A little exhibition

Posted on August 3, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Etruria, Etruria Artists, Etruria Industrial museum, Exhibition this way, Painting, Saturday art6 Comments

I’m at Etruria in Stoke-on-Trent today, at the warehouse along the Trent and Mersey canal from the Etruria industrial museum. It’s at the point where two canals meet. The Trent and Mersey and the Cauldon canal.

If you want to find me I’m next to summit lock 40 of the Trent and Mersey. To get in you either have to walk up a steep cobbled surface then walk down some steps, or walk through a work yard which is currently partially blocked by two big palettes of coal. We are not well signposted. I might try and rectify that!

Remembering paintings

Posted on July 29, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Devon, Friends, Geology, Life, Moorland, Painting, Rock, Stone, YorkshireLeave a comment

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I can’t remember where this is! It may be on a tor on dartmoor or it could be somewhere up high in the Yorkshire dales. I know the figure is a friend of mine, but he’s lived in Devon and Yorkshire so that does not help. Looking at it I’m not even sure of what the stone is. I know it’s been weathered by the wind to created the distinct layers in the stone. I’m not sure the colours are accurate. But I like the photo, there is a feeling of distance and atmosphere. Perhaps I will see it again sometime.

Tiny paintings

Posted on July 27, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #market_@_48, Acrylic on canvas, Animals, Art, Craft fair, Design, Eleanora street, Fun, Painting, Potbank Hotel, Spode, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Tiny paintings4 Comments

I’m playing with paintings again. The idea is to do tiny paintings that people might like but won’t cost much to have. They are about the size of a small matchbox. I’m trying to do new designs. There are giraffes and butterflies, an owl and a skull. Hearts, a panda and I’m trying to paint a little sailing boat.

Well I’d better get on as they need finishing by the morning.

Sending love to S

Posted on July 25, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Care, Friendship, Heart, hugs, Love, Painting, Pink and red, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

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I can’t be there to hug you,

I can feel your pain.

I can’t be there and see you,

Reassure you again.

I want to hold your hand,

And say it will be OK.

Show you that it’s not a problem.

Show you that it’s not important….

But it is to you.

I can’t see your face.

I can’t read your mind.

But I can send love.

Started painting Mars

Posted on July 25, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, God of War, Mars, Orange, Painting, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Science, Space, Work in progressLeave a comment

Segment of orange

To be dipped in icing sugar

Shaded with grey dust

Cratered and pocked

Darkness of space

Infinite and black

Wrapped around

Orb of rust

Canyons and mountains

Greatest Volcano

Olympus Mons

Stands tall

Carbon dioxide ices

Covering poles

Dust storms covet your land.

Cat painting

Posted on July 25, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Black and white, Black and white cat, Cat, Cat portrait, Design, Life, Painting2 Comments

This was what I was painting at 2am this morning. Bit more to do. I just liked his cheeky look. The background is a bit weird but I might leave it.

Next is a painting of either Mars or Earth. I’ve already done a couple of Jupiter so it would be interesting to paint something different. I just need a decent photo to work from.

Small clematis painting

Posted on July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Artist, Craft fair, Design, Flower, Flower portrait, Life, Painting2 Comments

Small painting of a clematis flower. Just wanted to do something pretty and still interesting. This may be finished. I haven’t decided yet. So far I’ve started six paintings for the craft fair on Sunday. I’d like to be doing more art to be shown in a gallery, but I also think art is for everyone, and if this is a way to get it out to people?

The problem is deep rooted, artists rarely earn much, and often people want their work virtually for free. I’m a fast painter and I enjoy experimenting with art but that should not make what I do different. I guess it depends on the quality of the work? Also as an artist you can become very self critical. Questioning what you are doing. It’s a difficult thing to deal with. Anyway I keep doing it because I love doing it.

Dragon eye

Posted on July 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #market_@_48, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Craft fair, Design, Eleanora st, Painting, Potbank Hotel, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Work in progress6 Comments

Tiny painting for the craft fair. I’m experimenting again. I’m doing normalise things but also things to catch the eye. Tiny paintings need tiny brushes, and my eyesight is not as good as it was. Shaky hands, holding my breath. Sometimes it’s hard to get the effect you want.

View of Trentham lake.

Posted on July 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Landscape, Painting, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Trentham, Trentham Lake, ViewLeave a comment

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This is a few years old but I painted it while I was up on top of the hill by Trentham monument. It’s looking back towards the potteries with Trentham lake in the middle ground, obscured to some extent by the trees on the hill. I’m not that good at landscapes (this is acrylic on canvas). I guess it’s in my own style but it’s a little bit splodgy.

Anyway the reason for posting this is to inspire myself to do a few more. Perhaps we can get out into the open air this week and take some photos to work from.

Run out of red

Posted on July 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Colours, Crimson, Flowers, Needs work, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Red, Tiny paintings, Work in progress11 Comments

I want a light red

Not a pink

Not orange

Crimson?

Perhaps,

Maybe vermilion,

Something punchy,

Not magenta,

Not alizarian

Not a deep cadmium red (hue)

So many names

But which one will be right,

What is the correct tinge?

Works in progress

Paint laid on paint,

Building up layers,

Blood red?

Maybe if I put my heart into it.

Mallaband-Brown

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