperature and light. I think plants bloom all year round. I wonder how climate change might effect plants. Will we have continuous blooms even through the winter? What have we done to the world?

Going…

Posted on November 4, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Brown, Death, Fall, fallen, Gold, Leaves, Life, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, YellowLeave a comment

Yellow, gold and brown

All the leaves fall down

Fallen in a mound

As the wind whirls round

Rain streaks the windows

As the wild storm blows

Hail mixed into icy rain

Knocks more leaves down again

Time has ended for them now

Rotten, crumbled, so they go.

Brown

Posted on October 31, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, brass, Bronze, Brown, Colour, Copper, Fall, Leaf, Leaves, Light, Poem, Poetry, SunlightLeave a comment

Brown is boring

Brown’s like grey

Such a shame

Is there no way

To be exciting

On a cold wet day

It looks so drab.

But a shaft of sunlight

Brightener of all

Lifts it to Golden brown

Or the colour of copper kettles

Bronzed or even brassy

Makes me happy

Brown can be sassy

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.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Autumn