Early Easter drawing

Posted on March 20, 2024March 20, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black, Colours, craft group, Drawing, Easter, Happy, holographic paper, Layers, Scraper board, ScratchLeave a comment

Today I went to a craft group.

It’s something I sometimes go to, it’s the chance to experiment without doing anything serious. The group has lots of different materials and today it was scraper board. It’s a black coloured layer over the top of holographic metallic board. You scratch through and add shapes or texture. I found a stencil with patterns punched into it. There were rabbits and daffodils, tulips and egg shapes. I drew an Easter egg and added the stencils inside it. Then added spirals and Happy Easter to it to finish it off.

Hidden Coots

Posted on February 11, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged blue feet, Colours, coots, Environment, Fun, Moorhens, Nature, Shapes, Westport lakeLeave a comment

Blue footed, grey blue bodies, black heads with white blazes above their beaks. Not a good photo but my arm shakes too much so this was the best shot of the bunch!

The other birds which are similar have red blazes above their beaks, darker bodies, those are Moorhens. The photo was taken at Westport lake last weekend. I did think about going back today but I didn’t feel well enough on this grey, foggy, cold and drab day.

Glass

Posted on December 15, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bubbles, Collection, Colours, Glass, Gold leaf, Memories, paper weight, silver leaf, thirty years agoLeave a comment

Glass ball with bubbles of air in it. I’m a bit of a collector of glass paperweights. I started collecting about thirty years ago when I got two with gold and silver leaf embedded in them. My latest one was a few weeks ago when I bought a apple shaped one with glass spirals. Given my current situation I don’t think I will be buying any more.

Sunset, 3 years old

Posted on November 28, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Collage, Colours, Facebook memories, Fun, Landscape, Layout app, Life, Memory, Photo, Sunset2 Comments

I’d played with this photo of a sunset and posted it to Facebook three years ago. I think I was mesmerised by the colours. The branches add interesting structure and the chimney and small lights show humans existence in the world. I can’t recall where I took the original photo.

November sky

Posted on November 11, 2023November 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumnal, Cold, Colours, Garden Centre, Leaves, November, Photo, Sunshine, Time, View, Weather2 Comments

There’s still leaves on the trees and we are almost half way through November! The air hasn’t been very cold so the leaves are only gradually turning autumnal. And we have not had too much strong wind here so they haven’t blown off yet. This was the view from the car park at the garden centre today. A lovely blue sky, bright sunlight from a dazzlingly low sun, trees still in leaf. Feels like summer except it was quite cold.

Church window

Posted on November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged All Saints church, Beauty, Church, Colours, Fine Art, Historical, Leek Road, Light, Stained glass, Stoke-on trent6 Comments

Gorgeous window at All Saints church on Leek Road Stoke-on-Trent. The colours really are bright and spectacular. This is at the rear of the church (but on the left hand side looking from the road). It’s such a busy road, it’s surprising how clean it looks. Whether it was washed for the ceramics festival, I don’t know.

Leaves

Posted on November 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Asleep, Autumn, Cold, Colours, Dying, frosty, Leaves, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Time2 Comments

Dying, falling, asleep

Red, green, brown

Gold and yellow

Pallid light breaks

Over crisping leaves.

Frosty, foggy, cold,

Mist and mizzel.

Wet rain drips

From sullen trees.

A sketchbook page

Posted on October 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, French Impressionists, Hand, Renoir, Sketching, summer challenge, Time5 Comments

Trying to draw part of a Renoir painting yesterday was hard work. I didn’t get the shape exactly right, and trying to use felt pens was hard too as I only had a limited range of colours. I didn’t do a good job of the hand on the woman’s shoulder, the felt pens bled and I really should have used a fine liner pen. But at least I completed a challenge.

Eye to eye

Posted on October 14, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Colours, Digital drawing, experimental, Green, Orange, Repair, Stylus, Tablet2 Comments

Another digital drawing from a few years ago. Also drawn on my tablet. I think I was trying to add some autumnal colours to my drawing. I love experimenting and third app I was using allowed you to add gradient fill to my drawing. I really must get my tablet fixed.

Pelargoniums and Surfinia

Posted on September 30, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Gardening, generanium, Hanging basket, Life, Memories, pelargoniums, Petunias, Photo, Plants, Surfinias2 Comments

Oh I do like a good hanging basket. This is one from a couple of years ago, I think it was one I planted myself. The red flowers are pelargoniums although generally they are called geraniums. The purple ones are Petunias which are also called Surfinias. It’s interesting how names can be changed for fashion or trademark reasons.

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