Question

Posted on April 19, 2023April 19, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Architecture, Art, cost of living, Design, economy, inflation, Learning, Life, Music, Painting, Question, World4 Comments

Is the cost of living crisis affecting whether you buy or collect art?

As a small time seller of art I’m interested in how the rises in inflation and reduction in pay rises is affecting the Art economy. I’m sure decisions are being made that people either put off buying, or don’t buy art at all.

Art is everywhere, in designs of clothes, furniture, architecture, advertising, maps, car design, and even the Art in people’s walls. The Art economy is worth Billions to the economy as a whole, but I think it is under recognised. We like to be surrounded by visual and auditory stimulation, but do people even notice it’s there. Do you notice a painting on a restaurant wall? Or classical music played in a supermarket. I wonder how things will work out?

Why?

Posted on April 14, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bronze, Brown, icons, Learning, Life, Mobile, Phone, Question, Settings, WorldLeave a comment

Some of my icons on my phone are a horrible browny bronze. I wish I could find out how to change them. I’ve looked at themes and I can change the background but not the icons. I’d like to set my own but I have no idea how. Does anyone know how to change the settings? Is it simple or very complicated. Meh, it’s a first world problem! Ignore me.

It’s funny how you can be so attached to your phone that it makes such an impact your life!

Password protected?

Posted on April 14, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged communicating, direct contact, Learning, not authorised, Post, Question, Thinking, View10 Comments

A friend has just posted here and the notes with it say the post is password protected. It says go directly to the post.. But when you click on the post it says ‘you are not authorised to view this post’

So how do I view it. I tried to link to his site but it wouldn’t work. Should I post to another of his posts to tell him? I hope he (I’m assuming it’s a he?) sees this and either changes it or posts how to open it?

Lots of questions. I sometimes see posts that you can read but that you cannot ‘like’ I suppose that is fair enough, except its like ghosting yourself? They won’t know if you would like to appreciate their writing.

So anyway, sorry to witter on, you know what it’s like, you just have to ask sometimes!

High school?

Posted on April 13, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1905, Fine Art, French Impressionism, Learning, Life, Memory, Pop art, Sixth form, surrealism28 Comments

Describe something you learned in high school.

I did go to Sixth form at school, but it wasn’t a separate high school. I think things have changed in the UK since I was there. I guess different places in the world run their school systems differently and now Sixth form colleges are often stand alone institutions.

We didn’t have computers when I was at school, they were just coming in when I left. So that’s another thing I didn’t learn! There were typing classes (which I didn’t do) and I think the typewriters were pretty old!

So what did I learn? I did A Levels. One of them was Art, and I loved it. I started to learn about subjects like Pop Art and French Impressionism and Surrealism. It was good to actually learn about the history of art as well as finding out about different techniques. I learned about Andy Warhol and Monet, Cezanne and Salvador Dali. I remember pictures of Campbell soup cans, haystacks and melting clocks. I didn’t learn about female artists though, that came later when I went to college. The Art course made me decide I wanted to do an Art degree, and here I am still being an Artist all these years later.

Twinned

Posted on April 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Gone, Grief, Learning, Loss, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Sister, Sketching, Texture, Twin2 Comments

Sleep, memory, chases my mind.

I remember we were twins

When you were still here

Now your shape is gone

A space left in my landscape

So before I weep again

Bring me more dreams of you

Here beside me

Her next to me

Sister, twin.

Doodling digitally

Posted on April 5, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Colours, Digital art, Digitally manipulated, Drawing, Ideas, Learning, Life, Pens, SketchingLeave a comment

When you get new apps you have to learn how to use them. There are similarities and differences. You try one app and then transport an image into another app and try and alter it by using different filters and pens and markers. Each of these started with the bottom left sketch and then I took a screenshot of it ( I had to find out how on this new phone), then added more on top. It’s not going to be my favourite method of altering images, but I’m learning. I have found recently that drawing tools seem to be limited. Instead you get backgrounds and filters to alter faces and landscapes but using photoshop like tools, not paintbrushes or pens. I know I can do more if I had the tools. Perhaps I will find something more satisfying soon.

Jupiter in a spin

Posted on April 2, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, Juno probe, Jupiter, Learning, lost app, new app, not layout, Pattern, South PoleLeave a comment

I’m getting used to a new collage app. Learning all the new plot twists (I mean the tools in it). The main irritation are the in app ads. Get used to it, I won’t upgrade and I won’t buy anything. I am app resistant!

This was a photo of the South Pole of Jupiter that I painted and decided to turn into a symmetrical collage. Matching up the pattern was difficult because it wasn’t similar along the edges, but I did my best.

Hearts

Posted on April 1, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged being an artist, Digital art, Learning, New phone, obsolete, old aged nerd!, problem solving, Sketch, TimeLeave a comment

Well not really! When you load perfectly good apps on your phone you expect them to keep working, or at least that you can reload them if you change your device. Unfortunately this phone is too new to support Layout App. I still have it on my PC I think but I don’t really use it, so another learning curve. My head hurts… Now I will try and understand the new app, and try not to be annoyed by in app ads!

Egg?

Posted on April 1, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital sketch, Easter egg, egg, Fun, Learning, metallic pens, Tools3 Comments

Egg doodle using a newer version of Artrage that I’ve downloaded onto my new phone. Glad I’ve got this one, but other older apps I can no longer find. I will keep looking. It’s frustrating that the gallery images that I’d saved on those apps have disappeared, but you learn and transfer skills to other apps. This is meant to be an Easter egg. Can you tell? Lots more tools on this version, no opacity tool though so you can’t reduce the strength of the pen with a slider, and the old choice had a dry pen, and three other style of pens that I can’t remember now? But fun none the less.

I wish I could…

Posted on March 26, 2023March 27, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chess, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1887, Knowledge, Learning, protégés, Skills, Time4 Comments

What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

Play chess better. I don’t understand how people can work out several moves ahead. I only know the basics, I learnt from playing against my father as a child. But I don’t know how to castle and I rarely play. I don’t know where our chess set and board are.

When I watched a film about chess players in the 1970’s I was amazed and impressed by them. But they were protégés and must have had some sort of mathematical minds so that they understood the game in great depth. Then of course computers were introduced which started to beat humans. So I would like the ability to beat a computer like Deep Blue. An ambition I’m sure I will never have!

Mallaband-Brown

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