More BCB ceramics

Posted on November 5, 2023November 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, British ceramic biennial, Ceramic, Clay, Fun, Hay, Minton tiles, Tiles, Wild flowersLeave a comment

One of the things to do at the British Ceramic biennial was to have fun making clay tiles that will grow in a wildflower meadow next spring. We made unfired tiles made to look a bit like Minton floor tiles. The clays were chosen to be different acidities so that they suited wild flower seeds. The clay was mixed with hay and pushed into moulds, then we had to make holes and push the seeds into them. Finally we pressed a shape into the top of the tile and fill the resultant spaces with different coloured slips.

Bird, 7 years ago

Posted on October 30, 2023October 30, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Bird, Butterfly, Colourful, Facebook memories, Fun, metallic pens, Pigeon4 Comments

Artrage oils drawing from 7 years ago. Popped up on my Facebook memories. I love the way you could use metallic brushes to create this. It’s sort of mid way between a butterfly and a pigeon. It’s a good memory.

Colour room

Posted on October 29, 2023October 29, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged clay play, colour room, Etruria Industrial museum, Fun, Industrial, Pinch pot, Steam engineLeave a comment

We visited Etruria Industrial museum today. This was in the colour room in the flint mill. The room had been set up for a bit of play with clay. I tried to make a pinch pot but it wasn’t very good. The cat in the window is a paper cut out, the lady doing the workshop had a witches hat.

The industrial museum is run by volunteers and doesn’t get a lot of funding. It would be good to know it will be secure in the future, but who knows what will happen in then?

Recent collages

Posted on October 21, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Collage, Digital drawing, Digitally manipulated, Duplicated, Fine Art, Fun, incollage app, Life, Photos2 Comments

Take an image, duplicate it, turn it until you are happy with it’s position. I used incollage app to create these. The original images can be a drawing, an image that has been digitally manipulated or just a photo of an object. Just experimenting and having fun.

The right size box?

Posted on October 13, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Asleep, Belly rub, Black and white cat, Box, Cat, Curled up, Fun, hermit crab, Tortoise, turtle, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

What is a cat in a box?

Cat in a box, I think they are like an upside down tortoise or turtle? Or maybe a hermit crab? Inhabiting just the right sized box…. Finding a box the right size they can pour themselves into. We have a small medium and large cat and each have tried this box. The big cat has to stick his head over the edge, the small one could fit in twice. The middle one is like Goldilocks, it’s just the right size for the box. Wiggle room to twist over for a belly rub. I sometimes tip a bit of catnip in…. Which is most appreciated…. OK… Life is good for our cats….

Playing with

Posted on October 12, 2023October 12, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Catnip, Fun, Funny, Newspaper, Playing, Snoring, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

His catnip toy…

It’s a bit old so I sprinkled some fresh catnip onto a newspaper. The reaction was astonishing, ripping the paper and quickly trying to eat the catnip. After ten frenetic minutes he’s fallen asleep and is snoring! No doubt he will wake up and play again soon… X bless

Simpler

Posted on October 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2079, Exercise, Fun, pc, Phone, too addicted to my computer, TV, Walking2 Comments

Your life without a computer: what does it look like?

I do try not to be online all the time, I don’t use a pc or laptop, but who needs them when you’ve got a phone? I think sometimes my brain is permanently plugged in…..

It’s those little hits of seratonin? They give you a brief hit of pleasure, and if I am not blogging or drawing digitally I feel empty.

But I know it’s not good for me, I find myself following vlogs and different pages and sites. I’ve got worse since I hurt my leg, and I know as I recuperate I need to do more physical things. I have to take the phone though, to measure my steps!

Things I would do without a computer.

Not get lost, I can read maps,

Not miss my favourite TV shows

Get more exercise

Go to my studio

Actually paint and draw with real, physical art supplies!

Meet with friends more.

Cat in a box

Posted on October 4, 2023October 4, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Box, Cat, Fun, nine lives, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Quantum, Schrodinger, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

Cat in a box

Schrodinger knows

Alive or dead?

It will still have

Eight lives left

Quantumly…

Art meme

Posted on September 27, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Creativity, Design, Facebook memory, Fun, Life, Meme, Poster, Questions6 Comments

I wouldn’t normally post a meme here but I love this one. I think art is so important and yet life gets in the way of people becoming artists. There needs to be the freedom to create, I don’t think people can be a square peg squeezed into a round hole. They should be allowed to do art if they want to. X

Corner

Posted on September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bricks, Collage, Digitally manipulated, Door, Fun, incollage, Life, Photos, Window5 Comments

Exercise in perspective. Digitally manipulated photo of a door and window. It’s created an apparent corner where non exists. I tried rotating the image four times until I was satisfied with this picture. I used the incollage app to do it, I was previously using the old Instagram layout app.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Fun

More BCB ceramics

Bird, 7 years ago

Colour room

Recent collages

The right size box?

Playing with

Simpler

Cat in a box

Art meme

Corner