Antiques are green!

Posted on November 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Antique, carbon footprint, Green, less carbon, Photo, recycled, reused, Time, woodenLeave a comment

A old wooden cupboard, but much greener than a modern one. Probably manufactured without much machinery. Transported to a shop on a horse and cart. The wood its made of must be 100 years old. It isn’t damaging rain forests now. Apparently an old chest of draws has a 16X smaller carbon footprint than its modern equivalent.

By buying old furniture which has stood the test of time you are recycling something that still had a use. I suppose if you don’t like brown furniture you could upcycle it… But that cupboard might just be worth something, so don’t sand it down and paint it if you aren’t sure of its provinance.

Alien plant?

Posted on November 8, 2021December 15, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Duplicated, Green, Image, Leaves, Mirrored, Money plant, Nasturtium, Photograph, PlantLeave a comment

A money plant on our windowledge. Duplicated photo, it’s tortuous shape given extra twists by mirroring it. The pale green leaves are a nasturtium that was planted inside. I hasn’t matured in time to produce flowers. I think this looks like a green carving or sculpture. It’s like an odd insect about to pounce, perhaps a preying mantis.

Simple scales

Posted on October 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, black lines, Drawing, Fun, Green, Ink, Pattern, Scales, Sketching, Tessellation, TilesLeave a comment

Pattern making again. Using greens ink spray that has a sheen to it. Then I drew scale patterns over the top. Finally I wanted three simple elements to add to each scale or tile that would give it an art deco? feel. So I added a wave shape, a dark patch and some vertical lines. With these patterns I think the scales started to look a little like birds.

Green eyed

Posted on September 10, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital drawing, fairy tale ending?, Fun, Green, Green eyed monster, Very short story5 Comments

Don’t be jealous, she said. I deserve it, you don’t!

Huh! What a cheek, I thought.

Her sister piped up.. Yeah we are better than you!

I was young and naive and hated the way they spoke to me. I didn’t know how to fight back. I never guessed the jealousy was theirs. They always ganged up on me.

So I sat and cried, tried hard not to think about how they treated me… Thinking about a distant future where I would go to college and become a doctor or a scientist? A lawyer or an engineer….

Cinder-Ella! They shouted down to the skullery. Get that washing done then start cooking dinner!

I wiped my eyes and put my mind to the work…..

Still growing

Posted on September 9, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Flowers, Gardening, Green, Growing, Growth, Poem, Poetry, YardLeave a comment

How does my garden grow

Fast and green

Full of colour

Spreading out

Hard to walk through

So many plants

Too many plants?

Very lovely to see…

No golden bells

Or cockle shells

Or pretty maids all in a row?

No just colour and flowers!

Overgrown

Posted on August 30, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cabbage, Cherries, Fun, Garden, Gardening, Green, Growing, Holly, Pears, Plants, Too much, Trees, YardLeave a comment

Too many plants in our garden. A lot of shrubs. There are probably bears in there (not), maybe hedgehogs and the squirrels are back and have started eating the walnuts from our tree which must be sixty foot high now.

A massive two trunked laurel Bush /tree robs a lot of the light, and holy bushes and a small eucalyptus are dotted about. The cherry trees are getting big and we have had to prop up the pear tree which is now laden with fruit. The wisteria is tangled up with the ivy on our kitchen and bathroom extention and a fig tree is growing there too. A few small olives appeared on the olive tree this year but didn’t grow big enough to crop.

Too much shade in the main garden so we are growing flowers in the back yard and on the pavement. We even (weirdly) have a couple of cabbages growing at the front!

Blue green algae

Posted on August 24, 2021August 26, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged algae, dangerous to dogs, day visit, Dorothy Clive garden, Green, like pea soup, SunnyLeave a comment

It looks like pea soup. The green in this pond is caused by algae I think. This is also in the local lakes. Some of them have pumps that are being used to try and get some oxygen into the water. Days are cooler and greyer, so I hope the water will clear.

This photo was taken yesterday at the Dorothy Clive Garden out in the countryside. Still looking good and it’s almost the end of August.

Green figure?

Posted on July 31, 2021August 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alien, Art, Experiment, Filters, Green, Life, Mirrored, Photo, Photodirector, Texture, TreesLeave a comment

I see an alien, green figure in this landscape. By playing with filters you can get surreal effects. I think this had a feeling of ancient topiary. I used a texture and mirroring filter to change it and make it more interesting I hope.

Mark making workshop

Posted on July 29, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital filter, Green, green nail varnish, Mark making, Pattern, Photo director app, SketchLeave a comment

Two versions of mark making using green nail varnish and a plastic card to spread it. Normal view and then digitally filtered. Yes that is meant to be a bird!

WIP dog continued

Posted on July 15, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Colours, Dog, Fine Art, Grass, Green, Painting, Pet, Wip, Work in progress4 Comments

Grass painted and coat underpainted, need to work on the colour and details now. His coat is a bit greyer and I want to get more of the fine fur details.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Green