Soon it will be autumn

Posted on August 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Blogging, Christmas, Colours, Fun, Leaves, seasons, Veins4 Comments

The leaves will turn soon, green turning to golds and oranges, the wind blowing through the branches, stripping them until they are bare. Cold and frosty mornings crisping the leaf litter. So that eventually the skeletons of their veins are exposed. Children making prints from the leaves, painting them and pressing them down onto paper. Making them into patterns. Making them into wreaths and table decorations. Using gold and bronze spray paint to cover them. Adding a bit of Holly or Ivy and a red candle for Christmas cheer.

After autumn, Winter chills, usually wet now instead of snow. The branches bare until Spring arrives. Then buds, expanding into leaves again. Back to Summer, heat, flowers, scents, shimmering haze. Life.

Lizard

Posted on August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blocks?, Blogging, Confused, Digital drawing, Fun, Green, Lizard, Orange, Orange and green, Sketchfu2 Comments

Hitting the wrong buttons again… So for some reason I’ve got this list of categories above. I have no idea how to delete it!

I was going to talk about my digital drawing of a lizard. I’d originally just drawn the background but decided to add this because I liked the idea of camouflage. It was drawn at a now defunct website called sketchfu which closed a long time ago. It had simple tools, but I could draw what I wanted to. Freedom in art is wonderful!

So you want to read the paper hooman?

Posted on August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Claws, Fun, Humour, Life, Newspaper, Photo, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

Don’t dare think you can read this

Tis mine not yours I say!

Tis my bed and I’ll lie on it

So just you go away!

I’ll not let hooman near it,

My claws are sharp and curved.

My comfort is important.

No I’ll not be moved today!

(she got off and walked away!)

Calligraphy

Posted on August 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alphabet, Arabic letters, Calligraphy, Fun, Ink, Pen, Practice, stick, WritingLeave a comment

This was something I did in a workshop a couple of years ago. We were taught by a lovely man from Egypt who showed us how to do some Arabic letters, we each uses a stick with a knib carved in the end. As when you write the alphabet as a child we practiced writing letters over and over again. Then we could do what we wanted so I wrote my name but decided to decorate it with flowers and cats. I used it for ages on a Web page. It’s good to find old things that gave you pleasure in the past. X

Sleepy

Posted on August 22, 2020August 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Dreaming, Dreams, Fun, Humour, Life, Sleep, Sleepy, Tired4 Comments

I keep nodding off, falling asleep, almost in mid sentence. Stayed up too late for the last three nights. Going to bed at three or four am. I was trying to get my coursework done, but I’ve fallen into a bad habit of going to bed late and getting up late. I keep having interesting dreams, in them I’m at university walking through rooms and lecture halls, I’m doing a distance learning course, but clearly I want to go there. Can barely keep my eyes open. I keep having to check my grammar and writing. I nod off as I’m typing sometimes. Wake up to gibberish. V V g g kg v”fcggffvb or something like that.

I might try and write something else. But what? What do people want to hear? I don’t know. Brains running on empty….

Abstract pots

Posted on August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ariel roots, Art, Ceramic, Fun, Funny, Jug, Layout app, Learning, Mirrored, Orchid, Photo, Roots2 Comments

Turn a photo into an abstract by mirroring it in the Layout app run through Instagram and Facebook. If you take a photo that is a bit lopsided then when you multiply the image you get interesting patterns. You can rotate the pictures so you can get a variety of different patterns.

Experiment and see what suits you. If you see odd patterns that can be interesting. Branches enclosing a flower. In this case mirrored handles on the pot makes for an unusual ceramic object when all it is, is a jug. Ariel roots and leaves from my orchid plants frame the resulting pattern.

Ladybird poppies

Posted on August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black, Colour, Flowers, Fun, Garden, Poems, Poetry, Poppies, Red2 Comments

Beautiful

Red andcblack

Flowering

Like a ladybird.

Unfurled petals

Paper thin

Rouched and rouged

Strong red

Fluffy centres

Waiting for a bee

Or a hover fly.

You are beautiful x

Weird plant photos

Posted on August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fun, Green, Impossible structures, Indoor plants, Layout app, Oddly alien looking, Photos, Plants, Strange, Weird plant photos, WindowledgeLeave a comment

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A plant on the kitchen windowledge is duplicated in the Layout app. The result seems to be a strange weird alien face, but it’s just a Christmas canvas plant with spiky leaves. This is what I do when I can’t see and go down for a coffee in the early morning!

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Here’s another one. They really do create impossibly strange weird structures.

Anyway, only got four hours sleep. Might treat myself to a nap!

The other one

Posted on August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bathroom, Boy cat, Chasing, Cool, Fun, Girl cat, Life, Mad half hour, Playing, SunshineLeave a comment

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Our boy cat having a stretch in the bathroom. He had been ill but he’s a lot better now. For the moment he sleeps in the bathroom on a towel because it’s a lot cooler in there. Not as much sun getting in. But sometimes I will find him in a patch of sunlight, curled up and warming himself. Cats have characters. He’s chilled. Our female cat is lively and loves chasing things. Sometimes they chase each other. A mad half hour. Then peace descends again.

My manifesto at the moment

Posted on August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Calligraphy, College, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Ideas, Ideas generation, Manifesto, Random, Thinking, World peace?2 Comments

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It’s quite simple at the moment. I think college want something a bit more thought out though? Ideas anyone?

I know I left off world peace. Please forgive me. It’s a bit tongue in cheek (humorous) but why not. With everything so grim at the moment.

Anyway back to typing things up. Later x

Mallaband-Brown

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