New paintings and regular art updates.
With oone filter. I used this to show how you can change a photo using just one filter. In this case the cat was transformed into an apparent oil painting abstract by using the second style filter in the Photodirector app. This smears out the details into swirls and patterns. It also makes the edges of the areas of colour more obvious.
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Tree or trees? One limb broken. The grey path reflects the grey sky. Water rushes down the river, brown and muddy. In speight, almost overcoming the banks. The rain is trapped on the pathways, the grass sodden and squelchy. I walked along there this afternoon as part of a long walk. I can feel the wet mud between my toes overtopping my shoes, pulling at their soles. Water is like glue. Stronger than gravity. My feet lift out of the shoes as they lift from the ground. My feet still feel cold and are aching hours afterwards. Perhaps I need a bowl of hot water to soak them in. I wish I’d got some bathsalts! Time to rest.
Just a photo for men who call women ‘kiddo’, see Martha Kennedys blog…..
(it references a very patronising piece of writing about the first lady elect)
Decorated terracotta pot from outside. Our money plant got too big so it’s in this enormous, heavy pot now.
I’m glad in a way. I love the flower decorations that are on the outside. If the pot was outside in the cold and frost they might crack and split if ice got into it.
I need to see patterns, if I don’t, if everything is plain, I get bored! I don’t know why. Some people like clean lines, simple colours, bare walls.. I don’t.
I ccan’t work out where the diamond ends and the surround starts. I tried zooming in, but the image is too fuzzy so I duplicated it several times. I think the setting is meant to look like flowers. Anyway it makes an interesting pattern..
Photo taken by a friend at the waiting room gallery a few months ago BV, (before virus). He’s reading, I’m tapping away on my phone. The surroundings makes it look like an old painting. Although it’s in a gallery I think it looks like a domestic scene. I love the atmospheric look of it.
Light at this time of year is always low. Striking across the ground rather than high above it. This is because the Earths Northern hemisphere tips away from the Sun. So much so that the North Pole dips into darkness in the winter months. Shadows are long now and when you do get into sunshine the light can be blinding from the Sun on the horizon. You can look for images of the suns track across the sky at different times of the year. It basically arcs round from East to West but tipped at an angle dipping more South as winter progresses, then from the winter solstice around the 21st of December, it starts to slowly work its way back up the sky until its almost overhead on Midsummer day at midday, then the cycle starts all over again.
I ddrew the green spike of our amaryllis plant and romised to post a photo. This was the first of four flowers on the spike. They came and went over a week. But as they faded another flower spike has grown up! Soon two or more flowers should be bursting out. I will try and take a better photo this time.
I have three old plants but they haven’t grown up yet. I think they need more water and our house is probably too dry at the moment.
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Like fish scales
My sequins glint
In the afternoon sun.
Shiny and smooth
Bright and glittering
Ripe for a party frock
Or a Christmas jumper!
Dont look at me
with your alien eyes
hidden in the vegetation.
Your spaceship
hovering above.
Exploding clouds
hold your menace.
Making life
frightening
for the world
take your face elsewhere
the world needs peace
not warrior’s eyes.
Mallaband-Brown