Kitchen at night

Posted on May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Colours, Fun, Night, Photo, Plants, Random, Reflections, Windowsill2 Comments

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I am just putting my phone on charge and I looked up and saw the light from the back door porch shining through and reflecting off the walls and the windows. As you can see I’m growing a lot of Christmas cacti and other plants including a baby oak and a sweet pepper plant on the windowsill. There are also glass mobiles hanging up there. Why? Because I got burgled twenty years ago and as well as an alarm I decided to make it as awkward as possible for anyone to try an climb through a window without knocking stuff off.

I think this might eventually turn into a painting. Night all

Quiz name?

Posted on May 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Fun, Ideas, Name, Questions, Quiz, Random, Team, Texting, Thought, Time, VideoconferencingLeave a comment

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I’m part of a quiz team which is meeting online for the first time, and we need to decide on a name for us.

It’s complicated because the team will be videoconferencing and texting at the same time… Technology. As they say its a steep learning curve.

Then of course there’s the questions. I think there might be a theme to them. When I went to a ‘real life’ quiz run by the same people the theme was seasonal. I don’t have a clue about the questions. As long as they are not music or sports based.

So wish us luck and hopefully by Monday we’ll have a name.

Fun

Posted on May 14, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white sketch, Cat, Cat toy, Challenge, Drawing, Fun, Playing, Pouncing, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Following the cat theme.

As she is so quick, I had to take a quick photo of her, then I drew her and added in the background. The toy has cat nip in it, it’s fun for her to chase and jump.

Urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent challenge, day 26….5b pencil in an A4 cartridge paper sketch pad.

Sleeping cat

Posted on May 13, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Fun, Humans v cats, Humour, Photo, Sleep, Tired cat, Tom catLeave a comment

Cats are good at sneaking into places when you are not looking. Here’s our Tom cat. Now my hubby can’t sit down because the cat has picked his armchair to lie down on. My hubby has gone to bed.. (I sometimes think in the game of cats v humans, our cats have won!).

Add to this getting shares of food we are eating, and you can see they are onto a good thing!

Usk challenge, day 25, ‘dizzy’…

Posted on May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Bathroom, Dizzy, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Life, Sketching, Spinning, Usk challenge Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

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Dizzy? How do you draw that? I spun round in the bathroom and then decided to do a panoramic drawing. Only one object missing (lol).

I was trying to think about how to depict dizzy, I almost tried to add a bit of blurring, like motion blur. But that wouldn’t be true to life. I could also have drawn our dizzying array of books. But I think people already know about that. So to the tune of ‘you spin me, baby, right round’, I will pinwheel into the distance, byeeee!

Drawing challenge day 24.

Posted on May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Cat cushion, Crochet, Design, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Owls, Sofa, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Yesterday’s challenge was draw a sofa, so I did, with my two owl bags staring back at me! Also the brown throw, two green, crocheted blankets, a stripy cushion, a cat cushion with polka dots, another multi coloured throw, all trying to hide a very old, scruffy sofa. The one where the cats clawed a hole in the back. The one where I fixed it, by painting the pattern on some old canvas, and then stapling it in place. The one where subsequent cats have shredded the back corner again.

The sofa should be recognised as a historical monument.

Today’s challenge will probably be equally odd.

Turned the whirlpool into a seashell.

Posted on May 12, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital manipulation, Drawing, Fun, Morphing drawings, Pattern, Photo director app, Seashell, Sketching, WhirlpoolLeave a comment

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I tried to change the whirlpool into a seashell… Then I added gold glitter kiss paint. It looks like sand. I put it through the photo director app , there is a way of creating bits flying off the picture. In the animation it looks like the seashell is under water, the bits coming off look like they are floating. Totally random result. I wish I could share it here, but it’s on my Instagram account. X

Using a new app.

Posted on May 10, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital editing, Drawing, Eyes, Fun, Glitter, Learning, Photo director app, SketchLeave a comment

The original sketch, with a bit of colour added, I did cat like eyes, added some gold glitter.

Then I used an app a friend recommended called photo director.

I was able to clone a section of the drawing and add a layer of old paint. I think I’m going to like using the app. It’s a bit hit and miss at the moment, but I’m learning all the time…

Love, today’s challenge, day 22.

Posted on May 10, 2020May 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Challenge, Drawing, Fun, Love, Sketching, Tractor, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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He loves his tractors, I love him, I’m not sure I love his hair.

I just realised how long my hubby’s hair is getting. If I cut it will he be like Sampson and lose his strength? Should I put it in a pony tail? He does have the look of a mad professor!

Anyway I did this one early, I’m usually a lot later doing a sketch for our Stoke Urban Sketchers challenge, but the prompt was love. My hubby was a good model, and including the tractor calendar just worked. If you look the little drawing above the bowl on the wall is meant to be me sketching. My friend did a caracature of me and its on the wall there. X

Be the moon…

Posted on May 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged "moon" photo, Friends, Fun, Humour, Loo roll, Me as the moon, Photo, Playing, Something to do, Space, Toilet roll tubeLeave a comment

Turn yourself into the moon! With a toilet roll. My friends in Australia are doing this. Third one I added some dots for stars and sprayed black around the third on in a sketcher app.

Funny how you can create things so simply. I found the most difficult thing was to line it up, I took a few photos and on a lot of them I could see the blue paintwork in our bathroom. Plus it’s exposing my face to the world! Don’t laugh too much!

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