Painting scenery

Posted on September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylics, Bottle ovens, Emulsion, Flat scenery, Hardboard, Life, Penkhull, Penkhull mystery play, Picture, Random, Scenery, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

I just chose a random photo from my gallery. It’s a scenery flat for the mystery plays a few years ago. When you are painting on a board eight foot by four foot you don’t need a lot of detail. But I love these iconic bottle ovens, so of course I decided to paint every brick. Plus it means I can give a bit of perspective rather than leaving it flat looking. I also hate when I see scenery and the perspective is wrong. I have seen some that are really weird. It’s distracting (for me anyway). I can spend more time on looking at scenery than at a performance.

A lot of scenery I’ve done for the Mystery plays was painted very quickly. When we have prepared and rehearsed for them the time we can have to use the hall we work in is limited so that we don’t have to spend too much money.

I don’t know what will happen next year? Will there be another one? I don’t know. For me by next summer it could be a real boost to have it on again.

So I did play…

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bubble wrap, Design, Editing apps, Layout, Life, Photo director app, Photos, Playing, RandomLeave a comment

I’ll just leave these three here. I do like messing about. Goodnight all.

Insect eye view?

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apps, Blogging, Bubble wrap, Insect, Photo, photo editor, Playing, RandomLeave a comment

No, just a photo through a sheet of bubble wrap, then multiplied in a photo editing ap, there you are, a vaguely insect like photo. Now I could put it through a couple of other apps and see what happens? Shall I….

To be honest I don’t know. If I did it might be OK, but I haven’t decided yet. Sometimes you can have too many options at your fingertips.

Cat shenanigans

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Boy cat, Cat, Cat flap, Fun?, Girl cat, Life, Living with cats, Random, ShenanigansLeave a comment

Hes just discovered the cat flap is working, so he went out into the dark night. The thing is that now both of my cats are inoculated they can go out. But there is the abandoned cat outside and he’s twice my boy cats size and even bigger than the girl cat.

So boy went out through the flap, but couldn’t get back in because the abandoned one was hanging round for food. Solution. Put a tray of cat food further up the yard to distract the abandoned one, then call boy cat in. Finally lock the cat flap for the night…. Result he can’t get out! Will open it again in the morning.

Crop

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apple, Autumn, Blogging, Food, Fruit, Gardening, Life, Pear, Plant, Random, Tasty, TreesLeave a comment

Days are getting shorter now and the fruit is getting ripe. We have plenty of pears on our tree, but of all five apple trees only one fruit. But then after weeding the allotment this morning we were allowed to get a tub of apples in exchange. Some of them are different varieties, a lot of them are a bit holey but I’m hoping they will taste nice if I stew them up or cook them in a cake. If it turns out OK I will post about it.

Life gets everywhere

Posted on September 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Dandelion, Earth, Environment, Growth, Life, Photo, Plant, Random, Spode, Time2 Comments

Even iin the cracks of windowledges or steps. This was growing at Spode last year. Not pretty, but green, seed heads developing, waiting to be dandelion clocks.

Next year there might be ten new plants, then a hundred the year after. Not exponential, but a creaping greening. A creating of new life, roots diving deep, breaking up the earth. If only we could embrace nature more? Not kill it but give it a helping hand. We know its wrong to harm the planet. Why do we persist.

Cushions

Posted on August 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging., Couch, Cushions, Life, Random, Settee, Sitting, Soft furnishings2 Comments

What is it about cushions? I suppose they support your back or your head, but sometimes you end up with too many. Not because you bought them. Not all of them, some are presents, some were going to be presents for others, but you failed to give them in time. Then they just stayed, sitting on the couch, waiting for the chance to be used when a friend stops on the settee for the night, or to be hugged hard when watching horror films. Holding the cushion up to blank out nasty scenes….

Tee’d off!

Posted on August 26, 2020August 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Five year old poem, Fun, Humour, Poem, Poetry, Random, Tee, WordsLeave a comment

Missing my T…

_he _ on my keyboard keeps missing

I_ goes for a li__le walk..

I_ skips off _he page every minui_e

and disappears in_o _he dark.

I can’_ find _he _ on my keyboard….

I_ has los_ I_’s way once again.

Im blas_ed fed up wi_h _he missing _

cos a drink of ho_ _ea is no good!

My manifesto at the moment

Posted on August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Calligraphy, College, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Ideas, Ideas generation, Manifesto, Random, Thinking, World peace?2 Comments

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It’s quite simple at the moment. I think college want something a bit more thought out though? Ideas anyone?

I know I left off world peace. Please forgive me. It’s a bit tongue in cheek (humorous) but why not. With everything so grim at the moment.

Anyway back to typing things up. Later x

Mirrored cat

Posted on August 16, 2020August 16, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Duplicated, Feline state, Fun, Green, Layout app, Life, Mirrored, Pattern, Photos, RandomLeave a comment

Playing with photo editing in my layout app. When you have a subject like a cat you can duplicate and mirror the image and make something interesting happen. Choose to mirror half the face and you end up with a strong stare. I could have made her nose look more natural, but I prefer the odd symmetry this photo gives me.

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