Finished

Posted on August 18, 2019August 18, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Black, Blue, Eleanora st, Landscape, Painting, Spode, Spode exhibition, Spode Reflected, Spode site, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, What Spode means to me, White2 Comments

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Took all day but I finally finished this. Spent a lot of time painting the old, flaking window frame. I’m not sure the sky colour is right. I might get up early and tone it down. I’m handing it in in the morning….

It’s called Spode Reflected.

Mug

Posted on July 23, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Colour, Design, Flowers, Fun, Painting ideas, Pretty, Willow patternLeave a comment

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Random influences.

This burleigh ware blue mug. I’m thinking of painting a blue flowery pattern on a small canvas. Not sure yet and it’s not going to be a copy of this but just something pretty.

Then I want to do a few small paintings based on sections of the willow pattern design. I’ve done a few of these before.

Blueberries

Posted on July 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Blueberries, Environment, Flowers, Food, Garden, Hanging baskets, Plant, Ripening4 Comments

We have two small blueberry bushes on loan from a friend. They sit either side of the back door. One bush is sad and half died off. The other is healthy.

But it’s the blueberries on the tatty bush that are starting to ripen. As you can see they start out green, gradually swell and then the blue works it’s way over the fruit from the top to the base where it is attached to a stalk. I think they will get darker blue than this.

I haven’t been on line much today because I’ve been tidying up the jungle if a garden we have. Deadheading my hanging baskets. Watering the plants and tidying up the shed. I’m pooped!

Here are a couple of the baskets I’ve been working on. I like the multilayer look. There is ivy growing up the wall so it looks quite nice.

Blue smile

Posted on July 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Blogging, Blue, Digital doodle, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Smile, Thinking2 Comments

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I see your blue smile

Sad and sorry

Waiting to leave,

Waiting for a second

Before you go.

Before the smile fades

And you start to cry

Seeing nothing but tears.

At least you had a smile

Once….

Where was I?

Posted on July 6, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on hardboard, Blue, Design, Minton, Ochre, Painting on hardboard, Pale yellow, Penkhull, Penkhull mystery play, Red ochre, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Tiles, WhiteLeave a comment

An attempt at a Minton tile and my own design in minton colours, both for the mystery play. The one based on the minton design was hard to get right. It’s a bit wobbly. The second one has a bit of a Tudor rose feel to it. I started with the outside on the Minton copy and the inside with my own design. Im not sure it works, but when you put them together it makes a nice pattern. Hopefully they will like it for the play.

Most of the rest of the day was spent rehearsing and recovering from last nights show. These days I get tired more quickly. It’s annoying. Tomorrow is another rehearsal day. Only a week to go till the play.

Reflections

Posted on July 3, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Bricks, Brown, Daily life, Evening out, Photo, Reflections, Town3 Comments

I took this photo in the pub tonight, it was of a picture of old terraced houses and factories, but the reflections on the glass make it look odd, almost like an alien invasion.

Imagine the world a century or so ago. Electric light was just starting to be used although many people still used gas light. Someone trips a switch and bright blue light shines out… Amazing.

In actual fact there was an arc light on display in Blackpool when electricity was introduced and people came for miles to see it. (I may have got this wrong ! Don’t quote me).

Anyway it’s funny what you find interesting.

Blue

Posted on June 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Lapis Lazuli, Life, Oil paint, Painting, Sea, Sky, Titian, UltramarineLeave a comment

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I just watched a programme on TV about colours, one of which was blue. They showed the rock, Lapis Lazuli, which can only be found in a small number of places in the world including Afghanistan and California.

Lapis Lazuli was used as a paint pigment in paintings by artists like Titian. The rock is ground down to fine powder and then mixed with oil and wax to make oil paint. The resulting colour is called ultramarine and is a superb blue used in things like the blue paint in the robes of the virgin Mary in Titian’s paintings.

So how did Lapis Lazuli become blue? Sulphur rich rock, which was a pale grey brown was heated up 30 or 40 kilometres below the Earth’s surface. The intense heat and pressure apparently compresses the mineral and makes three atoms of Sulphur line up in each molecule. It is this geometry in the molecules that causes it to reflect pure blue light. (Sulphur is usually found in nature in a yellow, red, orange, brown or black form – the Volcanic moon of Jupiter, Io, is coloured by Sulphur).

Blue sky

Blue Sea.

Blue life.

Blue me

Cat doodle

Posted on June 15, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Blue, Cat, Cat drawing, Contours, Design, Heavy paper, pet cat, Shading, Windsor and Newton sketchbook, YellowLeave a comment

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I’m trying to do at least one drawing a day, this is actually the second picture I did but I’m posting it because it’s slightly different. Firstly I used a blue glitter brush pen to draw one of my cats. Then for slight shading I used a plain yellow brush pen. When it was dry I decided to use a 0.6 tip fine line black pen to draw in darker areas. I then drew lines over the darker areas and decided to do the lighter ones too. Finally after adding the lines in the background I drew a line round the edges of the blue and yellow areas and picked out any patches of white that had been missed with the blue ink at the start of the process. I didn’t take any work in progress photos. The drawing is in a Windsor and Newton sketch pad, heavy weight wire-o, A6 size. 50 sheets 170gsm /80lb.

Cirrus clouds

Posted on May 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Angel, Blue, Cirrus, Clouds, Poem, Poetry, Seagull, Sky, White2 Comments

I saw these clouds tonight. I think they are cirrus. One looked like a flying seagull? I think they were airplane con trails getting blown about on the wind.

Blue sky and wispy clouds

Flying high up above

Seagull flying

Wings outspread

Or an angel overhead.

Swooping down

And touching ground

Ultra marine blue

Beautiful hue.

Brightest clouds above

Expanding, flowing, love.

Time to collect

Posted on May 12, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blue, Centre space, Exhibition, Jupiter, Jupiter Blue, Painting, Planet, Spode heritage visitor centre, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

Time to collect my painting blue Jupiter tomorrow. Its been up for a month at an open exhibition in Newcastle under Lyme and I’m hoping people liked it. I think it will be up in my exhibition at centre space at spode visitor centre in a couple of weeks.

If you look at my art you can see I’m not painting to a theme. I just love images. I love experimenting and trying new things. I like challenging myself.

That’s exactly what I’m doing now.

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