Clocks going back

Posted on October 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, clock change, Dark, fall back, Life, Sad, Solstice, Time, WinterLeave a comment

This morning it was dark at seven am. Tomorrow night our clocks go back an hour in the UK. On Sunday morning it will be getting light an hour earlier and we will get an extra hour in bed. Fine, but then we lose that hour in the evening, so it will be going dark at five pm.

I Hate that. I find my spark going out in the winter. I feel like a wraith wandering through the gloom. I don’t think I have SAD, but I am Sad. I wait till the sun starts to go down later every day, as the winter Solstice passes, and the returning Sun starts to cheer me up again.

A favourite

Posted on October 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumn, Autumn woman, Fine Art, Fun, Life, Painting, Seven years ago2 Comments

A favourite painting done seven years ago. It was called Autumn Woman and was snapped up by an old friend. I like slightly surreal images, thinking about traditional art and giving it a slight twist. I may do a painting that includes leaves and fungi using this as an inspiration. I’m so happy with the colour combinations, I forgot that you can include blue as an autumnal colour.

Two finished

Posted on October 28, 2022October 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, art's and Minds, Close up, Fine Art, Finished, Harper Street, Life, Middleport, Painting, Plants, Poppy, Rememberance, twoLeave a comment

I decided to do a bonus small painting to go with my bigger close up of a poppy. It’s called red poppy. It’s hard to come up with an original title. Lots of red used in these but I’ve tried to vary them and give that wrinkled feeling that poppies have.

Poppy close up

Posted on October 27, 2022October 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Life, Painting, Plant, Poppy, Red, Texture, Work in progressLeave a comment

Work in progress. I want to try and get more realism into this. It’s based on a previous painting, but I decided to try and get in closer and give a finesse to the petals texture and the central structure of the poppy. I’ll post again when it’s finished.

Autumn leaves

Posted on October 26, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Atmosphere, Autumn, Harvest, Life, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Summer, verses, Weather2 Comments

Autumn leaves leave the trees, wind blows and bowls them along the gutters. They flutter madly, sadly the end of summer edges away.

Sunshine strikes through low, dark grey clouds. Holds my eye as light streams by. Sky shimmers blue, high domed hue. Birds are leaving, wings weaving across the air.

Full of delicious fruit, trees reveal their loot of apples, pears, and sweet chestnuts fair. Mists and frosts, with mushrooms and toadstools found in field and woods.

Nature’s good, it gives and takes. It feeds at harvest time, crops gathered in, the end of summer win. And all the time, those leaves spin.

Door

Posted on October 25, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink fine line pen, Drawing, Felt pens, hobbit hole the Lord of the Rings, Life, Sketching, the HobbitLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was door. So I drew a hobbit style door to cheer myself up. Felt pen and black ink fine line pen. The door would be solid oak and a neat flower bed would be planted on either side of it. I love the story the Lord of the Rings, I’m not sure about the films, but I have a set of cassette tapes that have the Lord of the Rings radio series that was broadcast by the BBC in about 2000?

Doodlicious

Posted on October 25, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink fine line pen, Broccoli, Design, Doodling, Drawing, Life, Sketching, TimeLeave a comment

Some strange creature or plant. A combination of broccoli and alveoli perhaps? A few added leaves, contours, scales. Zig zaging power lines. Light and shade, using different thickness of pen lines. Giving depth in places. You don’t have to stick to one line, you can vary it. Experience and experiment. Trying to learn.

A few cat photos

Posted on October 25, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Cats, companion animals, Happy, Life, Purring, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

Two of my cats, the big one and the medium one. Both very happy, the little one has gone outside. The sun’s been shining and their coats are gleaming in the light. The big cat came up and tried to sniff the phone as I took his photo, you can really see how that affects the view, making his head look a lot larger than his body. I love looking after my moggies. They make me feel a lot happier.

Spider, beware!

Posted on October 24, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bugs, Cauldron, Fun, Halloween, Life, Poem, Poetry, Silly, Snakes, Spiders, WitchesLeave a comment

I don’t mind spiders, snakes or bugs

Sometimes I like to give them hugs.

At Halloween I feel quite itchy

When creepy crawlies make me twitchy.

Arachnophobia, I hear you say?

But give those bugs another day.

They eat up flies, or rotting veg

You find around the gardens edge.

This silly poem now must end

A witches cauldron, over it I bend.

Boris isn’t standing!

Posted on October 23, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Boris Johnson, candidates, Cartoon, Life, News, Politics, Prime minister, withdrawn2 Comments

A cartoon I did of Boris Johnson while I was doing my Illustration MA. I wanted to discuss the underfunding of arts at school.

Anyway after a couple of days of conjecture and speculation it turns out Boris Johnson has decided not to stand for Conservative leader and Prime Minister again. When I heard the new I actually whooped with joy!

His Conservative backers, including Jacob Rees-Mogg were saying he definitely had 100 MPs supporting him (the threshold was raised from 20, which it was for Liz Truss). So what has happened? Could it be he’s had a change if heart, or maybe he realised that there Ed too many things adding up against him? So it is now likely that Rishi Sunak will become Prime Minister although there is another candidate. We do live in interesting times….

Mallaband-Brown

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