New paintings and regular art updates.
Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was flowers. I did a flower sketch using symmetry tools in the Sketchbook app, and I just used a couple of paintbrush tools (salty watercolour and an ink brush). I varied the number of petals on each flower and tried to create something impressionistic.
What motivates you?
I think I’ve always cared about people. My mom used to say I had a soft heart. I like films that you would class as weepies, ones that bought a tear to your eyes. I’d sit on the sofa with my mom and have a good cry.
So I’m motivated to try and support people. I wonder if that is just a perpetuation of a female role model ? It certainly was pushed when we had our careers guidance. It was suggested I went into nursing, I which didn’t set well. Why not a doctor? Anyway by then my motivation had changed. I wanted to be an artist, and for forty years I’ve pursued that role. Not to be famous. Not to make money, but to create art (and care about people).
Although I was not able to attend the Open day at a spode this weekend, I arranged to have one of my paintings Autumn Spring exhibited alongside other people’s artwork. I think it looks quite good. I was experimenting with an abstract idea in 2019 just before Covid arrived. The idea is a mixture of oblong and squares on the Autumn side, all jumbled and crammed together and is opposed to Spring which is more lyrical and fluid. Representing overwhelming waste and damage, and what we are doing to the Earth, and the renewal and regrowth that the Spring could bring.
Cat in a hat mug. My design that I draw to make children laugh if they are grumpy. I’ve been drawing it for years and so I decided to paint it onto a mug a few years ago when we went to a pottery to do some decorating. I don’t even remember where I did it, but the mug says 20, so it must have been three years ago. I have black and white cats but I always imagine this as a ginger tabby cat. X
What are your top ten favorite movies?
I’m going to choose ten starring James Stewart rather than lots of random films…
Mr Smith goes to Washington (an honest politician).
Harvey (costarring an invisible rabbit)
It’s a wonderful life, with Clarence (an Angel)
Destry Rides again (cowboy)
The Philadelphia story,
Winchester ’73 (cowboy)
No Highway in the sky (about metal fatigue in a plane)
The Glenn Miller story
Vertigo (Hitchcock film)
Rear Window (Hitchcock film)
There are many more but these are ones I remember. There is a filmography on Wikipedia with more details of his films. He was an amazing actor and I loved his films from an early age.
Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was costume. Here’s Jacob’s coat of many colours sketch using the Artrage app, I just used the oil paint tool. Then I edited it in sketchbook and added the toggles and background etc…
Something has come up. Google domains has been sold to squarespace. People can transfer them free of charge to WordPress?
But how do I know if I have a Google domain? I tried looking it up but didn’t go far, I need to write down the sequence of what to do or I might get lost? Plus how come Google is allowed to sell something you have already paid for? Is it like buying a car and then being told the maker has gone bankrupt so your car now belongs to someone else? I never understand this guff….
How do I arrange transport to a hospital appointment?
Rang the doctors.. Ring 01……..
I rang 01…….this is not the right number, we don’t cover that area. Ring 02……
So I rang 02….for A dial 1, for B dial 2 for C dial 3 etc…
Selected 3…..yes we can help but we don’t transport people in the afternoon. Please try and rearrange your appointment.
What number do I ring? 04……
Rang 04……..for blah you need to ring 05……
Patience running out…
Rang 05……for blah press 1, for blah blah press 2….
Pressed 2, you are number 6 in the queue. We are extremely busy and it may take up to 45 minutes to answer your call, if you are on hold for longer than that you may be cut off….
You are number 3 in the queue…. You are number 1 in the queue.
Good afternoon, how can I help? My appointment is on Wednesday afternoon but transport don’t do late afternoon appointments as they might not be able to take me home.
OK let’s rearrange that. I have an appointment for eight weeks time?
I might be better by then.
I can offer you one tomorrow but transport might not be able to arrange things at short notice.
I’ll have the eight week one but I might not need transport by then.
Tried ringing transport 05…….
Ten minutes later… I’ll try in the morning!
What positive emotion do you feel most often?
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone? Is that the old saying?
I come from a humourous town. Where I lived people took pleasure in telling long and I silly stories. They liked word play and puns. We would howl with laughter over some of the daft jokes people told.
Now, laughter is a little less frequent but still enjoyable. That’s partly because where I live now has a different sense of humour, harder, more direct. But I will not relinquish my old style. I might come over as sarcastic, but it can be very funny. (Just too tired to think of a joke now!)
I think I’m going dotty
I think I’m going daft
I’m sure I saw a face there
Lying on the mat
I saw a lot of dots there
Splodges and circles too
But in amidst the dotty dots
I saw the face of you!
Mallaband-Brown