ceramic head

Posted on October 25, 2021October 26, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ceramic head, Gardening, Hand made, Life, Nasturtiums, Planter, Pottery, twenty five years ago1 Comment

Thirty year old ceramic head. Every year I plant this, and another one (hidden behind a hanging basket) with lobelia or other trailing plants. I was going to put in nasturtium seeds but forgot!

I’m pleased with how it’s lasted. When it was fired it had a crack in the back and over the last twenty five years its been out there I’ve expected the frost to break it but it survived. I made it at a pottery class in Newcastle-under-Lyme and was really pleased with the result.

Anyway I’m thinking of making some more if I can find a pottery class or group.x

Every day…

Posted on October 25, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Disturbed, Life, Relaxed, Rest, Sleeping, Trying to understand, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

The cat jumps up and lies on a cushion between mine and my hubby’s chair, sometimes you can hear him purring or snoring. It’s a sign of how he trusts us. But EVERY day hubby, at some stage, will decide to stroke the cat ‘because he loves it’. The cats tail starts to twitch. He is disturbed by the attention. He wakes up and jumps down and goes out.

I have TRIED to explain the cat wants to rest and sleep. The attempt to stroke him really irritates him. I have said leave him alone and let him be. But the temptation is always there. Stop it! Leave it alone. The trouble is that it doesn’t work. Hopefully he will learn.

Strange eyes

Posted on October 25, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Edgar Allen Poe, Experiment, Eyes, Face, half, Life, Mirrored, Photo, Weird2 Comments

According to scientific research symmetrical features are supposed to make people more handsome or pretty.

As an experiment I took a photo of someone’s eye then mirrored it. I tried to get the right width for the bridge of the nose. I have to say this looks strange. He does have uneven eyes in reality, with one obviously higher than the other.

The only other example of this I have seen was with a photo of Edgar Allen Poe. He has a very unsymmetric face and as with this experiment if you mirror the opposite sides the faces that result are truly weird, at least to me.

Cat presents…

Posted on October 24, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cat toys, Death, Life, Mice, mornings, Presents, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Cat presents, not so much presents as lovingly presented remains of mice. Ooooh no! I get up in the morning, and there on the doorstep, something not very nice. Is there a deterrent? I feed my cats well, I give them toys, and yet they try and show love in the only way they can…. Yuk! I’m glad it only happens occasionally.

Verticals and horizontals

Posted on October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white, Drawing, horizontal, Library, Life, Sketching, Time, verticalLeave a comment

That was what today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was. I have three large bookcases in our living room so I drew an interpretation of them. I couldn’t see all the titles let alone draw them all. I also added cat. It’s a bit scribbly and decided to leave the drawing as black and white although I am tempted to colour it.

Full phone

Posted on October 23, 2021October 23, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, bigger memory, cloud storage, Life, Memory, Photos, SD card, Time, transfer data3 Comments

Your phone is 85% full. Please transfer data to you SD card.

Trouble is that’s almost full too. Can I get an SD card with more memory? Can I get the data transferred over? Why have I filled this phone up? I love it. Its got lots and lots (thousands) of photos on it. And I look at them, using them for inspiration for my art. If I transferred them to the cloud would they stay available? Some companies are now withdrawing the use of free cloud storage. The world must be filling up with data too… Bring back photo albums.. Dusty memories….

Story tiles

Posted on October 23, 2021December 15, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged BCB, Ceramics, China clay, Cornwall, Fine Art, Jack Clemo, Life, Poet, Pottery, St Austell, writerLeave a comment

A view of St Austell in Cornwall that was at the BCB exhibition recently at Swift House, Stoke-on-Trent. With subtle tones of sepia colour it depicted a semi industrial landscape. I didn’t see a notice but I’m guessing it was made of China clay which has been quarried there for centuries. One of the sites was used to create the Eden Project, a set of giant domed greenhouses or ‘biomes’ which house tropical and arid environments from more equatorial climes.

St Austell is a town in Cornwall inland from the southern coast, in a landscape dotted with abandoned tin mines. It was once the home of a famous poet called Jack Clemo. He was blind but managed to write his poems while supported by his mother in the 1950’s?

Not slept so drew

Posted on October 23, 2021October 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Design, Dragon, Drawing, Exciting, Fun, Imagination, Life, Scales, SketchingLeave a comment

Scales again, I was playing with combinations of colour and black and white. I’m building a large collection of them. Maybe this is enough? Next step is to hang them on my character. Discussing the idea with others I might do a dragon that changes throughout the book. Not because I can’t draw it from different angles, but because it might need to change depending on its circumstances….. Hmmm, I keep seeing new directions!

Cloudy

Posted on October 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged British summer time, Clouds, Greenwich mean time, Life, Light, Photo, Sunrise, Sunset3 Comments

Sun sets about 6pm now and dark clouds bordered by edges of creamy white. Soon the clocks will be going back and we will lose an hour of light in the afternoons. It’s then I start getting very sad, I don’t suffer from depression, but I just wish we could hold on to that extra hour. I’m not bothered about gaining an extra hour of light in the morning. There was an experiment in the 1970’s in Britain where we kept British Summer time in the winter. They found that there were less accidents involving children because if they were tired this was combated by them being able to see traffic with the lighter evenings. I’m sure there are statistics somewhere on the net that confirms this. For whatever reason the experiment was ended after three years and we reverted to Greenwich mean time in the winter and British Summer time in the summer.

Why go on about this? I think the British Summer time experiment saved energy while it was going on. Somehow less energy was used. Maybe they should think about it again?

Raspberry flower?

Posted on October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Confused, Flower, Gardening, Life, mild temperatures, Photo, Plants, Raspberry, SpringLeave a comment

It’s Mid-october and things were mild but now they are getting colder. Last week we had temperatures in the high teen centigrade and this week they have gone down to 12 or 13 in the day time and 5 or 6°C at night. Leaves are finally starting to change colour but still some plants seem to think its Spring!

My Raspberry plants for instance have come back into flower. I don’t have a close up lens, but I managed to get a photo of this raspberry flower. It’s a bit cold and bedraggled after the cold, heavy rain we had today, but despite a tinge of brown on the edges of its petals its still trying. It probably won’t turn into fruit as there are no insects around now. Still interesting to see.

Mallaband-Brown

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