Three years ago…

Posted on November 1, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2018, Art, Ceramics, China, Liverpool, Memory, Pottery, Sketching, Terracotta warriors, TimeLeave a comment

Walking around the world museum in Liverpool three years ago, I was so impressed by the travelling exhibition of the Chinese terracotta warriors. Obviously only a few if them were represented in the gallery, but it gave a strong example of the creative and military civilization behind these figures.

There were crowds at the gallery, people shuffled round and many of the exhibits were partially hidden by bodies that strangely mimicked the warriors remaining in China as they stand within the archaeological dig there, rows and columns lined up. Humans used to congregate. They group, they press against each other, travel together . That feeling of community has been lost to some degree because of Covid. Will they ever do the same again? Will we go forward in time to a freedom we do not enjoy now? I don’t know.

Pattern

Posted on October 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Complicated, Design, Digital sketch, Drawing app, Life, Memory, PatternLeave a comment

A digital drawing, but done on an app I don’t use anymore. I can’t remember what it was called, but it was changed radically by the people that ran it and it became much less painterly and much more patterned filters. In the end I could not get on with it. I lost the enjoyment of it. When I manipulated images I could not create patterns like this anymore. Eventually I gave up and deleted the app about three or four years ago.

Full phone

Posted on October 23, 2021October 23, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, bigger memory, cloud storage, Life, Memory, Photos, SD card, Time, transfer data3 Comments

Your phone is 85% full. Please transfer data to you SD card.

Trouble is that’s almost full too. Can I get an SD card with more memory? Can I get the data transferred over? Why have I filled this phone up? I love it. Its got lots and lots (thousands) of photos on it. And I look at them, using them for inspiration for my art. If I transferred them to the cloud would they stay available? Some companies are now withdrawing the use of free cloud storage. The world must be filling up with data too… Bring back photo albums.. Dusty memories….

1980’s views

Posted on October 16, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1980's, Forty years, Memory, photo album, Photos, Remembered, Snow, Time, Winter, YouthLeave a comment

Photos from an old album. They were taken forty years ago. They won’t mean anything to anyone except me. They are old memories. Of winter when snow fell deep. When I lived in a flat. When the underfloor heating woukd blow out in a strong wind and me and my friends would be very cold till it was fixed.

It also has memories of when the skyline of the city was simpler, when some of the houses still stood. The colours are strange because I always used 400 iso film. That and the misty murk makes it look very gloomy despite the snow. So much has changed since then. No tape recorders or cassette tapes. No black and white TV’s. Even videos seem to have come and gone. Computers were only just being introduced. Yes my memory goes back a long way.

Optical illusion

Posted on October 10, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chimney, Fun, Hubby, Illusion, Memory, Photograph, Spode, spode chimney1 Comment

Looking like he’s holding Spode chimney up. My hubby allowed me to get him to hold his hand up as if he was leaning on the chimney and holding it up. It works surprisingly well. I’d seen this optical trick a few times and thought I would try to replicate it.

Blooms

Posted on October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage oil, blooms, Blossom, Finger painting, Free app, Layout app, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Spring, TextureLeave a comment

Doodled flowers,

Set my fingers alight

Twisting, turning

Blossom flying

Memory of spring

Buds and blooms

Stained glass?

Digital art

Glad to draw

Finger sketching

Inktober 2018

Posted on September 30, 2021October 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2018, Art, Black and white, Design, Driving, Fun, inktober, Life, Memory, record, SketchingLeave a comment

Three years ago I was drawing pictures for Inktober. I did do drawings for the whole month. I must have visited my sister and drawn my impression of driving in the dark. That’s something I hate, people driving behind you with their headlights full on. (the two white dots on the drivers mirror) this was from my memory.

Since I’ve been doing an illustration course I have amassed a large collection of drawings and sketches. So many memories. Even during lockdown, I have recorded images. I’m not sure where to store them all!

Seahorse

Posted on September 16, 2021September 16, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Beach, Drawing, Fun, Memory, razor clam, Sand, Sea, sea horse, Seaside, She'llLeave a comment

I always draw seahorses when I go to a sandy beach. This was today’s drawing. I didn’t have anything other than a long flat razor clam shell to draw with.

I don’t know why I like doing this but it’s become a tradition for me. The next tide will wash it away but I know it was there, looking out to sea.

Old roses

Posted on September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Flowers, Garden, Life, mellow, Memory, Mist, Poem, Poetry, Roses, Time, WeatherLeave a comment

Autumn is coming,

the roses are fading.

Blue sky has mackerel clouds.

Sea breezes are cooler

laden with moisture.

Soon it will be

‘the season of mist’s

and mellow fruitfulness’

that some forgotten poet

(forgotten by me)

once wrote about.

Beauty and the Beast

watch the petals fade and fall….

Will they catch them

before it’s too late?

Glass star

Posted on September 14, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, diamond shape, Fun, Fused glass, Glass, Memory, star shape, Time, Workshop2 Comments

Small pieces of coloured glass embedded in diamond shaped clear glass which is joined at the centre to form a star. This is an example of fused glass which my hubby made at a workshop a couple of years ago. This summer it’s been outside in the garden but I will bring it back in and hang it in a window when the weather starts to get frosty. I don’t know whether it would break in the cold but I would like to keep it safe. Its about the pleasure of making things and the memories of the friendly people who were there that adds to the experience. Made in a group led by Angela Ashton. Glass artist.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Memory