A bar in Falmouth

Posted on August 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bar, Celebrations, champagne, Drink, Falmouth, Life, main street Falmouth, Photo, sangria, UniversityLeave a comment

While we were down in Falmouth we called in a bar for a drink. The prices were rather expensive so we only had one drink each. We only went in because they were offering 10% off some drinks for Falmouth University students. But that turned out to be for bottles of champagne, rising from £36 a bottle to over £100! That was the cost of one ersin staying at the hotel. We couldn’t afford that so we had a ‘sangria’ at £5 a glass! Even that was pricey and we all agreed it didn’t look like the normal recipe but the drinks were refreshing after the long degree ceremony we had just come from.

No toes…

Posted on August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, carpet, Cat, colour picker, Foot, Hubby, Life, Mat, Sketch app, tin box, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Our cat looked cute, but hubbies foot in a sandal was in the top right corner of the picture. I decided to try and hide it. I used my sketch app on my phone. Using the ‘chalk’ pen tool and the colour picker option. I carefully chose colours that corresponded with the parts of the mat that needed redrawing. I also drew over a metal tin that was in the bottom right of the picture. The chalk option was good because it gives a more mottled pattern to the mat. It’s not perfect but I’m reasonably happy.

Above prompt

Posted on August 4, 2022August 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, above, Art, Drawing, Earth, Felt pens, Life, Moon, Sketching, SpaceLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was above. Thinking of above, anything over 5ft 6in is higher than me it could have been tree branches, buildings, Blackpool tower, but I went astronomical, Moon above Earth…, felt pen drawing.

Moon over sunset

Posted on July 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cornwall, crepuscular, Glow, Life, Moon, Nature, Poem, Poetry, Sun, Sunset, TidesLeave a comment

Sunset haze in Cornwall

Moon flys above

Silver glow over pink and purple

Fields are green and lush

Tides grow as moon and sun pull

Gravity from one direction

Water bulges

Seas rise and then subside.

Crepuscular light

Before the night.

Bottle experiment

Posted on July 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Bottles, Daily chores, Experiment, Life, Milk, milkman, Photo3 Comments

When the milk bottles on my kitchen counter started to multiply I asked hubby to put them out for the milkman. He didn’t, so I asked again tonight (our house is directly on the street so if we put them out on a non delivery night they get knocked or kicked over). This time he did it, but not before I took this photo from above and processed it through the photodirector app on my phone. I think it makes an interesting picture. Daily chores can be fun!

Ice

Posted on July 29, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, black fine liner pen, Drawing, Fun, Ice, Life, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Ice..

Ice was a challenge! I could have drawn our freezer that keeps freezing up and is very frosty but I decided to try and re-imagine frost ‘feathers’ on my windscreen last winter. No reference, from memory. I tried with and without black fine liner pen.

Reeds turns into Heron

Posted on July 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Bird, Camouflage, Finished, Life, Painting, Plants, transformed4 Comments

Oh my busy hands and brain!

I really must be insane.

Spending hours transforming

Reeds and rough planting

Into old grey Nog

Bean pole legs and yellow beak

Through the vegetation peeks!

Heron WIP

Posted on July 28, 2022July 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Heron, Life, Nature, Painting, Reeds, Work in progressLeave a comment

I decided to transform the reeds painting, an abstract picture I thought I had finished yesterday. It was a bit abstract but it didn’t fit in with the other paintings I had been doing. What to do? It needed some more colour and a focus. I added glittery, shimmery paint between the reeds to try and make the water behind the reeds stand out. I was thinking of adding a small bird like a Reed Bunting, or a Coot. But in the end I decided on a Heron. The colours fit in, it’s camouflaged but recognisable. This is still a work in progress.

Teasel

Posted on July 27, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Etruria, Fun, Life, little shop of horrors?, Nature, Plant, Poem, Poetry, spiky, TeaselLeave a comment

Teasel looked like something

from the little shop of horrors!

Laughing at us

As it waved in the breeze.

The spikes were sharp.

So who or what

Took a bite from it?

Who knows?

Inside out!

Posted on July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged gusts, inside out, Life, Rain, Staffordshire, Trentham Gardens, Trentham Lake, Umbrella, Weather, WindLeave a comment

The wind was blowing as we walked round Trentham lake today. That was fine, the weather was cool and cloudy but dry. We walked past the reopened miniature railway which had a diesel train running on it with happy children and adults riding on it. We did think about taking a ride but decided to head towards the end of the lake to the cafe to get an ice cream. We noticed strong gusts of wind and the clouds darkening but it wasn’t bad and I had a large umbrella that I was using ad a walking stick.

We sat and had an icecream but felt the patter of rain. So we decided to walk back the way we had came. Then we fought a head on blast of wind and rain! The brolly was being buffeted, twisting in the air. Its handle and stem were bending in the strong gusts of wind. Suddenly it turned inside out! We both fought it back into a sort of shape because it was still raining, but a couple of spokes are hanging down and the cover has pulled away and is sagging. Sadly it was disposed of when we came home… Mm

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life