tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367616382024-02-19T12:21:32.087+00:00It's Not Always RainingThe Further Adventures of TwoIfBySeaTwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.comBlogger546125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-38014983019416816392017-07-02T15:55:00.002+01:002017-07-02T15:55:48.588+01:00SchadenfraudeWhen you discover the one thing you thought about yourself wasn't true and all along it was the other person. It is enough to make you want to run through the streets singing at the top of your voice.
By the by, how disappointing that the official video for this song is not on YouTube.TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-26029663713192914022017-06-25T23:09:00.001+01:002017-06-25T23:09:29.110+01:00Just SurvivingI am still not out the other side yet, I've had to make some tough decisions this past couple of weeks thanks to things not really working out for me. Dark days make it harder to see the dawn, I'm not there yet.
Things I have learned:
I am too soft. I happily support others yet when all I ask is for a little hello, a share, a like, I get nothing.
I hate being a "businesswoman" although ITwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-71058031799204404312017-03-05T19:03:00.000+00:002017-03-05T19:03:03.346+00:00February DoneAlready a sizable bite has been taken out of March and it's another busy month ahead. In the chaos I forgot to say goodbye to February so here we are -
Edith Holden
Rie Cramer
Alphonse Mucha - 1899
TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-49261120041297528362017-03-02T17:43:00.000+00:002017-03-02T17:43:08.301+00:00Dream Interpreters - Interpret This!First a whinge. Bought a shiny, red apple coloured new car. Lovely. Went to pick it up, alas there is a problem with it. This doesn't bode well and I knew I shouldn't have gone to that dealership but as self-employed (credit cliff edge) I didn't have much choice. This is why people drink.
Anyway, onto the dream which, ten hours after waking up, I can still remember really well. It's too bizarre TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-17755979596662197602017-02-26T17:55:00.001+00:002017-02-26T17:55:47.240+00:00Normal Service Will Resume...You Know The ScoreThis last week has been an education in stress levels. In other words, if my hair wasn't dyed purple it would no doubt have gone completely grey.
I'm behind on my art project, I can't afford those lovely, relaxing moments with my pad and paints. And it's very telling how much those stolen moments have meant to me. With that in mind...
I'm going to keep using these prompts. They are TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-16206985440032636182017-02-20T20:19:00.004+00:002017-02-20T20:19:33.122+00:00Another Little Bunch of Sketches - Day 17-20It seems to be working, uploading a few at a time. So here we are again, let's go.
Day 17 - Shells
Oops, missed the plural, so just shell then. I have dozens of shells, collected from all over Scotland, whenever I visit a beach I look out for interesting shells and sea glass. It makes for a happy day. Simple things and all.
I had difficulty in trying to make the shadows not look as though TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-6850851680417559382017-02-16T17:17:00.005+00:002017-02-16T17:17:42.493+00:00Play Stopped By ColdMy darling youngest son kindly passed on his nasty cold to me so this week has mostly been spent with a cough that makes me sound like a barking seal and battling against a river of snot.
Nice.
Again, updates are a few days at once. Some better than others, it's calming to paint when you know you should be working but can't because stringing more than a few words together is impossibleTwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-30717405545735851532017-02-14T19:00:00.000+00:002017-02-14T19:00:22.912+00:00It's That Day
by Stewart Bremner, buy this and his other artworks here
TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-43764264225316438492017-02-12T19:33:00.000+00:002017-02-12T19:34:37.663+00:00Seven to ElevenI did forewarn this challenge with the disclaimer that I would mostly be doing quick watercolour sketches and not to expect much. That has come true. So here we go with the dodgy and skew-whiff -
Day Seven - Bone
Oh, see what I did here, the prompt was bone and I painted a bone china cup and saucer. (At least I think it's bone china, I wouldn't know the difference. It's from my TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-33728545911651172182017-02-06T20:06:00.000+00:002017-02-06T20:06:58.260+00:00Day Six - Bees!TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-44032518823922662772017-02-05T13:56:00.001+00:002017-02-05T19:30:17.794+00:00Day Five - Landscapes
(Hint: when taking photos of somewhere try to write down the location. It's always helpful.)
I think if I worked on this a little more it might actually be okay.
TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-41020759246619015402017-02-04T19:47:00.000+00:002017-02-04T19:47:03.253+00:00Day Three (sort of) and Day Four #Worldwatercolorgroup Challenge - FebruaryFirst the easy one:
Day Four - Fruit
Bonus, you get to eat the subject afterwards. Not always the case, especially if you're a portrait artist. This was fun. Note to self - sketch more fruit. Then eat it.
The reason I skipped Day Three? The prompt was "fossil", now I could be a jolly japester and paint an old person but I'm trying to be polite. We do have one fossil, for the life of me, ITwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-14719022793294605952017-02-02T15:57:00.000+00:002017-02-02T15:58:17.654+00:00A Twofer - Day One and Two of Watercolour ChallengeDay One - Sea Life
And the sharp eyed will notice the use of pastel in what is supposed to be a watercolour challenge but it's my painting so "ner"! This was a lot of fun to do. It didn't start off as a seal, I had a play around with the background without a formal plan of what would happen. I did think it would end up as a landscape of some form. But I do love seals, from watching the TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-24884970450166750512017-01-31T21:00:00.000+00:002017-01-31T21:00:01.352+00:00Goodbye JanuaryUsually, January is a slow, seemingly endless grey month. Not this year, this year will go down in history, hopefully not as a precursor to the awful events that follow but as a warning.
