Annoying

Posted on March 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blocked, Instagram, IPhone, Life, pestered, reported, spam, spammers, spamming, ThinkingLeave a comment

I keep getting messages on my Instagram account that I have won an iPhone. The trouble is I don’t want one and I’m fed up after a couple of months of being spammed. I will never click on a link. I’m not daft, I’m not tempted, I will keep blocking the posters. I think I’ve had fifteen or twenty messages so far. If I’d won that many (from all different peoples Instagram accounts) I could make a great deal of money selling them all. But I’m NOT INTERESTED. I keep blocking them and reporting them. OK that’s enough, I’ll stop spamming you xxx

Spin

Posted on March 3, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Calm, cease, Fears, Ideas, Life, Mind, Pace, Poem, Poetry, Spinning, Thought, WorriesLeave a comment

Spinning head

Twisting top

My mind rotates

it just won’t stop

Thoughts tumble

Round and round

My thinking fuddled

Worries sound

In my head

All around.

Lots of problems

in the world

Let’s make peace

Speak calm words

And emnity cease.

Vintage

Posted on March 3, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, dress, fifties, Life, Pattern, sixties, Sketching, VintageLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was vintage. OK, so I looked up vintage dress on my phone then made up a pattern. I think I’ll call it ‘molecules’. I was aiming at one of those 50’s/60’s patterns I remember from my childhood. The background was just to try and make it stand out.

Cat Woman

Posted on March 2, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Cat, Design, Drawing, Face, finger drawing, Free app, Life, Sketching, WomanLeave a comment

Doodle in ArtRage oils free app. I’m so busy drawing with felt pens that I forgot that I have it on my phone. I’m sort of sticking with blue and yellow as my main colours. Why, because Ukraine is on my mind. I guess this isn’t brilliant but finger painting with smudgy drawing tools can be difficult. I don’t know what made me draw this, but it was fun..

Cat-astrophe!

Posted on March 2, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cat-astrophe, Damp, Jump, Life, Oops, Photo, slipped, Splash, toilet, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

This is my older boy cat. Sitting in his box in the kitchen, like butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth….

This morning he ran in the bathroom. He usually jumps up on the lid of the toilet, then up onto the cupboard by the window to nibble at the plant in there…

Oh no! The lid was up. He jumped, slid and slipped across the seat, plop, splash! Into the toilet bowl (luckily cleaned this morning). Poor cat! Miaow! Very wet cat! He was fine. But I will remember to keep the lid down. I hope he’s a bit more cautious tomorrow!

Spring is springing

Posted on March 2, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Buds, Growing, Leaves, Life, March, Poem, Poetry, Spring, Trees, Weather, Westport lakeLeave a comment

Buds are bursting

Leaves are appearing

Pigeons are roosting in the rain

The sky’s are grey

Ducks and geese wander

Round Westport Lake.

A gentle walk

Taking in the view

Dampened by the drizzle

Laceworks of twigs

Fill in the gaps

Soon there will be daffodils

Crocuses and tulips

Then May blossom.

March,

In like a lion

Out like a lamb

(or vice versa)

Soon to be revealed…..

Construction

Posted on March 1, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Blue, Construction, Drawing, Life, Perspective, Sketching, Ukraine, vanishing points, Yellow2 Comments

When I was young I used to practice drawing perspective using one or two vanishing points. When our #bandofsketchers prompt came up as construction I thought I would do something along those lines. Then thinking of Ukraine and how it will need rebuilding I decided to colour it blue and yellow.

Peace not war

Posted on February 28, 2022February 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged a prayer, Dove, Hope, Life, Love, Peace, Poem, Poetry, small poemLeave a comment

Dove

Call for peace

Give life hope

Keep people safe

Forgive evil

Share love.

Sunset last year

Posted on February 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged A year ago, Art, Landscape, Life, paint sky, Sketching, Sunset, Time, Watercolour, Watercolour sketch2 Comments

Sunset, watercolour, February 2021.

I had been for a walk with a good friend and walked a lot further than I thought I could. Oh what a difference a year makes. I couldn’t walk a third of that distance now. Every time I think I’m going to go for a walk something seems to stop me. For instance this weekend was lovely, but I had an upset stomach (too much information?), so I stayed home. I’m getting increasingly frustrated by this. I want to be out there, walking, painting, being back to normal. Instead I’m just burbling away here. Spinning out my old memories into a web of comfort that doesn’t equate to doing things for real.

Tulips

Posted on February 28, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Daffodils, Dragon, Flowers, Leek, Life, March, Spring, St David's day, Time, Tulips, Wales1 Comment

Tulips in the kitchen. Now I need some daffodils for tomorrow which is the 1st of March and St David’s day.

Wales has many symbols, the daffodil, the leek and last but not least, the Welsh dragon that appears on their flag.

It is always good to get to March, it is the start of the Metereological Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. I expect we will be blasted by March winds. But tulips and daffodils cheer me up.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life