A face

Posted on January 15, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Drawing, Ears, Eyes, Face, Fine Art, Learning, Mouth, Nose, SketchingLeave a comment

Making up faces, good practice if you don’t have anyone to draw. You can work out eye shapes and sizes, how would a long or short nose look? Big or small mouth thin or thick lips? Are the ears visible? How long or wide is the face, what shaped chin.

Drawing is a skill, practice does help. 10,000 hours is meant to make you an expert. Millimeters can change things, hair, makeup, colour, looking in different directions. Up down, sideways, three quarter view.

Please keep working, practicing, enjoy it.

Tree across the road

Posted on January 11, 2025 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colour, Drawing, Green, Life, Memories, Over the road, Sketching, TreeLeave a comment

The tree across the road a few years ago. Covered in ivy. This was drawn for an old #bandofsketchers prompt. The prompt was ivy.

I haven’t been doing these challenges for a few months. I think I ought to try again. It seems a shame that I stopped but life has been getting me down. Art is a great cure for sadness I think. I’ll try again soon.

Leaf

Posted on November 17, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Colour, Frost, Leaves, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Snow, Spring, Time, Weather, WinterLeave a comment

Leaf leaves tree

How long will it be

Before naked branches

Are clothed again?

First frost, then rain

Maybe snow will come again.

Icicles hang on gutters

Defrost as cold rain sputters

Then one day a bud bursts open.

Spring comes slowly,

Time is sullen.

In these months leaves are rotten

And autumn colours are forgotten.

Farewell friend

The end….

Red sky at night

Posted on August 15, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Camera, Clouds, Colour, Hue, Orange, Photo, Red, saturation, Sky, sky at nightLeave a comment

Now the neighbours hedge has been cut back I can see the sky better. Tonight it was overcast grey but then it glowed orange red. I took a few pictures but they didn’t show the colour I could see so I have adjusted the hue and saturation on the phone to see if I could match them, this is the best I could do.

Insect faces?

Posted on August 10, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Design, Fun, Hydrangea, incollage app, Life, Pareidolia, PhotographyLeave a comment

Hydrangea duplicated, green faces seem to emerge from the background of bricks. Pareidolia at large.

Backyard

Posted on August 10, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back yard, Colour, Flowers, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Humour, Olympics, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

There’s not enough space

I can’t get past!

I have to hop over the hose

Skip over the empty pots

Jump into the back door

When I’ve watered it all.

I’m watching the Olympics

Thinking could this be

A new green event?

Wild plants and flowers

Posted on June 25, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Buddlea, car wash, clover, Colour, Gardening, mallow, Plants, Stoke, town centre, Wild flowersLeave a comment

Walking through the middle of Stoke today, there is a small patch of land next to a car wash that was seeded with wildflowers a few years ago. Every year I walk past and I’m amazed with what springs up. I think the local bees must be happy. Just down the road from there another patch of land in front of a large billboard has become overgrown with buddlea and grass and amazing clover flowers. I hope they don’t get cut down!

Petunias

Posted on June 18, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged baskets, Colour, Flowers, Gardening, Life, Petals, Petunia, Plants, Poem, Poetry, TimeLeave a comment

I like petunias, so bright

Shine in the light

Bedding plant winner,

Trailing around the pots

Hanging from baskets

Tough as old boots

I love this gem

Of colour on a stem!

Small abstract

Posted on June 9, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Art, Colour, Fun, Gift, Metallic, modelling paint, Painting, Small paintingLeave a comment

Small abstract swirling wave pattern I gifted to someone last year. She has it on display. I don’t remember it being so metallic but it may be the lighting she has used.

I had some modelling paste that I used to build up the surface and make an impasto effect before painting over it. I guess it could crack if it was bumped or knocked. I do love experimenting.

Silver birches

Posted on May 28, 2024May 28, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Birches, Colour, Flowers, Life, lilac, noon, Poem, Poetry, Roses, Season, Spring, Summer, WoodsLeave a comment

Sunlight on birches

Silver and brown.

Spring is a blooming

In woods and on ground.

Bluebells are over

Now comes the new

Garlands of roses

Covered in dew

Clematis climbing

Lilac are blue

Purple and white

Flowers scented too.

Remember the birches

Other trees shine

Oak tree and walnut

Hornbeam and lime

Oh lovely summer

In you come soon

When sunlight is brightest

At wondrous noon.

Mallaband-Brown

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