Penkhull Mystery Plays

Posted on January 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Community, Design, Drama, July 2020, Music, Penkhull mystery play, Performance, Play, Stalls, Titchy theatreLeave a comment

The time to organise this year’s mystery play at penkhull is here. But people need to get involved. After fifteen years of hard work some of the organisers are standing down. We have various deadlines and need to decide by early February whether it’s going ahead. The committee are meeting tonight and hopefully those that were involved and are involved or might want to be involved will attend. It takes a lot of effort from over 400 people to put the day on. The centre of it is usually a Mystery Play although a couple of years ago we had a ‘fallow’ year where there was no play, but the rest of the day went ahead. I guess people are busy, but it would be good to keep it going….

One of those days.

Posted on January 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Campbell Place, Car, Design, Garage, Grey day, January, Life, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Stoke-upon-Trent, Thinking, Time, Trying to sell artLeave a comment

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Grey and depressing, icy cold, big droplets of rain. Disappointing as well, I keep trying to get the car mended (someone broke my wing mirror, the glass is cracked, and someone must have reversed into my nearside wing, it’s all scraped and dented. But I rang up, and the mechanic, who is trying to find the right mirror rang in sick this morning. I will have to try again tomorrow. Then I collected some paintings from my studio to try and get into a local craft centre. But the owner has been inundated with local artists. He is interested in more work but needs to sell some art first. He has had people in but one comment he got was “is it really That much?” for one if the pieces in there. It’s the usual thing in this area, people don’t have money, or if they do they don’t want to spend it. It’s depressing (oh I’ve already said that)……

Tabby cat

Posted on January 29, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Cat, Cat portrait, Design, Poem, Poetry, TabbyLeave a comment

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Cat painting, a small little picture I did a couple of years ago.

Little cat,

Slightly stern,

Not too grumpy,

Staring out.

Where are you from?

Who is your friend?

Tiny cat,

Playful Tiger,

Bright and clever,

Looking out,

Green eyed

Neat.

Layers of a collage.

Posted on January 28, 2020January 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, Colours, Design, Glue, Landscape, Orme Art group, Paper, Paper cutting, shiny paper, Tissue paperLeave a comment

From two years ago. Turning a drawing into a collage using Christmas wrapping paper, tissue paper and a shiny, metallic party bag.

I layered up the paper using dark urple tissue paper over a pale background to try and give the idea of silhouetted trees. Having stuck the purple colour down I then cut out the metallic paper to simulate the wire mesh fence. When I cut out the tree shape I wanted to give a feeling of the texture of tree bark. Finally I added paper on either side to act as curtains.

This was at an interesting collage workshop with the Orme art group about two years ago. I enjoyed learning a new skill.

Willow pattern

Posted on January 28, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blue and white, Colour, Design, Life, Painting, Spode, Still life, Willow patternLeave a comment

Images of a painting I did of the Willow pattern ceramic design a couple of years ago. The pattern is based on a few images that I saw online and copied, so it’s sort of a generic design. Many pottery companies had their own specific design. There are variations in the positioning of figures, placement of temples and types of vegetation. This was the British attempt to copy Chinese designs.

Mill wheel

Posted on January 26, 2020January 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on water colour paper, Canal, Design, Leaflet, Leek, Mill, Staffordshire moorlands, Trent and mersey canal, Water wheelLeave a comment

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From a couple of years ago, acrylic on water colour paper. A mill in Leek, Staffordshire moorlands. Done for a leaflet about the Trent and Mersey canal. Another one of those Facebook memories that crop up that you’ve forgotten about until they pop up on your time line….

Serendiparty Art and Craft Centre, Stoke

Posted on January 26, 2020January 26, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Art centre, Blogging, Craft centre, Design, Inspiration, Life, New, News, Paintings, Somewhere to go, StokeLeave a comment

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Apologies to Google for using their map? This is a new Art Centre with local artists work being displayed and for sale. I’m really pleased that I’ve got some of my paintings there.

Its Serendiparty Arts and Craft Centre in Campbell Place, Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent. Open 10am Wednesday to Sunday. The owner Phil, is very welcoming.

If you look for http://www.serendiparty.com you should be able to find it.

Vision

Posted on January 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colours, Design, Digital drawings, Eyes, Layout app, Seeing, Senses, Sight, VisionLeave a comment

Today’s challenge on 64 million artists January challenge was to choose the sense that is most important to you.

To me my sight is the most important sense, the ability to discern colours and use them in interesting ways…..

These are a couple of digital art drawings I did on ArtRage oils and Layout a year ago. I played with colours and textures.

Tile

Posted on January 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Fire surround, Mid twentieth century, Middle aged, Middle income, Pottery, TileLeave a comment

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Probably a mid 20th century tile. I don’t know but it appeals to me. It’s tidy and subtle, a nice pinkish grey. It’s the sort of thing you would find round an old fireplace in a three bedroom semi-detached house. I guess it’s the sort of thing that would have been a favourite of a middle aged, middle income family…. Now it’s retro! IMG_20200123_222756_285

Doodling faces

Posted on January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital art, Digital drawings, Drawing, Photos, SketchLeave a comment

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I doodled this today, I love drawing and doodling. Faces are my thing really, I like drawing them and get a feeling of satisfaction if I draw them well. This isn’t a portrait, it’s just playing around with drawing tools and adding layers to backgrounds.

Just a bit of fun….

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