Hubbys cat painting

Posted on January 1, 2026 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on board, Colourful, Creative, Hubby, Life, Loss, Missed, Painting, thoughtful1 Comment

He didn’t paint much, but this painting was one of our first cats, he also did a tornado shaped painting in many colours, and a sunflower painting (all acrylics on board). These were his efforts at creating some exuberant pieces of art.

He also made drawings which he did in an A4 sized hardback blue book. It’s crammed with notes and thoughts. Often quite disjointed, he was by training a chemist/physicist. That didn’t stop him enjoying the artistic side of life. I will always miss his thoughtfulness and quirky creativity.

Upside down/ sideways poppies.

Posted on May 24, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black, Bright, Colourful, Gardening, Glowing, Green, Grey, Poppy, Red, reflected lightLeave a comment

I took this photo and realised that it’s been swivelled round somehow. I think is sideways or upside down. So it looks a little odd.

I also like the colours, red, green, pale grey and dark grey. And of course the black in the centre of the flowers, the colours are brilliant in the sunshine. The shapes give it an abstract feeling.

Lovely flower

Posted on April 18, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Colourful, Flowers, Gardening, Hope, hopes, Life, Memory, Photo, Plans, Thinking, YardLeave a comment

I don’t remember taking this photo. I think it might be from a free photo library. It’s in my media files. Anyway I just want to start planting up my pots with lovely flowers like this. Ideally I’d like a friend to be here to keep an eye on me and perhaps help with heavier pots. I love creating a colourful garden in the yard for the summer. Fingers crossed I can still do it.

What is this?

Posted on April 9, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Bold, Chaos, Colourful, expressive, Fine Art, Life, PaintingLeave a comment

Acrylic on canvas I painted today. I wanted to paint a bold abstract which doesn’t have a name and I spoke to a fellow artist to ask what she thought. I almost called it Migraine!

She put her art therapy head on and felt it could represent emotions wanting to escape, perhaps bottled up anger. Certainly it looks a bit like a Catherine wheel. I think the outer part looks like flames. It’s not calm. It’s expressive, but also chaotic. Felt good to paint it. X

Digital experiment

Posted on January 5, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Collage, Colourful, Digital, Drawing, incollage, New, Photodirector, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Sketch, TimeLeave a comment

Draw, edit, play, learn.

Check, change, design, duplicate,

Adjust, layer, fisheye, erase,

Layer, adjust enjoy, publish.

I think £40.

Posted on August 6, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Chinese meal, Chopsticks, Colourful, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2022, enjoyable, Food, spicy, Tasty, TreatLeave a comment

What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it?

I went to a Chinese restaurant recently in my home town. We spent a little more than usual. Possibly double the cost than I usually pay? I don’t go out very often anymore unless it’s for a coffee or tea. It was a real treat and gave me a chance of using chopsticks for a change.

The food came in a few courses, starter, then soup, various main selections with rice, then a tasty dessert. Unfortunately I can’t remember the names of the various dishes. But they were all well presented, colourful, and well spiced. It was definitely worth it. I don’t have any photos of the food. It was too nice to waste time on taking pictures.

Old digital drawing

Posted on May 19, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colourful, Digital drawing, Drawing, Memory, Sketchfu, sketchfu website, SketchingLeave a comment

Drawn on the old sketchfu website. I used a circular tool and layered up the colours, then I used a smaller circle set at a lower opacity to add the shade and highlights. It was a really simple site to use, I wish it was still open for use.

Alliums

Posted on May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged alliums, Colourful, Day out, Dorothy Clive garden, Garden, Gardening, onions, Plants, VisitLeave a comment

Alliums, a form of ornamental onion. Photo taken at the Dorothy Clive garden today. I really enjoyed seeing such a lovely garden. I wish I could reproduce it at home. Gardening is such a, wonderful skill. I wish I had the energy to do it

Make up

Posted on April 14, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Blue, Colourful, Drawing, Fun, glow up, Makeup, Sketching, TV programmeLeave a comment

I’m just watching a TV programme called “glow up” about creative makeup artists. I decided to experiment and create my own “look”. It’s just a digital drawing in Artrage using metallic and non metallic colours. I wasn’t bothered about making it pretty. I was just playing with it.

Yellow

Posted on April 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Colourful, Drawing, Fun, Sketching, Uranium glass, YellowLeave a comment

Yellow vase, imagined drawing in Artrage app. My mom used to collect vases made out of Uranium glass. It’s called that because it uses Uranium to colour the glass. It can glow in he dark I think? It’s usually a cloudy greenish yellow. #bandofsketchers prompt was yellow.

Mallaband-Brown

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