Flower photos today..

Posted on September 19, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Colours, Flowers, Garden, Plants, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Sunshine, Trentham, Trentham GardensLeave a comment

We went round Trentham Gardens at Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, late this afternoon, and at the far end of the garden past the tea shop and the children’s play area are a series of colourful and interesting gardens, a bit like at a flower show. In fact some of them were show garden winners from previous places like Tatton Park. There are an allotment garden and sensory and secret, plus other styles of gardens. Best of all there was still plenty of flowers in them. It made for a very pleasant walk around the gardens. Relaxed and interesting.

Lilies

Posted on September 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, art nouveau, Colours, Georgia O'keefe, Lilies, Older painting, Painting, PatternLeave a comment

I’ve duplicated this image multiplying it by four to extend the pattern. It’s another older painting. I think I was channelling Georgia O’keefe when I painted it. It is acrylic on canvas. FB_IMG_1568676663736

I was given a book about her art as a birthday present. Sadly the book was damaged when I spilt a mug of coffee over it. It’s only a small, square paperback and now some of the images are stuck together.

O’keefe was controversial as an artist. Some of her art was seen as erotic even though she was painting flowers. I am more interested in her use of colour and blending techniques. Her work is beautiful and striking.

My painting of lilies is also slightly based on images from the start if the twentieth century. I do like art nouveau. I was also trying to use fresh colours rather than a more realistic background.

Oil

Posted on September 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Description, Gravel, Oil spill, Rainbow, TarmacLeave a comment

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Oil, spilt, splits into colours an atom thick. Lying on moisture, floating on water. The iridescence is caused by defraction. Each colour is scattered like a rainbow. The gravel in the tarmac lifts and turns the sheen. Describe how the colours bleed across the ground.

Sunset

Posted on September 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beautiful, Black, Blue, Bright, Colours, Firey, Maroon, Orange, Purple, Red, Sky, Sunset, YellowLeave a comment

When the sun set tonight it as like the sky was on fire. A deep purple/blue shading down to maroon, red, orange and then yellow.

I’m not sure I have quite the right colours on my phone camera, they seem slightly more intense, but that’s to do with how the eye accommodates in low light levels.

Whatever the colours the reality was spectacular. Beautiful. Colourful. Awesome. I would have liked to see the horizon but I was going into choir practice and didn’t have the time to drive over the other side of the hill.

Blue green yellow… and a bit of orange.

Posted on September 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Colour wheel, Colours, Green, Life, Light, Photo, Window, YellowLeave a comment

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Have you noticed a theme? There are yellows, blues and greens floating around my last few posts. Maybe I’m heading towards spring colours to avoid the start of autumn turning into the drab greys of winter.

Two of these pieces of glass are replacements for the bright yellow bowl that the cats broke, let’s see how long they last!

I’d like to go back in time sometimes. There are so many things in the world that are going wrong. We don’t need to live in interesting times x.

Variegated

Posted on September 11, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beautiful, Colours, Gardening, Mottled, Pigments, Poem, Poetry, VariegatedLeave a comment

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Variegated leaves

Your identity mottled,

Yellow and Pink,

Magenta and green.

Veined and speckled,

Xanthaphyl and

Chlorophyll,

Anthocyanine.

These are pigments,

Changing light to food.

Shade loving or sunlit,

Deciduous wonders,

Delightful colours.

Wisps of fantasy,

Patterned delights,

A figment of imagination

Made reality.

Posted on September 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Altering pictures, Colours, Editing, Photo, Playing with pictures1 Comment

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Star ornament photograph. It lights up and changes colour. I have altered it in the editing suite on my phone. Not very exciting but I liked the colours. I also liked the slightly solarised effect. Am I the only one that likes learning how to do new things?

This is the original….

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Which do you prefer?

Since I’m talking windows

Posted on September 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Environment, Glass, Paint, Photos, Spode, Windows5 Comments

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A few shots of windows at Spode over the weekend. I might paint some of them. I like the geometry and angles. The touches of colours, in paints and environment. Looking out and looking in…..

Pinkish windows

Posted on September 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Colours, Environment, Light, Photo, Pink, Poem, Poetry, Purple, Sky, Spode, WindowLeave a comment

When you take a photo of an old window under purple sunsets you can get something of an interesting hue.

Ink turns pink

Sky’s surprise

Window brightened

With sunsets flight.

Glowing purple

Violet hue

Salmon sprinkled

In the blue.

Glint of crimson

Sizzles over

Bleeding sky

Paints walls anew.

He’s finished colouring

Posted on September 2, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Beads, Cat, Cheerful, Colouring, Colours, Design, FunLeave a comment

my hubby finished this. I like the fact he’s done the cat in green. Also that he’s left some of this white. I’m to blame for the beading, it was too fiddly for him.

It’s definitely a riot if cheerful colours. I’m not sure where it’s going. It might go on his side of the bedroom..

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