A glass world

Posted on January 25, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, black glass, blue glass, clear glass, Glass, Gold, Gold leaf, molten glass, paperweightLeave a comment

Like a water world with tiny golden islands on an ultramarine sea.

I have a few paperweights but this is my favourite. I look into it and am enchanted by how they managed to embed gold leaf into it. They must have gathered the blue glass and rippled on the black layer, then put gold leaf on and blown into the glass to make it split up or maybe just let loose gold leaf fall onto it? Then gathered (added a layer) of clear glass on top.

I’m only guessing about the technique but however it was done, it’s beautiful.

Vase painting

Posted on November 20, 2021November 21, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Design, Fine Art, Gold, imitating cloisonné, Japanese style, Life, Painting, Pattern, Satsuma style4 Comments

My attempt at painting a Japanese style vase. Using gold and lots of flower and leaf patterns I tried to recreate the feeling of a Cloisonné or Satsuma vase. I’m no expert but I just wanted it to have complexity and stature. My love of pattern really helped. This was taken when I had almost completed the work. I placed it on the floor to try and catch the sunlight illuminating it. One of my favourite paintings, it went to a very good home.

Sailing

Posted on November 10, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Boat, Design, Drawing, flip, Fun, Gold, Grey, Life, Mirrored, Sea, Sketching, Sky, Water, White2 Comments

I wanted to use the ‘knitting’ pattern that I had drawn as a background for another image. Flip it over, mirror it and crop it, draw over it and add a boat and its reflection. I think it actually works quite well. The sea looks calm as a mill pond despite the wind catching in the boats sails. I added white lines to dilineate the surf as it flows onto the beach.

Energy

Posted on September 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black, Collage, Drawing, Energy, Felt pens, Fun, Gold, Gold leaf, GreyLeave a comment

I keep doing abstracts! This one is based on electricity and uses gold leaf for the sparks!

Gold leaf, gold, grey and black felt pen, bits of paper that held the gold leaf. For the prompt for today for #bandofsketchers which was ‘energy’.

I enjoyed doing this collage, but the gold leaf was fiddly. I cut out a star but it didn’t work very well.

A is for Apple

Posted on April 29, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apple, Bowl, crazed, Crisp, Drawing, Gold, Green, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sketch, Taste2 Comments

In a crazed,

cracked bowl

Sits an Apple

Green and crunchy

Ready to eat

Crisp skin

Flecked with gold.

Sharp tasting

But sweet

Glistening

Dappled sky

Posted on January 10, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Amber, Colours, Description, Gold, lilac, Moon, Photo, Sky, Sunset, too flowery?, TwigsLeave a comment

Washed with Amber and lilac, gold highlights. Twigs sweeping the sky. Painting it with their fronds. Clouds form flocks of flying sheep, running home as night arrives. A symphony of colours shifting as they are viewed. Blue darkens to black, the colour I’d drained out of the sky until one solitary glimmer remains. Then the light of stars spring out. Tiny pinpricks in the firmament. Moon rise. The glow of it shines through a lowering fog. Time for bed and dreams.

A nativity scene?

Posted on December 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Christmas story, Donkey, Frankincense, Gold, Hotel, Humour, Life today, Myrrh, Nativity scene?Leave a comment

So, that’s two adults?

There is a donkey parking space.

Breakfast in the Nativity Restaurant.

Double bed, en-suite.

No smoking or vaping,

No visitors from afar allowed.

No ‘angelic hosts’ parties allowed.

Visur or Masterboard?

What do you mean ‘a child will be born’?

No we don’t do Frankincense or Myhrr facials.

Gold, well yes as an exception we will accept it.

You want how many towels, and hot water?

I’m sorry but your wife looks unwell.

We are not a maternity unit.

Sorry, we reserve the right to cancel your reservation.

The hospital is that way.

Merry Christmas.

Gold

Posted on December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Gold, Life, Permanent markers, Rings, SketchingLeave a comment

Two gold rings, drawing for #bandofsketchers prompt ‘Gold’ today. I shake sometimes these days so the drawings are a bit wobbly! Permanent markers and felt pens on cartridge paper. Added dots to give an idea of textured cloth under the Rings…

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

Posted on December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Christmas, Element, Frankincense, Gold, History, Incense, Metal, Myrrh, What are theyLeave a comment

I know what Gold is, a precious metal but I had to look up Frankincense and Myrrh were. According to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov :

Frankincense and myrrh are two olive plants from different species and genera. Frankincense is a hard, gelatinous resin exuded from the trunk incisions of the frankincense tree, Boswellia carterii Birdw. or other species in the genus Boswellia of the family Burseraceae, mainly from Somalia, Ethiopia, and India
Myrrh is an oily, gelatinous substance exuded from the bark of Commiphora myrrha Engl. or various other species of Commiphora, and can be classified as natural myrrh or colloid myrrh. Myrrh exists mainly in tropical and subtropical areas, such as Somalia, Ethiopia, and the southern Arabian Peninsula

Taken from:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles ›
So now you know!

Scarf designs

Posted on November 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, CYAN, Fun, Glitter, Gold, Green, Ink, Iteration, Learning, Pattern, Scarf9 Comments

A couple of iterations of the pattern I just drew…. Now how do I get them printed off as scarves? Do I have to save them in Cyan colours?

Any info would be helpful. X

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Gold