Performance

Posted on July 7, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged actors, audience, Fun, Life, Memory, penkhull mystery plays, Performance, Titchy theatreLeave a comment

Play under a gazebo, Titchy Theatre. We had a good attendance and people seemed to enjoy the small, two page playlets. We had a variety of performances, one play imagined life as an elevator where different floors matched with ages of life and what people do then. Like childhood, aging, and even death. Another was about memories of tandem riding, and various memories of the riders, a third about a noisy neighbour. It was really good to see people’s thoughts down on paper, and the actors enjoyed doing it despite only seeing the scripts about an hour before the performance.

Owlish

Posted on June 29, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Cartoon, Design, Drawing, Fun, Life, Owl, sketchbook app, Sketching, symmetricalLeave a comment

Doodle using the Sketchbook app on my phone. I used a symmetry tool to draw it. And various brushes to colour it in. I’ve always loved owls and I like the quirky shapes. There are so many types of owls from little owls to eagle owls, barn, snowy, long eared owls. Wonderful creatures.

Treeish

Posted on June 28, 2024June 28, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Branches, Church, Duplicated, Fun, Life, Local, Penkhull, Photo, quarter, TreeLeave a comment

A cage of bars? No tree branches quadruple. Outside our local church yesterday. The overhanging branches curves was an ideal subject to use for this image. I think it looks surreal. It’s amazing what you can do with a phone.

Japanese food

Posted on June 13, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bento box, Birthday, Celebration, compartment, Food, Fun, Japanese, Life, Restaurant5 Comments

Bento box at a local Japanese restaurant. It was my birthday treat today. I like how the various types of food are held in compartments so you can mix and match flavours. You chose when main meat or vegetarian portion and the bento comes with rice, salad, sliced pickled ginger, goyoza, sushi, all very tasty. I had roast duck with Teriyaki sauce as my main choice. It was very pleasant sharing the evening with friends and putting worries to the back of my mind.

Small abstract

Posted on June 9, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Art, Colour, Fun, Gift, Metallic, modelling paint, Painting, Small paintingLeave a comment

Small abstract swirling wave pattern I gifted to someone last year. She has it on display. I don’t remember it being so metallic but it may be the lighting she has used.

I had some modelling paste that I used to build up the surface and make an impasto effect before painting over it. I guess it could crack if it was bumped or knocked. I do love experimenting.

Mystery?

Posted on June 5, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acting, Fun, Harpers Titchy Theatre, Life, Music, penkhull mystery plays, Performance, renewal, the boat band, TheatreLeave a comment

For several years I was involved in a local community group that produced the Penkhull mystery plays. I was impressed by how the group wrote stories from scratch, made props like this green face, and organised music and stalls alongside the plays to make a wonderful mix of fun and theater for a local audience. I was sometimes involved, helping paint scenery and took small parts in the plays.

Sadly the Pandemic stopped all of this and it’s taken a few years to try and come up with New Mysteries. Firstly we are putting on a small theatre performance called Harpers Titchy Theatre, with 3 minute plays, a few stalls and hopefully some music. The plan is that if this works we can put on a 20th anniversary year Penkhull Mystery Play in 2025. Wish us luck (or a broken leg)!

Thanks for the catnip mum!

Posted on May 29, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Catnip, Fun, Happy cat, Poem, Poetry, rolling, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Loud purrs, happy fur, cats got catnip highs.

Writhing around, sniffing the ground and covered in bits of nip!

Glued to the mat, cheery cat, sitting and rolling about.

It does amaze me, how they go crazy all for a few flakes of cat mint!

Odd duck

Posted on May 29, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Allotment, Art, Blue, Canal, Duck, Floating, Fun, Life, Orange, plastic cups, plastic tubs, Project, YellowLeave a comment

Seen today in Stoke on an allotment. I’m not sure if this was someone’s art project. I could imagine it in a parade or floating along on the canal! It appears to be made of plastic cups and trays, one way of recycling them x.

Floating branches

Posted on May 26, 2024May 26, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Alien, Art, Branches, Cropped, Duplicated, Fun, Photo, Playing, Poem, Poetry, TreeLeave a comment

Imagine branches floating high

Just hanging there with no tree by

To support their weight

An oddity

Somewhere alien do you cry?

A myth, a fantasy, a spectral trick?

No all I did was crop the pic

Doubled up the photo twice

Got this image looking nice!

Voila an abstract play of tree

Made quite simply, by me!

Bizarre?

Posted on May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Alien, bizarre, Cat, Colours, Friend, Fun, imaginary, octopus, Photo, Silly, squid, TimeLeave a comment

No it’s a friends knee!

My friend was wearing a pair of trousers with abstract cats on it. At one stage the folds in the cloth made it look like a giant, one eyed alien cat was staring at me.

I can imagine a world with different coloured beasts, each of them monocular or cyclopean. Perhaps they have no need for binocular vision, especially if the planet is always foggy so you never get to see great distances. Or an ocean world with dim views of reefs full of eel like creatures? Colours would be similar to the way octopuses or squids change when attacked or showing emotions.

Whatever you want to think, but I do like the bizarreness of this photo.

Mallaband-Brown

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