Preparing to paint

Posted on December 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Canvas, Design, Fair, Hope, Life, Painting, Shaking, Tiny paintings6 Comments

Eight tiny and four small canvases waiting to be painted. Despite my shaking arm getting worse, and my right hand starting to shake too. Life has to go on.

I’ve been asked if I want a small table at a craft fair, and I said yes (foolishly). Now I’m faced with these blank canvases. I have an idea for some images, I just hope they turn out OK. The trouble is I’ve put this off for weeks and the fair is tomorrow. Luckily I have some old paintings waiting at my studio so I should be OK. I just need a bit of courage. X

Overgrown

Posted on December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, finger drawing, Garden, hedges, inheritance, Life, Nature, Old House, Short story, Very short story, WildlifeLeave a comment

A thicket, overgrown, a hedge tall and wide hiding the house behind it. Who lives there? No sign of movement. The gate locked shut. Curtains and boards up at the windows. Abandoned? Hidden, a haven for birds and wildlife. The smell and calls of foxes. But a house in need of care.

He looked through the hedge and wondered. Where had his family gone? Inheritance had finally happened and he was the only person found. He would start by cutting back the trees and hedges, but gently. He wanted to keep the wildness, but with some flowers and vegetables. It would take time.

He looked for a long time. Yes he could do it. Nature and garden would be in harmony. Life would be preserved and given its chance.

I am quite lost

Posted on December 1, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged confiding, Friends, gloom, Help, Life, Memory, Pattern, Sketching, Support, Thinking, Time, Winter, World2 Comments

My mind is a bit muddled at the moment. I am dealing with lots of ‘stuff’ and I feel overwhelming worry that I won’t get back on track. My life physically has been bothering me and I’m waiting for an appointment to try and find answers. I’m dealing with things for myself, my family and friends, and because I can put a good case for things I don’t mind helping. But when you persue various options and each one closes down it gets more and more frustrating. I wish I could herd cats, work out the best thing for us. I had to ask for help recently, and that was difficult. I’m a proud person and I don’t like to think I can’t cope. But you know those straws that broke the camels back? I think they are building up. Maybe I need to hibernate and look after myself, but turning away from others is not in my nature.

Tessellation again.

Posted on December 1, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Doodling, Drawing, Fun, Life, Pattern, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, TessellationLeave a comment

A bit like knitting,

Twisting and turning.

Beige and brown

Knit one

Pearl one

Draw one….

Slip one over

Onto a digital screen…

Tessellations

Tiled again

Smashed

Posted on December 1, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, cracks, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Life, Light, Pattern, splintersLeave a comment

Playing again, filters, digital finger painting. I really like complicated patterns, but adding a filter of broken glass and a burst of light made it different. But I still see shapes that turn into things, in this case the blue squiggles remind me of someone playing a guitar? Or running? My mind is strange.

One tiny block of cheese!

Posted on December 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Box, Cooking, Food, Food delivery, herbs and spices, home cooking, Ice, Life, Meat, tiny block of cheese, VegetablesLeave a comment

My friend ordered some food on the Internet for home cooking. I saw what was in the box. There were various things:

Lots of herbs, chick peas, box of tomatoes, fresh tomatoes, sweet potato, garlic bulb, two carrots, baby carrots, two bags of potatoes, a shallot, two onions, green beans, a small pouch of honey, spices, an aubergine, an avocado, sumac?? And other stuff. Including bags of ice to keep two packets of minced meat and two chicken breasts cool.

There was also a tiny block of cheese, two inches by one inch by one inch, that made me chuckle…. Oh and a Partridge in a pear tree!

More snow

Posted on December 1, 2021December 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged carbon footprint, Cold, Heating, Life, Poem, Poetry, Snow, Time, Weather, WinterLeave a comment

More snow due.

My nose? Blue!

If heating on

Money will be gone.

Winds a beast

From the north east

Cats have coats

So they’re warm as toast!

So wearing layers

To be lower payers.

One way to reduce

Carbon footprint use.

Slippers

Posted on December 1, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, footstool, Life, metallic pens, Sketching, slipperLeave a comment

My slippers are grey with stars on them. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was slippers or similar. I couldn’t get the photo exposure right because I was using shiny metallic pens. My foot up on the footstool trying to rest my calf muscle.

Flat tyre

Posted on November 30, 2021November 30, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoyed, Car, Choir, Dark, Flat, Life, Repairs, Stuck, Tyre, tyre weld, WetLeave a comment

I just went out to go to choir practice. I happened to look at one of the tyres and realised it looked odd. It was flat. It had gone down overnight. I think I will have to get it down to the garage to get it checked (I’ve not had it for long). I hope it’s something that can be fixed. I have some tyre weld but when you use that it can be very messy when you replace the tyre later. I hope it will be OK tomorrow.

Staring

Posted on November 30, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Dragon, Fun, Hidden, Invisible?, Legend, Life, Mirrored, Myth, Painting, Very short story2 Comments

The dragon stared, it looked out at me, the forest had hidden it until I got close. I didn’t know what to think? Where was it from? How had it got there? Was it real, mythical, mystical or magical.

I stood quietly. Waiting to see what happened. I didn’t have to wait long.

It spoke!

Who are you human? Why are you here? Its questions were the same as mine. Then it said, how can you see me? I am invisible!

Of course I replied that it was not. That I could see it perfectly. Then it said I must be young, or believe in stories. Grown ups rarely see dragons!

That’s how we became friends. A chance meeting. We had many adventures. I might tell them one day.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life