Sweet cat

Posted on March 13, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Ageing, Black and white cat, Cat, Farewell, Life, Love, Memory, Peace, Sadness, Thinking, YouTube2 Comments

He’s getting older, I watch him daily. He’s getting older, but he can still be kittenish. A quick mrpurr and then a dash across the room. But he likes to sleep. His heart is old, beats slowly. I hope he will stay a few years longer. Happy and contented.

Yesterday I watched a YouTube video of a man saying farewell to his much loved cat. He lay on the floor, strolling the cats nose and cheeks gently. You could see his tears. I remember the times I have had to say goodbye too.

So much sadness in the world today. Farewells are mounting up. Let there be love and peace for a change. X

Face

Posted on March 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colours, Digital drawing, Face, Fun, Memory, Shaking, SketchingLeave a comment

Face, digital drawing from about four years ago. I used to do more of these but I’ve not felt as able to for a while because of my arm shaking. The lines I try and draw go too wobbly. This was drawn in ArtRage oils.

Blue goldfish

Posted on March 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2018, Art, Digital doodle, Digital drawing, Goldfish, Life, Memory, Sketching, Sketching appLeave a comment

Doodle from 2018. I think I’m sharing this again because of Ukraine. Ever more sad news. More death and destruction. More madness. I needed to see something calming and this fit the bill. I could probably filter it and change it to a gold fish in a blue or green pool, but where would the fun be in that? Digital doodle in a sketching app.

Choir time

Posted on February 21, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Choir, Fun, gathering, glorious, Happy, Memory, Mine, Music, Singing, Sketching, songLeave a comment

Go out and sing!

Join together in harmony

Open your mouth and heart.

Let your feelings out!

Sing songs of fun and glory,

Music to enhance your mood

Tunes that fold your memory in them

Like nectar, it is a wonderful food

It holds the world together

Plays through mind and soul

So sing of love and life and feelings

My choir makes me feel whole!

The 3 beaches

Posted on February 20, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, beaches, Bovisand, Devon, Drawing, Fun, Life, Memory, Sketching, TimeLeave a comment

Comparisons. The middle drawing was the original and the top and bottom ones are experiments. I love playing with art. Originally part of our #bandofsketchers prompt ‘beach’ based on Bovisand in Devon.

WordPress keeps stopping?

Posted on February 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged blog post, Full memory, Life, Memory, percentage, thousands of posts, Time, WordPress4 Comments

I don’t know if it’s me or WordPress but the site keeps closing on me. I’ve just deleted a few more photographs from previous posts and taken my memory down to 98.3% full! I’ve always posted my own pictures here and I used to always post large images.. Big mistake. I can’t afford to upgrade my memory. I guess I will have to keep my pictures restricted in size and keep deleting them!

Beach

Posted on February 20, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Beach, Design, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, Life, Memory, SketchingLeave a comment

Beach, #bandofsketchers. Today’s prompt. Felt pens. I also did digital variations. I might put them on another post. Trying for a 1930’s art deco vibe.

Cat toy on a mat

Posted on February 19, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black cat, Cat, Life, lost toy, Mat, Memory, merrythought tortoise, Raffle, Thinking, Toy cat2 Comments

Found my old cat toy while tidying up today. I will balance him on the back of the sofa but I couldn’t resist putting him on my old mat. Then I played with the texture to emphasise the fake fur on him. He has a gold tartan ribbon. I think I got him to go with a ‘merrythought’ tortoise soft toy that I won in a raffle years ago. That’s missing too, but I only just realised that because they are linked together in my mind.

Now my cats have come in. They want food! The toy cat has one advantage, it doesn’t need feeding!

Tree view

Posted on February 18, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Branches, Leaves, Looking, Memory, Painting, TreesLeave a comment

When you stand under a tree remember to look up. You might be surprised to see the pattern the branches make and how the leaves don’t always overlap so they can absorb as much light as possible. Spreading out towards the light (phototropism) is where plants bent their stems to move towards the light. Look at the different shaped trees make, depending on the species. Some even have nicknames. Ash trees are supposed to have branches like witches fingers. This was one of my paintings from about twenty years ago.

Teapot at a hotel

Posted on February 15, 2022February 15, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, brickwork, Display, Gallery, Hotel, Memory, PaintingLeave a comment

A few years ago I did a series of paintings of pottery that were displayed in a local hotel on the Spode factory site. It was great to see my work on show in different venue to a gallery. The hotel staff were very friendly and welcoming. I liked the fact the works were hung on rough brickwork. It gave it more of a feeling of industrial heritage. I’d like the opportunity to do it again.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Memory