Tell everyone!

Posted on February 10, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bad news, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1844, Good news, Life, News, Prompt, Sketching2 Comments

You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do?

I want the world!

My background is that I come from a very talkative town, always willing to share our stories and jokes. I came to my current city over 40 years ago and found the residents were warm and friendly but had a different take on life.

That doesn’t stop me sharing news with everyone. Recently that’s been a lot of bad news but I’d love for it to be great news instead. I live in hope that I will be able to say one day that this is my news, it’s great, and I want everyone to know. After all if a trouble shared is a trouble halved, then maybe good news shared is amazing news doubled?

Getting rid of clutter

Posted on February 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Clutter?, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1837, frustration, Life, Papers, Poem, Poetry, promise, Prompt, Time4 Comments

Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done.

I promise myself

To get rid of clutter

But it piles up

More comes through the door

And more and more

Not neat and tidy

Not filed in folders

But piled in boxes

On cupboards

On a chair

On the sofa

In bags.

Oh heavens

Will I ever declutter?

Flying

Posted on January 31, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Airplane, Balloon, Fear, Flight, hanglide, hot air balloon, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, unconscious, vertigoLeave a comment

Never flown

Never will

Can you make me?

Not unless I’m asleep

Completely unconscious

The world blotted out?

But what about

My carbon flight print?

I would not fly far

Maybe, island hop, to Skye?

Perhaps I could hanglide?

Or take a hot air balloon

Over my home town.

Or an airship blimp?

Parachute strapped to my back

Or wings glued on like Icarus?

Don’t get too close to the sun

But I would have my eyes closed

Vertigo engaged.

I would rather NOT fly.

List

Posted on January 28, 2024January 28, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Concern, Health, Life, List, missed prompts, Prompt, Worries2 Comments

Because of everything that’s been happening my life recently I have got behind on #bandofsketchers prompt so here is a list of some of the things I’ve missed. I hope to feel enthusiastic again but I have a health issue that needs investigating and I feel stuck again. One step forward two steps back. All being well everything will be OK. Fingers crossed, I’ve got enough worries without something else coming up!

Portrait

Posted on January 25, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, digital finger painting, Drawing, Face, Portrait, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

I will have to get a list of the prompts I’ve missed! Here is an experimental portrait, trying a slightly different technique. Drawn in the ArtRage app. #bandofsketchers prompt was portrait. I wanted it to look more like a drawing than a painting.

Crystal

Posted on January 12, 2024January 12, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Crystal, Digital drawing, Drawing, Prompt, sketchbook app, Sketching, Symmetry2 Comments

#bandofsketchers prompt was crystal. Just did a random sketch of a crystal style lattice. I was using a symmetry tool in my Sketchbook app.

Skipping

Posted on November 30, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, ArtRage app, Drawing, Health, Movement, Prompt, Sketching, skipping4 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was health. Skipping is good for health so I did a quick sketch of someone skipping. I can’t skip myself though! Artrage app drawing.

Prompt was making

Posted on November 30, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Abstract, Acrylic on board, Art, mineral, Painting, Prompt, Stone4 Comments

#bandofsketchers prompt was making. I’m making paintings by gluing little canvas boards in frames and painting different ideas for a craft fair on Sunday. This is an abstract, it could represent a stone or mineral.

A camera!

Posted on November 16, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Camera, Countryside, Cycling, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2121, Film, Found, Lost, Memory, Prompt, tandemLeave a comment

What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?

We were cycling home on our tandem one summer evening, when suddenly we turned round in the road. I had no idea what was going on, it was a narrow country road and it surprised me.

We pulled up and my hubby started looking on the grass verge. There was a camera just lying there! We didn’t know what to do, so we took it home (we were in the middle of the countryside), with the idea of seeing if there was a film inside and getting it developed if there was. We would try and get it back to its owners somehow? This was about 30 or so years ago before we had the Internet, so there wasn’t much hope of finding its owners.

We sent the film off, but it came back blank, it must have been lost when someone put a new film in, maybe put it on top of a car and forgot to move it when they drove off.

I have to say I had forgotten all about it until I saw this prompt, and now I feel guilty for not reuniting it with it’s owners.

Repairs

Posted on November 15, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on watercolour paper, Art, bottle kilns, Bottle ovens, Fine Art, Painting, Prompt, Repairs, Sketching2 Comments

#bandofsketchers prompt a couple of weeks ago was repairs. I painted some bottle kilns today, there are fewer and fewer of them in the potteries and a lot of them are listed buildings and in need of repairs to stop then falling down…

Mallaband-Brown

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