New paintings and regular art updates.
Playing with symmetry and light. The green is from an aurora a few months ago, the orange is from light reflected off the fence outside the kitchen window at night. I liked framing it in a circle, it looks like I’m zooming in on the centre of the space and it’s fuzzy enough to indicate movement. I like exploring ways of creating art and images. You don’t always know what to expect.
Who would you like to talk to soon?
I don’t get to speak to some people often enough. My sisters live away from here, miles away, so I’ve got to talk to them over the phone, or on the Internet. It’s the same as being on a zoom call, still friendly but no hugs. I get to see one of them occasionally.
I know I have lots of friends, but I still isolate myself when I’m feeling down. Certain things like choir cheer me up but it’s still a big effort and when I’ve had a shaky day like today it’s just hard to reach out. I don’t want to impose on them. I wish my cats could speak, what gems would they pass on? I imagine the words feed me would come up frequently!
Who are your favorite people to be around?
So lucky to have many friends. I admit they have had to put up with a lot from me lately and I appreciate every minute they have given to me.
For the first time in 63 years I was on my own in December last year. Without those friends I don’t know if I would still have been here.
Time moves on and you lose track of people, trying to find them again hurts when they just seem to have vanished. But I have managed to track some of them down through Facebook (whatever happened to “friends reunited”?)
I hope we maintain some of those interrupted friendships. Covid didn’t help, although Zoom meetings made life a bit easier, but I’m glad not to do them anymore. X
Take a dried up, broad nib, calligraphy felt pen. Start drawing, watch as the view changes because the line up of images moves when you have the songsheet with the words displayed. Try and sing and draw at the same time! It’s hard to look down at your sketchbook, up at the words, and across to your fellow choir members. I challenged them to try and recognise themselves from these crude sketches.
Today is Stoke Sings Festival 2021. Over a hundred singers have got together virtually on Zoom and are singing together (muted sadly, it’s not possible to sync the sound). #ssf21 is the hashtag and I’ve posted a couple of drawings here of the workshop leaders as they taught us…
I am singing in a zoom meeting choir so I decided to try and draw myself singing.
Black calligraphy pen in my cartridge paper sketchbook. Concentrating on learning the words, singing, and drawing is hard!
#bandofsketchers prompt was corners and as I was in another Zoom, why not draw the corners of the computer? It’s a quick sketch and I didn’t do a good portrait. I also got the date wrong, should read 16.2.21, x
I’ve got an old song in my head and I can think of words to modernise it..apologies to the original writers…
“we’re all going on a zoom tomorrow, zoom tomorrow, zoom tomorrow, we’re all going on a zoom tomorrow, you can come along too…
We’re going on a Zoom, zoom, zoom,
We’re meeting on a Zoom, zoom zoom,
You can come too, too too. We’re meeting on a zoom…..
We’re all getting loo paper tomorrow, loo paper tomorrow, loo paper tomorrow.
We’re all getting loo paper tomorrow.
You can come shopping too.
Were going to the shop shop shop, yes we’re going to the shop shop shop..
You can come too too too. We’re going to the shop..
We’re all getting the flu tomorrow, flu tomorrow, flu tomorrow, we’re all getting the flu tomorrow,
You can get it too,
We’re getting the flu, flu flu, you can get it too too too, we’re getting the flu flu flu,
You can catch it too, too too.
We’re not getting Covid tomorrow, covid tomorrow, covid tomorrow, we’re not getting covid tomorrow, because we’ve had the jab!
How about you, you you?
You can have a jab too too too..
How about you you you?
Stay safe too too too!
Looking out of the screen, sad eyes, sad mouth. Playing with textures can change how we view an image. Somehow most of the face is similar to the background, but the eyes and mouth are less distorted. But the nose seems to de disappearing…
Singing on. Zoom
Out of tune
Don’t try singing
Together
You endup
Outof
Timewith
One
An
Other!
Mallaband-Brown