Going to a new home

Posted on April 5, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Atmosphere, Autumn, Blue, Colour, Damp, Fine Art, Life, misty, Orange, Painting, Red, Umbrella6 Comments

Autumn painting. A woman with a red umbrella walks through a damp and misty forest with leaves scattered around. I worked from a photo someone lent me so I don’t know who’s photo it was. If there is a copyright issue I will delete this post.

I had problems with the body length and the length of the legs, trying to get them and the arms in proportion. I had to play with the colours and shadows to try and get a realistic light on the figure. I also tried to make the trees bluer to send them back into the distance.

Red sky in the morning!

Posted on March 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged automatic photography, bad weather, bright red, Dawn, Exposure, lurid red, manual photography, over exposed, phone photo, Red, Sunrise2 Comments

Amazing how red the sunrise was this morning!

There was a bright red sunrise this morning. If I take the photo on automatic it looks too bright, almost overexposed. So I tried one on manual and dialed down the brightness which was deeper red and more like my own vision.

Red sky this evening

Posted on February 19, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Clouds, Colour, manual mode, North, Photo, Pink, Red, Reflection, Sky, Stoke, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

Using manual settings for this photo of the sunset reflection off the clouds. I didn’t have the chance to go up to the top of our hill, but the colour was glorious. This is looking north towards the centre of Stoke. I love it when the sky gets a warm glow and blossoms pinky red.

Water is blue

Posted on February 19, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Colour, Green, h2o, Ocean, Photo, Purple, Red, Sea, Sky, Water, YellowLeave a comment

How do i know the water is blue? Surely it’s transparent. But look at the sea. As you go deep into it you can see it stays blue until you go deep when it’s black. Then look at water at sunset. It stays blue even when the sky turns red doesn’t it? And in yellow white sunshine its very blue. Not green, not yellow, not red, not purple – Blue.

Red sky tonight

Posted on February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, Bright, Colour, Evening, Gold, Night, Orange, Poem, Poetry, Red, silhouettes, Sketching app, Sun, SunsetLeave a comment

I saw the sky this evening

Turned bloody orange

As if on fire

Light streaming through

Branches and trees

Illuminating a landscape

Still dry from lack of rain.

The hedge behind us

Was split by the light

A shaft of red and gold

For telling bright weather

And clear skies

And stars

For the night ahead…..

Red sky through the trees

Posted on February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Daylight, dry sunshine, Hue, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Red, Sky, Tree, WeatherLeave a comment

Red sky this morning

Weather warning?

But the sky turned blue

A lovely hue

The sun shone

No one cried

The wind just dried

The washing

No rain came

Which was the same

As yesterday

Except that was grey

So red sky

Was a weather lie!

Terrarium

Posted on February 9, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dark green, glass jar, Indoor plant, Life, Photo, Plants, Red, stems, terrarium, Triffids2 Comments

A triffids in a glass jar, up on the windowledge, a bit damp and mucky, but it still grows and twirls. Red stems. Dark green leaves, bought from a supermarket and still surviving after eighteen months. OK not a triffids, but a strange ugly plant that needs me to love it? Feed me Seymour?

Frost

Posted on January 24, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, car windscreen, Cold, Colours, Contrast, Duplicated, Frost, Image, Photo, Red, SymmetryLeave a comment

Flipped and duplicated photo of frost seen on the inside of my car windscreen. The reds are from the car colour. The sky was a brilliant pale blue. I’ve boosted the contrast a bit. Making symmetrical patterns really works with images like this.

A strange creature

Posted on January 6, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Christmas cactus, Creature, Flowers, Fun, Green, Life, Pareidolia, Pattern, Red2 Comments

A crab? A pouting face? A reflection of a dragon? You can do funny things with symmetry and photos. Christmas cactus turned into something surreal. It would be better if it was less blurred, but my arm shakes so much sometimes that I get camera shake. Still it’s an interesting image and it’s an example of Pareidolia (seeing creatures in a pattern that isn’t actually there). I have posted a few of these on the blog over the years.

Dahlia

Posted on January 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Childhood memories, Children, Colours, dahlias, Flowers, Green, growing up, Memories, Orange, Red, White, Yellow1 Comment

Reviewing old photos from a few years ago I came across some pictures of Dahlias. This one of a pompom Dahlia really resonated. I remembered my father used to grow them in the summer when I was a child. He had a whole patch of them, this shape and more shaggy ones. I remember I could see spirals in them. They were all different reds and oranges, whites and magenta and yellows. Striking against the green leaves and stems. They were in a small back garden and next to a pile of soil where we children would play ‘I’m the king of the castle get down you dirty rascak’ not sure how that worked except we competed to be at the top of the pile of soil…. Memories are random and come back infrequently. I just remember the Dahlias and sunshine.

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Tag: Red