So that was January.
Edith Holden
Elsa Beskow
Rie Cramer
TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-81097307110428113132017-01-29T23:10:00.000+00:002017-01-29T23:10:12.048+00:00Still Life
Two Servings | Jaye Schlesinger | Elliot Fouts Gallery
Diarmuid Kelly
Kleine stapeling II - Ingrid Smuling
Flour, Egg and Sugar Bowl
TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-62538540011587651422017-01-28T22:54:00.000+00:002017-01-28T22:54:15.044+00:00Starting WednesdayMy only artistic outlet at the moment seems to be hours of browsing wonderful images on Pinterest and as lovely and comforting as that is it's not a patch on actually creating.
I miss the art class only because for two hours all I concentrated on was the painting or pastel or sketch in front of me. Being in that creative bubble was extremely healthy but I can't switch off enough to replicate TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-46109939284031441002017-01-25T18:56:00.000+00:002017-01-25T18:56:00.418+00:00Burn's NightAnd in lieu of haggis, neeps and tatties, this seems appropriate.
A Man's A Man For A' That
1795Type: SongTune: For a' that.
Is there for honest PovertyThat hings his head, an' a' that;The coward slave-we pass him by,We dare be poor for a' that!For a' that, an' a' that.Our toils obscure an' a' that,The rank is but the guinea's stamp,The Man's the gowd for a' that.What TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-77257262778150360382017-01-24T21:22:00.004+00:002017-01-24T21:22:55.114+00:00Vulpes Vulpes
The Way Through the Woods - Hester Cox
Uuju aka Paula (Finland) -Kesakettu (The Summer Fox) from the Fox series, 2012
Hello, Mr Fox - Belle and Boo
Too soon perhaps
Photo by groene_inkt on Flickr
Un ami pour Lucas
Photo by _bobi + bobi on Flickr
TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-25108901430174919322017-01-21T18:11:00.002+00:002017-01-21T18:16:37.551+00:00When They Go Low, You Go HighSo said Michelle Obama during the presidential campaign that, despite highlighting Trump's worst behaviours, saw him crowned as president. And yesterday saw his inauguration in Washington D.C.
There was a bit of a difference from when Obama became president, just a teensy, weensy bit.
It was the weather that kept the crowds away...or they forgot....or....
His equally abhorrent VP - Pence,TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-17118615374073705672017-01-13T20:25:00.000+00:002017-01-13T20:25:32.903+00:00Friday 13thIt wasn't the mad masked man, Jason Voorhees, who showed up to ruin the day but my own bad penny version. I wish I was strong enough not to let it turn me upside down but I guess I never will be. The worst part is that it worked it's way between Eldest son and so I sit tonight with a gut-wrenching sadness.
At times like this, I feel adrift, that I wish it would end. Even though I'm aware of how TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-57927700108853966552017-01-11T15:31:00.000+00:002017-01-13T20:26:01.108+00:00It's Cold and JanuaryYou would think that being a winter month hints at the temperature to expect but thanks to mild winters caused by climate change (oh, yes) we've been lulled into a comfortable laziness over the cold.
And it does feel colder today than it has for a while. And I hear people in the shop today moan at how chilly it is. It's been just over six years since scenes like this stretched from November TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-45507957753195934302017-01-09T17:27:00.001+00:002017-01-11T15:32:23.801+00:00Green Woodpecker ~ Charles F Tunnicliffe
Familiar to anyone fortunate enough to own vintage Ladybird books or to those old enough to have read the originals, Charles Tunnicliffe illustrations brought each subject to life.
He was much more than the illustrator of children's stories, as wonderful and inspiring as those little books were. Born in Macclesfield, England in 1901 he studied at the school of art there before winning a TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-55905484645937568132017-01-07T23:08:00.002+00:002017-01-07T23:08:23.220+00:00Of all the things to come across during a browse on YouTube but one which features a very brief glimpse of little me. It's very strange to see but I remember my mother (who took the photo) talking of local historian and film-maker, Eddie Smith, wanting a copy of the photograph which graced the wall of our living room and now is probably tucked up somewhere in my attic.
We lived in the little TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-25212760736371314542017-01-01T17:03:00.000+00:002017-02-06T19:59:10.415+00:00A New Year Resolution
Gilmorehill in Snow (circa 1930) by Tom Maxwell, Scottish, 1870-1940
Yes, I know, resolutions are a bad idea but bear with me.
Every day I want to do something creative, even if it's only sharing someone else's talent (in fact that's possibly the better idea). I have an entire Pinterest board...okay, several, full of inspiring images. This world is going to be difficult andTwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36761638.post-47499206442282831612016-12-31T22:00:00.000+00:002017-01-01T00:47:11.809+00:00Hogmanay 2016Gone is another tough year in what seems like an endless parade of tough years. Perhaps 2017 will be better (remembers Trump and Brexit), perhaps not.
Before Rabbie Burns wrote "Auld Lang Syne", before it became the go-to song to sing as Hogmanay made way for the new year there was this -
The Parting Glass is still widely sung in Ireland apparently, or at least in this video it is. That's TwoIfBySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274312492104059952noreply@blogger.com0