Mask

Posted on April 17, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fun, Hope, Mask, Mystery Play, Penkhull, Play, Pottery, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, theatrical2 Comments

Theatrical mask made by a friend for 2019’s Penkhull Mystery play. Strange that sux months later we had to wear real masks! I painted this up with my hubbies features. He had to sit still at a potters wheel and pretend to be a mannequin until the cast were transported back in time. Then he took it off and became Thomas Doodey, Master Potter.

To be honest I really miss the fun we had on that day. Crowds of people watching the action. Molly dancers, a hurdy hurdy man, Punch and Judy, and a maypole. Lots of stalls.

This year we are going to do a virtual Mystery play. I’m hoping to do a copy of the Mona Lisa I an hour and a half. Numerous other ideas are being considered.

Christmas owl?

Posted on December 17, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Daft, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Funny, Humour, Play, Poem, Poetry, Silly rhymes11 Comments

Baubles and glitter

Owlish glass eyes

Tinsel and paper chains

Stationary supplies

Could be for Christmas

Could be for spring

Maybe for summer

A decorative thing….

What is this poem?

Totally daft

Owling not owing

Writing this draft.

Cat toys story

Posted on December 12, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fun, Humour, Joy, Life, Play, Poem, Poetry, Sketch, Story, ToysLeave a comment

Run from the cat

Bounce away

Scuttle mouse

Flap your ears

Fly through the air

Roll under the sofa

Scatter and sway

Never get caught

By the cat!

Following on from my last post

Posted on November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, Design, Filters, Fun, Instagram, Movement, Photo, Photodirector, PlayLeave a comment

Each of these photos was put through the photodirector app I use and also Instagram. I do like the effects but only use a few of them. Some of the filters in Photodirector have to be paid for so I limit my use.

What am I trying for? A pleasant abstract distortion. Perhaps a feeling of movement. I might use a couple of filters, and cancel some of them if they are not working. I just enjoy being creative.

Cats, they take over…

Posted on October 10, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Boy cat, Cat, Chase, Friendly, Fun, Girl cat, House cats, Lap, Life, Love, Outside cat, Play, SleepLeave a comment

You have to be owned by a cat. You don’t own it. My cats know what they want and when they want it. The boy stares sweetly at me when he wants a titbit from my plate. His sister miaows at me when she wants food or petting. Both are very relaxed around us most of the time, but even though they are fully grown, they still have mad half hours when they meet up, sniff noses and then start chasing each other.

My female cat must be a reincarnated football player, she has several small toys made out of ping-pong balls that she bat’s backwards and forwards between her front paws along the length of the living room and kitchen… I’ve trodden on them in the dark.. Ouch!

The boy likes sleeping on my lap or chest. He gets on my lap and effectively pins me down. Eventually I have to pick him up and put him on the floor. He doesn’t like that.

Cats are great pets, self sufficient but loving.

Our outside cat comes in occasionally now. He is tolerated by the other two. I think he’s getting more used to them… Fingers crossed he will be in by winter.

Cats

Posted on October 7, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Claws, Fun, Humour, Jumping, Leaping, Life, Play, Scratch, ShoulderLeave a comment

You can’t escape them. If they want to climb up your leg and stick their claws in, or jump across the room to get on your shoulder? Then they will spring athletically with powerful muscles and grip on like grim death!

Food? You want to share? No… But they look at you with those great big eyes and you are hypnotised. But they are such good companions (which means when it suits them, not you) it’s amazing how a three to four kilo animal can pin down a human, who then apologises when the time comes to move them. Dead weight? Surely cats weigh more!

Cats have their own minds. They don’t like being controlled. You can’t pick them up if they don’t want to be. They squirm, and watch out for the claws!

They have their skills, catching rodents. But why do they have to leave you a ‘little gift?’ that cartoon image of a mouse with crosses for eyes springs to mind.

Looking out

Posted on October 1, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Boy cat, Cars, Cat, Factory, Fun, Girl cat, Hill, Play, Realm, Upstairs, View, WindowLeave a comment

She often looks out watching the cars and vans racing up the hill. Looking at birds flying up to the factory roof, playing with the mobile on the window. Jumping down and clawing my legs under the desk when I go to type things up. This is her territory. She’s upstairs and her brother is downstairs. Both in their individual realms. They sometimes meet to play and chase. She’s a happy cat, she is mistress of all she surveys.

Playing

Posted on September 18, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Box, Cat, Funny, Hiding, Life, Play, Playing, PounceLeave a comment

Take two cats and a box. Add one cat to the box, the other on top of it, stir in a bit of playfulness and a few pounces and you get this. Fun! I only just managed to get the photo as a split second later the female cat shot across the room leaving her brother with his head spinning.

Marbles

Posted on September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Allys, Child, Children's games, Dobbers, Fun, Game, Marbles, Murps, Play, Years gone byLeave a comment

Digital drawing of a marble. Something from a few years ago. I drew it at a site called Sketchfu that has closed down. I keep finding old pictures from there so I hope you don’t mind me sharing.

I was trying to get the effect of a sphere and getting the reflections was quite difficult. I like the colours. I was trying to make it look like the swirls in an old fashioned glass marble ( sometimes called ‘murps’.) Big marbles were called ‘Allys’. Kids would make a bowl or indentation in the ground, and you fired a marble at a group of marbles in the bowl shape by flicking it with your thumb. You won the marbles that you managed to knock out of the bowl/ indentation in the ground… Mostly played by boys, I used to play on the carpet at home….

My box, hooman

Posted on September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Box, Cat, Fit?, Fun, Hooman, Mat, Morning, Play, Post, Train2 Comments

When a small train arrived this morning for my hubby he took it out of its packaging in a flash. Discarding the box it came in. Boy cat pounced on it and tried to get in!

Much amusement and a few photos later! Here he is, the cat on the mat in the box. Box squashed flat! My hubby is pleased with the trains and the cat with the box. Win-win!

I apologise for using the term ‘hooman’ I see it when people post about cats. I guess it’s a fashion thing. Do you think it’s a bit too cutesie?

Might be worth reading Cat watching by Desmond Morris.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Play