Category: Abilities
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Pastel Monster
Abstract, and not a pumpkin in sight. Mwahahaha! ATC-sized watercolour scribbling… expanded, of course. And poorly photographed. Perhaps you can see something else…?
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It’s About Time!

…and Naïve art. I learned a new phrase today, ‘Naïve art’. Basically it’s art created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist has, or art that is almost childlike. Being a big kid at heart, and only being trained so far in art, I feel I fall into…
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Starting Somewhere

I have just painted my first ever acrylic on canvas painting, at the grand old age of 24 (ahem). It’s rough and blocky and splotchy, but I quite like how it has turned out. The trees still need a bit of work, and I think I’ll need to paint out the stars as they do…
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‘Throomageddon is Nigh!

Already the subtle signs of chaos are seeping through. Spellchecker now needs to be told twice when to add a word to the dictionary. Once or twice every now and then is fine, but when you use words like I do, many a word is created and needs adding, and thus many a second can…
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Fakebeard: The Elf that didn’t Fit

Yes, I know it’s July, and we’re just on the other side of quite possibly the hottest heatwave since the dawn of time. And YES, I’m aware that we are entering into a hosepipe ban here in the North West of England even though we’ve had bucket loads of rain over the last couple of…