Lesser Celandine

Posted on March 22, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged daisy like, Environment, Gardening, Lesser celandine, Nature, Plants, Spring, YellowLeave a comment

One of the plants that appears in Spring, this is lesser Celandine. It has mid green shiny leaves and yellow and white daisy like flowers. This plant is one of the things that used to be on a website where people recorded when things appeared in the Spring, like butterflies, moths, flowers, tree blossom for example. It was a citizen science project. I don’t remember what it was called.

Lesser Celandine spreads by little bulbs (bulbils) that can stick to shoes or animals feet. It’s pretty, but if you get it in your garden it can spread like mad. I’m not sure if animals van eat it, it just looks cheery in Spring.

Water is blue

Posted on February 19, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Colour, Green, h2o, Ocean, Photo, Purple, Red, Sea, Sky, Water, YellowLeave a comment

How do i know the water is blue? Surely it’s transparent. But look at the sea. As you go deep into it you can see it stays blue until you go deep when it’s black. Then look at water at sunset. It stays blue even when the sky turns red doesn’t it? And in yellow white sunshine its very blue. Not green, not yellow, not red, not purple – Blue.

Finished beach painting?

Posted on January 28, 2023January 28, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Beach, Blue, Commission, Fine Art, Painting, Sea, Small painting, YellowLeave a comment

I think this is done. It’s a beach and sea scene viewed from above. I decided to put some rocks in the bottom right corner, but do they look OK? This had Bern sitting on my easle since before Christmas and I have only just felt well enough to try and finish it. I hope the person who commissioned it likes it.

Dahlia

Posted on January 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Childhood memories, Children, Colours, dahlias, Flowers, Green, growing up, Memories, Orange, Red, White, Yellow1 Comment

Reviewing old photos from a few years ago I came across some pictures of Dahlias. This one of a pompom Dahlia really resonated. I remembered my father used to grow them in the summer when I was a child. He had a whole patch of them, this shape and more shaggy ones. I remember I could see spirals in them. They were all different reds and oranges, whites and magenta and yellows. Striking against the green leaves and stems. They were in a small back garden and next to a pile of soil where we children would play ‘I’m the king of the castle get down you dirty rascak’ not sure how that worked except we competed to be at the top of the pile of soil…. Memories are random and come back infrequently. I just remember the Dahlias and sunshine.

Sunlight

Posted on December 10, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright colours, cast, Frozen, Light, Red, Shadows, Shapes, Sunlight, YellowLeave a comment

Shadows and woodchip wallpaper

Plant on the stairs

Casts it’s shape across

The textured swirls.

Reds and yellows tint

Shedding light askance

Hiding in plain sight.

Frozen frosting delight.

Going…

Posted on November 4, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Brown, Death, Fall, fallen, Gold, Leaves, Life, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, YellowLeave a comment

Yellow, gold and brown

All the leaves fall down

Fallen in a mound

As the wind whirls round

Rain streaks the windows

As the wild storm blows

Hail mixed into icy rain

Knocks more leaves down again

Time has ended for them now

Rotten, crumbled, so they go.

Autumn leaf

Posted on October 15, 2022October 16, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Ceratines, Chlorophyll, Green, Leaves, photosynthesis, red life, Spring, Xanythophil, YellowLeave a comment

Rain and wind are buffeting the trees. Slowly the chlorophyll comes out of the leaves and other coloured photosynthesis pigments remain. Xanthaphyl and Ceratines are some of these. They are the pigments that cause yellows and reds. They are the chemicals that transfer energy from sunlight and convert Carbon Dioxide and Water to sugars and Oxygen. The sugars feed the plants and the Oxygen helps supply the air that we breathe. If plants stopped providing Oxygen and sugar we would run out of Oxygen (21% in air) and the food we get from plants. They are essential for life. And if when the Nothern Hemisphere lost leaves in Autumn, the South didn’t have a Springtime we would be in trouble

Poppy and wheat sketch

Posted on September 14, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Blue, Drawing, Flower, Green, Idea, Life, Painting, Poppy, Red, Sketching, technique, wheat, YellowLeave a comment

Thinking of trying another idea for a painting. Wheat and poppy. Using red, blue green and yellow with thin black outlines. It would have to be stylized to fit in with the new technique I’m using but I don’t want to overdo it. I love the way poppy petals are shaped and coloured.

Love poppies

Posted on July 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Colours, Favourite, Orange, Poem, Poetry, Poppy, Red, rhymes, White, YellowLeave a comment

Poppies make me smile

They have real style

If I could put them in order

I love white ones with a red border.

I like himalayan blue

I wonder if you do too?

Welsh poppies are yellow

A colour that’s mellow…

Orange from Californian lands

Red sunshine, might grow on sands

But red are my favourite flower

They seem to have a great power.

To me they are iconic

And I’m not being ironic

The colour of Ruby lips

Red blood and rose hips…..

Horses from splodges

Posted on June 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on paper, Art, Blue, Design, Green, horse heads, Horses, Paint, Pareidolia, Red, Splodges, White, YellowLeave a comment

Horses are wonderful animals. They have such amazing characters. When I tried to find something in the matching splodges to the previous post I almost immediately found the large horse head. Then the other two emerged from the patterns. I just needed to add some white, green and yellow to differentiate between them.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Yellow