Old cat sketch

Posted on April 22, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Biro drawing, Black and white cat, Boy cat, Cat, Clever, Life, Memory, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

One of our cats from thirty years ago. Drawing in biro. He lived until he was about 17. He was a lovely quiet cat and I remember him and his sister were sweet. His mum came to us, as a pregnant stray. She was very intelligent and liked riding on my shoulders but her son didn’t do that. But he was still clever and would always come when I called or whistled him. He used to sneak into my neighbours house through their cat flap and he came home once with a huge steak in his mouth, growling when I took it off him. I never dared tell my friends what he had done!

Happiness?

Posted on April 21, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Black and white cat, Cat, Feeling down, happiness, kitten photo, Loss, Memory, Sadness, Time2 Comments

Looking at these kittens from 7 years ago cheers me up. The sun is shining, there is a nice film on the TV. But I really feel down and anxious. I want to talk to someone, but everyone has their own lives to lead and I don’t want to bother them. I could ring up but my phone is on the blink. I talk but the person at the other end can’t hear me although I can hear them. I feel like it’s a metaphor (is that the right word?) for my life, frustrated and worried. Will things ever be good again? Will I find a modicum of happiness? I don’t know.

Posting stuff

Posted on April 20, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cats, Communication, Contact, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1914, Internet, Life, Memory, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

How do you use social media?

I post inanities, some profanities.

I post comments and responses, photos and art, I share posts and repost. Much of it isn’t important. I’ll ask people to answer questions, like can you name an A to Z of fruit? Or do you remember TV programmes in the 60’s or 70’s? And of course I post pictures of my cats.

I post here and at other sites such as Facebook. I sometimes write poems or short stories. I try and come up with interesting digital sketches and art. Exploring fine art ideas and creating new paintings. I sometimes even create pottery or sculpture.

I occasionally play games online but I’m not keen on video games or whatever it’s called now. I sometimes look up facts but I tend to rely on my own knowledge and understanding. I’m no influencer, that’s not what I’m interested in. But it makes for a more varied life and keeps me occupied (too much)! Plus you get to meet interesting and unusual people xxxx

Jane Russell

Posted on April 18, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital drawing, Drawing, Facebook, Jane Russell, Life, Memory, Sketchfu, Sketching, StarLeave a comment

Another digital drawing of a star, Jane Russell, from my sketchfu account 11 years ago. It popped up on my Facebook memories today.

I’m really interested to see what I was doing then. Lots of pictures might still turn up.

Marylin

Posted on April 15, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Drawing, Drawing app, Life, Marylin Monroe, Memory, Sketchfu, Sketching5 Comments

It’s a drawing of Marylin Monroe I did at a website called sketchfu about 11 years ago. It was a very basic site but it got overwhelmed with users. The owners became difficult to contact as they were setting up a new site called Muzy. Sadly Sketchfu closed. I managed to save a lot of my drawings but I know a lot of artists lost theirs and must have been very disappointed when it closed.

Digital art 8 years ago

Posted on April 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Facebook, left handed, Life, Memory, Profiles, right handed, Sketching, TimeLeave a comment

Another semi abstract digital drawing that popped upon my Facebook memories, long enough ago that I can’t remember the apps I used.

I’ve noticed that if I draw profiles of faces I usually draw them facing left. That might be because my right hand might obscure the drawing of they faced right. I did ask some other artists and concluded the left handed ones draw profiles facing right? But the sample size (3 or 4 people) is far too small to draw an accurate conclusion. I also draw horses heads and other animals facing left. I do wonder why.

Good question

Posted on April 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Biology, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1905, Learning, Memory, School, Sixth form, Time12 Comments

Describe something you learned in high school.

I’m not sure what high school is? When I was at school we went to primary, then secondary school. The top (final year) was the sixth form where you took your final exams.

One of those was biology, we studied a lot of information, photosynthesis, stomata in leaves (the holes underneath leaves that allow gases in and out. Things like the function of the kidney (was there something called a glomerulus?), the layers of skin, probably the structure of the eye? I think liking art helped because I could draw diagrams.

I enjoyed biology and am glad I chose it as one of my subjects.

Eclipse painting sketch

Posted on April 10, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Eclipse, Life, Memory, Moon, Painting, Primary colours, Sketch, Sun4 Comments

Sketch of an eclipse on canvas in acrylic paint. I challenged myself to just paint with red, yellow, blue, white and black so I had to mix new colours using the primary colours on the pallette. I added a tiny moon surrounded by the corona of the sun visible against the darkened sky. It might be something I paint properly in future.

Cycling

Posted on April 9, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cycling, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1903, Exercise, Health, Life, Memory, Strength, Travel1 Comment

What’s the most fun way to exercise?

I’ve cycled for exercise when I was younger and I loved the freedom of it. You could travel for miles, with the ability to see places you could never get to on foot and if you travel in a car or a train the world goes by almost too fast so that you don’t get the connection with the land that you do on a bike.

We cycled for many years and I went from pushing my bike up hills, to slowly slogging up in bottom gear to being able to make good progress up to a summit. I could tell my fitness was improving, my breathing improved and my physical strength improved too. My hubby and I could cycle up to a hundred miles in under eight hours!

The worst thing that happened to me was a bike accident that eventually persuaded me to get a car. I should have continued to cycle.

Celtic knots

Posted on April 9, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, blue ink, Celtic, Drawing, Europe, Halstatt, Knotwork, Memory, Sketching, Sutton Hoo, ThesisLeave a comment

My college thesis was on Pre Christian Celtic art. I have continued to love the knotwork designs they created. I was interested how the Celts moved westwards across Europe and into the British Isles. Their art was stunning. Various archaeological discoveries of intricate gold and bronze artefacts showed the sophistication of their culture. A massive horde of treasure was found at Sutton Hoo and historical artefacts were found in Halstatt in Austria? I’m sorry it’s 40 years since I wrote it and memory fades.

I continued to draw celtic knotwork, but this style of art needs practice and I haven’t done much of it recently.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Memory