Facebook WTH!

Posted on June 1, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, Facebook, frustration, groups, Help, Imposed, Irritating, Life, no answers, Thinking2 Comments

What the heck is happening. Facebook keeps changing without any explanation or reasoning. Like the road you are driving on being moved to a different destination underneath you, and with no road signs to explain where you are going or why!

For instance, the menu at the top of the page has changed. The icon for groups has gone and instead there is marketplace. I have never and will never buy anything through that. However I am in lots of groups. I want to see the cloud appreciation society Facebook page or art groups I’m in… I’m having a moan here because I can’t actually see where to complain on my Facebook page!

Falcon Works painting.

Posted on May 31, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumn, Fine Art, Goss works, Landscape, Life, Painting, PotteryLeave a comment

This is another of the paintings I will be exhibiting/for sale in Stone. Its the derelict pottery in a nearby street. This is the main factory. To the left of it are two bottle ovens (which were used to fire pottery in the past). The process eventually became gas fired and many of the old kilns were closed and fell into ruins. I think only thirty two of the many hundreds that were in Stoke-on-Trent are now left, and only a few of those have been restored or repaired.

The reason I painted this is that I wanted to include the Falcon plaque on the end of the building. It actually depicts a Goss Hawk and I think the pottery is actually called the Goss Works. Others know the history better than I do.

Swallow falls

Posted on May 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Life, mid Wales, near Snowdon, Prompt, Sketching, Wales, WaterfallLeave a comment

Swallow falls, out in the wilds of mid Wales, on the way to Snowdonia near Beddgelert. Its a beautiful place. I’ve only visited it once about twenty years ago. This drawing was based on an Internet search as waterfalls was the prompt for #bandofsketchers on Tuesday.

Poppy

Posted on May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Fine Art, Life, Orme Art group, Painting, Poppy, Red, Staffordshire, Stone, the Artisan BoutiqueLeave a comment

This acrylic on canvas Poppy painting will be on sale in a shop in Stone, Staffordshire later in the week. I will try and get a few photos of our group display when everyone has hung their work.

Poppies come in lots of colours from large red, magenta, pink and white ones to smaller common poppies with red patals and black splodges in their centres. Also white and pink variations. Then there are the bright oranges of Californian poppies, orange and yellow Welsh poppies and blue, hymalayan poppies. Just gorgeous.

Orme Group Art in Stone, Staffordshire.

Posted on May 30, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Group exhibition, high street, Life, Orme Art group, Painting, Staffordshire, Stone, the Artisan BoutiqueLeave a comment

Our group of artists will be exhibiting work for sale in the Artisan Boutique on the High Street in Stone, Staffordshire from the start of June. Six of us are exhibiting there so we will all have a few pictures on display. It’s a great opportunity for us to get seen a bit further afield than usual. Wish us luck!

Blue feet limerick

Posted on May 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bird, blue feet, coot, Fun, Humour, Life, Limerick, Poem, Poetry, Short poem, Silly, waddle5 Comments

Blue feet on this Coot?

It looks quite cute!

As it waddles along

It might sing a song

That would really make me hoot!

Triangles

Posted on May 29, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blues, Colour, Drawing, Greens, Life, Meditation, purples, Shapes, Sketching, trianglesLeave a comment

I can’t stop experimenting. This time I drew overlapping triangles. Am I boring you? I think this kind of drawing is a meditation. It’s a way of ignoring the the world. Taking the time to place each shape and space them evenly apart. Does anyone else doodle or draw? It helps my mental health. I’m very visual and I have to create. I can’t stop….

Peeling paint

Posted on May 29, 2022May 29, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Clouds, crystals, Imagination, Landscape, Life, Metal, painted, peeling, Photo, Planet, Sea2 Comments

What do you see? I see an archipelago of small islands in a deep blue sea. I think there are rocky shores and shallow waters around the islands.

Or it simply could be blue paint peeling off an old metal door. You can see the metal surface is made up of crystals, or perhaps its a decorative feature on the metal doors surface.

Or it could be strange clouds on a distant blue planet. Looking down from above or up at an azure sky.

Imagination is fun.

Yes, Prime minister

Posted on May 28, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Boris Johnson, Comedy, covid rules, fined, Life, Prime minister, satire, TV, Yes Prime minister2 Comments

Satire, a wonderful thing. I’m watching an old episode of ‘Yes, Prime minister.’ it’s probably forty years old and it still speaks to what’s going on in the UK at the moment. Boris Johnson has been fined for breaking Covid rules, and he will not resign although if he breaks the rules he is expected to do so. Now he’s changed the rules so that he only has to apologise (again). The man is almost more of a ridiculous figure than the Prime minister in the comedy programme!

Monument

Posted on May 26, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cat, Drawing, Life, Memorial, Memory, Remembered, Sad, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was monument. I was going to draw the Duke of Sutherlands monument near Trentham Gardens. But then I came across this stone I painted as a memorial to my cat about fifteen years ago. This bought back memories of a lovely intelligent cat. Must repaint it.

Mallaband-Brown

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