Jobs not career

Posted on October 26, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged career, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2101, History, Interview, Life, Memories, Prompt, Time, Work2 Comments

What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in?

I’m not a banker, politician, doctor, vet. I’ve done jobs that have lasted weeks, months or years, but none I would call a career. This is the Internet, so I’m not going into details. Why should I tell all and sundry? I did think of taking up a career, but it didnt work out (I failed the interview) I might be rich or at least well off. I didnt follow that path, so in ended up with a series of jobs.

But through it all I’ve been creative, I make art, it might not be the best, but I love painting and drawing, taking photos, making pottery, experimenting. Who needs a career if you have the freedom to be yourself?

Whatever you do, be open to chances, take care, I wish you luck

Lock

Posted on October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, circular padlock, Felt pens, Ink pen, late drawing, Prompt, Shed, Sketching2 Comments

Hardware was the prompt. One of the circular padlocks I got for our sheds after they got broken into. Felt pen and ink pen. #bandofsketchers.

Back paw

Posted on October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Black and white cat, Black ink, Cat, Felt pens, Late, Life, Prompt, Tuxedo cat, under your foot, underfootLeave a comment

Under his foot, my cat washing his back paw. I’ve been meaning to catch up with my sketching so this is a start…for #bandofsketchers prompt under your foot from a few weeks ago. Black ink and felt pens.

Being able to learn

Posted on October 22, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bad rhyme, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2097, Knowledge, Learning, Life, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Thinking, Words1 Comment

What are you most proud of in your life?

I’m proud of having knowledge

I’m proud I can find out

Learning is a thing I love

More than any wealth

Sure that knowledge shared

And study pursued

Is most important.

You may not have gold or power

But try and improve your mind

And after time you will find

The beauty of a thought.

Missed prompts

Posted on October 20, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Late, Life, Prompt, Sunday, Trees4 Comments

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was trees. I’ve been snowed under with stuff so this is late. Such a lot of prompts to catch up with! I decided to draw a group of trees on my phone. It’s a bit of a misty winter scene. I think it needs more doing to it. But not tonight! Used my Artrage app.

Honesty and kindness

Posted on October 15, 2023October 15, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2090, do good, do no harm, honesty, kindness, Life, Prompt, truth and reconciliation4 Comments

What principles define how you live?

Why not live by these principals?

By sticking to them you can try and do good.

Honesty and kindness means not being cruelly honest, to balance the truth and it’s outcomes. Kindness is probably the most important of the two. Honesty can be used to hurt.

So the two can cause moral dilemmas, but perhaps the best use of them is to combine them with the doctors’ oath “first do no harm”, at least that can help point you in the right direction.

I remember also, the two wrongs don’t make a right, even if in mathematics two negatives can make a positive (I think I remember?). Revenge and hate don’t make the world better even if it can make people feel better. It can only worsen the situation. Given that, I’m not talking about appeasement. What I mean is that more truth and reconciliation commissions should be created. It may take many years before they can try and work, but it seems like a better idea than violence and war cascading down the centuries.

But what can I do? Try and keep to my principals, avoid anger if I can.

Ballooning

Posted on October 11, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Balloon, Climbing, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2086, Fears, heights, Memory, Nerves, Prompt, Safety4 Comments

What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail.

Fear of heights and flying have held me back from doing this, but if I knew I would have guaranteed safety, no risk of the balloon suddenly deflating, or getting caught in a gale, or plummeting to earth, I might have a go.

I’d have to be on a tethered line, and maybe not go any higher than ten or twenty feet!

Why am I scared? I suffer from vertigo if my feet leave the ground, so even jumping can make me dizzy (I exaggerate), but I think I know where it stems from.

When I was young I was happy to climb up the outside of the swings or the big slide in the park or the ropes in the school hall. I’d climb to the top and hang upside down. So when I was a teenager and went on a school trip I was fine. But I borrowed some binoculars from the school teacher and climbed up a steep hill. I’d wanted to see the view. BUT, when I tried to climb down it wasn’t as simple. The surface was scree, loose small stones, I could feel the ground sliding away beneath me and I couldn’t use both hands because I was holding onto the binoculars for grim death! I finally got down in a flurry of dust and rough rocks, but I think it shook my confidence, I know from then on I was much more cautious and nervous about heights.

I have too many!

Posted on October 7, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Books, Clutter?, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2082, disposal, Glass, Life, Loss, Memories, Objects, Paintings, possession, Prompt6 Comments

What would you do if you lost all your possessions?

Books, ornaments glass, clothes, paintings… Clutter.

In some ways to lose all my possessions would make life simpler as long as I had somewhere to go? Our house has got crowded with ‘stuff’, we have collected things over years and years, and we are trying to get rid of some of it.

But it’s easy to become attached, an object can encompass memories, look at it and you look back in time. Does losing your possessions give you freedom? Or is it oppressive? What if you only have the clothes you stand up in, no credit or debit card…. Knowledge of where you live would be important. Knowing how to light a fire, keep warm, find food and clean drinking water. The inhumanity of men to the homeless is a fear if I went through with disposing of my possessions.

An artist did do it. He crushed all of his belongings I think. It was a very powerful art ‘happening’, but what happened to him? Was he paid to do it, has he replaced things, did he survive? The problem is that in a world of thousands or millions of wonders each day, does anyone even notice.

It would be good to dispose of my belongings, to free up myself, but I’m getting too old to survive such a thing. I will have to keep at least some of my things..

Pointellist portrait

Posted on October 6, 2023October 6, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, digital finger painting, Drawing, Pointellist, Prompt, Random, Sketching2 Comments

Using the glitter tool and then a thin brush in the Artrage app on my phone I created a head of a woman. It’s interesting because the dots are random so placing of the features becomes more inexact so the face seems more natural (not like my usual style). This was inspired by pointellist paintings, the #bandofsketchers prompt was inspiration.

Street

Posted on October 1, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, copy of a painting, Life, Prompt, Sketching, Stoke2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was street. I painted a street scene when I came to Stoke 40 years ago. I did a copy of it recently and I have a photo of the work in progress on my phone. As this is a digital sketch it’s not accurate and rather messy, but I thought I’d give it a go. Artrage app drawn with a stylus.

Mallaband-Brown

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