Summer memories

Posted on January 23, 2021January 29, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, holidays, Landscape, Life, North Yorkshire coast, Painting, Robin hoods Bay, summer memoryLeave a comment

Remembering more about our trip to Robin Hoods Bay.

Be warned! The village is very steep with a single lane access road from the roundabout at the top of the hill down to the concrete slped area at the bottom next to the pub… what is that called? Slipway… There is an old chapel sitting back on the right hand side, and there was a shop selling hats as well as the grocers shop and newsagents. Lots of touristy places where you could buy hippy things like geodes and scarves. Its really a delightful place to visit if you can climb up and down a 30?degree slope! When the sun is shining it is a perfect sight. There are other, larger, towns nearby, Whitby and Scarborough, all on the North Yorkshire coast. But to me this was the most picturesque I have visited, which is why I had to paint it!

Thoughts?

Posted on January 23, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1948, 1977, 1984, Dr Who, fake news, George Orwell, Life, Meme, propaganda, Sci fi, ThinkingLeave a comment

I just saw this meme or whatever it is on Facebook and had to ‘borrow’ it. It was actually on someone’s memories from four years ago but it was spoken by Tom Baker as The Doctor as it says in 1977. Perhaps he, or the writer of the episode had time travelled to the twenty first century. Of course George Orwell came to much the same conclusions in his novel 1984. (Which was actually written in 1948).

Fake News or propaganda is everywhere. I just think we should be more cautious about what appears on the Internet…..

Virtual sketch out…

Posted on January 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Coloured pencils, Drawing, Gladstone pottery museum, Home, House, Life, Penkhull Church, SketchingLeave a comment

Enjoyed the virtual sketch out today with #uskstoke ! I drew our house off Google maps, it was too cold and wet to stand outside. Anyone who knows where I live knows my views out of the house are limited so I drew two other places I know from photos too! Oh how I wish I could get out more…. They are Gladstone pottery museum and Penkhull church. Both drawn as snowy scenes so at least they look a bit like the weather today….

Thought I’d warm Bernie up!

Posted on January 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bernie, Life, Meme, mittens, Photo, Seaside, SillyLeave a comment

I just thought he looked so cold! Hope no one is offended. I hope you think this is funny xxx

Pattern

Posted on January 21, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, History, Life, old phones, PatternLeave a comment

One thing my very old phone had was a series of patterns thar you could draw with and fill in areas. As the phones improve and give you more options, you also can lose some of the raw ideas that helped you create something new.

I have lots of tools that I can use now, but I tend to stick to one or two of them that give me what I want. Maybe new phones might have some of these retro ideas?

Fun with words

Posted on January 21, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged biscuit, English, five word challenge, Fun, Humour, Language, LifeLeave a comment

I do a five word challenge every week with a blogger called Esther Chilton (she also does a weekly limerick challenge).

I enjoy it because I can have fun with words. Today’s word was biscuit for the five word challenge.

My first sentence was:

‘Seabiscuit was a winning racehorse.’

What sentences would you come up with? Would they be funny or sad? It could be ‘He choked on a biscuit?’ Do you take the biscuit?

The garden needs a trim!

Posted on January 21, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Gardening, Growing, Growth, Life, Maintenance, Poem, Poetry, WorkLeave a comment

Like a lockdown hair style

The garden grows

Longer, taller

Tangled locks,

Like sleeping beauty’s garden

The plants expand.

Ivy clambers

Holly spikes outward.

Buddliea twists and turns

Cut me!

It calls out.

Trim me!

Give me a hedge cut!

But I wait

When the ground is dry

I will fight through it.

Quiz night on Zoom

Posted on January 21, 2021January 29, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Difficult, Fun, hard, Learning, Life, Memory, Questions, Quiz, ThinkingLeave a comment

That was hard! After winning last time we could only come third this time with devilish questions.

Who knew a Cria is a baby Alpaca? Not a baby Llama by the way.

You had to know the scores on Scrabble tiles for heavens sake. I thought William Shakespeare had a score of 30? it was 32.

We came close, 43.5 against 48. Some inspired guesses, but who knew the train line across Australia is called the Gan, which in turn is based on the old name for camel trains?

These questions keep getting harder!

A # a day…

Posted on January 21, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Environment, Life, Nature, Painting, Prompt, Sketch, WatercolourLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers challenge was to draw nature. I looked out of my window. There was the tangle of trees and vegitation out there plus bright blue sky and white rooves covered in snow. The ivy is scrambling up the trees and the buddliea bushes need cutting back….

Watercolour sketch.

Prompts

Posted on January 21, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #30daysketchbookchallenge, Art, back to school, Drawing, Life, Memories, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #30daysketchbookchallenge prompt was back to school so I did this…

Can anyone remember having to do lines? I know I used to write with three pens, but I think I was just playing after seeing the idea in a comic like the Beano or Dandy….

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life