Art in the window

Posted on January 30, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Exhibition, Fine Art, Fun, Local history, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Orme Art group, The Brampton museum and art gallery4 Comments

Orme Art Group Exhibition in the display window at the Brampton museum and art gallery until the end of March 2024.

Orme Art Group is a group of local artists that meet up in Newcastle under Lyme in Staffordshire. We have annual exhibitions but also try and get our art displayed in other venues. The groups art is varied, colourful and interesting. I think we compliment each other and create beautiful pieces of work.

The Brampton museum and art gallery is in Newcastle under Lyme and has a variety of displays and exhibitions and has a lot of local historical information and knowledge. There is a vintage cafe in the museum so you can get a hot drink and hot and cold food and cakes. Worth a visit.

Alien?

Posted on January 26, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Alien, Art, ArtRage app, Design, Digital drawing, Experiment, Finger painting, Fun, Pattern, Sci fi, Stained glass2 Comments

Playing with Artrage again. I started out trying to create something like a stained glass window, but it morphed into a more sci-fi style image x

Made a cat

Posted on January 25, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged biscuit firing, Cat, Clay, Fun, Glaze, hollowed out, Learning, Pinch pot, Porcelain, Pottery, Sculpting4 Comments

I tried my hand as (bad) sculpting yesterday. I think because I bodged this together there might be trapped air and I am a bit worried this might explode or the tail or front legs fall off in the kiln. I did hollow it out to make that mess likely, and using that extra bit of clay I made a pinch pot in the shape of a flower. I expect both pieces to shrink when they are biscuit fired and then I might glaze them. Anyway it’s a bit different to painting. X

New choir

Posted on January 17, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Choir, Fun, Library, monthly, Music, new choir, new friends, Singing, two part harmonyLeave a comment

I missed choir last night so I was pleased to go to a brand new one tonight! It’s monthly on the third Wednesday of the month in a local library. They have got funding to run a choir for at least a year. My friends from the Boat Band, who run other choirs in Stoke on Trent were leading it.

It was a cold and frosty night but 16 people turned up! Three of us were choir members but the rest were new to singing and wanted to see what it was like. We learnt by repeating phrases and didn’t use sheet music and it was…. Amazing,

We managed to sing in two parts, then three, we managed to sing low and high harmonies. By the end of the evening everyone was buzzing, we even thought of giving the group a name! Me? I loved it. I hope it gathers force and keeps going X

Wassail!

Posted on January 13, 2024January 13, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apple tree, flaming torches, Fun, Life, Music, Penkhull, penkhull brass band, penkhull mystery singers, Wassail4 Comments

Imagine 500 villagers with flaming torches. Domesday Morris dance group amongst them wearing ‘tatters’ (white shirts and black trousers and boots with waistcoats with strips of cloth hanging loose, topped with hats covered in ivy and bird feathers.

Plus Penkhull brass band, and us, the Mystery Singers choir regaling the crowd with various Wassail songs.

We walked around the boundary of Penkhull and sang in front of the ancient ‘bloody’ apple tree halfway down Trent Valley road, then around to local pubs to sing a wassail to all of them. For the first time in ages I felt happy.

Metallic cat

Posted on January 10, 2024 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged black card, brush strokes, Cat, Fun, ginger cat, Metallic paint, Sketching, Watercolours4 Comments

Someone bought some metallic paints in to an art group I go to. I could have painted flowers but I did a ginger cat instead. I enjoyed using curving brush strokes. It only took a few minutes to paint but it cheered me up.

I have metallic paints somewhere in the house but I can’t find them. I intend to have a clear out so hopefully they will turn up.

Glitterballs

Posted on November 29, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Fun, Glitter ball, incollage app, Memories, Music, Photo, punk rock, Reflected, Torch4 Comments

Sometimes I play punk pop music (blonde, ultravox etc) get a torch and shine it on the glitter all in the living room! Totally bonkers but I like remembering my youth.

Also the sunlight through the back window sometimes catches the globe and sparkles shine around the room. I am a very visual person!

Sunset, 3 years old

Posted on November 28, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Collage, Colours, Facebook memories, Fun, Landscape, Layout app, Life, Memory, Photo, Sunset2 Comments

I’d played with this photo of a sunset and posted it to Facebook three years ago. I think I was mesmerised by the colours. The branches add interesting structure and the chimney and small lights show humans existence in the world. I can’t recall where I took the original photo.

Need more miniatures!

Posted on November 27, 2023November 27, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Christmas present, Crafts, Creative, Fine Art, Fun, Life, Miniatures, Painting6 Comments

I’ve sold half of my miniatures in the last couple of days, I’m only charging £2 and the canvases are 80 pence so it’s hardly a goldmine, but I’m enjoying people liking them! So now I need more of them to paint. I’ll try and get some done this week!

I think they make nice Christmas presents or stocking fillers. X

Concert time

Posted on November 18, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Choir, Christmas, Church, concert, Fun, Life, Music, Penkhull, Singing, St Thomas's Church3 Comments

If you’re in the area why not come to our concert in a few weeks time. You’ll be supporting Penkhull Players and our plans to put on another pantomime in the future. We are practicing ancient and modern songs, there will also be solos and poems. Its going to be fun.

Mallaband-Brown

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