Don’t trust the results!

Posted on April 30, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 3d, bolt game, Colours, Hand eye coordination, IQ, Play, Screws, Silly, Test, ThinkingLeave a comment

I frequently get games popping up in adverts on my phone and sometimes they say they will measure your IQ?

I just played a game where you ‘unscrew’ bolts that hold a building together. You have to rotate the building in 3d to find the bolts, and also you have to chose the correct colours to remove so that they slot into three matching coloured holes at the top of the page.

I started and kept going to the end, when the counter for IQ got over 120 I was surprised, but as I removed the screws it kept increasing (it didn’t get more difficult). When it finally got to 600 at the end of the game my scepticism peaked!

Silly game, just a test of hand eye coordination.

Cataract

Posted on April 29, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blurred, Colours, Distorted, Eyes, Fed up, Life, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sad, ViewLeave a comment

Abstract eye

Blur like romantic film

Smeared out colours

View impeded

Glare at night

Sunshine glows

Tones changed

Eyes dimmed

Distorted life

Fed up.

Finished planting pocket

Posted on March 26, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, Blue, Ceramics, Colours, Glaze, Orange, planting pocket, Plants, Pottery, Slip1 Comment

This is the planting pocket I made at BArts pottery project a few weeks ago. It was made with rolled out terracotta clay and coloured with bright slip. I used plants to impress patterns into it’s surface. It looked OK, but the colours intensified during firing. I think they are almost too bright. I hope when it has soil and a plant in it, it will look nicer. X

Almost done

Posted on February 15, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colours, Experimenting, Impasto, old textures, Possible painting, Tulips, wilting flowersLeave a comment

Sad tulips, they’ve almost wilted. The result is an almost abstract mix of colours, like impasto oil paints, starting to merge and mingle.

I will have to throw them out tomorrow, but if I can get a photo of them in a bright shafts of sunlight that might be interesting…

Sky

Posted on January 15, 2025January 15, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Colours, Dawn, Description, Dusk, ever changing, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sky, View, WorldLeave a comment

A crystal ball above our heads

A droplet of water magnified

Held to the ground, pulled down,

Curtains draped with fog

Moisture smears the view

Like glasses rinsed and wiped?

The sky’s the thing

Ever changing

Sometimes black, grey, bright.

Rainbows and thunder

Rain and snow, a marvelous show.

Is it a red sky tonight?

Cadmium colours

Posted on December 28, 2024December 28, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged 1980's, Cadmium, Colours, Fine Art, heavy metals, Orange, Pallette, purifying colours, Red, Yellow4 Comments

In the 1980’s My hubby worked for a few years in a cadmium colour factory, they processed the raw pigments to get colours from pale yellow, through orange to red and deep matoon red. He bought me jars and jars (empty coffee jars) of the colours home, but as they are made of a heavy metal I decided to give them to a friend who knew how to use them and grind her own oil paint.

I don’t know if he was allowed to bring them but I think he knew I would love the colours and I did. They were the purest colours I had ever seen. To quote Rudolphs song “you could almost say they glowed”. As Cadmium is similar to Lead though, I decided not to use them.

Sunset tonight

Posted on December 15, 2024December 15, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Bright, Clouds, Colours, Orange, Photograph, Silhouette, Sky, Sunset, View, YellowLeave a comment

I saw that the sunset was developing from my side of the hill, but we are blocked from sunsets by that hill. So I jumped in the car and took some photos on the other side. This was one of the best, penkhull, England. 14.12.24. I think one cloud looks like a shark!

Time flies

Posted on November 15, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Art project, Colours, Crafts, Design, dragon fly, Fly, fridge magnet, Time flies, WatchLeave a comment

When I tried to make a “time flies” dragonfly fridge magnet. Made out of air drying clay. I painted it in bright colours. The hole was for a watch to tell thr time. Made about three years ago. I added magnets on the back. It eventually fell off and broke.

Kaleidiscope

Posted on November 12, 2024November 12, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bright, Colours, Gift, Glitter, Kaleidiscope, Memory, Pattern, symmetrical, TimeLeave a comment

I bought a kaleidiscope as a Christmas gift today, it will be part of a few gifts for a young relative. I had one as a child and I used toove the patterns it made so I aways looking for a similar type.

I’ve duplicated one photo I took through the viewing end because it was hard to line up the pattern with the lens of my camera, it gives a reasonable example of how it looks.

Leaves, WIP

Posted on November 6, 2024November 6, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Autumn, Colours, Decisions, Fine Art, Leaves, Painting, Progress, Work in progress1 Comment

I went out and picked up a few leaves today as there hadn’t been much rain lately and they are starting to turn interesting colours. I might paint the background as a puddle with sky and clouds reflected in it. I will have to consider it. Acrylic on canvas, work in progress….

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Colours