Photo experiment

Posted on January 10, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, experience, Experiment, Hubby, Life, Photo, Photographer, Reflection, thoughtful, Youth2 Comments

Hubby did this in the 1980’s. It’s still up on the stairs. I don’t know how he did it. Is it a camera on a bench looking up to a lamp overhead and the hands interposed between the two? Or perhaps it’s a mirror on the wall with a tipped up lamp? I don’t even know if they are his hands, maybe he had someone place them in shot? It could be a bowl of water with a light reflected in it….

Do you know I’ve never asked him. Its just a dusty, fading photo. But it’s part of him, part of his idea of life, it expresses something about a younger person. Someone still in there.

Reflected sky

Posted on December 29, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Clouds, Colours, Hill, Layout app, Mirrored, Photo, Reflection, Sky, SunsetLeave a comment

I love doing this, mirroring a sky in layout app so it looks like the sky has been reflected in a calm sea or lake. I should try and draw on it to attempt to make the lower part look like real water. Possibly by adding slight wavelets or sparkling reflections. This was today’s sunset as the hill being our house was silhouetted by the growing dark.

Pink sunset

Posted on December 6, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cloud, Cold, Driving home, Grey, Lake, no rainbow, Rain, Reflection, Sunlight, Sunset, WalkingLeave a comment

We walked round the lake and saw the sky turning pink. The glow spread across the surface of the lake but didn’t develop further. Ten minutes later as we drove home, the sun peeped out from undet the clouds. I couldn’t stop but saw the sky turning dark grey in front of me and the sun reflected in my rear view mirror. I hoped to drive towards a rainbow but as the rain started to fall the sun hid itself behind the clouds again. Went howm to a hot decaff coffee and a mince pie!

Waterbird

Posted on November 7, 2021November 10, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bird, Image, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Profile, Reflection, Stoke-on trent, Walk, Water, waterbird, Westport lakeLeave a comment

Silhouette of a waterbird taken a couple of days ago on a walk round Westport Lake. I liked the way the small rock in the water looks like a birds head with a beak. It made me look twice because the actual birds head was looking forwards, towards me. It does give the illusion that the head is turned in profile in the reflection.

wet water bird

waiting in the drizzle

reflected sorrow

for a little food

your mind stretches

to a new tomorrow

where sun follows rain

and warmth

replaces shivers

Fairy drinking

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged drinking, drip, Fairy, Flight, Flutter, Lake, palm, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, SipLeave a comment

A fairy seems to hover

Over the lake

Wings flutter

Like a humming bird

A cupped hand

Reaches out

A small pool

in her palm

Takes a sip

Watches

the water

Drip

Wet-today’s prompt

Posted on July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, Reflection, Sketch, Wet2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was ‘wet’, I decided to draw the view of the pool at Dorothy Clive Garden but instead of paint I used felt pens. Took about an hour.

Looking out

Posted on May 6, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged diamond, Digital art, Eye, infinite, Mystery, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, roboticLeave a comment

What kind of eye

Looks out with a metallic glint?

Surface shining and gleaming

Like curved glass.

Robotic thoughts

Crash with emotion

Cogs meshed and unmeshed.

Indefinite or infinite ideas

Spiralling down into black depths.

Oily liquid lubricates

Diamond glimmers

Do you need love?

How do you reflect in that eye?

Reflected

Posted on December 1, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, August, Back door, Drawing, Glass, Memory, Pandemic, Picture, Reflection, Sketch, WindowLeave a comment

Drawing from August 2020? my reflection and my little sketchbook in the patterned swirls of glass in the back door. So often is it that I’m holding my phone that I thought that was what the black square was when I looked at it again. Black pen and coloured pencils to get the effect of glass. I have a lot of sketches from over the period of the pandemic. I was already drawing a lot before it arrived, but I hope my skills have improved over that time.

Bow tie?

Posted on October 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bow tie, Brows, Eyes, Face, Leaves, Mirrored, Nose, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Sky faceLeave a comment

I see a face reflected in water.

Leaning forward

A large moustache

Burly shoulders

Frowning brows

Downcast eyes

Big beaky nose

And….

A bow tie of leaves..

Jupiter reflection

Posted on October 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Craft shop, Design, Great Red spot, Jupiter, Looks knitted, Painting, Reflection, WindowLeave a comment

A painting of Jupiter I did about seven years ago. My friend had a craft centre and this was for sale at her shop. It went to a good home. I always thought the pattern I painted looked a bit like knitting!

His came up on my Facebook memories. I have done so many paintings that I often forget what I have done! This was a large acrylic on canvas. I like the way it appears to be floating in the window. X

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Reflection