Gloomy

Posted on July 11, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cloudy, Factory, gloom, Grey, lorry, Miss Haversham, pumping, the Secret gardenLeave a comment

Sitting in the dark like Miss Haversham from Great Expectations, or the boy Colin from the story “the secret garden”.

It’s not as bad as it looks, I’m only inside because it’s been a grey wet day. Gloomy and full of cloud. At least the plants are getting watered.

Yes I left the curtains closed, but it wasn’t worth opening them. There was a lorry outside the factory over the road. It was pumping clay slurry. It was pumping all day, very noisy diesel engine. Working all day. They do it once a month. I couldn’t be bothered to look at it so I left them closed. Hoping for brightness tomorrow.

Sunset 19 June 2024

Posted on June 21, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black, Blue, Car park, Clouds, Colours, Grey, intermingled, Life, Orange, Photo, Purple, Sunset, YellowLeave a comment

Looking out over a supermarket car park.

The sky had clouded over, but there was a glow from the setting sun behind the grey clouds. It just shows that a minimal landscape can be enhanced by light and colour. There is blue and grey, orange and yellow, purples and blacks all intermingling and changing by the minute.

For once it wasn’t raining, it wasn’t cold, and it wasn’t windy. You could stand and watch the atmosphere evolve as the sun set. It’s not a very exciting sunset, but I enjoyed it.

Artrage doodle

Posted on April 22, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, App, Artrage, Black, Doodle, Drawing, Experiment, Fern, Green, Grey, metallic pens, Plant, WhiteLeave a comment

Based on a fern plant. Just grey black, white and green using different pens in the Artrage app. Included a metallic background on this abstract drawing.

Catty

Posted on March 7, 2024 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Black, Cat, Doodle, Fun, Grey, phone app, Sketching, stylus drawing, tabby cat, WhiteLeave a comment

I realised I haven’t doodled much lately. I guess I’ve been too busy and distracted. So today I drew this cat in the Artrage app on my phone. It’s meant to be a tabby cat with grey black and white fur. I didn’t use the metallic option at all so the paler colours show up better than they would if I had. It’s like everything else, you learn what works for you.

Heron on the bank

Posted on July 29, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bird, Canal, Environment, Fish, Grey, Heron, Life, Nature, Time, Trent and mersey canal5 Comments

Blurry photo of a heron chilling out on the canal bank today. It leant forward a few times and looked into the murky brown water but then resumed it’s original position again. I guess it must have seen a fish.

We have previously seen people magnet fishing in the canal, they said they sometimes find things, but nothing valuable. Is a shopping trolley or bike frame worth it? I guess you can weigh things in for scrap. In the meantime I hope the heron got his dinner!

Tree abstract

Posted on April 6, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Artrage, Colour, Digital drawing, Drawing, Experiment, Fun, Grey, Tree2 Comments

Tree drawing done using Artrage, the app I amusing has more options than the one on my old phone so I’m learning how to use the different tools. I’ve also found how to change the opacity. I liked using greyed colours instead of bright ones in this image.

Another stroll

Posted on February 23, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Grey, lovely day, Party, silhouettes, Sky, Stroll, Sunny day, Trees, Walking, WhiteLeave a comment

What a sky today, low sun through clouds and silhouettes of trees. This is the park we sometimes walk up to. We sit on a bench to rest, then walk down and up the slopes in the park and finally out of the gates again. Today we were tired so we walked back down the hill and over to our local supermarket. It was out of fresh tomatoes again, apparently the weather has damaged crops and British farmers who would normally grow them in poly tunnels can’t afford the heating so they have delayed growing them. Anyway that was today’s stroll. And six thousand steps!

Lace?

Posted on January 18, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Design, Drawing, Grey, lace, Patterns, Sketch app, Sketching, Symmetry, White4 Comments

Once I start playing with apps I go back and make new patterns. I realised that using the symmetry tool on my sketch app I can offset them so they don’t overlap, and I used various colours from the same part of the spectrum. Then I duplicated and rotated the pattern, creating a lace like design.

Statue?

Posted on January 12, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged fairy folk, Fun, Garden, Grey, Life, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Statue, stilled, Tangled, TiedLeave a comment

Statue covered in ivy

Blackberry twined around

Fairy or tree sprite?

Grown over and stilled

A grey statue instead of

A living spirit of love.

The overgrowth expands

Tying down more fairy folk

Silencing their songs.

Tangled and held…

Canal geese

Posted on July 23, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black, Brown, Canada geese, Canal, Colours, Grey, Reflection, Water, young geeseLeave a comment

We saw these Canada Geese on the canal today as we went for a walk after handing my painting in for the three counties open. These look like parents and young (some are in full plumage but smaller). I have plans to do a few more in a similar style for the cafe at the Etruria Industrial Museum. They are swapping out the current paintings on display. Apparently my painting of an owl was too expensive, but how can you ever earn anything if people don’t want to pay. BUT I might consider charging less because I just keep having an increasing collection of them and I really, really want them to go to new homes….

Watch out for a few new paintings over the next couple of days /weeks.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Grey