Robin Hood

Posted on April 9, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Archery, Arrows, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1901, Hollywood, Life, Memories, mock orange, Playing, Robin Hood, Target, Time, TV programmeLeave a comment

If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?

I’m not sure when I decided I wanted to be Robin Hood but I was a small child and I used to make bows and arrows out of the mock orange bushes in the garden. The twigs are springy and bent well without breaking, you could also use the straight twigs as arrows. I got quite good at firing them at little targets in the garden.

I guess it all started when I used to watch Robin Hood a programme on the TV starting Richard Green I think. I used to sing along with the theme tune. I also loved the Hollywood films with Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks Junior playing Robin.

I wasn’t really interested in Maid Marion, she had to get Robin to help her escape when the Sherriff of Nottingham captured her. Or she was always doing embroidery or weaving… Boring! I didn’t want to be a boy, but my father used to encourage me to do woodwork and I loved climbing trees. I was good at sport and running when I was young, but I grew out of it and it wasn’t until I got into cycling while I was at college that I got fit again because I cycled everywhere.

So yes, I’d like to have been Robin Hood because there were no exciting female role models except for maybe Emma Peel in the Avengers… That’s another possibility…

Daffodil face

Posted on April 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, Daffodils, Flowers, Fun, Ideas, Pareidolia, Playing, Poem, Poetry, RhymeLeave a comment

Just look at me! I’m a daffodil face!

A nose, two eyes, and ears in place?

I could be a skull

Or a monster too

I definitely am yellow

And a little sallow

I wonder what beast

I could be the least

Beautiful flower

Or petals in a bower…

Bad rhymes

Silly times!

Reflected

Posted on March 20, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Building, catkins, horizontal symmetry, Photo, Playing, Roof, Sky, Spring, TreeLeave a comment

I still like this photo that I made into a mirrored image, the tree is just putting out catkins as Spring comes closer. But my favourite bit is the roof on the right. It sort of looks like a fish or a strange bomb? or a plane?

Prompt was exercise

Posted on October 18, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Drawing, Exercise, Fun, Playing, Sketching, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was exercise. I haven’t been doing much exercise recently so I wasn’t sure what to do. I watched my cat chasing a ball and so I decided to draw her playing. I think it counts as exercise? Not a brilliant drawing but it’s hard to draw a cat moving so fast!

Window filtered

Posted on September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, contorted, Filter, Mystery, Photo, Photodirector, Playing, Style, WindowLeave a comment

Using a simple filter can change images. I didn’t use the full strength of filter on this because the contorted lines it created was overwhelming. Instead I turned the filter down to about 40%, it gives the photo a bit more mystery I think…. Photodirector style number two filter.

Digital again

Posted on September 1, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Blur, Colour, Drawing, Faces, Flood fill, Fun, Lines, Playing, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

An ArtRage background with added drawing on top. This is a sketching app that has some basic tools that are different to the ArtRage app. I used lines, a flood fill and a blurring tool to create this. I like combining different apps, you don’t know what you can get till you try.

Green, red, white and black cat.

Posted on August 25, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Andy Warhol, Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Filtered, Fun, Photo, Playing, screen printLeave a comment

Happy cat. I decided to play with using a black and white filter then adding texture and then a flood fill of red and green. I think it is similar in an Andy Warhol image (though I make no claim of having the same sort of skills as him) I just think it shows how digital filters now can quickly change an image that would have required skills such as black and white photography and screen printing in the past.

Wet cat

Posted on July 30, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Climbing, Eating, Games, Playing, Rain, Sleeping, Tired, Tuxedo cat, Wet catLeave a comment

He came in, soaking wet, plonked himself down without even a cat lick, and went to sleep. This cats not bothered, he just wants a rest after being out all day. I think he’s been mooching, playing in the rain with my other two cats, like a little pride of lions. Sometimes they chase each other up and down the trees. Getting excited and playing at who can climb the highest. Onto shed and house roofs. Then they come in, eat and sleep.

Smile in the sky

Posted on July 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Face, Fun, Image, Mirrored, Pareidolia, Playing, Sky, Smile, SymmetryLeave a comment

I continue to play with multiple photos, mostly I don’t know what I will get as an image. I rotate the photos round. When I do that you get four versions of a picture. In this case by having the dark areas at the top and bottom, and putting the curved white cloud towards the centre I get an apparent smile. But look closely at the horizontal centre of the picture you can vaguely see two eyes? My pareidolia again….

Cat time

Posted on July 9, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged behaviour, Black and white cat, Cat, Fun, Learning, Playing, Thinking, Time, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Cat time, time for your cat. To love them, feed them, play with them, let them ignore you, hide from you. Disagree with your choice of food for them. Accept that sometimes they will bring you unwanted ‘presents’. They go away for a few days, just so they can worry you. Eat your food off your plate, ignore the toys and treats you get them. Sitting in empty boxes so you can’t throw them away.

When your cat friend scratches or bites you it’s probably because you have been a bit heavy handed or frightened them. It’s always better to be gentle. Remember that a cat is probably a fifty or hundred times smaller than you! They have interesting and intelligent abilities, it’s good to find out about them. X

Mallaband-Brown

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