Liberty

Posted on February 21, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged America, Cinderella, Hero, Lady Liberty, Life, migrants, Pantomime, Scenery, Statue, ThoughtLeave a comment

Scenery painting from a few years ago… I think I got the arms too long, the flame too small and the head too small too! But anyway it gives an impression of lady liberty. This was done for a pantomime just before or after the pandemic. I can’t remember.

And….. I think all that is happening in the USA at the moment has pantomime qualities. The two ugly sisters are obviously two billionaires. The fact that in a pantomime they would be men wearing drag is very ironic!

Who is Aladdin or the hero of this panto? Who can say, but it needs to be someone brave who will stand up to bullying! Maybe he should be a Robin Hood character instead, taking from the rich and giving to the poor?

Lady Liberty could be a Cinderella figure, she is there to support the huddled masses and the poor. She understands their situation as she is an immigrant from France.

Finally the whole thing is stage managed with boos and hisses… Evil takes control for a while but Good will triumph in the end. And the baddies will be banished!

Tranklements

Posted on November 6, 2023November 6, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged BCB, British ceramic biennial, Ceramics, cornucopia, Horse, Photo, Statue, tranklementsLeave a comment

There is a word I remember from my childhood. TRANKLEMENTS. It means, thingies, bits and bobs, a collection of stuff, not necessarily useful. Just things that you have got together over the years. I haven’t looked it up in the dictionary, so it might mean something entirely different to that, but this is my understanding of the word.

The photo of horse cornucopia sort of feels like that. A thing that isn’t really useful but is interesting. And how would you display it? They clearly have a stand to sit on…. But it’s like a unicorn with the horn at the wrong end, or a seahorse with a shell for a tail? How do people come up with such strange and wonderful ideas?

Just looked it up. I was right, it’s a black country word (west Midlands in the UK) meaning bits and bobs. I remember my gran using it!

Statue scribble

Posted on April 27, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged blue crayon, Children, Crayon, Doodle, Life, Lines, Odd, Scribble, Silly, Sketching, StatueLeave a comment

A few days ago there was a news story about a museum that gave children crayons and paper when they visited. Unfortunately one of the children used a blue crayon to scribble all over an old sculpture. I was drawing a female head and shoulders and it suddenly struck me that it looked a bit like the statue. I added lines, and it seemed even more like the scribbled statue. Strange what your mind takes you.

Statue?

Posted on January 12, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged fairy folk, Fun, Garden, Grey, Life, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Statue, stilled, Tangled, TiedLeave a comment

Statue covered in ivy

Blackberry twined around

Fairy or tree sprite?

Grown over and stilled

A grey statue instead of

A living spirit of love.

The overgrowth expands

Tying down more fairy folk

Silencing their songs.

Tangled and held…

Sister Dora

Posted on May 3, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, female subject, History, Sister Dora, Sketching, StatueLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was history. I drew Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, better known as Sister Dora (16 January 1832 – 24 December 1878), she was a 19th-century Anglican nun and a nurse who worked in Walsall, Staffordshire. She nursed miners after mine disasters. She is known as Walsall’s Florence Nightingale. I remember this statue in the town centre in the 1970’s. One of a very few statues of women in the UK. She died of breast cancer aged 46.

Regeneration /renaissance

Posted on April 17, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Buddhistic, Drawing, Kings bromley, Sketching, Statue, Thai, Thai temple4 Comments

Todays #bandofsketchers prompt was regeneration /renaissance. I could have done Dr Who for regeneration. But we took a friend over to the Thai Temple at King’s Bromley because it is the Thai New year. I decided to draw this Buddhistic statue as it is about regeneration in a way?

Trying to be an ornament.

Posted on January 5, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Cat ornament, Fun, Poem, Poetry, Staring, Statue, StillLeave a comment

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Sitting by the black cat,

staring into space,

straight and statue like,

that look on his face.

Looking all innocent,

quiet and still.

Never moved a muscle,

while I looked at him.

Then down on the ground

like a flash.

Tiny shards of pottery

fallen with a crash!

Butter wouldn’t melt,

no sign of remorse,

going to be a statue.

Somewhere else?

Of course!

Morning cat.

Posted on January 1, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Birds, Blogging, Cat, Garden, Morning, Sentinel, Statue, WatchingLeave a comment

About 7.50 this morning. The cat was on the window ledge looking out over the garden. Standing sentinel. Approving the occupants of the green place outside. Birds fly or scurry across the land, feeding on wild bird seed. Other cats stalk through the plants and drink the pond water. None miss my cats gaze. He also seems to protect us. Standing guard against interlopers. I feel secure seeing him sitting statue like. Patient, watching over us.

Persius and Medusa

Posted on August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Exhibition, Garden, Lake, medusa, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Orme Art, Persius, Plants, Staffordshire, Statue, The Brampton, Trentham, Trentham GardensLeave a comment

On a lighter note this statue of Persius and Medusa is at Trentham Gardens, Trentham, Staffordshire. The statue is inside the gardens next to the lake which means you have to pay to go in. I’m sure there is information about it but this is a photo from last year. I haven’t been in the gardens for months and probably with the heavy rain we’ve been having the plants there might be a bit battered but they are usually very beautiful.

I’m going to try and finish my painting of mars that I shared a couple of days ago to get in our Orme art exhibition at the Brampton in Newcastle-under-Lyme and try and go back to Trentham again on Friday.

Cat statue

Posted on June 21, 2019 Posted in CatTagged Beautiful, Cat, Cat statue, Eyes, Happy, Photo, Statue, StillLeave a comment

What’s going on? My cat turns to stone when he sits in the bathroom. He stares out of the window. I think he sees the movement of the birds feeding out of the frosted glass.

He is fascinated by the sound of them landing on the bathroom roof. They sound like they are tap dancing across the roof.

If I wanted another stationary photo of him I would have to take photos on the bathroom. That is where he is at his quietest unless he is sleeping but then you don’t see his beautiful eyes.

Mallaband-Brown

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