Who knows?

Posted on November 7, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Change, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2112, entropy, Knowledge, Life, Plans, Prompt, Thinking, Time4 Comments

What will your life be like in three years?

Life might change, it might be the same. So much has happened over the last few years that I honestly don’t know. I might move on somewhere else, or stay here. We might have new neighbours. I might win the lottery, but probably not.

We make plans, but life has a way of confusing things. Even if you are strong and rational it doesn’t mean things will always go OK. I don’t mean to be negative though. It’s just that the chaos humans can create around themselves impacts on others too. Disorder happens. Entropy can mean moving from order to disorder. I’m thinking of lots of words that just mean I don’t think I can predict what will happen. I can try and hope though that things will be better.

As you get older life can get sorted out or complicated. It really means you have to have enough money to live on. Sometimes that’s not possible. Better to be organised sooner rather than later.

Experimenting

Posted on November 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Changes, Experiment, Memory, Photo, Photodirector, sprinkles, Time, Tools, Tree2 Comments

I added the sprinkles onto this photo of a tree, as if all the leaves were falling off at once. I can’t remember how I did it, but I think I used photodirector. The image is from about four years ago, and the app has changed since then, so some of the different tools have changed and I’m not sure I could do this again. X

Leaves

Posted on November 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Asleep, Autumn, Cold, Colours, Dying, frosty, Leaves, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Time2 Comments

Dying, falling, asleep

Red, green, brown

Gold and yellow

Pallid light breaks

Over crisping leaves.

Frosty, foggy, cold,

Mist and mizzel.

Wet rain drips

From sullen trees.

4 years ago

Posted on November 3, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Landscape, Memory, Photo, Photodirector, playing fields, textured, Time, Trees, Winter2 Comments

View of trees and local playing fields up our hill. It was four years ago. I took a photo during the winter and the trees looked skeletal. I put this through photodirector a couple of times to get the textured look. It almost looks like looking through a wet windscreen, where the lines are blurred and smeared. I think I might paint it.

Storm Ciaran

Posted on November 2, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ciaran, Cornwall, Devon, isle of wight, Kent, Life, Rain, Sea, south England, Storm, Time, Weather3 Comments

Hundreds of miles of the South of England have been badly affected by Storm Ciaran (pronounced kiaron).

Rooves have been torn off, trees uprooted, a branch like a spear pierced the roof of a mobile home and punctured the bed the occupant had just vacated. A woman woke in the storm and grabbed her baby from it’s cot just as the windows blew in. 107 thousand homes had their power cut off. Many have had it restored but 20 thousand are still without electricity.

The channel islands have suspended ferry crossings and their airports are closed. There was a red weather warning indicating danger to life and property.

Meanwhile Northern France was also badly hit by the storm. I think there were wind speeds over 110 miles an hour. We are lucky to be far north of this weather event.

Blue swirl

Posted on November 2, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumnal, Circular, incollage, Instagram, Leaves, Life, Memories, Photo, Photodirector, Time, WordPressLeave a comment

A photo from 3 years ago morphed a bit more by using incollage and Instagram. I chose the circular template in WordPress to finish it off. It could be a blue glazed ceramic plate. Autumnal in feel but also frosty. I also used the AI style effect in photodirector to get the textured patterning.

Three magic wishes?

Posted on October 31, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2105, Education, global warming, Learning, Life, Peace, pestilence, Thinking, Time, wishes7 Comments

You have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for?

I’m going for two of the traditional Miss World answers from the past…

1. World peace, ie, an end to fighting and the horrors of war, and crime. No doubt someone will start an argument about the Peace five minutes after it finally happens.

2. An end to famine, with sufficient food for everyone, always.

With these two wishes granted I would hope humanity could get it’s act together and sort out pestilence and the other existential crises.

3. The third would be sorting out global warming. Without this, the other two wishes would be wasted. To have the luxury of knowing the world is not going to fry would be wonderful.

We always want wishes. But why not solve things ourselves instead? Take responsibility instead of taking resources. Consider others. Only use the power you need. Only travel where you need to. Give up some air miles. Share a car, share a thought.

Education is key. A broad spectrum of knowledge must help. I’m convinced that uneducated people are more likely to be repressed or oppressed by their employers or governments.

Life is hard, but rather than looking for an external answer we need to look to ourselves.

A sketchbook page

Posted on October 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, French Impressionists, Hand, Renoir, Sketching, summer challenge, Time5 Comments

Trying to draw part of a Renoir painting yesterday was hard work. I didn’t get the shape exactly right, and trying to use felt pens was hard too as I only had a limited range of colours. I didn’t do a good job of the hand on the woman’s shoulder, the felt pens bled and I really should have used a fine liner pen. But at least I completed a challenge.

Walking

Posted on October 28, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Age, Car, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2103, Hurt, Life, Memory, Pain, Thinking, Time, Walking10 Comments

What is your favorite form of physical exercise?

I haven’t been able to do much walking recently. Injury will do that. I used to love running and cycling, but I got a car and that was my biggest mistake. A sedentary job didn’t help either.

I tried to get into walking with a friend, that happened for a year, then I pulled a calf muscle which caused a lot of pain. For months. After that I started again. Only to hurt myself again! I literally feel like I’ve taken one step forward and two back. But I will try again, it’s cheaper than driving and better for the environment. Don’t get a car unless you have to!

Facing my fears

Posted on October 27, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Artrage oils, Concern, Digital drawing, Face, Fear, Finger painting, Life, Time, Worry4 Comments

This came up on Facebook memories and I thought it was so close to how I’m feeling now. Jangling nerves, my heartbeat spikey, thoughts all over the place moving at a million miles a second. Suspicious of everyone. Anxiety and tiredness mixed into a morass of stress. It’s been a bad few days and I don’t know if it’s going to get better. Fingers crossed.

Artrage oils digital drawing.

Mallaband-Brown

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