Owl and pussycat

Posted on September 15, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Author, Carroll, Jabberwocky, Lear, Memories, Owl, Poetry, pussycat, reminiscences, ThinkingLeave a comment

Looking at random things in the house. On my bookcase upstairs these two friends. I think I put them together because they remind me of Edward Lears poem.

The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat.

They took some honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five pound note…..

Which is the female and which is the male? I don’t know, is it important? I don’t remember the full poem and I often get it mixed up with Lewis Carrolls Jabberwocky poem.

It’s amazing what pops up in your memory when you see things. I have a good visual memory and that helps when I’m painting. I often talk to myself if I’m trying to remember what something looks like or how it’s put together. X

Ginger cat

Posted on November 4, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Fun, ginger cat, Life, Moon, Night, orange cat, Owl, Poem, Poetry, Shining, Sleeping, stripyLeave a comment

Sleep little cat

Enjoy your rest

Tomorrow you will be at your best,

Having a prowl

Look at that owl?

Seen by moonlight

Stars ever so bright

Having fun and delight

During the night,

So rest and take your ease

Enjoy it, if you please. X

Minatures

Posted on October 18, 2024 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2096, Etruria Industrial museum, Horse, Miniatures, Owl, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Rose, Sunday 20th October5 Comments

What have you been working on?

Nose to the grindstone

Getting ready for a small stall

At a craft fair

First one in months

I’m shattered!

Owlish

Posted on June 29, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Cartoon, Design, Drawing, Fun, Life, Owl, sketchbook app, Sketching, symmetricalLeave a comment

Doodle using the Sketchbook app on my phone. I used a symmetry tool to draw it. And various brushes to colour it in. I’ve always loved owls and I like the quirky shapes. There are so many types of owls from little owls to eagle owls, barn, snowy, long eared owls. Wonderful creatures.

Quick owl

Posted on May 1, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Bird, bird of prey, Feathers, Fine Art, Life, Memory, Owl, PaintingLeave a comment

I’m going to try and get to an art project about Molly Leigh, the witch of Burslem. I want to try and do a painting of her, but I only had a bit of time today, and because I’m trying to get back into painting again I decided to paint an owl. I did it because it’s a magical kind of bird, the way they can fly silent as a whisper to catch their prey. It’s a small acrylic on canvas. I’m not sure of the species as I based this on a precious owl painting I did a few years ago.

Foxy

Posted on November 22, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Animals, Birds, Exhibition, Fine Art, Fox, Life, Nature, Owl, Painting3 Comments

Six years ago I was painting tiny little matchbox sized pictures. I don’t make much money off them, but I guess a few more people can have examples of my art. I love nature, so some of the subjects are foxes and owls, fish, and other animals. I must do some more. I have a couple of craft fairs/exhibitions this weekend, I need to get my act together and paint, but looking after my hubby is time consuming.

Owly

Posted on May 29, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black and white photo, Contrast, Decoration, Handbag, Life, Owl, owlish, Time2 Comments

Wh-ooo-oo you looking at?

My old handbag I just found in a box. I still like it and might uses it occasionally. I have a similar one with different eyes. Perhaps I should give them to charity shops. I like black and white photos and I chose a filter called impact which gives stronger contrast and less greys shades.

I think the decorations on the bag give it a sinister frown!

The Owl and the Pussycat

Posted on March 20, 2023March 20, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, bookcase, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Memory, nonsense poetry, Objects, Owl, pussycat, the owl and the pussycatLeave a comment

Went to sea, in a beautiful pea green boat…

They took some money and plenty of honey, wrapped up in a five pound note….

A nonsense poem by Edward Lear, who also wrote the Dong with the luminous nose and the Yonghie Bonghie Bo. There used to be a TV show in the seventies that included these characters, but the animation was very weird and too colourful if that’s possible with the poems set to odd music, and I’m afraid it actually put me off reading them!

I also get Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll ( who wrote Alice in Wonderland etc) mixed up.

I realised this morning that I have the iconic animals sitting on my bookcase in the bedroom. They are a tiny cat made by an artist friend and an owl I made of clay pressed into a mold. I hadn’t put two and two together before. I guess that anything can spark a chain of memories, there’s a phrase for it in semiotics, about signs and signifiers, but I’m afraid I’ve forgotten it!

Almost sold…

Posted on November 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Commission, customer, Fine Art, Life, Owl, Painting, ThinkingLeave a comment

On Sunday my owl painting almost sold, a lady came along and was interested in it for her daughter. She even took a photo of it to show her daughter, but unfortunately it was a no from her. I wonder what I can paint that I love that a customer would like? I try and do good paintings, but it is that balance between a commercial image and a more individual picture. I guess everyone is different, we all have our own ideas and unless I paint commissions I have to second guess the audience I have. My work is so eclectic, if I kept painting the same theme over and over again I know I would get bored x

What is this bird?

Posted on November 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Asian bird?, Blue and orange bird, blue hawk?, Hawk, Owl, Photo, strange bird6 Comments

A friend posted this on Facebook, it looks like it’s from a Chinese or Japanese group? No information about what it is. I would try getting a description from Google but I could not find the url for it. Does anyone know if its real and what it might be? Also no sign if it’s copyrighted, no details of the photographer, so apologies for using the image if it is.

Mallaband-Brown

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