Reds

Posted on December 26, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Colour, Flesh, Life, Red, Reflections2 Comments

Something about red cheers me up, going bright red, seeing a red sky, the glowing coals on a fire. The cherry red of a poker?

Red seems to signify heat and health, richness and cheerfulness. Go further along the spectrum and you get to infrared and far infrared. These colours outside of the visible spectrum can still be seen with infrared cameras, where you can then see the heat signature of objects like the heat radiating from windows and hot mugs.

Red is also the colour of life and blood. Of holding your hands up to bright light and seeing the red colour as it shines through your flesh. Red is love and hearts 💕

Black star ceramics

Posted on December 14, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Barlaston, Black star ceramics, Colour, Glazes, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent4 Comments

My husband treated me to a couple of lovely pots today from a pottery called black star ceramics. They specialise in beautiful gkazed pottery and the colours can be spectacular. I particularly like the red and yellow ones.

I know they sell the pots at Spode but I think they also sell at the Wedgwood makers market that is on the first Saturday of the month. This is out at the wedgwood factory near Barlaston, Staffordshire I think they also sell at other markets but I’m not sure where.

Red sky in the morning

Posted on December 13, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Colour, Red, Silhouette, Sky, Sunlight, TreesLeave a comment

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Shepherds warning?

The sky was on fire a few minutes ago. Such a bright red, as if the clouds were on fire. Now its faded to a pale orange. I know its just the reflection of the sun’s rays below the horizon hitting the base of a layer of clouds but it was spectacular.

I don’t think my phone gives it a true sense of how bright and gorgeous it was but it captured it better than my old one would have. I guess it must have a more sophisticated apature control. On my old phone the red would just have appeared over exposed.

Dawn

Posted on December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Dawn, Light, Penkhull, Photos, Poem, Poetry, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Sunrise, Urban view8 Comments

I just accidentally clicked on the new editor and didn’t understand it at all. My photos uploaded straight away but then I couldn’t work out how to add text? Has anyone else used it yet?

Anyway ..

Dawn,

Bright sky, blue moon, sharp stars.

Pink and yellow sparkle,

Flat blue and violet.

No clouds this morning,

Just smoke trails in the blue.

Azure hue, tinge of grey.

Twigs and branches scratch holes

Through into the night.

Fingers of dark pulling down the dark,

Dawn into Dusk.

Shapes

Posted on November 27, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Colour, Leaves, Photo, Poem, Tree, Wood4 Comments

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Sharp staccato shapes,

Shaded, curled and furled,

Rustling in the wind,

Shadowed and dried,

Veins reduced to lines,

Patterned and patinated,

Crisp and soft,

Tired but ancient,

Light as life has left you…

Remaining skeleton of tree.

Leaving leaves

Posted on November 22, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Colour, Fall, Leaf, Photo, PoemLeave a comment

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Leaves you have fallen,

Clawed the sky then slumped to the ground.

Wet, damp, cold, you shiver on pavements,

You crush together on grass,

Just a carpet of colour flavouring the world.

Only here in temperate lands, leaves fall each year.

North the evergreens take over, south the rainforest.

Here we abide in heat and cold. Sun and rain,

Leaves leave, love fades, life continues.

Pink sky at night.

Posted on November 14, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Multiple images, Pink, Red, Sky, Sleepy, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

Oh the things you can do with a bit of fluffy pink cloud and some vegetation play with it in a photo app then filter it slightly in Instagram. You can get some great effects.

The only problem is I keep dozing off after not going to bed till 4am… Oh joy.

Peeling a palette

Posted on October 27, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Colour, Is it art?, Paint, PhotoLeave a comment

When I paint in acrylic I generally use either a plate or a plastic tub as a palette to mix my paints in. But eventually it gets too lumpy and I peel the paint (which is like soft plastic or coloured PVA ) off the palette so I can start again without getting caught on lumpy bits of paint or bits that haven’t dried and muddy new paint.

But, have you ever looked underneath? It’s like magic. Beautiful colours that have not blended together too much. Plus often the surface is silky smooth as it takes on the same shape as the plastic tub or ceramic plate.

Then I take a photo, sometimes I’ll clone or duplicate it and make a pattern……

Palette

Posted on October 16, 2018October 16, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bad haiku, Colour, Palette, PoemLeave a comment

A riot of colour

Sent my soaring mind over board

Into dazzling hues

Experimenting

Posted on October 12, 2018October 12, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 3d, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Brusho, Canvas, Colour, Design, ModellingLeave a comment

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These are two small canvases that I worked on yesterday. I used a modelling medium on them to build up textures One had leaf shapes built up on it, and the other a spiral of shallow spikes.

I also bought some brusho. I’d never used it before. It’s a dust or fine crystals that you can either sprinkle on a wet or damp surface or sprinkle on dry and then add water. The colours change when you add water. For instance lemon yellow looks orange in the pot. You also only need to use tiny amounts. I ended up with a paper plate under the canvases to catch the drops. I tried to get the colours to surround the raised sections then used some acrylic colours to delineate the edges of the shapes.

I’ve left them with Etruria Artists at the warehouse to dry out.

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Tag: Colour