Trick or treating

Posted on October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digitally manipulated, Fun, Halloween, Life, October 31st, Pumpkin, Sketch, trick or treaters4 Comments

Only one lot of trick or treaters called round tonight. One of them had a pumpkin on his head that was lit up with LEDs. There were three boys and they were soaked to the skin because it was raining so heavily. We gave them fifty pence each because I don’t usually get sweets or candies for Halloween night. I have to say they seemed a friendly bunch so I didn’t mind it, but it’s not my most favourite festival. I actually prefer Carol singers, and I encourage them to sing a couple of verses because often they come round and sing one line of we wish you a merry Christmas and expect to get money for it. I guess I’m a bit like Scrooge! Oh dear!

Digital cat

Posted on October 30, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Drawing, Filter, Halloween, Life, Photodirector, Pumpkin, Sketching, technique, TexturesLeave a comment

Using a digital filter can steady down analogue drawings. The splodginess of felt pens can get blurred out and the line work becomes more even. I used photodirector to change this drawing. I used the ‘effects’ AI filters and I think I used filter number five on the landscape choice. Somehow the top of the pumpkin looks like a bat….

#bandofsketchers prompt

Posted on October 30, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Cat, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, Halloween, Pumpkin, Purr, Scary?, Sketching, TeethLeave a comment

Today’s prompt was Halloween. I decided to take my idea from the pumpkin that I carved last year. So we have a cute/hellish cat glowing neon yellow sitting on a lawn waiting for any trick or treaters. Will it bite their ankles? Who knows…. Purr

Pumpkin cat

Posted on October 30, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Carving, Cat, Etruria Industrial museum, Fun, Life, Memory, PumpkinLeave a comment

I carved this pumpkin cat last year for Halloween at Etruria Industrial Museum. It is meant to be a black cat if it was lit at night. I think they used battery tea lights for safety. I think I carved three or four with different designs. Memories of a more cheerful time. I should say be careful carving out pumpkins. I thing I cut a finger slightly while I was doing this x

A pumpkin

Posted on June 30, 2022July 1, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black and white, Black and white photo, files, optimisation, Photo, polka-dots, PumpkinLeave a comment

Just a black and white photo of a pumpkin on a polkadot tablecloth. It’s come up on my gallery because I decided to clear some of the older photos on my phone and to optimise them because the files are too big… Now I’ve got over a thousand pictures in my June 2022 file, and they are all mixed up! Ideally I need to go through ll my files and delete all the old unwanted ones, but I’m too attached to them. Plus I’m seeing images I haven’t seen for over two years!

Cat carving

Posted on November 13, 2021November 13, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Carving, Cat, Decorations, Fun, ginger cat? Candle-lit, Halloween, Pumpkin2 Comments

I know there are better carvings, but I really enjoyed creating this. We didn’t have posh carving tools, just a few knives. I’ve seen pumpkins where just the outer rind is carved away so you get a shallow relief effect. I like it but I guess you would have to use clay modelling tools?

Apparently wild animals can eat the remains of the pumpkin once its been use for decoration. I don’t think hedgehogs like them though? I’m not sure feild mice would like one carved like a cat? Anyway it was fun to do. And it works as a ginger cat, X

Black and white filter

Posted on October 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, black and white filter, Carving, Cat, Dragon, Halloween, Photos, Pumpkin, SunflowerLeave a comment

One of the problems with taking photos in artificial light with a smart phone is that you cannot always get a good exposure. My solution after trying to alter the contrast and exposures of these two photos was to use a black and white filter. Once I posted them on my Instagram account I used the filter on there which bought out more details in the photos.

Maybe I should have used a fill flash or changed the setting to manual but I don’t know if that would have helped.

Carving pumpkins

Posted on October 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art lunch, Carving, Cat, Design, Dragon, Fun, Halloween, Pumpkin, SunflowerLeave a comment

I went to an Art lunch today with fellow artists. We had a spicy pumpkin soup and different varieties of cake plus extra treats that pebought along.

The lunch was held at the warehouse building at Etruria Industrial museum, Etruria, Stoke on Trent.

We were asked to carve pumpkins for an event this weekend at the museum where they will be steaming the Etruria Flint Mill beam engine between 11am and 4pm on Saturday and Sunday this coming weekend.

The photos shown are my four carvings. A cat, a dragon, an abstract pattern and a sunflower shape. It was the most fun I’ve had for several weeks!

Pumpkin

Posted on November 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Carved, Fun, Halloween, Light, On a wall, Poem, Poetry, Pumpkin, Spark, SpookyLeave a comment

We met one evening

You were on a wall

And smiled at me

Your toothy grin

Orange teeth

Sharpened for snacking

The flame lacking

From your triangle eyes.

Wait till dark

And someone will light you

A spark to your candle

A soft light

Orange shaded

But beware

The wind may blow

And your spark will go

Out….

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Pumpkin