Rain

Posted on April 11, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Garden, Gardening, greenhouse, Growth, Life, Plants, Rain, Water, water butt's, WindowLeave a comment

Rain on my window, blurring the view smeared across the surface. April shower crashes down. No thunder or lightning but we may get some. Hidden tomato plants snug in the plastic greenhouse.

My friend now has an allotment. I have offered to water her plants while she’s on holiday. An old gardener there said the plants in her greenhouse will need watering daily! I’m glad of the showers now, they will help fill up the water butt’s. Large blue barrels filled with rain water. It’s good, we had a very dry march so the rain is welcome.

Peace

Posted on April 10, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, cabbage rose, Drawing, Gardening, Life, Peace, Plants, Roses, Sketching, Yellow1 Comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Peace. I decided to draw yellow roses against a blue background. Used felt pens, Hoping for peace in Ukraine. I know its a vain hope but I can wish.

Art for sale

Posted on April 9, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cafe, Environment, Etruria Industrial museum, Fine Art, For sale, Life, Nature, Painting, work on show8 Comments

A few paintings and some cards for sale at the cafe at Etruria Industrial Museum today. Its great to have another venue to show my work and as its open to people travelling along the canal I hope they will be seen more. I put in images based on nature but I may have the opportunity to place other works there soon. I’m obliged to my friend who is volunteering at the museum who invited me to take my work there.

Etruria Industrial Museum today

Posted on April 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Etruria Industrial museum, fine black ink pens, Life, Sketching, Today, ViewLeave a comment

View through silver Birches of three chimneys at Etruria Industrial Museum today. I think only the short stumpy one on the right is at the flint Mill, the thin metal one and the tall brick one seem to be to be on the side on another part of the industrial site. The buildings there look derelict with holes in one of the roofs. I hope the large chimney is stable. Sketch done on the balcony at the back of the museum.

Scales?

Posted on April 9, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Life, Metallic, Mirrored, Photography, Reflections, Scales, table top, TextureLeave a comment

Reflected on a table top. Polished circles look like metallic scales. A layer of smeared washing liquid leaves a texture and using the layout app on my phone I mirrored and duplicated the images. I almost see metallic blue feathers?

Blue Poppies

Posted on April 9, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blue poppy, Fine Art, Himalayan poppy, Life, Mecanopsis, Painting, Plant2 Comments

Blue poppy painting I did in 2016, from a photograph by my sister. It’s going to a new home next week. I do feel like my paintings are my children. Leaving me, going out into the world. Or maybe cats, I seem to always have more here than get rehomed! Acrylic on canvas, about 8×12 inches.

Draco

Posted on April 8, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Draco, Dragon, Dreaming, Fine Art, Insomnia, Life, Need sleep, Sleep, Wip, Work in progressLeave a comment

My mind is racing, I cannot sleep. My hand has held a paintbrush and suddenly the impetus is there to paint again despite the shaking and wobbling. I started three more small paintings tonight, a kingfisher, then this dragon, and finally a face I’ve called medusa. All works in progress. I think the illustration side of me is leaking into my paintings!

And then there’s faces

Posted on April 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Layout app, Life, Pattern, Sketching appLeave a comment

Digital drawing I did six years ago. I think in the sketcher free app and then I used the layout app on my phone. I’ve tried several art apps but I can’t keep all of them on my phone because I still haven’t increased the memory on it. I don’t want to lose my images if they get deleted by accident. I could imagine this being a tapestry or embroidery.

Seashore mosaic

Posted on April 6, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bay, Digital manipulation, Experiment, Landscape, Life, Photoshop, Rocks, Sea, Sky, Time4 Comments

Photoshop landscape using mosaic photos to break up the image. It’s an interesting effect but is it a bit jarring? The secrion of the sky seems to have too many black bits I’m it. This is years old and I can’t remember when I did it. I have numerous pictures that I created over several years. I am very interested in artistic experiments. X

Little sketch from 2018

Posted on April 6, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2018, Art, Black ink, Choir, Drawing, Life, Panto, Sketching2 Comments

Not sure which rehearsal this was. The figures are not recognisable. I must have been bored! Either waiting while the panto stars rehearsed or waiting while pet of a choir learnt their part of some song or other. Looking at it, I must have been using quite thick nibbed pen. Fun to sketch x

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