Christmas lights switch on.

Posted on December 8, 2019December 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Choir, Christmas, Cold, Fun, Lights switch on, Night, Penkhull, Singing, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

Christmas lights switch on up at St Thomas’s Church, penkhull.

There was a fair crowd as we, the panto cast, and junior cast members stepped outside to sing in the choir. The wind was blowing coldly up over the hill. The Lord mayor lit the lights and the tree and we sang many traditional carols including Silent Night and Hark the Herald Angels sing, which are both favourites of mine.

Penkhull village brass band were playing up a storm, and Father Christmas mingled with the crowds.

One thought as we sat there was how cold it was. An hour sitting on a plastic chair, starting to shiver and shake. Makes you wonder how homeless people cope. How do they survive. In this season if goodwill to all men, let’s have some real goodwill to all men and women!

PS sorry about the photos, it was difficult to take photos. Had to concentrate on singing….

Cat time

Posted on December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Cat logic, Drink, Fun, Micro poem, Poem, Poetry, Water6 Comments

Time to drink?

Drink from a bowl? No,

Drink from a cup? No

Drink from a dish? No

The bath, it has to be the bath.

She sits and waits,

For me to put the plug in

Fill the bath slightly,

So she can drink…

Sharing my chest with a cat

Posted on December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Cat, Curled up, Fun, Relaxed, Sleep, SnuggledLeave a comment

Oof, my indoor cat has got more friendly recently, to be honest I think he’s trying to keep warm as I’m trying to use the heating less. When you have a warm jumper and a cat who needs heating? I’ve had a busy few days and I’m doing stuff again tomorrow so it’s nice to ‘warm’ rather than chill! I’m going out in a bit so he can’t stay but I will give him a cuddle when I come back. His sister likes a bit of a love but she won’t settle. She follows me round the house though.

This is what I want for our stray outside, a place to rest and be safe.

November circles

Posted on December 1, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Circles, Design, Diary, Drawing, Fun, November, SketchesLeave a comment

My thirty sketches in circles for November. Not all the same size, a bit sketchy, and I didn’t do all of them on each day. But it is a vague diary of what happened. The lighting made a strange effect on what was white paper. Still I found it an interesting challenge.

New painting plans

Posted on November 30, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Craft fair, Design, Fun, Ideas, Painting, Sketching out, Work2 Comments

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I sold a few pictures today so I need to replenish my stock… So I’m planning to paint a few more tiny pictures tonight! I’ve sketched out a few ideas. If I’ve got the energy I will start painting after I’ve had my evening meal.

Wish me luck!

Pattern

Posted on November 29, 2019November 29, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Duplicate, Fun, Mirrored, Moon, Pattern, Photo, Playing, TreesLeave a comment

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When you duplicate a photo you can get some interesting effects, like this duplicated photo of the moon through trees and looking out of a wet window. Somehow I see xrays of brains, or skulls, or pictures of alien twins, or strange little aliens with outstretched arms.

I remember looking at flock wallpaper and seeing animals, or looking at clouds and seeing dragons or elephants.

There is a name for this, but I don’t remember. I must have a very active visual mind.

Easter Island head

Posted on November 28, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Ceramics, Design, Easter island head, Fun, Hand building, Ideas, Plans, Pottery, Slab builtLeave a comment

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I’ve been asked to maybe do some pottery with a group at the warehouse at Etruria Industrial museum this morning. I’ve tried to do a digital sketch of one and I will look at photos of them. I can see how to make a slab built pot by rolling sheets of clay out and sticking them together with a bit of slip (clay and water). The only problem will be to get the air out of the clay so if it is fired it doesn’t explode in the kiln my friend has. Wish me luck. I think we will try and draw it first.

Waves of people

Posted on November 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Browsing, Fun, Life, Market@48, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

People are like the sea, they come in waves. Five minutes ago the tide was out. No one here. The next the tide is in and people drift past like a shoal of fish. Different shapes and sizes, like around a coral reef, browsing at the stalls and being caught in the tenticles of sea urchins, or feeding from the little pottery stall. ( mixed metaphors or what?) some people drift past my stall, others stop to browse. Occasionally people buy… Its all good, as they say….

Murder at the Leopard

Posted on November 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Fun, Mural, Painting, The Leopard Hotel, Wall paintingsLeave a comment

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Just been up to Burslem to try and see my paintings in the back room of the Leopard Hotel. Unfortunately they were closed. I think they run ghost hunts late in the evening so I had a look through the photos of murals I painted and spookily found this one.

The story I was told that the back room used to be split into small snug areas with wooden panelling. Apparently a woman was found in the back room. She had been Murdered, her throat was cut. I know no more about it but the mural was meant to depict it. I do remember being in the back room and hearing strange noises, it could have been the beer pumps. I would go into the bar to get away from it. I wasn’t exactly scared but felt a bit nervous.

Owls

Posted on November 18, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylics on canvas, Art, Craft fairs, Designs, Fun, Inspiration, Life, Owls, PaintingLeave a comment

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This is a tiny painting I did a few years ago, I’ve got twenty tiny canvases to paint over the next couple of weeks so I might do another one of these.

Other subjects will include Holly and Ivy, Christmas tree baubles, some snowy images and frost patterns.

Why? I have to do some art work for two upcoming craft fairs, and I wanted to do something seasonal but not too clichéd or twee. X

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