Tulips

Posted on May 2, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Earth, Flowers, Photos, PoetryLeave a comment

Spring has finally sprung. Tulips are rising out of the earth following the refreshment of rain. Drinking in the water, their heads swelling and bursting into bright petals. Shimmering in the cold sunshine of early May.

The season’s are running behind the time here. Another cold and wet snap today, but hopefully better by the weekend.

I use the word hope a lot, I know, but thats how I feel. The colours of the tulips have raised my spirits. They photograph well and I have tried to create kaleidoscopic patterns from them.

Bright red juicy lips of deep red from a double tulip hold me enthralled. Playing with the image to make it more contrasted, deeper, more shape to it.

I love spring, the fresh green leaves not totally burst from their buds even now we are in May. I hope it does warm up. I need energy to do more art!

Apostrophe to Catastrophe. ..

Posted on May 1, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Comma, Flowers, Photos, Poetry, Word doodleLeave a comment

IMG_20180501_235109 you know sometimes how two words of similar spelling can sound amazing together…..

Apostrophe to Catastrophe does that to me.. bang and hiss, a comma of bliss…

In the wron’g place, confuses the populace? Make’s me s,mile. ..for a wh’Ile!

Each, word, divided, it can’t be hi’ded.. this poem’s lops’ided,

Like hiccups in the mi,st…… I’m really must de,sis,t!

Beware the comma, apostrophe…. it may create a catastrophe!

Companion Cats

Posted on April 26, 2018April 26, 2018 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Animals, Art, Cat, Colour, Design, Pattern, Photos, Pottery2 Comments

I have had cats for most of my life…

Small ones, big ones, cheeky ones, timid ones…

Inevitably they get into my photos, drawings and paintings..you have probably seen a few of them over the months I have been here. Some I paint from life, as pet portraits, but these are a little looser, cat shaped and friendly. I try and capture their spirit and character as well as their likeness in these pictures.

The photo of my mad male cat, sticking his head up behind the easel amuses me. I didn’t realise he was there till he popped up and looked at me. I took a photo as I may do a painting of him…..

So what next? I hope I get a few commissions as I do like painting animals. We are holding an open studio on 20 May 2018. There will be workshops, an exhibition, stalls and open studios….maybe that will result in some work to do…

Pictures on my phone. ..

Posted on April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Animals, Art, Flowers, Garden, Photos, PortraitsLeave a comment

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My phone is getting so full of instagram pictures and camera photos. I added an SD card so I can store more, but there are too many to scroll through. So I created a separate gallery with some of my old photos…a painting if a friend , the canvas stretched over a curved chair back because I could not afford a stretcher..painted over 30 years ago… (somehow I have it twice)…a painting of koi carp at a garden centre….parts of a mural I helped paint along with several other artists, including me standing at the board it was painting on…a blue mecanopsis poppy….an Abyssinian cat painted on a blue background…. my old cat Molly, the year before she died…a painting of an Autumn woman…similar to the ancient green man….my grandmother, only the head is from a photo, the rest is imagined…and finally a photo taken at a lovely garden…the Dorothy Clive garden which us a few miles from where I live. ..

So many things to look at, to paint, to enjoy. I cannot stick to one theme. It is like just eating cheddar cheese and not trying brie or goats cheese .

I think your mind needs to be open to experiences, thoughts, ideas. Don’t close yourself in. Freedom is possible, life is a wonderful thing.

Something spooky?

Posted on April 20, 2018April 20, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Light, Moon, Photos, Spooky2 Comments

For the last few nights the Moon has been close to Venus ….so I took these on thursday night with my phone camera..

And each one showed up the Moon, but Venus was very faint, and the bright light on the canal warehouse was shining so bright that you can barely see the pixel of light that is Venus.

But then I like duplicating photos, and there was one with the moon glimmering through the branches of a willow tree so I decided to use the layout app to switch one photo through 180 degrees.

Much to my cheer I realised the glimmers look like eyes! The branches and leaves like hair, the roof looks like shoulders.. it could be a monstrous alien……

(I also see faces and animals in patterned wallpaper)

How do I accept messages on WordPress?

Posted on April 13, 2018April 13, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Contact, Messages, Photos, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

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Someone tried to send me a message on WordPress but unfortunately I could not open it, and now I seem to have lost it? How do I pick them up if I want to speak to someone?

It is probably quite simple but I only have a basic tablet and sometimes it is quite glitchy. The broadband is tempremental too and that means that sometimes it takes ages for a page to load. …

Think I need to clear some of my files to give me a bit more memory. But when I think of the old computers I had, with dial up modem, which made a strange bring boing noise when it connected to the internet, I know this is a lot better ….

If you tried to contact me…

Hi, and I’m sorry

I didn’t

Mallaband-Brown

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