Forest fires.

Posted on August 14, 2021August 14, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Climate change, Earth, Ecosystem, Forest fires, Heat, Life, Overheating, Temperature, Waste, World2 Comments

The world watches as forests burn. In the Amazon, around the Mediterranean. In the North where the temperatures have soared.

We have been told by scientists and young adults alike, but many turn their backs to the truth. Climate crisis deniers are like ancient Nero, fiddling while Rome burned.

We must take action now. Reduce our carbon footprints. Even in small ways we can help. One degree less on the thermostat, walking instead of driving, house insulation and double glazing. Not much in scheme of things, better than nothing. Now we are used to Zoom why not meet on line? Ask the important questions. Do we need the car today, can you replace things when they wear out with second hand, pre loved items. There are so many people on the Earth, let’s be fair, share, and waste less.

Nasturtium

Posted on August 14, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flower, Food, Front of house, Gardening, Life, Nasturtiums, Orange, peppery, PhotoLeave a comment

Flowers outside by our front door. I love the Nasturtium flowers, then I really enjoy the round leaves with slender veins running to a central spot. Nasturtium flowers can be used in salads. I think the leaves and seeds can be eaten too? Orange and pepper flavouring. The blue green grass next to the plants are a nice contrast.

Dog work in progress.

Posted on August 14, 2021August 14, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Commission, Dog, Fun, fur, Life, Pet, Pet portrait, Work in progress5 Comments

He’s almost done, looks like a Teddy bear so it needs some more attention.

I am struggling with the fur, trying to soften it, it looks too spiky at the moment. I need to get the ears right and his belly sorted out. The photo I’m working from has him in a dogs rain cover or coat, but that is covering areas I need to paint. Three hours of work and I feel like I’m only shuffling forwards. But I’ll get there.

Abstract two

Posted on August 12, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Colour, Doodle, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, Life, Pattern, Picasso-ish, van Gogh-ish6 Comments

#band of sketchers today, again. This time with colour. Van Gogh meets Picasso (ish).

Abstract

Posted on August 12, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, black pen, Cat, Doodle, Drawing, Fun, Life, Watercolour paperLeave a comment

Abstract cat for today’s #bandofsketchers prompt, but I might colour this doodle in. I liked the idea of doodling a familiar thing with added pattern.

Saturn

Posted on August 10, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, Black ink pen, Life, Photodirector, Saturn, Sketching, SpaceLeave a comment

Space, hard to draw stars, so I drew Saturn instead. Then I filtered it through photodirector. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt.

Black fine line ink pen.

Animal with a ‘G’

Posted on August 10, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged animals names, Fun, G, Geese, Humour, Life, Memory, Prompt, Thinking5 Comments

A question on an art page asking what they should make in needle felting. They are doing a series of animals in alphabetical order.

I can think of a few.

Goat, gazelle, geese, gecko, gnat, goldfish and giraffe.

What unusual animals can you think of? I like thinking of things like this, good for the memory. It has to be things that you think of, not what you ‘Google’, 😂

Two pens

Posted on August 10, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Doodle, double pens, Drawing, Life, Poem, Poetry, two colours, Two pensLeave a comment

Holding two pens

I draw a face.

Hard to control,

The pens wobble

Tighter grip now

Try again…

The face emerges

The offset pens

Give it a blurred look.

An ancient roman

Apparently appears.

Green figure?

Posted on July 31, 2021August 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alien, Art, Experiment, Filters, Green, Life, Mirrored, Photo, Photodirector, Texture, TreesLeave a comment

I see an alien, green figure in this landscape. By playing with filters you can get surreal effects. I think this had a feeling of ancient topiary. I used a texture and mirroring filter to change it and make it more interesting I hope.

Walk

Posted on July 31, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Creative writing, false memories, Friends, Imagined, Life, Thoughts, Together, Walking2 Comments

You took my hand, held it tightly. Dragged me up the hill to the viewpoint.

We stared across the tree tops, across the views of hills and valleys. There were old houses and modern warehouses where there used to be fields. It’s gone, you said, our youth and the beauty that was once here.

Remember when we had strength? When hills were virtually flat? When colours were bright and gaudy.

The trees were shorter then, we could see further. We used to hold hands and more. Now, we are lost, can our hearts stay forever together? The hill is steep nowadays. But we walk hand in hand.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life