Valley view

Posted on May 30, 2021May 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, black fine liner pen, clayton, Drawing, Life, Shaking, Sketching, Trent Vale, Valley, View, Walking, wobbly lines3 Comments

View of Trent Vale and Clayton from Thistley Hough

We went for a walk in the evening yesterday, and instead of just taking photos I took a small sketch pad with me. I couldn’t draw all the details I could see and because its black and white it’s hard to get shade and tone, but I did my best. The two blobs in the sky were hot air balloons. Too far away to see any detail and they were travelling sideways on to us very slowly (left to right). This took about 15 minutes, just trying to get an impression of the view over the valley. I wish I didn’t shake, my lines are very wobbly!

Chimneys

Posted on May 14, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Bricks, Chimneys, Life, Photos, Possible drawing, Roof, Stoke Station, ViewLeave a comment

I saw these rather splendid chimneys on my walk yesterday. They are on a building opposite Stoke Station. I’m going to make a drawing of them later today. X

Mow Cop, twice

Posted on May 11, 2021May 11, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Cheshire, Coloured pencil, folly, Hill top, Ink, landmark, Mow Cop, pretend castle, Staffordshire, View, Watercolour2 Comments

Experiment with paint and ink. The first painting was from a photo, the second one was extrapolated from the first. Both college work. Its fun trying different mark making and adjusting colours and hues to create different atmospheres in a piece of art. Mow Cop is a folly (pretend castle) sitting on a hill overlooking Cheshire and Staffordshire

Mark making and trying natural and more expressive colours.

Wheel

Posted on May 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bike, Camera, olympus trip, Photo, Spokes, Terraced house, tube, Tyre, View, Wheel2 Comments

Photo from 1981.

View through a terraced house window with one of my husbands bike wheels hanging in the window. He used to repair bikes for a while. He was probably replacing some spokes or had the tyre and tube off to repair a puncture.

It might not be the prettiest photo but it documents a time and a place. Forty years ago! A real film camera. Photos with rounded corners. I think taken with an olympus trip, on iso 100 speed film. I have albums with real photos…

Memories.

Tree again

Posted on April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Gardening, Leaves, Penkhull, Photo, seasons, Spring, Sunshine, Time, Tree, View, YearLeave a comment

I keep coming back to this tree as it spreads its branches over the view from Penkhull. I have watched it in leaf, with dying leaves, bare and now in bud. It makes me realise how fast a year can pass. The same with gardening, the seasons and plants come and go. And I’m a year older and no wiser….

Allotment view

Posted on April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Allotments, blue skies, Landscape, Penkhull, Photo, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, ViewLeave a comment

Bright sun and deep shadow. Looking out over the south of the city of Stoke-on-Trent from Penkhull hill. The gate has a square grill? on it. I like the way the spaces are captured like a square jigsaw puzzle. While people went off to beer gardens we went for a quiet walk instead. Green and blue, white scudding clouds. A pleasant day.

Moon

Posted on March 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Clouds, Daylight, magnified, Moon, Sky, Sunlight, View, Walking, White, zoom inLeave a comment

One moon, high above the clouds. Seen on a walk, popping up like a bubble from the lips of a cloud.

It’s hard to capture the moon on my phone. The definition of the photo is not good, and having to zoom in makes it more blurred. I think I avoided too much camera shake.

It’s not often you see the moon in the sky in daylight. But I like this photo. Simple view and with the clouds it makes it more interesting.

Day Fifty

Posted on March 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Canal, day Fifty, Etruria, Exercise, Feet, Photos, Towpath, View, WalkingLeave a comment

It’s been fifty days since I started the #100daywalkingchallenge. I’m surprised I’ve done it without a break. I started doing about two miles a day but I’m slowly building up. Today I did 4.6 miles. Yes on the flat, and not very fast, but I keep going.

I’m in a group that are trying to achieve this, not to raise money, but just to try and improve our health. There is no pressure, no minimum amount. Just gentle support of one another. If I don’t feel like going far I get encouraged by a friend, and vice versa.

Maze

Posted on March 19, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Art, Design, Layout app, Maze, mirrored photo, Photos, View, Walking, Westport lakeLeave a comment

There is a maze at the far end of Westport lake which we got stuck in (some muddy patches). It’s only got small hedges so you can’t really get lost. Yet another mirrored photo…. And why not?

My collection of them keeps increasing, I look at each view with the thought that I can make it into something quirky.

Around

Posted on March 7, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, #bandofsketchers, Art, colour pencil, Drawing, Landscape, Life, Roots, Sketching, View2 Comments

Drawing of the tree roots around the base of a tree at the Croft. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was around. Boldmere colouring pencils on cartridge paper.

Mallaband-Brown

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