Devon coast

Posted on September 5, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Fine Art, Painting, pebbles, Rocks, Sand, Sea, seaside rocks, seaweed, Stones, water memories2 Comments

Acrylic on canvas. Devon beach and rocks on an overcast day. I think its near Plymouth, but the painting is probably 20 years old.

The rocks on this part of the coast are dark and craggy. The water makes them darker, with a slight glint to them. They form layers that slope down into the water and there are plenty of rock pools with barnacles and limpets. There might be small crabs lurking under seaweed in them. Between the rocks the sand is sandy coloured (goldish grey). With flat flakes of rock and stones and pebbles in discreet lines rolled into place by the tides. There are also strands of seaweed left at high tide where sand flies and sand hoppers dwell.

All this rembered because I painted the view.

Found

Posted on May 14, 2023May 14, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, bark, Ideas, Life, Painting, Stones, Trees, Winter, Wood, Work in progress2 Comments

Acrylic on canvas painting, work in progress. Of trees and rocks or stones. But I don’t remember what I was doing with it. I found it in the summerhouse while I was helping clear it up. I must have started it sometime last year. Perhaps in the winter. I’ll have to make a story up? Maybe it was too cold in there and the water froze, or the weather changed and continuous rain put me off. I’m going to get my brushes out and try and finish it off….

Before covid?

Posted on August 25, 2022August 25, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists, Colour, Dorset, Fine Art, Holiday, Life, Lulworth cove, Painting, shingles, StonesLeave a comment

You could go to a beach and find someone just painting stones as a job (Lulworth Cove in Dorset). A respectable way of earning some money as an artist. Sitting in the sunshine, working on imaginative designs. We bought one with a blue octopus painted on it. The stones were probably collected off the shingle beach (yes I’m writing about different shingles). I would love to go back there but I doubt this artist would still be plying his trade. Yes the world has changed.

Stones

Posted on July 25, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, acrylic on cartridge paper, Art, Imagined, Painting, Sketching, Stones, SundayLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was Stones. I thought of drawing one of the members of the Rolling Stones but decided against it. Since I’m using a new sketchbook and I’ve been painting in acrylics this afternoon I decided to conjure up some stones from my imagination using the colours I’ve been using in the paintings.

Dragon stone

Posted on October 11, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Dragon, Drawing, Glue, Paint, painted stone, Painting, Pattern, Stone, StonesLeave a comment

I painted a stone with a dragon design, then I edited it in photodirector. The paint is in little bottles with a nozzle and you use it to add dots and lines onto a surface. I’m a bit unsteady with my hand and arm so it’s more wobbly than I would like. Once it’s dry I might take another photo. As the colours dry they seem to shrink because they seem to have glue in the paints. Especially the ones with added glitter.

St Giles, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Posted on April 11, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abbey, Ancient, archaeology, Blackfriars, cholera, Church, churchyard, Newcastle-under-Lyme, pump, St Giles, Stones2 Comments

St Giles Church Tower, the oldest part of the church.

Saxon Stone, discovered at an excavation site at Blackfriars Abbey. It preceded St Giles. The Abbey was on the site of the church apparently.

Part of the ancient stones from archaeological digs are laid out on the ground next to one side of the tower, round the back of the church.

Walking back towards Newcastle-under-Lyme Town center after our visit to the church (I didn’t take any photos inside as it was open for prayers for the death of Prince Philip).

Pump in the church yard. This was implicated in an outbreak of cholera. The bodies in the churchyard were very shallow lying, only nine inches deep in places, and and fluids carrying cholera leeched into the ground water.

Stone monoliths

Posted on January 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Experiment, Ink roller, Learning, Sketching, soft pencils, stone monoliths, Stones, ThinkingLeave a comment

Playing with an ink roller that you would use to cover over your address on documents and used soft pencil on top…. Stones, posted in a page on Facebook about Grayson Perry’s Art club…

A hat full of stones

Posted on August 4, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Creative writing, Dialect?, Flat cap, Hat, Short story, Stones, Very short storyLeave a comment

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You daft ‘aipath! What you doin’ collectin’ stones in yer at?

I wanted em fer th’garden. Twill make a nice dressin’ ont top of the pots.

Yer an owd idiot Mon! Yer ed’s full o’ gravel dust now don’t yer know?

Yer ed’ must be rattlin’ like an old stone path being walked on, yer numpty.

Oo you callin’ a numpty? If tha’dud na like me, why dids’t tha marry me?

Becowse I luved yer. An thays the truth o’it.

Trying to write in some sort of dialect. Apologies for it.

Sliders.

Posted on February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Community, Curling, Fun, Game, Ice, Life, Stones, TargetLeave a comment

Imagine a game like curling that you play with stones on ice, but on a normal floor. That’s sliders, a curling game where the stones have ball bearings underneath them to allow them to glide across the floor You aim at a target with scores which go from 1 2 3 4 5 and 10.

Today I actually scored a 10, which is very unusual for us. Sometimes I can’t even reach the target as the bearings on the stones are starting to get worn out. We play a simple game where the highest score after an hour wins. Today there were 7 of us playing. It’s also good exercise as you are bending and stretching and walking backwards and forwards.

If you want a simple game to play at a community centre or village hall I would recommend it.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Stones