Green Woman

Posted on October 29, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumn, Autumn woman, Colours, Design, Fun, Green woman, Leaves, Life, Painting, Pattern, PeopleLeave a comment

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Well more autumn woman really. This popped up on my Facebook memories from three years ago. I’d forgotten about her. I did something similar last year, but I like this one more. I like the splurge of bright colours. I like her eyes. It went to a friend who appreciated it but to be honest there were a few people who enjoyed it.

As with all my art I like painting themes but I don’t stick to the same idea all the time. Currently my ainting include industrial archeology and history, portraits of people and animals. Space images, green men, women and animals. I do not like painting the same images constantly, my brain is fizzing too much to do that. X

Red morning sky

Posted on October 22, 2019October 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Dawn, Leaves, Life, Light, Northern hemisphere, Red, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Sun, Sunrise, Trees, YellowLeave a comment

I woke up to this red sky about half an hour ago. The sky is now more yellow and the sun is above the horizon. The light is streaming through the leaves and lighting them up. The red sky does not bode well for later on… Red sky in the morning shepherd’s warning (or sailors), but it certainly makes a breathtaking sight right in the heart of the city.

Leaves

Posted on October 12, 2019October 12, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Colour, Design, Fireworks, Leaves, Leaving, Patterns, Poem, Poetry, Skeletal leavesLeave a comment

Leaves, leave, the trees.

Leaving the world,

Death and decay.

But like a firework,

Exploding in colour,

Before deminishing

Into a skeletal framework.

To be blown away on the wind……

Autumn equinox

Posted on September 23, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Chill, Cold, Colour, Equinox, Fungi, Leaves, Sunset, Trees2 Comments

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When the sun sets tonight in the Northern Hemisphere night will last slightly longer than day. In the Southern Hemisphere day will now last longer than night. In six months time the tables will be turned as North heads back to spring and South to autumn.

Mists and mellow fruitfulness is the phrase from a poem I always think of. Finding mushrooms in the garden, seeing Robins looking for food, seeing the leaves change. Already there are tinges of red and yellow on the bigger trees, I think because, being higher up, their leaves feel the chill first. Driving up the local hill you see more changes. Presumably the trees on the lower slopes are more protected. Perhaps its a micro climate?

In a few months it will be winter. I’m hoping things don’t get too cold. But maybe I should hope for cold to cool the climate?

Happy Autumn Equinox.

Extra work….

Posted on September 7, 2019 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Colour, Design, Fine Art, Green, Green man, Leaves, Painting, Portrait2 Comments

Sometimes a painting can need work. After a couple of months, and after already exhibiting “my green man” I decided to do more work on it. The canvas was a bit rough, so when you put paint on it, it didn’t spread evenly and it caught on the surface, leaving tiny little dots where the paint hadn’t stuck. That meant that it looked thin in places and the colour wasn’t strong enough so I have tried to improve the pattern of the leaves and the shading on the face. I’ve used some iridescent turquoise to give it the gleam of dampness. If I do another one I might try and paint frost and ice on it.

Autumn is coming

Posted on August 28, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Change, Fruit, Fruitful, Fungi, Garden, Leaves, Poem, Poetry, Season, Trees, WeatherLeave a comment

The season of Autumn is upon us, despite having temperatures of 33.7°C in some parts of the country this week.

Today was cooler, we had rain, the sky had been cloudy all day.

Autumn, changing days

Sun sets early, rises late.

Leaves turn from green to flame.

Ending a summers growth.

Fruit and fungi burgeoning

Apples become sweet, pears ripe.

Leaves lie deep, scrunch and crunch.

Life settles down until winters slumber.

Copper Beech

Posted on June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Bronze, Copper, Favourite tree, Gardening, Leaves, Life, Poem, Poetry, Purple, TreeLeave a comment

Such a lovely tree

Cooper beech

See me.

Burnished copper and purple,

deep shine

So fine,

I want you to be mine.

Plant you in the garden,

Let your roots entwine

Copper Beech you beauty,

you are so fine.

Copper and bronze

draped leaves

Hanging above our heads,

Shining in the summer sun.

Autumn, your leaves are shed.

Spring is here

Posted on May 18, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Garden, Gardening, Inspiration, Leaves, Plants, Shaded garden, Spring, Trees, Wild garlicLeave a comment

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Rain, it makes buds swell and leaves unfurl in the spring. We had to wait for it to rain this year. The trees took a while to come into leaf, and although most of the trees in the garden are covered some are just coming out.

I don’t know what to do though, we have a lot of trees in the garden. If you Google map us you can’t see the ground. It does make for a lot of shade! DSC_2003_optimized (2)

But that doesn’t mean you can’t grow interesting plants. The ones in the foreground are wild garlic. We also have some new Zealand plants from a plant fair, and tomorrow we should be getting a few Woad plants!

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The only unshaded part is South at the back of the garden. Apart from a massive laurel Bush that has turned into a bit of a thug of a tree. Sadly it needs cutting back. I’ve got someone coming to do it just not sure when. What I don’t want to do is disturb any nesting birds.

I will take some photos when it’s tidy? Which might be by autumn!

Druid revisited

Posted on April 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Druid, Green man, Growth, Leaves, Life, Painting, Spring2 Comments

I’ve done some more to this acrylic on canvas. I have added more definition around the leaves but tried to leave some of the subtlety of colour in other places. It has some sparkle in the paints to give it a slightly frosted appearance as if leaves have piled up, but the face of the druid is emerging from it.

About 16″ by 12″ this is one of my more abstract pieces based on the green man theme.

Weeping willow

Posted on March 25, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Childhood memories, Green, Leaves, Life, Spring, Weeping willow, WillowLeave a comment

When I was a child I would sit next to your trunk

Hiding from view being your green screen.

Your roots must run deep down in the ground,

Water running through the earth,

Turning your leaves green before other trees.

Skeleton twigs surround you

Dark evergreen screens you

But only you swirl and wave in the breeze.

Dancing a ballet of soft leaves,

Your dress curves and waves in folds.

Once fully grown with green

Your leaves will make my hiding den again.

Mallaband-Brown

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