Ten years ago

Posted on December 14, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cold, Craft fair, Fine Art, Painting, Stoke Market, Stoke-on trent, Ten years agoLeave a comment

This came up on my memories today. I remember this was a cold and sunny day just like today. I was taking part in a craft fair outside Stoke Market. Things were better then, people had a bit more money. I think I sold a few paintings. I have to say they were a bit random… I think I had done a all exhibition earlier in the year so I’d painted all sorts of things, some better than others. I’m trying to be a bit more selective in what I paint these days. I’m also not keen on sitting outside in the cold as much!

My favourite poppy painting

Posted on September 6, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Flower, Gardening, Life, pale centre, Poppy, Red, Ten years ago2 Comments

Ten years ago I painted this beautiful flower. I think it’s a type of poppy called Shirley, I grew some from seeds. What I like is the pale centre instead of the usual dark, or black pattern in the middle. I deliberately used a pale background to compliment the light reflected on the petals. When poppies unfurl from their buds they look papery but they are quite strong, not delicate, its just a shame they don’t last very long and soon fade.

Homage to Escher

Posted on June 5, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital drawing, Escher, Facebook memory, Globe, Photoshop, Sketching, Ten years ago2 Comments

Digital drawing I did ten years ago in photoshop. Based on a self portrait by the artist Escher who did all those black and white drawings of interlocking /tessellations of birds and fish, or infinitely climbing or descending stairs. It was an interesting challenge to try and draw this from my imagination.

2011

Posted on January 12, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Friends, Landscape, Life, Memories, Pub, Riverside, salts Mill, Sketching, Ten years agoLeave a comment

Visiting my friend in Yorkshire in 2011 just after he moved their. I can’t believe it’s so long ago.

In fact I remember the day we’ll. We went to sit by the river at Salts Mill and called in a riverside pub. We were looking over a cricket pitch and the wooded hills in the background. It was a hot sunny day. I love sketching instead of just taking photos….

B?

Posted on January 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged b words, Poem, Poetry, Sketch, Ten years ago, Thinking, WordsLeave a comment

Somewhere in 2011 I drew and wrote this. I don’t know if it’s a poem or a lot of B!

It feels like a puzzle, trying to make as many B words as possible.

I also found a sketchbook with drawings from when my friend moved up to Yorkshire. I will post them separately…

Found drawing

Posted on November 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Digital drawing, Drawing, Face, Fun, Memory, Printed, Printed on paper, Sketchfu, Ten years ago2 Comments

I was looking for a digital drawing to show a friend on zoom because I was trying to explain you can draw with a stylus on a drawing tablet, and without having to add layers. I drew this on sketchfu about ten year ago. This is a print off on paper. I have not got many printed versions of my digital drawings….

Jupiter 2009

Posted on November 5, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Astronomy, Great Red spot, Jupiter, Memory, Painting, Space, Ten years agoLeave a comment

FB_IMG_1572912413208 Ten years ago, and before that, I was painting Jupiter. I love the planet, though its atmosphere is hellishly difficult to paint, swirls that meld into one another, colours that blend and merge.

I think I said it was like knitting the painting, because I built it up band by band.

Now I want to do more in the astronomical area. I’m thinking of painting on perspex if I can get the right effects. I woukd do something like the ‘pillars of creation’ dusty nebula. I am thinking of having different layers. How I would display it, and how accurate it would be? I don’t know-yet!

Mallaband-Brown

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