Category: Random
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Ghost Town
The streets are silent The lights are out The place is abandoned No shadow of a doubt Gone are the squabbles The laughter and the joy Replaced by just echoes And the odd rumbling noise The land, it is sinking Deep beneath the waves Although now it is standing It will be gone within days…
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Sometimes, odd things happen
Indeed. Normally, every Monday morning at 10am the air raid siren goes off. Absolutely diabolical noise it makes, which sends chills beneath my skin and fills me with dread. Awful. I can imagine how fearful it sounded when it was actually needed, but nowadays I think it’s just sounded to test it. During the 1970s,…
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The Wednesday Wordcloud: Hastily Cobbled Together
The bat and the ape fought tooth and claw Fancy footwork Made them both fly like flutterbys – Almost
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Mars
Inspired by Laura during last month’s World Watercolour Month, I wanted to have a go at painting on texture. Now, I know that I haven’t got painting on a flat surface down to a tee yet, but that’s only details. Off I went to the art shop and bought myself a tub of texture paste.…
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Up, Up, and Away…!
#WorldWatercolorMonth Day Thirty A VERY quick painting for today, using only two colours: blue and white (although the white isn’t very clear!) As my head is currently up in the clouds, that was the inspiration for this painting. I wanted to do clouds, which I did by painting and then dabbing the paint off. So…
The Mansionic Perspective 