Dreaming

Posted on October 8, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged biscuit, cookie, Dream, Dreaming, Funny, Life, Odd, Sketching, Sleep, SleepingLeave a comment

After a fitful night I must have finally got to sleep about 7am. So at midday it was annoying to be woken up by my hubby asking if I wanted a cup of tea. I had been in the middle of a lovely dream and I tried to catch the end of it….. the question came again, tea or coffee? Argh! I was dreaming I said. What were you dreaming about. I replied ‘biscuits’! Why? I have no idea! My hubby burst out laughing and carried on for five minutes!

I think my moon sketch looks like a chocolate chip cookie at the moment! ❤️

Six months ago

Posted on October 7, 2022October 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Dorothy Clive garden, Garden, Life, Memories, six months ago, Spring, Staffordshire, Thinking, WillowbridgeLeave a comment

Six months ago I remember things were fine. The Rhododendrons in the Dorothy Clive Garden were in flower, we had the whole summer to enjoy. The sun was shining and covid seemed to be on the wane. Now things are not so good. Autumn has arrived and life has thrown me some curve balls. We are heading towards darker days and the summer is speedily disappearing. But I have decided I have to be OK. Just doing things like getting my covid and flu jabs seems positive. Protecting myself and people around me.

Mirror

Posted on October 6, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, Drawing, Life, Mirror, Mirrored, Reflection, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was mirror. I drew a face reflected in a jug of liquid, sitting on a chequered table cloth. After all anything reflective can be a mirror. I didn’t add the person whose face is reflected. Just being a bit spooky.

Spirograph

Posted on October 6, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Fun, Life, Memories, Patterns, Sketching, Spirals, Spirograph3 Comments

Does anyone remember this. It came with pins to hold the circles down that you drew around. You had to use thick card board to pin into otherwise as you used the small circles the paper would slip. Over the years I did hundreds of these patterns, I could almost draw them without the plastic circles and getting pens to fit in the little holes. I liked some patterns more than others. Maybe it explains my obsession with them now?

Animated?

Posted on October 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Animal, animate, animation, Art, Canter, Drawing, Gallop, Horse, Life, Movement, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was animate. I tried to work out how a horse runs and if I could try and draw overlapping images of them. I know there are books you can get that show you how to do animations but I just did this quickly without any reference. I’ve always enjoyed trying to draw horses, I have a basic idea of how they look. X

Auroral display

Posted on October 3, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, aurora Australis, aurora borealis, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Sketching, Spaceweather.comLeave a comment

I’ve always wanted to see the Aurora Borealis and last night and tonight might have been the chance. But two things are against it. I live too far south and its cloudy. The reason why it might have been visible is because there is a large area of sunspots that had come into view around the edge of the Sun. It has strong magnetic North and South currents which increases the chance and strength of Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar flares. These could be directed Earth-wards and spark Aurora in both the North (Aurora Borealis) and South (Aurora Australis).

I’d like to see the nothern lights one day. It’s on my bucket list. More information can be found at Spaceweather.com.

Fairies

Posted on October 2, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, blue bricks, dancing fairies, Drawing, Fairies, Life, Memory, Rain, Sketching, splashes, Water6 Comments

When I was a little child I used to look out of the window at the rain falling in our back yard. We had blue brick paving that became shiny as it got wet. As puddles began to fall the raindrops would splash up in circles. I decided that they were tiny fairies dancing in the rain.

When things happen in life you remember things that you haven’t for years. I’m glad to retrieve this memory.

Comfort cat

Posted on October 2, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned, Black and white cat, Cat, Friends, Lap, lap cat, Life, Nervous, Outside cat, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Our boy cat is sitting half on a cushion, half on my hubbies lap. This is unusual, he’s always been quite nervous. He will normally sit or lie between us on a cushion between the two arm chairs. He sometimes puts his paws on me, but even now, after a few years, he’s still quite nervous. That’s because he was abandoned by his previous owners and he was living outside for a couple of years. At least now he trusts us after a lot of love and encouragement. Finally, he’s being a lap cat x.

Blank

Posted on October 2, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, blank, blank canvas, Blocked, Canvas, Life, Painting, Sadness, Start, Stuck1 Comment

It’s blank, I have the canvas, I have the paints, I have an idea, but I don’t know where to start. I have to do a painting for someone, and I want to, but my mind is blank. Just like the canvas. I might have a fight with it later, spread some green and red paint on it. It’s just knowing how to start. I’ll have to do it, soon….

Blues

Posted on September 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Digitally manipulated, Emotions, Feelings, gratitude, Life, positive thoughts, Words, Writing2 Comments

This is a photo I digitally played with a few months ago. It sums up how I feel at the moment. I do not want to feel like this, honestly.

It’s hard to be positive at the moment, but I am trying. I am still writing three gratitudes a day and they are helping. If you try and think of three small things that give you a little boost each day it seems to lift your spirits slightly. So I’m on day fifty of them. It’s not a solution to the blues, but it does seem to help me.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life