Selfie but I don’t like being seen.

Posted on February 10, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Colour, Design, Photography, Photos, Selfies6 Comments

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The world is full of selfies and selfie sticks. People pouting and preening. Apps that smooth your skin, add bunny ears, turn you into altered individuals that follow the latest fashion….

So here is a selfie of me.. Yes I do them, but I try and hide from them if I can. .

Maybe I should try and get one of the back of my head? Photography can be so interesting and surreal, and so can life.

And why are photos usually in colour or sometimes black and white.. Why not more yellow and blue or purple and green….. Hmmm… Maybe….

Waiting for tomorrow night

Posted on January 31, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged An exhibition of blue, Art, Blue, Colour, Design, Excited, Fun, Installation, Painting, Spod, Spode site, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

An Exhibition of Blue opens at 6pm tomorrow night. I know what I have painted but I can’t wait to see what others have done. I could have sneaked in to take a peek but I want to enjoy the suspense like waiting till Christmas afternoon before you open your presents or looking through an assorted box of chocolates looking for my favourite piece.

There are a lot of exhibitors ranging from glass and light installations to possibly found objects. I know someone has based their art on an old blue and white plate design (with a modern twist), I don’t know how my work will compare but it was a pleasure to work with the organiser to enter a painting to the exhibition.

The excitement is increased because I want to see how different people have interpreted the colour blue.

Yellow bowl.

Posted on January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Colour, Fun, Humour, Painting, Poem, Random rhyme, Tired, Yellow, Yellow bowl2 Comments

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Since I did so many posts about Blue I thought I would write a random poem about yellow. ….

Yellow bowl,

full of custard,

Bananas

Yellow bandana.

Rifle through my brain…

Yellow ochre,

yellow belly,

Lemon yellow.

Polka dot bikini.

Cadmium yellow..

Corn on the cob

Belishia beacon,

Beaches of golden yellow sand,

Yellow wands of willow,

Yellow cotton pillow

case…

Painted yellow face?

Hello yellow jello

no need to bellow…

Yellow….

I was going to include an American politician in this but thought better of it….

Willow pattern painting

Posted on January 28, 2019 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blue, Colour, Painting, Spode site, Willow patternLeave a comment

These are a couple of photos of when I painted a willow pattern plate painting. I did it because I had moved into my studio at spode and I had done a series of paintings of pottery.

I looked at various tiny images of the willow pattern pottery by various manufacturers and selected about 3 plates to do the design from. Sitting holding my phone in one hand with the canvas on a table easle is quite difficult, trying to look at photos about 2 inches Square. I made up the outer border mostly from my imagination.

Can’t wait for summer flowers.

Posted on January 27, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Flowers, Garden, Hanging baskets, Happy, Plants, Summer2 Comments

Every year I get some hanging baskets from a local nursery. They create beautiful collections of flowers and you can specify what plants you have in them. I love combinations of lobelia, begonias, fushias and pelagoniums amongst others. I’m planning to get out in the garden soon to tidy it up for the spring. The old baskets get recycled and replanted to save some of the cost.

Looking at these sunny colours has bought me a bit of joy in cold January. I hope they have for you too.

Ice

Posted on January 19, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Ice, Jack Frost, L ifem cold, Pattern, Photo, Poem, Poetry, WinterLeave a comment

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Ice like feathers,

ice like blood,

ice poured over the bonnet of a car.

Jack Frosts finger nails have skittered across

Leaving their trail of frozen air.

Ice leaps over

ice slips on,

Ice is strong till it is fractured.

Warm air makes ice wet, clammy, then it melts.

Jack Frost,

Dream maker,

gone.

Amaryllis

Posted on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Amaryllis, Blogging, Bulbs, Colour, Flowers, Fun, House plants, Life, WateringLeave a comment

I have 4 Amaryllis flowers growing this year. The bulb sends out a long shoot after it starts to grow leaves. This flower spike will grow rapidly as long as it gets plenty of water. There can usually be 1 to 4 flower buds. All my Amaryllis plants have deep red flowers but they do come in other colours.

We got another plant in a deep glass vase which was in flower. Now the flower stem has gone over (died back) but its putting out leaves. I have two more plants that I have kept for years. One still has a long leaf on it from last year. Both are responding to being watered by starting to come into leaf again.

A tip, Amaryllis go dormant for a while from autumn. You need to start watering again mid winter to get them to start to grow. If you need to repot them only go up one size. They like to be quite tight in their pots. Use a good house compost, maybe a bit sandy to stop them getting waterlogged. Then sit back and enjoy the amazing flowers.

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