Selfishness

Posted on September 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2056, generosity, Life, scrolling, selfishness, Sharing, Thinking, Uncaring2 Comments

What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?

Some people are selfish. I think its a bad trait. I don’t understand it. Why do they think it’s OK? I trying to get into their mindset. They might not have much themselves, so they have to scrimp and save. But others in the same situation might be more generous, partly because they have been bought up to share. I think children can struggle if there is not enough to go round, so they try and keep what they can to themselves…

Selfishness blankets a feeling of empathy. Stifles understanding other peoples needs. Gives an excuse not to be considerate. Selfishness, taken to extremes stops any thought of less well off people, making excuses when it’s obvious that help is needed. On today’s parlance scrolling past charities and blaming the poor for their situation, calling them undeserving.

Selfishness is unfair and can be cruel, uncaring and without merit.

Painting

Posted on September 10, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Aging, Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2055, Fine Art, good intentions, Health, Life, Painting, Prevarication, Spode, Studio13 Comments

Describe your ideal week.

I would spend time at my studio at Spode, painting, or drawing. My plan is to try and go back to it. I spent a few years there, then covid happened and I lost my nerve a bit. I started to go back, but health issues cropped up. If I don’t return soon I never will, but I’ve built a wall round things in my mind. If I can’t do things properly I seem to freeze up.

My ideal week will be less stressful, full of real art, not just quick digital drawings. I would then build on it, even if I was only in my studio a couple of days a week. I would try and produce more small paintings for craft fairs, but it’s about time I started doing some ‘proper’ paintings real fine art, not craft based. I just need to get my confidence back. I have good intentions but I keep prevaricating. Maybe I can have that ideal week. It needs to be soon….

In leg news

Posted on September 10, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bandage, calf, district nurse, dressing, Driving, gears, Leg, Life, strike through, wound2 Comments

It’s healing up

The weeping has stopped and my leg is actually healing. The dressing the nurse put on is smaller than this, it only reaches half way up my calf now, and there is no strike through, which means there is no fluid escaping from the wound through the bandage. You don’t know how relieved I am to know I’ll be able to get out and about again. I drove the car a short distance yesterday to drop hubby off. But the bandage on my foot was restricting getting my shoe on so I kept in one gear for most of the drive. Life is strange, I just hope I don’t do anything else to myself in the future.

Hot cat

Posted on September 9, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged 27°C, Asleep, Black and white cat, Cat, Heat, Hot, Life, Poem, Poetry, September, Sunny, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

The cats run out

It’s cooler under the trees

Where the breeze blows

Sleeps in the bushes

In the shade of green

They come in for food

Then scarper away

Before I can catch

Up with them

27 °C or more today

Too hot for cats…

Shower curtain rings

Posted on September 8, 2023September 8, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bathroom, Chain, Collection, Composition, Fern, Interesting, Life, Photo, shower curtain rings2 Comments

I don’t know what I was thinking, but when I got a new shower curtain it came with it’s own rings, what to do with the old ones? I hung them up on a branch of the fern that’s growing in the bathroom. I guess I put them there because they looked interesting and I don’t like throwing things away.

Too hot

Posted on September 7, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Digital, Drawing, Experiment, Fire, Flower, Fun, Heat, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Sun2 Comments

Flower or Sun?

Sunflower fun

Digitally drawn

Edited with love

Playing with colour

To make it less bright

Always experiment

Like a digital atom

Exploring it’s orbit

A phantasm of heat.

Succulent

Posted on September 7, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged crinkled glass, Indoor plants, Life, Photo, Plant, Spode site, succulent plants, Window4 Comments

Plant in a teapot, on an old flaky paint windowledge in the restroom at Spode studios. The plant looks like it’s trying to escape, and is exploding like a firework from the pot. I like the crinkly window glass behind it, it looks so old, with rust building up on the metal window frames.

Had to add

Posted on September 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, black and grey, Blackbird, Colour, Digital drawing, Drawing, Finger painting, Life, Sketching, Sky, Sun, texture tools2 Comments

A bird in a tree…

I always find finger painting trees and details difficult in digital apps, I really need to find my digital stylus out, but I don’t know where its gone. This was drawn in the Sketchbook app.

Anyway this fits in with the poem I wrote this morning. The bird on the tree is probably a blackbird (it’s difficult to draw something that delicate accurately). I loved creating this because it’s different to my usual style. And I’m really pleased with the colour combination of yellow overlaying black and grey.

Little bridge

Posted on September 4, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Biddulph grange garden, Bridge, Day trip, Life, metal bridge, Staffordshire, Stoke, teetering, Walking2 Comments

Little bridge over a rocky chasm, (a small split in the rocks), another feature at Biddulph Grange. I’d forgotten this photo. I think we walked over the bridge, but to be honest I can’t remember. It seems to teeter over the gap, and I get vertigo, so maybe not! The approach up to it isn’t fenced in, so I’d be nervous just walking up to it…

To keep my mind working

Posted on September 2, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2047, Fiction, Interesting, Life, Poetry, Thinking, WordPress, Writing4 Comments

Why do you blog?

I like blogging because I enjoy thinking about things. I like to write small pieces of fiction, short poems, share my art, and answer prompts like this one.

If I can share my ideas and make a difference to someone elses life that’s a bonus. I’m not looking for fame, or saying that I want to be a famous blogger or influencer. I just enjoy doing this.

I hope I’m not boring, and I also try and produce a blog that is honest and factual as much as I can be. I would hate to share information that turns out to be incorrect, and I try and communicate clearly.

If you read my blog don’t expect me to stick to one subject. I guess I could call myself a jack of all trades and master of none.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life