News!

Posted on July 6, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged boris, Boris Johnson, Conservative party, conservatives, Life, News, Prime minister, WorldLeave a comment

The Conservative Party are in turmoil. Several tory party cabinet members have resigned today. I won’t go into details, but the prime minister has been found to be telling untruths about certain issues. Watching the house of commons at Westminster today it was clear that he is unable to offer sincere apologies that are believable. He just doesn’t seem to care about either his political party or the members of the public who voted for him. When you watch Tory MPs get up in the House of Commons and tell him to resign you know it cannot carry on. What will happen? Who knows?

Bang

Posted on June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bang!, collision, Destruction, Digital manipulation, Earth, Edited, Humans, Life, Photodirector, WorldLeave a comment

Could it be a cosmic collision that eradicates humanity? Like the dinosaurs millions of years ago. But we seem so good at surviving as a species I doubt we could all be killed off. I’m in a performance soon about how humans have destroyed other species and the environmental destruction we are responsible for.

I added scratches and grunge to this photo in Photodirector, then changed it from colour with a black and white filter on Instagram. I thought of adding text to this. Maybe it would work but it might be a bit twee.

Earth rise?

Posted on June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Antarctica, Arctic, blow up globe, earth rise, Equator, Flat earth, Fun, latitude, longitude, seasons, Thinking, WorldLeave a comment

I made this image using a blow up globe and a bath towel..

Trying to replicate the globe rising over the limb of the moon. But obviously our world doesn’t have latitude or longitude printed on it! And we don’t have different countries coloured in to indicate where there bordered are. I wonder how flat earth believers react to the real image. Do they think the other half of the world is on the back? If it was flat the sun wouldn’t rise slowly but it would illuminate half of the world straight away (unless you are behind a mountain) then after twelve hours set immediately. One side of the world would be in daytime at the same time, the other night time. Get rid of most time zones! Only two needed, twelve hours separating them. Plus you’d notice crossing the edge! And no seasons, so no equatorial heat or Arctic and antarctic regions! And where does the edge fall and wouldn’t the international space station notice?

Thinking… Its good to try it out!

Sleep

Posted on May 22, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Help, Insomnia, monsters, Night, Sleep, Thinking, Tired, Waking, WorldLeave a comment

Sleep, a wonderful thing. Dreaming of creatures, as long as they aren’t monsters. And if they are monsters then as long as they are friendly ones? My monster is insomnia, when the dreams WON’T come. When the dreams that do appear flit past my eyes for a second and are then gone. Like a butterfly snatched by a cat, or a dragonfly grabbed by a pike. Then awake again I have to watch the seconds click by. Close my eyes and the world swirls sideways. I need rest!

Star

Posted on May 21, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Constellation, diamond, Dragon, Eye, Galaxy, gleaming, Poem, Poetry, Sky, Universe, WorldLeave a comment

Star shining high

Twinkling in the sky.

Crystal spheres

Pin you to the firmament

Finding your way

Through the constellations

A dragons eye

With diamond tears

In our Universe

Glistening in the Galaxy.

Heart

Posted on May 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Black ink fine line pen, Drawing, Felt pen, Heart, Imagine, Life, Peace, Red, Sketching, World5 Comments

How many hearts did I draw? I can’t count them. They took a while to sketch. I’m not sure what I drew them for. I think I’d like to see more love and peace in the world. I would rather draw something like this in the situation the world is in at the moment. I know I can’t change things much, but I can say it. Life is difficult for so many, but the John Lennon song ‘Imagine’ , and also the song ‘Give Peace a Chance’ mean a lot to me. Maybe we should try and do that?

What is it?

Posted on May 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Alien, Art, Creature, Drawing, Floating, Imagined, Life, neptune, Planet, Sketching, World2 Comments

I was trying to draw Virga clouds yesterday for a post here, but to be honest it wasn’t working. I gave up leaving a scribbled shape with conical bits hanging down. Today I doodled blue lines and blue shadows onto it, added segments and an eye and a head. The red is from the previous page but it could be antennae? The resulting creature seems to be floating. It could be in a sea or floating in the air. I’ve decided it’s a Neptunian…. A creature from the gas giant planet Neptune. I imagine it has a prehensile snout and it eats hydrocarbons from carbonbergs floating in the Neptunian skies. The long prong like legs are to grab the bergs as they sail by….

Africa

Posted on April 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Africa, Art, Continent, Deserts, Drawing, Earth, fauna, Flora, Landscape, Life, Planet, Sketching, Space, World6 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Africa. It is such a large continent with such varied flora and fauna and landscapes so I decided to draw a view of it and part of the surrounding countries from space. Drawn with felt pens. I used a plastic tub to draw round for the circle.

Wrapped up

Posted on April 19, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Cell phone, device, Forgotten, ignored, Magic, Mobile, Phone, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Thinking, WorldLeave a comment

Wrapped up in my magic phone I can ignore the world. The problems I have, the worries my friends have.

Wrapped up in my magic phone I can focus on the trivial things, the bits that make me smile.

Wrapped up in my magic phone I can watch daft dogs, silly things. Lost kittens in mittens.

Wrapped up in my magic phone I can forget people. Lose the worries, the wars, the poverty.

Wrapped up in my magic phone I am in cotton wool. Insulated nicely against the world.

I must turn it off and put it down. Lose it or let the battery go flat to be free. Maybe? But just another glance can’t hurt…..

Pandoras box

Posted on April 14, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Hope, Life, Pandoras box, Sketching, WorldLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Pandoras box. I drew this last night, all the bad things in the world but at least there is hope. Felt pens used with a fine liner to outline the shapes. I tried to make it a bit like 1960’s Pop Art, with an attempt to draw half tone dots.

Mallaband-Brown

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