Fire

Posted on July 17, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged acrylic on cardboard, Fire, Glowing, Hot, Molly Leigh project at BArts, Painting, Scenery, TiredLeave a comment

Today I painted a fire for the play Who is Molly Leigh…. Not the fire surround or the hearth, or the objects around it, but a piece of cardboard with a brick chimney backing painted on it and a coal fire burning strongly in the grate.

I asked another maker what she thought and she felt the flames should be more yellow and red, but the photo I worked from showed bright white flames surrounded by glowing yellow, orange, and red. It’s funny how people’s imaginations have stereotypical ideas of how things should look. I really enjoyed adding bright colours in between the coals to make it look really hot.

Digital “fire”

Posted on August 30, 2024August 30, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 7 years ago, ancient elements, Art, ArtRage oils app, Drawing, Fire, Memory, SketchingLeave a comment

A digital drawing I did 7 years ago from my Facebook memories. It was one of four, earth, wind, water and fire. Each was a face portraying the four ancient elements. I don’t know if I posted all of them on Facebook. Done in Artrage oils.

Random

Posted on May 17, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, acrylic on cardboard, B'arts, Fire, hearth, Kettle?, molly leigh, Project, RandomLeave a comment

Random bit of set painting I did for the Molly Leigh project at BArts at the weekend, a type of sketch? I put it in for the #bandofsketchers prompt as it’s very random…. Acrylic on cardboard

Mouth

Posted on May 7, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fire, lava, magma, Prompt, Sketching, VolcanoLeave a comment

My friend did a river mouth image for this prompt. It gave me an idea, so instead of drawing a mouth with teeth I decided to draw the mouth of a volcano starting to erupt. For #bandofsketchers prompt. ‘mouth’, digital drawing.

Air

Posted on April 26, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Air, Blurry photo, Clouds, Earth, Fine Art, Fire, Spirit, Water, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Blurry photo of my painting Air, part of four images including Earth, Water and Fire. I imagined the spirit of Air, rather like the faces of cherubs with puffed out cheeks blowing storms across ancient mariners maps the yellow and orange at the top is the sun being hidden behind clouds. I like the cheeky and mischievous face that stares out of the painting. It’s probably a little anachronistic, almost Victorian in style, but it’s a semi abstract acrylic on canvas. I just wish I’d taken a better photo. It is for sale.

Air

Posted on March 18, 2024March 18, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Air, Art, Blue, Earth, Fine Art, Fire, Imagination, Painting, Time, WaterLeave a comment

A painting from a few years ago, a bit burry with camera shake. It’s one of four I did to represent Earth, Air, Fire and Water. It was a series I really enjoyed. Working with the flow of paint, allowing my imagination free rein. It’s acrylic on canvas. Two of the set had already been sold and I was thinking of painting replacement images. I wish I had, I’m not sure I ever will. X

Snack

Posted on October 8, 2023October 8, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bars, calico Burslem plate, crumpets, Fire, Food, Fork, Gas, Hot, Life, Memory, Plate, Poet, Poetry, Snack, Tea2 Comments

Crumpets toasted with butter.

Delightful taste

Hot and scrumtious

When I was young

We toasted them

On the gas fire bars!

Used a fork to hold them

That was before we got

A toaster

Tasty

Too hot

Posted on September 7, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Digital, Drawing, Experiment, Fire, Flower, Fun, Heat, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Sun2 Comments

Flower or Sun?

Sunflower fun

Digitally drawn

Edited with love

Playing with colour

To make it less bright

Always experiment

Like a digital atom

Exploring it’s orbit

A phantasm of heat.

Three hours sleep.

Posted on March 29, 2023March 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Brain, Dreams, Emotions, Fire, Insomnia, Mind, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Sleep, Struggle, Tired6 Comments

Grey Dawn awoke me

Went to bed at three

Read a book to soothe

But could not grasp sleep

Dreaming the word eluded

My mind on fire

Swirling like smoke

Snap a nap then awoke…

I want to find a way in

To oblivion.

Hot

Posted on March 21, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Fire, Hot, Life, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was hot. I drew flames and then use photodirector to add texture and pattern. I liked imagining the different colours in flames. I think this has a watercolour feeling to it. The app gives it a more even look, as without it the felt pens I have used look a bit rough because the tips of them are wearing out and getting broken and the ink is drying up.

Mallaband-Brown

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