Finally walking again

Posted on April 11, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Cold, Exercise, Lake, Longport, Photos, Sky, Snow, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Walking, Westport lakeLeave a comment

As we arrived at Westport Lake today it started to snow. It didn’t stick, but children were running screaming as it came down thick and fast. We sat and waited in the car till it stopped. I didn’t take a photo of it because my phone was stuck in my pocket trapped between me and the car door.

Then out, a quick visit to the icecream van for a treat and round the latge lake once and the small one twice. No where near as far as I would normally do, but I managed to get enough steps and heart points in to meet my daily challenge. I’m shattered but happy!

Watching skyportraitartistoftheyear Canada

Posted on April 7, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #skylandscapeartist Canada, Art, Coloured pencils, Drawing, Lake, Landscape, old felt pen, pine trees, Sketching, Sky, ten minute sketchLeave a comment

I just watched a grand final, not sure what year, but it was a lovely landscape in Canada. Lake trees and sky. In the middle of the artists time a thunderstorm blew up. There was a wide range of styles from strongly impressionistic and expressionist, to bead work and realism. Also mixed media. I won’t say who won but I enjoyed it.

While watching #skylandscapeartistoftheyearcanada I just decided to try and sketch for ten minutes as you only get glimpses of the landscape… This was difficult but I had a go….

Old felt pen and coloured pencils A6 sketchpad

Moon

Posted on March 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Clouds, Daylight, magnified, Moon, Sky, Sunlight, View, Walking, White, zoom inLeave a comment

One moon, high above the clouds. Seen on a walk, popping up like a bubble from the lips of a cloud.

It’s hard to capture the moon on my phone. The definition of the photo is not good, and having to zoom in makes it more blurred. I think I avoided too much camera shake.

It’s not often you see the moon in the sky in daylight. But I like this photo. Simple view and with the clouds it makes it more interesting.

All around this hat…

Posted on March 21, 2021March 21, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Layout app, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Sky, Spring, Time, Trees, WalkingLeave a comment

Trees and road markings,

black asphalt,

branches reach out and hold hands,

a pylon of arching twigs.

Shimmering blue sky,

with added silver,

dreaming of spring days.

If I look closely?

I see slitted pupils,

in great round eyes,

the hat metamorphoses

into a black beak?

Gold, black and blue,

brightly hued,

your cages of twigs,

snare birds who

nest in warm romance.

Wet

Posted on March 12, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, #bandofsketchers, Art, Blustery, Clouds, colouring pencils, Colours, graveyard, Rain, Sketching, Sky, Wet, Windy, yesterday's walkLeave a comment

Yesterday’s #bandofsketchers drawing, walked round Shelton cemetery and the wind was blowing and datk clouds gathered. It rained heavily for a short time. Worked from a photo… Prompt was wet, and it really was. Boldmere colouring pencils.

Sunrise

Posted on February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Dawn, Pink, Poem, Poetry, Purple, Rhyme, shepherd's warning, Sky, Sun, Sunrise, Trees1 Comment

Red sky in the morning,

Shepherds warning?

See the sky

Roses in your eye.

Now its dawn

New day is born..

Pink to blue

Purple hues too

Twigs and branches

Spring approaches.

Sun or rain

Brings green again….

Back to sleep

In bed I’ll keep

Until full sun

And sunrise is done…

I do love the sky

Posted on January 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Colours, Daylight, meteor showers, Mist, Night, Planets, Sky, Stars, View4 Comments

I’m a member of the cloud appreciation society and I love the sky. When it is misty and the sky turns salmon pink, when there are dark storm clouds in the background and bright sunlight shines on the landscape in front of them. We see amazing lightening storms, cumulo nimbus, stratus, cirrus, mammatus, so many sorts of clouds.

I love looking up at the sky, looking at the stars and meteor showers or seeing a satellite tracking overhead. I’ve seen Jupiter and Saturn and Mars and Venus in the telescope.

The sky can keep you occupied for hours x

Are the gods looking down?

Posted on January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Face, Layout app, Life, Mirrored, Photo, Sci fi, Sky, Symmetry, TreeLeave a comment

What sees us under the deep blue sky? Alien faces with glimmering eyes. If they open wide a nova will scorch the ground. Smoke rising and polluting the air.

Photo of a tree, mirrored in layout app and then details added of a face using a symmetry tool.

Dappled sky

Posted on January 10, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Amber, Colours, Description, Gold, lilac, Moon, Photo, Sky, Sunset, too flowery?, TwigsLeave a comment

Washed with Amber and lilac, gold highlights. Twigs sweeping the sky. Painting it with their fronds. Clouds form flocks of flying sheep, running home as night arrives. A symphony of colours shifting as they are viewed. Blue darkens to black, the colour I’d drained out of the sky until one solitary glimmer remains. Then the light of stars spring out. Tiny pinpricks in the firmament. Moon rise. The glow of it shines through a lowering fog. Time for bed and dreams.

Walking in the snow

Posted on December 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Allotments, Fun, Ice, Local, Outside, Roads, Sky, Snow, Sunset, Walking, Wet snowLeave a comment

Went for a walk locally with my hubby on the flat because I’m a bit nervous of falling over on the ice. I fell and pulled a hamstring a few years ago and it was very painful so I’m cautious on hills….

We walked 4.43 km in the wet snow and ice, equivalent to 2.75 miles. In my case that’s over 7000 steps. We did walk on the road for part of it because it was to slippy. I might try and find my snow chains for my shoes…. Photos of hubby and sunsets taken near the local allotments in Stoke.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Sky