From churning sea green
It rises, ready to draw
thin black lines and blood
Monday, 14 July 2025
Sunday, 13 July 2025
Hidden
No sign of the birds
Gulls crying, magpies croaking
Empty sky, dense leaves and trees
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Now how do you paint a picture that's better than the photograph? One that includes the birds.
My first thought was to paint them into the picture, sort of hidden in foliage. So it would be less truthful in some ways bur more truthful in others.
I remember Le Petit Prince where the narrator draws a box with airholes and tells the prince that the sheep he requested was inside. That wouldn't work with the picture I have in mind because there are no words with it. And in any case, that was different because the reason the narrator drew the box rather than the sheep was because he couldn't do a good drawing of a sheep.
That may be true in this case, too, but the main reason for drawing them (and not in opaque boxes) is because the picture is supposed to represent a moment in time in a particular place. How do you show the birds are there? And even if you draw them in, how do you show that they are shrieking or singing or, in the case of magpies, croaking?
Show them with their mouths open? Is that the best that is possible? How about the gulls shrieking in mid air?
Saturday, 12 July 2025
Evening in July
We have a heatwave in the UK and there's a breeze in Hastings so the weather has been glorious.
Roses and gernaiums shed bright red petals on to the veranda. There is tennis at Wimbledon with strawberries & cream (apparently they've attempted strawberry sandwiches this year but without much success) and people are splashing about in the sea.
All this while the US cracks apart and the danger of civil war increases, while people queuing for food in Gaza get shot and Russia keeps on bombing the Ukraine. Misery beyond belief in so many places.
Here it is peaceful ..... for now.
Saturday, 5 November 2022
Bonfire Night
Walked about in the rain and eventually found a new hairdresser called Kadrie. She had a lovely smile and was good at her job so I left feeling happy.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty
Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Dreaming of drawing
It's so long since I posted but this morning I'm waiting for a new laptop - one that I can draw on. I've sold several things on Ebay so that I can buy this but I'm not sure that it will be OK.
Falling Apples
Whoops - that's something I drew a long time ago - not on a computer screen. Will look for something I've drawn digitally.
Yes, that's one - Two Heads - also from a long time ago.
I've chosen an Acer Spin 3 - 14 inches! A giant for one who loves small things. It has a Wacom pen.
It's good to draw in the spaces between the writing.
Thursday, 18 February 2021
Don't want another dad!
Lame Crow Press is offering a discounted deal on Bk 2 in the Daniela Hoffman series. It's The Third Father.
I thought about this and it applies to me - not the story in The Third Father - but to my life. The dad who brought me up was the one who adopted me. He was my real father. I knew there would be a biological father somewhere but I never did want another dad. When I was little, my dad cycled as fast as he could to bring me ice creams before they melted. He worked hard his whole life to look after me and never asked for anything in return.
Monday, 15 February 2021
Daughter has a secret
in case you missed previous offerrs for this book.
THIS IS BOOK 1 IN THE DANIELA HOFFMAN SERIES.
WATCH OUT FOR DISCOUNTED DOWNLOADS ON BOOKS 2 AND 3 COMING VERY SOON.
Monday, 25 January 2021
What is purity? Read about Pure Dani.
You can read Pure Dani: love in another country for free on KU or just £1.99 for the ebbok, £6.99 paperback . This is book 3 in the Daniela Hoffman series set in Papua New Guinea. It's a coming of age story.
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