An artist!

Posted on March 28, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artist, Childhood, Colouring, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1891, Drawing, Etch-a-sketch, Figures, Life, Memories, PaintingLeave a comment

When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Give me crayons, give me colouring books. Books with paper covered in dots that you wet with a paintbrush and colours emerge.. Dot to dot books, pages with squares on that I could turn into patterns. I might have been a bit older than five for some of these, but I always wanted art things for my birthday or Christmas. I must have heard of artists because I always wanted to be one. I got an etch-a-sketch machine to draw with, I loved that.

My sister wanted to be a musician, she eventually borrowed a violin from school. I got jealous because my parents said I was doing art and they couldn’t let me have a musical instrument, so I overtightened the strings on the violin and they snapped ( bad/very guilty memory!)…

Now? I’ve been an artist all my life. I started drawing when I was a child such as historical people in tudor dress, Asterix the Gaul, horses, clouds, all sorts of things. I still do that, anything is interesting to me.

Ginger cat

Posted on March 25, 2024 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Cat, Fine Art, Floral, ginger cat, Memory, Painting, Stray cat, WindowsillLeave a comment

I painted this ginger cat a few years ago. He’s based on a stray that moved in with us for a while. He would sit on a windowsill and stare out at the garden. I decided to make his view a bit more floral, and almost Mediterranean.

Unfortunately we had to rehome him because he would fight with our other cats and ended up with an abscess in his paw. I spoke to the vets and they agreed to find him a good home. I hope he was happy and it was sad to say goodbye to him.

Koish

Posted on March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, distortion, Fine Art, Fish, Koi, Memory, Painting, Reflection, Water2 Comments

Koi carp I pay a few years ago, it was part of my recent exhibition. I thought it was worth showing on its own here. I love painting reflections and the way some parts of the painting can be seen through so you can see the fish. Other things include the distortion of the window bars in the water. Acrylic on canvas.

Air

Posted on March 18, 2024March 18, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Air, Art, Blue, Earth, Fine Art, Fire, Imagination, Painting, Time, WaterLeave a comment

A painting from a few years ago, a bit burry with camera shake. It’s one of four I did to represent Earth, Air, Fire and Water. It was a series I really enjoyed. Working with the flow of paint, allowing my imagination free rein. It’s acrylic on canvas. Two of the set had already been sold and I was thinking of painting replacement images. I wish I had, I’m not sure I ever will. X

Art

Posted on March 14, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1877, Enjoyment, Flow, koi carp, Painting, ThoughtLeave a comment

What activities do you lose yourself in?

Painting makes my mind flow…

Koi carp painted a few years ago. I love all sorts of art. It engages my mind as I create. The world and time just seems to disappear.

I might start painting or drawing in the afternoon, then suddenly realise I’m hungry or thirsty and find it’s 3am and I’ve lost half a day….

It’s just hand eye coordination, and often putting liquids onto a surface, or shading with pencils or pastels, but something grips me and I am embedded into art.

I love visual art, taking photos, and sometimes I even attempt 3d art in ceramics. I have only ever tried to carve stone a couple of times but didn’t have the strength.

Art encourages creative thoughts. I’d recommend it to anyone. Try it, you might enjoy it. X

Ginger cat

Posted on March 13, 2024 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged aacrylic on canvas, Art, Cat, courtyard, Fine Art, Flowers, ginger cat, Imagined, Life, Painting, WallLeave a comment

An imagined cat on a white wall. The plants make it feel like a courtyard. I had fun with the paint mixing different tones and colours . The cat is a ginger tabby staring out of the painting. Acrylic on canvas.

Old paintings

Posted on March 11, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Black and white cat, Cats, Friends photo, Life, Memory, Painting, Poppies, TimeLeave a comment

Two small, quick paintings of cats that I painted years ago. My friend sent it to me recently. Both of them have also got poppy details. I will see if I can zoom in on them to see if I can get clearer views of them. I know they are mine, but I genuinely can’t remember painting them. That makes me feel guilty, I think I should recognise all of my work. Memory frays as you get older x

Lands end

Posted on March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged farthest north, farthest south West, Fine Art, Holiday, John O'groats, Lands End, Life, Painting, SeascapeLeave a comment

The end of the land, a toe dipping into the Atlantic Ocean, most South Westerly point of Mainland England. The destination or leaving point you can go to or from if you want to travel the length of Britain. The other end of the trail is John O’Groats in the very far north of mainland Scotland.

We only visited once in the 1990’s and didn’t get to the actual Lands End sign because the area had been taken over by a company and we couldn’t afford the admission fee! We went up the coast into the next bay and stopped off for a clotted cream tea before going back to out camp site. I’d like to visit again one day, although I think that’s a remote possibility, (pun intended!). This is a painting I did after the visit.

Jupiter blue

Posted on March 9, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Atmosphere, Blue, Clouds, Juno probe, Jupiter art, Life, Memory, Painting, SwirlsLeave a comment

One of my favourite paintings, Jupiter Blue is based on a photo of Jupiters South pole if I remember correctly. The photo was taken by the Juno probe a few years ago. Astronomers were astounded by the colour of the gas giants clouded atmosphere.

I found it incredibly difficult to paint. It was so hard to get the softness of the clouds and I still think I can see a birds head or a witchy face in the painting. It’s acrylic on canvas large painting.

Exhibition was lovely

Posted on March 8, 2024March 8, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Anxiety, Fine Art, Fun, Life, Oil on board, Painting, retrospective, Spode, thanks4 Comments

Lots of friends came to my exhibition and it was lovely to see them. I’d taken a box of wine and some orange juice and I really was scared that no one would come. It’s strange how anxiety can affect you, but I shouldn’t have worried. I think its like a performance anxiety, stage fright, having to talk about your work, explain the thought behind it. I luckily knew most of the people there so I didn’t need to panic!

The exhibition is on for another week so I should be able to show more people round during the week. X

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Painting

An artist!

Ginger cat

Koish

Air

Art

Ginger cat

Old paintings

Lands end

Jupiter blue

Exhibition was lovely