Anyone see a face?

Posted on October 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Clouds, Face, Flower, Fun, Life, Pareidolia, Pattern recognition, Photo, PinkLeave a comment

A fellow blogger mentioned Pareidolia today because he noticed he could see a face in a piece of lichen. Of course I then had to look back over my recent photos to see if I could find anything that looked like a face?

I’m one of those people that see faces in everything. I had to get rid of my shower curtain as I could see five or six bubble faces in it which was quite disturbing! I wondered if the designer had done it deliberately!

When I was a child I would often lie on the grass and looked up at cloud faces and animals, elephants chasing camels across the sky….

I might write a poem about that….

Old goat

Posted on October 20, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Doodle, Drawing, Fun, Goat, Layers, Pattern, Picasso idea, Sketchfu, Years agoLeave a comment

Drawing I did at sketchfu several years ago before the site closed. Basically a doodle with a bit of low opacity to colour the background like watercolour. I was trying to get a Picasso effect.

Green man ideas

Posted on October 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Green man, Layout app, Leaf, Photo2 Comments

Just played with some photos of a single maple or sycamore leaf. I added some lines and patterns and ended up with three different green man ideas. Maybe one day I will turn these into cards? I enjoy tweaking things and making something different.

Singing on Zoom

Posted on October 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apologies, Boat Band, Choir, Fun, Music, Random, Rio Grande song, Singing, WordsLeave a comment

Just finished a zoom singing session with some friends from a choir. The choir leader Sings and we are all muted, so all you can here is her and her partner and yourself. If you unmute the timing of the music is all put. So that people’s voices come in at different times. It’s funny but not productive.

One thing we have been doing is sharing pictures of model boats and even a painting of a boat because we are being led by a group called the Boat Band, talented musicians. Look them up on YouTube?

Apologies if I should not have used the words. I will take this post down if I have to.

Posted on October 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Autumn, Autumn colours, Colours, Fun, Layout app, Leaves, Life, PhotosLeave a comment

Doing my usual trick of multiplying photos makes these abstract patterns. I love the spectacular autumn colours. Ot as brash and gaudy as the trees over in the USA. I like the subtlety of our trees. Perhaps we don’t have the right climate conditions to bring out very bright colours except in Acers, or maybe we have different trees? Anyway I hope you enjoy these fun patterns.

Autumn drawing

Posted on October 18, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #band of sketchers, Art, Colours, Drawing, Fun, Leaves, Life, Top of the stairs, Top windowLeave a comment

I just drew this, it started to get dark but it’s our little acer tree under the Walnut tree, also willow branches, Holly and buddlea.. The view is out of our side window at the top of the stairs. The acer turns deep red and orange and the walnut is starting to go yellow. The Holly is deep green but by the time I got to it, it was going really dark so that part was drawn even more quickly than the rest. This was for our #bandofsketchers prompt today ‘autumn’ the buddlea was also quickly sketched.

Daft alphabet

Posted on October 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alphabet, Colouring, Drawing, Fun, Learning, Letters, Random idea, Screens, Text, Typing, Writing6 Comments

I was reading a friends blog and she was explaining that she knows some children that use screens all the time so their handwriting isn’t good.

Thought if you added drawings to the letters you could make them interesting and fun. But it’s hard to think what to do, and I’m sure it’s been done before.

Thought I’d concentrate on capital letters first. Some would be easy, like a D turned into a dogs head, or an S for Snake. I’ve doodled a few ideas, greens for consonants, red for vowels.

I don’t know, it needs work, but it could be fun. For instance I’ve turned F into a piece of pie, and V into clock hands, but V could be pie? If I was doing this for real I’d make the shapes more recognisable and also turn it into a colouring game….

Batik yin yang cats

Posted on October 16, 2020October 17, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Batik, Cat, Colours, Design, Dye, Framed, Fun, Workshop, Yin yang4 Comments

I went to a Batik workshop about three years ago when I first got my studio at Spode. I’d never done it before, but basically we used hot liquid wax as a resist to dyes. When you paint coloured dyes over the pattern you make, the colours are not absorbed into the cloth or canvas where the wax had been painted. Then you have to het a hot iron and paper and iron the wax out with the paper between the cloth and the iron so the wax gets absorbed into the paper. There is probably a clearer way of explaining, but as I say I only went to one workshop. My friend made this heavy frame for the yin yang cats. There is glass in it to protect the fabric. I was rather pleased with the result.

Cat and ball ⚽

Posted on October 16, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged ball, Cat, Chase, Dribbling, Fun, Kitchen, Life, Living room, Ping-pong, Playing, Stairs2 Comments

Our cat loves this ball, it’s a ping-pong ball covered in a knitted stripy fabric.

Suddenly there will be a clatter and the cat, who takes the ball upstairs in her mouth, is chasing it downstairs, then into the kitchen or along the living room floor.

She bat’s it backwards and forwards between her front paws, or under the settee then pulls it back out with her claws. The game goes on for half an hour or so. In which time she will run up and down stairs several times. If she was a footballer she would be a premiership star!

Last night I started throwing the ball up stairs and then she chased it back down. Having cats are fun.

The tail of the dolphin

Posted on October 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Adolescent, Crowd, Devon, Dolphin, Fun, Holiday, Life, Sea, Summer, Swimming12 Comments

We’d been out all day on holiday one summer in Devon, we came back to the caravan we were staying in. A crowd of people were on the beach and some people were in wetsuits about thirty yards out in the sea. I saw a dolphin so decided to swim. Didn’t know how long it would be around so I just took my glasses and shoes off and got in fully clothed! I swam between the crowd at the shore and the ones further out. He, the dolphin (oh dear clearly male) kept swimming backwards and forwards and as I was in the middle he kept swimming next to me! After an hour I swam back in shore. Why do I know it was a male? Er, a long appendage! There was a notice on the campsite the next day. You can catch illnesses from dolphin breath out of their blowhole. They say swimming with dolphins is relaxing, but I didn’t expect that! The dolphin it turned out was an adolescent male called Georges x

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