Getting paintings back

Posted on May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Art shop, Closed, Disappointed, Life, Sad, Serendiparty, Shop, Very sad, VirusLeave a comment

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Sad day today.

I’d had some of my paintings on display at a lovely art shop in Stoke called Serendiparty. It was displaying local artists work, and also art workshops for a creative experience. Unfortunately the lock down happened soon after it had opened up, so the people didn’t visit and it’s had to close.

This is so sad. The person who ran it is called Phil. He really wanted to bring something new to the town. He is still creating his own artworks and has decided to work from home. I wish him the very best. He deserves it for trying hard to make the place work.

Sun pillar?

Posted on May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beach, Devon, Life, Light, Past, Pathway, Photo, Setting sun, Sun, Sun dogs, Sun pillar, Sunlight, Sunset2 Comments

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We visited Devon about ten years ago and stopped in a caravan site near the sea. We walked down to the sea at sunset on the first day as there was a glorious sunset. Then as we got near the beach and were walking through tall grasses along the path to the beach, I saw this. I was stunned. I knew it was something to do with the sun, that had set. But I had my camera, so I took this photo. I think it’s called a sun pillar. I’ve seen sun dogs since. They are bright spots some way from the sun on either side. And brocken spectre, where your shadow is cast onto cloud by sunlight being you and it creates a sort of glowing rainbow halo. There are many other effects caused by the sun and light from it.

The world is a fascinating place.

Mask

Posted on May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Digital drawing, History, Life, Mask, Random, Thinking, ThoughtLeave a comment

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What mask do you hide behind? Are you a wise owl or something more peculiar. I’ve seen photos of Italian masks, all black, with a massive beak shape. I think they wore them during the plague? Apparently people have recreated them and are wearing them during the pandemic. It’s because we are more interconnected than in the past, so people can reference historical times and be recognised as doing something that would not have been understood in the past…..

Life, the world, history, fascinating,

Three ambulances..no.. Four.

Posted on May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ambulances, Blogging, Blue lights, Covid 19, Hospital, Life, Lockdown, Main route, Sad, ThinkingLeave a comment

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What is going on? Four ambulances came up our street in half an hour. Non of them had flashing blue lights. They were all presumably making there way over the hill to the hospital (we are on the main route). We’ve also seen a helicopter going over. I will see what the evening news says.

It’s worrying because our hospital takes covid 19 patients. I worry for them. Being alone and away from their families must be a fearful time. And yet across the road there’s shouting and laughing from a closed down pub. I wonder if its allowed but I won’t report it. There could be consequences….

Road traffic seems on the increase. Apparently there has been a lot of speeding due to reduced traffic. People have been caught going over 150 miles an hour in a 70 zone and 69 in a 50 zone. Madness. There has been a rise in accidents.

Maybe that’s why the ambulances have been busy.

Blue

Posted on May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Blue, Challenge, Colour, Design, Fun, Humour, Life, PhotoLeave a comment

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Today’s challenge in a friends Facebook group was to post a picture of yourself with the colour blue. I can’t find my facepaints so I put on a hat, picked up a magazine and stood in our bathroom with its blue painted walls.

I guess I could filter it and change it to intensify the blue.

Meanwhile I’m thinking of how to depict purple, which is tomorrows challenge. The idea is to collect a whole rainbow of colours and then the admin of the group will create an artwork. Interesting…

Green woman?

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Challenge, Fun, Garden, Green, Inspiration, Life, Photo director, Rainbow, SelfieLeave a comment

I love green. I’ve done a painting of myself as a green woman, and this is a selfie I did in the garden today. I was trying to complete a challenge with a group of friends to post an image of myself with different colours of the rainbow. Today the colour was green. I started out wrapping a pale green scarf round my head, but it didn’t work very well, so I went outside and stuck my head through the leaves of various bushes.

Are you doing any strange challenges or being prompted to do things you wouldn’t normally do?

Art you enjoying doing some crafts or art work. What occupies your time in these odd times?

Lockdown being lifted?

Posted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Concerned, Ending lockdown, Is it safe?, Life, Lockdown blues, Mask, Meeting in a garden, Six people, Stay safe, Stress, Thinking, Worry2 Comments

I’m going to keep my distance and still wear a mask.

The latest in the UK is that from Monday six people can gather in a garden as long as they keep two meters distance. You can even use the bathroom as long as you thoroughly clean the toilet and wash your hands.

So that will be everyone running round looking for barbecue charcoal and burgers. Buying beer. Drinking, hugging, having a laugh. It’s already happening near us. A closed public house has people meeting in their beer garden. Hidden behind a fence, but you can hear four or five people laughing and joking. No I’m not against fun! Please don’t think that. But there are a lot of vulnerable people about…

One, asymptomatic or presymptomatic person meets five friends, they share a beer or three. The next day he visits his mate and the mates elderly parents in their garden. Then he pops down to the shop for some food for tomorrow’s barbie. He doesn’t bother about keeping apart, he’s relaxed because he’s been able to meet friends and relatives, different people on each day.

Barbecue day arrives, the sun is shining, but our friend feels under the weather. He’s got a bit of a fever and a dry cough. His partner is cooking breakfast but he can’t smell it. He decides to dial 111 (our health telephone line), and is told to book a test. He needs to drive himself to the test center, which is forty miles away, or they will post him a kit out. Eventually it arrives, but he’s too ill, his partner has started feeling under the weather and they are worried about their parents.

Track and Trace can’t find out all the contacts because of the number of people involved.

So I’m keeping a distance and wearing a mask. It may not be much of a defence.

Stay safe

Fairy fair

Posted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Fairy tale, Fun, Garden, Life, Poem, Poetry, Random, Wire fairy, Wire kit, Wire sculpturesLeave a comment

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The wire fairies dance together,

flying in a fair,

Twisting and switching

through the warm air.

Flitting through the flowers,

chasing errant bees,

hiding in the trumpet flowers

of convolvulus and weeds.

Little silver fairies,

made of twisted wire,

forged by clever, loving hands,

metal from the fire.

Flowers

Posted on May 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Colours, Environment, Flowers, Gardening, Geology, Life, Photos, Plants, Random, Spring, WaterLeave a comment

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A few flowers from the garden today. The flowers are starting to develop, the big summer plants are a bit swamped with ivy and scrubby bushes and so we have cut back branches and peeled ivy off trees a bit today. Only what you can do with a pair of secateurs and a small pruning saw.

We need to lay some pathways, and where a spring has erupted in the garden we are going to put a few pebbles to simulate a stream flowing down under the hedge. We live on a hill which is a very old Volcanic plug. The water percolates out further up the hill and we think because that was built on a few years ago it might have got diverted down towards our house. I don’t know….

Gold finch on the feeder.

Posted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animals, Back yard, Bad photos, Bird feeders, Birds, Blogging, Garden, Life, Photos, Pictures, SpringLeave a comment

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I tried to zoom in on this goldfinch but the colours are really bad. It’s got a bright red head and yellow flashes on its wings. I tried to enhance the colour and exposure but didn’t get very far. If I try and enhance the red the whole picture goes red. So I can only post these images.

There were also blue tits, house sparrows and blackbirds feeding this morning.

I misidentified it as a zebra finch. It is actually a goldfinch

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