Eloise

Posted on June 6, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1961, Eloise, Life, Name, Samantha, Sound, Thinking, Time, Words2 Comments

If you had to change your name, what would your new name be?

Change my name, change my face…

Change my world.

Why Eloise? I just like the sound. I’m not even sure if I’ve spelt it correctly? If you add a U it becomes Elouise, which just sounds like you’ve misspelled Louise?

I also think it could be written e-loise… An electronic version of the name. Better than e-louse (an AI version of a woodlouse?).

I was going to be Samantha, but I really don’t feel like I’m one of those. I think its too cuddly and feels like a princess name?

Eloise does sound rather proud and exotic? We all have our own ideas of how words work. Your favourite word might be something I hate. We mentally add connotations onto a word or a phrase. And I no no one called Eloise, I just like the sound… Am I strange?

Trying to change

Posted on June 6, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Fog, Green, Life, Maze, Pattern, Photo, Photodirector, Poem, Poetry, self portrait, TimeLeave a comment

I’m muddled and muddied

Confused and twisted

I’m all out of coping

My strength has diminished

But I have to cope

Twist the strands of hope

Back together again.

Find my way through the fog

Out of the maze

Into light.

Variation

Posted on June 5, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged AI scene, Art, Digital drawing, Escher, Instagram, Life, Photodirector, Sketching, Time, Variation5 Comments

Put my digital drawing through an app called photodirector. I chose the AI scene option. You can see how it’s affected the image.

My dream chocolate bar

Posted on June 5, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 1970's, aztec bar, chocolate bar, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1960, Memory, Time, WikipediaLeave a comment

Describe your dream chocolate bar.

It actually existed in the 1970’s.

An aztec bar was multi layered, as Wikipedia explains:

Aztec was a chocolate bar produced by Cadbury’s from 1967. It was made of nougat and caramel covered with milk chocolate and was sold in a deep purple wrapper. The Aztec was created by Cadbury’s to compete with the Mars Bar, but it was discontinued in 1978. Wikipedia

I think they were actually tastier than Mars bars, if they were in the shop it was what I spent some of my 50 pence pocket money. That and comics like the Bunty and Judy. Life was so simple then. Only exams to worry about I would time travel back if I could!

Look outside

Posted on June 1, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bricks, Gallery, Green, outside the box, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Sunset, Thought, Time, View, Wall, WorldLeave a comment

In a gallery

But looking outside

Fresh green against brick red

Daylight catches the wall

As sun starts to set.

Always look outside the box

The view might change

Your thoughts too….

Chances are

You’ll see something new.

Claws

Posted on May 31, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Claws, Friend, Lap, leggings, Legs, Life, Ouch, Pain, puncture wound, Sharp, TimeLeave a comment

Ouch! Kneading my leg, pulling holes in my leggings. I know you love me but that hurt! Sharp claws might be a good hunting tool for cats, but my flesh is punctured! I love you dearly, but sometimes you dig in too hard. Please get off my lap. I’m off to get a drink and a few painkillers!

Full and Part time jobs

Posted on May 29, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Balance, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1953, Internet, Life, Memory, Responsibility, Time, Work, World3 Comments

What jobs have you had?

But..

I’m not saying what! A few of the people here know what my jobs have been, but I am not willing to share with everyone, and as these prompts are viewed by more than my friends those other people do not need to know.

I’m not a secretive person but I think we all have a responsibility to ourselves to keep our information safe. There is an increase in the amount of phishing on the Internet.

I will say I have had full and part time jobs, I’ve worked with people and on my own, also with machinery. I’ve never been a manager, thankfully. I enjoyed working with most of the staff although I could tell some tales about the bad behaviour of some and the wonderful things others have done beyond what was necessary.

Prompts are interesting, they make you think, but some are easier to answer than others. Work gets you money to pay bills and pay for housing, the ability to use sports facilities and other entertainment. I am glad I had responsible jobs but I’m glad too that they are behind me now.

Raining again

Posted on May 28, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged AI, Art, CGI, Creepy, Design, Downpour, Life, Odd, Rain, Reality, Sci fi, Sound, Time, WeatherLeave a comment

The rain came down in a torrent this evening, it was drumming on the roof so hard it drowned out the radio in the kitchen. I was just about to go out and I stood and waited for it to blow over.

I had watched a short video on my phone earlier. It was supposed to show a cloud burst over a desert, but it looked wrong, something like a waterfall but with waves and eddys and tiers a bit like a chandelier. People’s reactions were incredulous.

I then saw the caption at the bottom “generated with AI”. The rain I experienced was real, not AI. I don’t mind that people are creating images, I do it a lot myself, and it’s good watching a film where someone has used CGI to create spaceships, or add landscapes, or alter how people look. But AI seems alien, creepy, like it knows the rules but does not know how to follow them? It sometimes adds extra fingers or distorts faces.

In the end I prefer reality.

Sneak peak

Posted on May 27, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged A4, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Close up, Green, Hand, Life, Painting, Time, Work in progressLeave a comment

A bit splodgy… Sneak peak! Work in progress. I’m struggling with fine details as I shake as I paint…

A4 size acrylic on canvas, I’m hoping I can refine the details as I go….

#forest

Posted on May 23, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Autumn, Blue, Brown, Colour, Fine Art, Life, Orange, Red, Russet, TimeLeave a comment

Painted last year from a photo of an autumn wood. I’m in another group of artists on Facebook that does weekly prompts. This week was #tree, #trees, #forest, #forests. What gripped my attention was the russet, orange and bronze leaves on the forest floor and following the contours of the deeply worn pathway through it. Some paler leaves are still clinging to the trees, and the distant foliage is pale blue to send it backwards (I might have used pale grey but I liked using the complimentary colour to the oranges.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Time