I want to go

Posted on January 29, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Coast, Feelings, Holiday, Loss, Memory, Mountains, Sadness, Seaside, Time, Travel, VisitLeave a comment

To Wales, and the lake district, and Scarborough, and Devon and Dorset. All the places I’ve been on holiday in my life. I want to ESCAPE! Get to beautiful places, see the coast, the mountains, get out of the city.

I can’t get away to the sea and sky. My mind won’t let me, my arms won’t let me, my legs won’t let me. I get worried, I think of things that might happen. I need to have company. Isn’t that strange? When I had my hubby we went everywhere together. Now he’s gone there is no one to reassure me. To make it safe. I’m fed up. Anxious, frustrated, lost, fearful.

Sorry to go on.

Cloudy view

Posted on July 31, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Clouds, fields, Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, Landscape, Life, Mountains, TreesLeave a comment

This was what I tried to finish painting today. I wanted to paint a cloudy sky and over painted patches with a sponge to give the clouds a fluffy feel . I even tried to paint some Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds above the mountains. They look like rolling waves on the sea. It’s a tiny portion of the painting and probably not that apparent.

Anyway, acrylic on canvas. (cheap canvas, you can really see the warp and weft.)

View

Posted on July 17, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Imagination, imagined view, Leaves, Mountains, Painting, Trees, ViewLeave a comment

Imagined view, I think I need to have a look at some real clouds. I’m not sure if I’m going to call this finished. Acrylic on canvas. I just wanted to paint something calm and peaceful so I created this sketch view X

Mountains

Posted on April 5, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Drawing, Mountains, Photodirector, Prompt, StylusLeave a comment

Purple mountain #bandofsketchers prompt was mountain, I drew this in Artrage app then adjusted it in photodirector. I must get back to real drawing soon.

My old sandals

Posted on February 19, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged beaches, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1853, holidays, Life, Memory, Mountains, paths, Poem, Poetry, Thoughts, WalkingLeave a comment

Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.

Not flip flos

Not beach sandals

Proper walking sandals

Have taken me up and down

Hills and paths

Through fords

Into the sea

On hot days and pebble beaches

Foreshore, piers

Along garden paths

Looking for minnows

In shallows

Sandals that supported me

Sandals that transported me

Sandals I tore off

When my feet got stuck in mud

Sandals that wore out

Heels worn down

Sandals full of grit and memory

That guided my feet..

To you

Tried painting Jupiter’s pole.

Posted on November 25, 2023November 25, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Beach, Blue, juno mission, Jupiter, Mountains, Painting, photos of the planet, space probe2 Comments

I tried painting Jupiter’s pole in 2020 I think, from a photo taken by the Juno space probe. I was amazed at the colours that we saw. Not the oranges, whites and reds seen by the previous missions, but wonderful blue black and white swirls that are so difficult to capture. I saw this in my studio today and memories flooded back.

Wales

Posted on November 17, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bara brith, country, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2122, Life, Mountains, Seaside, Snowdonia, tearooms, Wales, Welsh4 Comments

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

I think I would move closer to the sea. Up a hill, away from flightpaths, with a lovely view. A small town nearby.

Wales is close enough so that I can still visit family and friends. I would ideally like a slightly bigger house so that people can stay.

Why a Wales retreat? I know the country to some extent. I have Welsh ancestors, I have family there. I am used to the weather and I think its slightly less polluted than England.

Recently I’ve thought about moving. It’s not in the forefront of my mind, but if I ever have the money I would like to spend my declining years visiting Welsh tearooms and eating bara brith cake, painting Welsh scenery and joining choirs!

Work in progress

Posted on March 26, 2022March 26, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, cloudscape, Fine Art, Hills, Landscape, Mountains, Painting, Reflection, WaterLeave a comment

I went to our Art Group today. It was good to kick-start myself back into painting again. Struggled a bit because of my shaking arm. I’m like a wobbly jelly.

It was going to be a different painting, but when I got to the venue there was no WiFi available so I couldn’t find the reference photo I wanted to work from. This painting took about three hours so far. I’ve got to work out the reflections and the sky.

Card from a friend

Posted on December 17, 2021December 17, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged America, Art, Hills, Life, Martha Kennedy, monte vista, Mountains, Oil painting, Painting2 Comments

I wasn’t expecting this lovely card from my friend Martha. (Women’s Wilderness Legend – living the Metaphor, marthakennedyblog.com) in Monte Vista near Denver (I hope I’ve got that right). I met her through WordPress and I really enjoy her blog. She is a writer and artist who lives with her two dogs. Reading her blog cheers me up. So interesting to see someone else’s point of view. It gives you a perspective on the world seeing another person’s point of view. Seeing those mountains in the background of the painting makes me realise how small (but very ancient) the hills and mountains of Britain are. We don’t get snow regularly like her mountains. I love this depiction of them.

Smiling faces

Posted on April 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2019, Clouds, Life, Mountains, Pareidolia, Photo, Seeing faces, Snowdonia, Summer, Wales10 Comments

Smiling cloud faces, view of Snowdonia, Wales, UK , June I think, 2019. Wishing I was there now. We haven’t been able to visit for over a year because of Covid…I saw this again today and remembered how enjoyable it was just travelling, exploring, driving down roads I’d never been down before. I don’t mind not driving much, but I’d like to go to a few nice places again….

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Mountains