This doesn’t happen…

Posted on September 8, 2024September 8, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2055, Fine Art, Hubby, Life, Loss, missing things, no organisation, Painting, Studio1 Comment

Describe your ideal week.

My ideal week would be to go out to a studio, paint for a few hours, make good progress on a painting. Go to choir practice. Cook tea for me and my hubby. Sit and chat about our days.

My ideal week would include going for a walk with him, he might go for a cycle ride to see a friend. He goes to bed early, I stay up late to read or watch TV.

In my ideal week I would sleep well, wake refreshed. Go for a drive somewhere with my hubby. Visit a national trust property.

In my ideal week I would try and paint some more, take some photos, go on the Internet.

In my ideal week I would still have my hubby, I would still have my studio, I would still be doing art or at least more than I am now. I’m just struggling to get back to something like an ideal week.

What title?

Posted on September 5, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Art deco, Bowl, Design, Landscape, Painting, Papier mache, Pattern6 Comments

A small papier mache bowl I painted during the week. It’s meant to represent the sun seen through trees, which are the black lines, the green bands are leaves, the blue and white represent sky and the yellow is the sun. But what to call it? I would call it abstract and simple. It’s vaguely art deco? Let me know a title?

Trying to paint a galaxy

Posted on September 4, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Astronomy, Brushes, Dots, Fine, Galaxy, Painting, Stars, Tardis8 Comments

Without flicking paint! Each dot so far and each smudge is from a brush touching the canvas. It’s a bit over exposed. It’s acrylic on a small 7×7 inch canvas. I might paint a tardis on it if it works. There are hundreds of dots and I’m really struggling to find a brush with a decent point. More to do!

Yellow at the lake

Posted on August 24, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Artists block, Fine Art, Memories, Painting, Photodirector app, Westport lakeLeave a comment

I enjoyed painting this a few years ago, I used a phone app to change the texture of a photo then worked off that. This is acrylic on canvas. I keep meaning to do a few more pictures like this. It’s just deciding what images to work from. I’ve hit a bit of a block recently so I’m hoping if I do something like this it might encourage me to do more.

Mural of Burslem Riot

Posted on August 13, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Chartists, Fine Art, Josiah Heapy, josiah Wedgwood, Mural, Painting, Riot actLeave a comment

This is my mural that I painted to commemorate the Burslem Riot in the Leopard Hotel in Burslem.

On 16th August 1842 Chartists from Stoke on Trent and Leek met to fight for their rights to form unions in Burslem town. The police and army were called out and were based at the Leopard Hotel in Burslem with rioters gathered in the street outside in front of Josiah Wedgwoods Big House. The riot act was read in front of up to 4 to 5 thousand rioters. Josiah Heapy, one of the protestor was shot in the head and died instantly. Many of the rioters were also beaten and injured.

You can read a lengthy article in Wikipedia entitled the Potteries riots of 1842 which is very interesting. I really enjoyed painting this in about 2007. Just sad the hotel burnt down in 2022 .

Umbrella design

Posted on August 11, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Clarice Cliffe, Design, Fine Art, Murals, Painting, Pottery, the Leopard Hotel in Burslem, UmbrellasLeave a comment

This would have been 17 years old if the Leopard Hotel in Burslem hadn’t burnt down two and a half years ago. I don’t seem to have had much luck with murals. At least three were in buildings that were later knocked down. The risk of being a mural artist I guess is that if they are painted in old buildings they might not outlast you!

My art and friends art.

Posted on August 10, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged AI, Art, Artists, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2026, Digital drawing, Fine Art, Painting, Prompt2 Comments

If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?

I’ve accumulated a lot of physical and digital art over a lifetime of being an artist. A lot of it is still in my house. I would set up a shop to clear some of it so it could go to good homes. I’m sure friends would do the same.

I realise people like to be clutter free, and now AI is creeping in they could press a few buttons and make something. But wouldn’t it be nice to have a creation made by a human that suits your taste and is created with love and attention? Go on, give an artist a try.

Mural on cafe wall

Posted on August 6, 2024August 6, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Canal, cobblestones, Hot chocolate, Illness, Life, Middleport pottery, Mural, Painting, Recovery, RestLeave a comment

I went out today to the health clinic. My friend helped me out so we went off for a hot chocolate afterwards. We were going to one cafe but the road was closed because some buildings are being knocked down. So we took a side street and ended up at Middleport pottery in Stoke-on-Trent.

The cafe there is in one of the old pottery buildings and overlooks the canal. I’m not sure who painted this mural but it is a delicate one that includes the love birds that appear on willow pattern plates and pots.

We sat near the door in a cool breeze and I enjoyed a rest after walking the short distance from the car park over the cobbled roadway to the cafe. I felt like I could start to recover.

Cat painting

Posted on August 2, 2024 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cat lady, childless, Fine Art, large painting, Life, Painting, tabby cat2 Comments

It’s big, about 4 x 5ft? Been on my wall since I painted it around 30 years ago. So I’ve been a crazy cat lady for several decades! I’m sure there are lots of us about. I’ve never been insulted by being a childless cat lady and I’m not starting now. Whatever you look after, be it child or relative or animal your life should be full of caring and supporting those objects of your love. To have hateful words used against you is pathetic.

Art group

Posted on July 27, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Green woman, Life, Painting, Pattern, StyleLeave a comment

I’m painting a green woman and I’ve been trying to sort out how to differentiate the foreground figure from the background trees. I’ve accentuated the stripes on the bark and made them more black and white than in reality. Since the figure is abstracted in a different way I think it’s starting to work.

Mallaband-Brown

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