Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt

Posted on November 15, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Bathroom, Black ink, Cycle, Felt pens, Fun, Kitchen, Life, Sketching, WheelLeave a comment

Drawing every couple of days to a prompt helps me keep my hand in and makes me think about drawing things slightly differently to a straightforward image. Hence the bike wheel…. Can’t say I got it right with its wonky spokes and dodgy perpective but I did find it enjoyable. The only thing is the radiator in there doesn’t give out much heat so I drew the circles for the wheel in the kitchen first (it’s warmer). Then I tried to draw the spokes in the bathroom but I was shaking too much to get straight lines!

By the way I didn’t draw the oil cans and the old rags… I think he think his bikes are horses and need stabling….. Lol

Crow painting

Posted on November 14, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Craft fair, Crow, Experiment, Gold leaf, Life, Painting, Small paintingLeave a comment

Crow painting from 2017. Acrylic on canvas with gold leaf. It was an experiment which I felt came out OK. Its from my imagination. It was only about six inches square.

I did a series of small paintings over the last few years, mainly for sale in craft fairs, they were quite popular. I wish I was doing more, but it’s pointless at the moment as I would just be creating more art with no outlet to sell it. Anyway I hope things get back to some form of normal in the next six months to a year……. Xxx

Cat sketches

Posted on November 13, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Cats, Drawing, Life, Quick sketch, SketchingLeave a comment

A few sketches of two of our cats. Cats move and I found it difficult to capture the ones where they were moving. Especially with black fur to draw, some of the patches are not the right shape or position, but if you are not aware of the image of the original cat it’s not as important? They are very sketchy..

Sleeping

Posted on November 13, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Awkward angle, Black and white, Drawing, Hubby, Life, Partner, Sketching, SleepingLeave a comment

We were watching TV but he fell asleep. An awkward position, across the arm of the armchair. It was difficult because he was moving. Black and white sketch using a fineliner pen. It’s a small A5 sketchbook that I’m using. I have almost run out of paper!

Moonlight

Posted on November 12, 2020November 13, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Life, Moon, Phases, Poem, Poetry, Thinking, Thirteen monthsLeave a comment

Soon will come the new Moon,

running over the sky,

hurtling through space,

so slow but so fast,

arc of light,

thirteen moons and

thirteen months in a year.

Cold and numb I stand and view you. Shocked by your light,

reflected glory.

You are time,

you are a clock,

your face turned to us

but constantly changing.

If one could visit you,

like in the past,

would we see times spell,

it’s awesome power.

Our sad world.

Upgrading Instagram

Posted on November 12, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Business account, Illustration, Instagram, Learning, Life, Progress, Thinking, WordPress2 Comments

I’ve upgraded my Instagram account to try and understand the traffic there. I have been putting off doing it for a few years but as I’m trying to do more art and illustration I guess it’s necessary. I think having more insights will help me choose what to post and when. But like here I’m a bit of a scattergun. Anything I’m interested in gets written down and as I have eclectic tasted I have I like sharing those ideas here. What do you think?

Outdoor cat asleep

Posted on November 11, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Autumn night, Blogging, Cat, Cold night, Life, Outdoor cat, Photo, Stray8 Comments

He came in, asked for a love, sniffed our boy cat. Thought about getting on my lap. Then he walked over to the settee, kicked a toy mouse for about thirty seconds (holding it with his forepaws, kicking with his back legs), then his eyes closed and he gel fast asleep!

Meanwhile my boy cat watched proceedings but remained inside a cardboard box we’ve given him to curl up in. The girl cat is lying over the radiator on her cat tree.. What happens next?

Poppies for remembrance

Posted on November 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annuals, Gardening, Life, Perrenial, Plants, Poppy, Remembrance, Varieties, WarLeave a comment

Poppies germinate in disturbed soil so when the First World War came to an end they sprang up in ‘Flanders fields’. This then became the iconic symbol for armastice day and is used as a way of collecting donations. Paper flowers are sold in shops and by volunteers to raise money for the Royal British Legion charity.

Poppies come in a variety of forms, among which are the common poppy, probably the ones that grew in the fields after the war. Welsh poppies, oranges and yellows. Californian poppies (I’m not sure they are the same plant as I think they are called Escholsia? not Papaver). Oriental poppies, which are grown in some places to make opiates. Himalayan blue poppy (mecanopsis) one of which I managed to grow last year. Then also different garden varieties, perrenials and annuals.

My favourite annual poppy is Shirley. Lots of variety of colours from pale pinks and whites to deep reds and with different shading, also the perrenial Patty’s Plum although it’s colour tends to fade. I also love painting them….

Meanwhile in hubby’s world..

Posted on November 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Country Town, Engine shed, Life, LMS, London Midland and Scottish train line, Model trains, Night View, OO gauge, Photo, Station, Steam engine, TrainLeave a comment

Double ‘O’ gauge Station with a green LMS ginty engine, 060. Model, night time view.

It’s just on a small piece of board but it’s got two platforms and an engine shed waiting for trains to enter for repairs and maintenance. Behind the platform stand beer barrels waiting to be loaded. This would be a small country town station, perhaps in Devon, although LMS trains would usually be found all over the country and were used for shunting local freight, acting as pilot engines that ran in front of main engines to assist them on steep sections of track. They were also engines for passenger trains. With the 060 wheel set up (no leading wheels, six main wheels and no trailing wheels) they could get round twisting tracks easier.

The board is too small to have moving engines, but it’s an idea of how a station would have been set up in the past.

Cat plus cat

Posted on November 10, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Cat, Colours, Double cats, Fun, Life, Painting photo, Photo, Ring holderLeave a comment

Look on any shelf in my house and you will find either a cat ornament or a cat picture or painting. Here is a little cat ring holder, sent from a friend in America, and a birthday card someone sent me. I liked it so much I framed it. Sorry I don’t know the artists name. The little toy car is a spectrum persuit vehicle? From the captain scarlet and the mysterons TV series of the 1960s. The background is my bookcase with a few novels. I liked the colour combinations. I enjoy taking photos of everyday objects…

Mallaband-Brown

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