Gallery problems

Posted on October 24, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fine Art, Gallery, Irritating, lost images, Memory, Optimised, Phone, Problems, Time, YearsLeave a comment

My phone is doing strange things, especially when I’ve tried to upload images to my Facebook page today. I decided to optimise some of my photos because my phone memory is too full. Usually the images that I have shrunk stay on the phone and the others are deleted. But thus time everything doubled up. I tried deleting the old ones, but I had to restart the phone and my images seemed to get mixed up. I tried finding them and although I did the gallery kept reverting to the older ones. I guess I need to buy a new memory card? I don’t know if I can sort it out otherwise.

Gemini

Posted on October 22, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Bad poetry, Childhood, Gemini, Gone, Loss, Memory, Poem, Poetry, remember, reminiscent, Time, Twin2 Comments

Half of me was wrenched away

Just six weeks ago, today

Now you’re gone through that door

And I will see your face no more,

We weren’t close, but still I knew

My life and yours, linked as two

Souls that shared a single birth

Both of us, a childhoods hearth.

Still I think you will call me up

We’ll talk a while over a cup

Or two of tea, and a scone

But really I know you’re gone.

I can’t forget, but I will begin

To think you’re in the sky, a star, my twin.

Fireflies

Posted on October 10, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Caring, cruelty, forgiving, kindness, Learning, Life, Mind, Thinking, Time, TrappedLeave a comment

Imagine a glass box of fireflies all flying around. Cold light from their abdomens? Could you use it as a torch, or would they all settle down in a corner and go to sleep? I wouldn’t want to catch them and trap them so I will use LED lights instead.

We have choices, we don’t have to trap or kill anything, we don’t have to be cruel. We can try and do better than we do. Realise people are not perfect. Learn to forgive if we can. Let the fireflies fly free.

Tempus Fugit…

Posted on October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bird, Clock, clock design, Colours, Felt pens, Fun, tempus fugit, Time, time flysLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was time. This is based on an idea that I first came up with on my MA. Time flies. I had lots of ideas including a bird, a butterfly and a dragonfly. This is some sort of magical, time travelling bird clock. I don’t think it’s a parrot and it’s very round!

Clearing memories

Posted on September 23, 2022September 23, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cave painting, Computer, Digital photos, Memory, Mobile phone, Painting, Photography, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

WordPress keeps telling me my phone is full. I know! I keep trying to delete photos but it’s almost impossible. There are thousands of them. There’s lots of other things, I am not sure of half of what’s on here….

So I think I will have to buy more memory. Its funny how real memories are subsumed into a digital memory. If you don’t have a photo of it, it didn’t happen? Case in point, the recent death and funeral of the Queen. People have always recorded their lives throughout the ages, for example look at cave paintings. Then art throughout the ages, paintings for people who could pay, or sketches by people who had the means or ability to draw or paint. Then deguerreotypes (not sure of the spelling) became popular, painted portraits turned into slow motion photos that took time to take and heads had to be clamped in place to get a clear image. Box brownies, single lens reflex, eventually digital cameras, then phones which took a few photos. Now, the mobile phone is a hand held computer… But it still gets full.

The human mind can hold more information, but it’s not stored in a logical order. Links from the past suddenly reach out and grab your attention. Clearing a human brain of memory is not a good thing, and unless it happens through illness, age or injury, causing degradation of the brain structure, it is to be hoped that people can build memories (good or bad?), not lose them.

Trickle down

Posted on September 21, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, conservatives, economics, Government, Life, Rich, selfish, Share, taxes, Time, trickle down5 Comments

Cartoon by @cartoonralph, from an original idea by leftwinguk-f.b

Trickle down economics, the latest big idea of our UK government. Lift the cap on bankers bonuses, reduce taxes for the rich, reduce national insurance that will affect the tax burden more on the richest than the poorest (if you don’t earn enough to pay tax or NI in the first place cuts won’t affect you, you get zero benefit). Cut corporation tax for the richest. Our Prime minister, Liz Truss, says she wants to increase productivity whilst previously calling UK workers lazy and saying people must work if they can (in a gig economy). She says she doesn’t mind being unpopular! They have reduced the income if the poorest people on benefits. We are the sixth richest country in the UK and yet we have thousands of foodbanks where people have to depend on donated food. This idea is madness.

Mourning and bereavement

Posted on September 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bereavement, coping, feeling, Healing, Learning, Sad, Sleep, Talking, Time, Tired, Upset4 Comments

When you lose someone it is complex and confusing. Especially when it is a sudden event. First there is disbelief, and that keeps flooding back. I keep wanting to talk to the person who is gone. Then I swear at them! Angry with them. Asking why did it happen? It’s unbelievable and shattering. Everything is on hold, I can’t decide what to do for the best. I’ve talked to lots of people, shared some of my feelings. I hope that’s the right thing to do. Life seems bad at the moment but at least I’m still trying to cope. Sleep is another problem. If you see me here late at night I might just be trying to take my mind off things.

Halved

Posted on September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Death, Earth, Gone, Life, Memories, Missing, Moon, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Sun, Thoughts, Time, WordsLeave a comment

My sun has gone out

The moon has split in half

My world is darkened

The loss of a relative

Guts your soul

Don’t scream

Don’t cry

Hold it together

For you

For everyone else

But it’s hard to take.

Temperature

Posted on September 17, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Blank verse, Electricity, Environment, Gas, Keeping warm, Light, Poem, Poetry, saving, Thinking, Time, WinterLeave a comment

Here’s a bit of blank verse,

We are lucky not to be too cold.

It’s nineteen point two

A slight chill in here

Two small lights on

Saving energy?

So I have a dressing gown

Or a cardigan

To wear.

I will buy a hot water bottle.

No gas fire this autumn or winter

Central Heating?

When it’s too cold.

An electric heater otherwise.

Gas costs more than electricity here

I can’t afford double what we paid

Last year.

Well at least I’m not heating up

The environment, too much.

Poppies wip

Posted on September 12, 2022September 12, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fine Art, Life, Painting, Poppies, Red, reference photos, Time, Work in progressLeave a comment

Red seems to be the theme of my paintings this week. Red poppies and red steam engine governor. Now I need to try and get the poppies painting finished. I want to work on the petals to make them more realistic. I’d also like to get the leaves and stems right. It’s difficult from imagination so I’m going to try and find some reference photos to work from.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Time