Fork handles or Four candles?

Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, fork handles, four candles, Fun, Humour, Letters, Sketching, two Ronnie's, Words2 Comments

Just found this old drawing, I was playing with words. There is a comedy sketch by a duo in the 1970’s. It’s a bit like Monty Pythons dead parrot sketch in that it is a classic British comedy sketch. This one was by the Two Ronnie’s (Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett). In it one of them goes into a shop and asks for various objects and the other one brings things out that sound the same but are different. Hence the ‘four candles /fork handles joke.

Anyway that’s what the writing on this is about. I think I was trying to mimic graffiti.

Another one…

Posted on February 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, big city dreams, Found, Life, Photo, stencil, Text, WordsLeave a comment

My collection of this stencil has increased today. I seem to be seeing it all over the place. I like it, makes me think about the creativity of the city. Yes we should have dreams, maybe small city dreams, little city daydreams, tiny city ambitions? I can think of lots of three word versions of the phrase….

Big City Dreams

Posted on February 8, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, big city dreams, Graffiti, Heart, Photos, Staffordshire, stencils, Stoke-on trent, Text, Words3 Comments

I keep seeing this stencil around our city. I think it’s a work by a local artist called ‘stokesy’? Whoever it is they are emulating Banksy.

I like these, it feels like they care about the city. There is a neatness and confidence about them. They are representative of the creative spirit of the city of the Potteries. The home of Clarice Cliff and Suzie Cooper, Emma Bridgewater, Wedgewood, and all the potteries and makers in the area. I ❤️ this city, I ♥️ Stoke-on-Trent.

painting of wet walk

Posted on February 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, #bandofsketchers, Art, Cold, feltpens, signage, Test, Walking, Watercolour, Wet, Windy, WordsLeave a comment

Todays #bandofsketchersprompt was signage, and as I was walking home after a long, wet, cold walk I decided to take a photo with my very soggy camera, of the view. Since my college course has me doing observational images every day this fit the bill for both prompts.

Felt pens for the signs, a bit of underdrawing with a felt pen thats running out, and watercolours to give it a “wet” feel.

Sub-titters

Posted on January 29, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Hearing, howlers, mistakes, misunderstanding, Sound, Subtitles, Time, WordsLeave a comment

I’ve been watching TV with subtitled recently because my hubby is increasingly hard of hearing. But when the subtitles are being done in real time there can be some very strange results.

When nature programmes like Winter watch is on for instance, a ‘Willow Grove’ becomes a ‘Willow Grope’ , or on the news ‘set a new trend’ becomes ‘said a newt rend’! The subtitler sometimes retypes the words to clarify, but sometimes they are real howlers. I wish I could remember the best, but they flit by so quickly. Still it’s fun to watch out for them..

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…

Fireworks going off already!

Posted on December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital doodle, Sketching, Stay safe, Take care, Thinking, Time, Words, Writing, Year endLeave a comment

It’s not even eleven thirty and fireworks are going off. I think people can’t wait for the end of the year. I don’t have any pictures of them so here’s a drawing I did a while ago of something vaguely like a firework.

I’ve tried to think of interesting things to post over the year, some poetry, some strange or silly stories, and mainly my Art. This year I haven’t been as inspired, and things have been distracting me. For instance the college course on illustration I’m doing. I hope you have enjoyed my blog, and that I can keep it going in the new year. Keep safe. Stay healthy!

Definition….

Posted on December 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Achromatic, Dictionary, Language, Monochrome, Thinking, Words2 Comments

I has to check the meaning of Monochrome because someone said on Facebook that black and white is achromatic. I’m pretty sure that means without colour. Like transparent liquids. But I wasn’t sure whether black and white was dichromatic or duochromatic? Anyway I think I was correct in my original suggestion. Words re such interesting things,

Acrosstick

Posted on December 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Five word story, Fun, Humour, Merry Christmas, Presents, Words, Writing, Writing challenge, YuletideLeave a comment

Esther Chilton, who has a blog at WordPress, challenges us to write things to prompts. On a Monday it’s a limerick using a particular word (this week it was ‘Santa’ ) and then on a Thursday its telling a story in five words. The prompt today was ‘presents’.

I wrote these eight lines and included an eight letter word using the first letter of each line, just for fun.

Merry Christmas

horse on its side

Posted on October 26, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Architecture, Creative, Fun, graffitti, Horse, Ideas, Paint, Poem, Poetry, Sculpture, Words2 Comments

OK, I dont know why I like this

but this horse

on its side

could be stone

waiting to be carved

hewn out of rock

pumice from a volcano

found in an ancient town

or modern art

tipped sideways to shock

graffitti painted in white

on a famous building?

or slapped onto shutters

before they open

to the next day’s sun.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Words