Delicate

Posted on April 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blossom, Colours, Flowers, Garden, Petals, Poem, Poetry, Spring, stems, TreesLeave a comment

Tiny, white.

Hint of pink

Shades of green

Soft yellows

Dots of paprika orange

On a denim background.

Green stems

Hold them together

Like a couple holding hands….

Gone to a good home

Posted on April 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Friend, Fused glass, Glass, Happy, Life, necklace, Wire weaving4 Comments

Just delivered this to my friend. She is really happy with the necklace I made. The others have gone to the Waiting Room gallery in Longport, Stoke-on-Trent. They are having an open day on Saturday along with Cherished Chimneys across the road from there. I like the way it lies flat, the wire weaving looks really neat and the colours look good together.

Cafe/bar

Posted on April 13, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white, Colours, Design, Drawing, fun can lids, monoprint, Mug, paint splatters, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was cafe/bar. I haven’t been out to a cafe but I decided to use some mono printed black and white paper to create a table and mug. I added colours to define the objects and create a design on the mug. The circles on the table are meant to be splatters from paint can lids..

Yummy #bandofsketchers

Posted on April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cake, Cherries, Colours, Drawing, Food, Fun, glacè, Poem, Poetry, SketchingLeave a comment

Oh, #band of sketchers

it meant I had to eat

Cherry cake!

The prompt was yummy.

This was very

Tasty and sweet

Glace Cherries

In a madiera

Cake base!

My friends drawing of me

Posted on April 10, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged @rumfluffart, Art, Colours, Drawing, Friend, Fun, Illustrator, Life drawing, Portrait, procreate, Sketching2 Comments

This is by my friend Ruth (@rumfluffart on Instagram.) it was based on her drawing of me that she did during one of our portrait drawing sessions. I like the way she has altered it in a programme called Procreate I think. Is something I would like to use but I don’t have the right type of phone or tablet to run it.

She has a good sense of colour and her artworks are accessable and fun.

Pears in sunlight

Posted on March 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bowl, Colours, Fruit, Gardening, Kitchen, Life, Light, Pears, Photo, Spring, Sunlight, Weather2 Comments

I could crop this photo to tidy it up…but the bits of blue sky reflected off the sink and the red bowl, top left, seem to add interest. I have windows on both sides of the kitchen, dual aspect I think they call it? So I get lots of light in the kitchen on sunny days as the sun climbs higher in the sky.

Spring is coming, I can feel the warmth in the sunshine. The trees are about to come into leaf, buds of blossom will be bursting, pink and white clouds. I will have to get out and prune things like our buddliea bushes. They are thugs! And the pears? They remind me we should get our crop from our pear tree later in the year….

Stop taking photos?

Posted on March 19, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bench, Christmas wreath? Poem, Colours, Memory, Photo, Poetry, Seat, silk bowsLeave a comment

Why should I?

Seeing this on a bench.

I took a photo

Why not?

Someines memory,

A lost Christmas wreath.

Someone used to sit here?

Recalled in dead foliage

And silk bows..

Coot

Posted on March 19, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Birds, Blue, Bright, Colours, Contrast, coot, Duck, Exposure, Light, Photo, shadow, Sunlight, under exposedLeave a comment

A duck and a coot. If this was a race, the coot is winning. The twig looks like the finishing line for a rowing race. The duck is a Mallard drake, I don’t know if he’s preening or asleep? I love the ripples on the water. My phone camera has reacted to the bright light and has reduced the exposure time so it appears darker. You can move the position of your camera to affect this. If you look at an area with less bright light then the exposure would open up again. But I like the strong contrast in this image and the depth of colour. It’s difficult to see the details on the birds because they are in deep shadow.

Flying

Posted on March 13, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, black bird, Colours, Crow, Drawing, Life, monoprinting, Sketch, Sketching, soft pastelsLeave a comment

Soft pastels on grease proof paper. I was trying to use this for monoprinting but the pastels were too soft and dry. I will try and find ptooer oil pastels. In the meantime I added the flying bird over the top of the other colours. Although it’s quite simple I like it…

Wet

Posted on March 12, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, #bandofsketchers, Art, Blustery, Clouds, colouring pencils, Colours, graveyard, Rain, Sketching, Sky, Wet, Windy, yesterday's walkLeave a comment

Yesterday’s #bandofsketchers drawing, walked round Shelton cemetery and the wind was blowing and datk clouds gathered. It rained heavily for a short time. Worked from a photo… Prompt was wet, and it really was. Boldmere colouring pencils.

Mallaband-Brown

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