Mixed up phone photos

Posted on February 24, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Confused, Images, Life, out of order, Painting, Phone memory, Photos, PicturesLeave a comment

I decided to free up a bit of space on my phone yesterday as I was on over 90% full. I really need to get more memory on my phone as I have over 3,000 images. The trouble is when I optimise and delete photos it resets the date on them so sometimes they all reorder themselves and jump around in my gallery until they settle down. Then I end up with a lot of duplicated photos and I have to go in and delete the duplications, and I also try and edit the others and try and delete more of the ones I don’t like. I hope you don’t have these problems!

The featured image is a painting of frost on canvas where I edited it in a filter to change the colours. It just popped up in my photo gallery.

Two cats

Posted on February 23, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged App, Black and white cat, Cat, Filter, Life, Photodirector, Sofa, Together, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Two cats on the sofa. I used my photodirector app to change and enhance the texture of the photo. The two cats rarely sit together so it was nice to see them being so calm and friendly to each other. I think relaxation is the main reason for cats!

scrolling

Posted on February 22, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged addicted, Computer, Facebook, Internet, Life, pages, Poem, Poetry, scrolling, ThinkingLeave a comment

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Oh I keep scrolling down the page

Facebook posts are all the rage

Never ending thoughts and hopes

I don’t know how anyone copes!

Addicted to that vertical scrolling

Dragging my eyes, they keep rolling!

Bits and bobs, this and that

Someone’s thin someone’s fat.

A work of fiction or of fact

But intelligent thinking is what’s lacked?

Sometimes serious causes emerge

But often it’s just a tawdry surge

Of endorphins keeping me awake

Switch it off. For goodness sake!

Cuts

Posted on February 20, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cuts, Drawing, Felt pens, Hand, Ideas, Life, metallic pens, Paper, SketchingLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was cuts. This was a head scratcher! I thought of a paper cut and decided to go a bit surreal. Instead of the paper cutting my finger I drew my hand cutting through a page of my sketchbook. Pastle colour felt pens and silver metallic pen.

Throw down

Posted on February 18, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged a very peculiar practice, Art, Buildings, Drawing, Keele University, Life, science park, Sketching, throw downLeave a comment

At the end of a sketch out artists do a throw down where we lay out all our drawings for each other to see. There are fourteen sketches here but I think there were more people attending than that.

There are lots of things to sketch at Keele, there is Keele Hall, various interesting buildings and different architectures. There are also a series of small lakes and an observatory which I once visited, but can’t remember where it is. The number of buildings on the campus has really increased in recent years. There is now a full blown science park there. It’s a long way from when it’s campus was the base for an old British comedy called a very peculiar practice. Based in the 1980’s.

On the other side of the sky

Posted on February 18, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Atmosphere, Blue, Clouds, Colour, Earth, Film, Gravity, Life, Sky, Thinking, White, World2 Comments

I just looked at the sky from the other side… I mean I watched the film Gravity and it struck me that it looks much the same from above and below? Maybe the clouds are on a different scale, but they are still white and grey, the blue sea mimics the blue of the sky. We are truly a blue and white marble in the deep ocean of black space. We fall up to space, or down to earth, the thin atmosphere is all that protects us against hard radiation and vacuum.

The actual Chapel

Posted on February 18, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bricks, Building, Chapel, Keele University, Life, Photo, urban sketching day out, ViewLeave a comment

Just to show you what I was trying to draw today. Dark and forbidding on the outside. Great place to hear classical music concerts on the inside. I think it was built in the 1950’s or 60’s. Part of the Keele University campus.

Urban sketching

Posted on February 18, 2023February 18, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Keele University, Keele University Chapel, Landscape, Life, Staffordshire, Stoke urban sketchers4 Comments

I’ve been out with Stoke urban Sketchers today. It was a breezy cold morning but I need to get back into urban sketching again, I haven’t been along for months. We were at Keele University in Staffordshire. I decided to draw the Chapel, large, brutal architecture, a bit like a castle without the castelations. If that’s what they are called. I tried drawing using a charcoal set I’d bought. It was a bit disappointing, less charcoal, more grey pencil? I used some conte crayon sticks and a few felt pens to add bits of colour. I finished off drawing tiny lines to indicate the walls were made of black bricks. Eventually I went and got a hot drink. Then I came out again and quickly drew one of the other Sketchers. Finally we had a throw down of everyone’s drawings, I might post a photo later.

Grey man

Posted on February 17, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Green man, Grey man, Growth, Life, metamorphosis, Poem, Poetry, transformationLeave a comment

Grey man,

Carved stone

Oak leaves

And acorns

Sculpted from granite

A Robin

Might peck at you

Ivy entwine you

Algae wrap you in green

Lichen inhabit you

Stone you are

Soil you may become

With age and ice

Weather and water

Till ground into a powder

You are amalgamated

And your stone face

Is incorporated

Transformed and metamorphosised

Into a real tree.

Out on a limb

Posted on February 17, 2023February 17, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged branch, Growing, Life, limb, Musing, Nature, Thoughts, Time, Tree, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Growing out and up… A long limb of a tree scrambles to escape the shade of its companions. Thinks, I’m not going to be hidden by all your leaves. Give me light and I will grow into a tree in my own right. I don’t need holding up, I will sway in the wind with the best of them! What’s a bit of tension and torsion to a limb like me? I’m only slightly cracked, that split in my bark will soon heal over, I’m not weeping sap. Oi! Don’t you bring that chainsaw near me! I will survive!

Mallaband-Brown

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