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Can we fix it…
21 May 2009

Can we fix it…

by stephen | posted in: Family | 0

Five years ago, this happened in our house at 2 o’clock in the morning… I found it and attempted to put the fire out, which as all good boy-scouts know, you should never do. There are people out there who … Continued

bob the builder, fire, fireman, ladder, Sawyer, stupid, Tracy, window

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So, after a 15 year break, it was time to revisit my beloved oil paints ๐Ÿ’—

This was done using Daler Rowney water based oils. I'd never used water based oils before. I'd also frowned upon them a wee bit, but these were surprising nice to use ๐Ÿ™‚

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Comments, likes, shares & subscribers are always welcomed ๐Ÿ’—


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Music: Someday
Musician: Alexander Delarge
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Samira Ahmed portrait with Steph
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Another portrait, more ink pen and more insanely complicated maps and collage ๐Ÿ™‚

'There's an Orchard Green in Avalon' - 2020

Ink, acrylic and collage on paper

42 x 30cm 

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All comments, likes, shares and subscribers are always welcomed ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—
Melanie Blatt portrait with Steph
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This week's sitter on the Sky Arts Artist of the Week show was DJ and presenter Nihal Arthanayake.

Decided to throw a bit more colour into this and to spend a lot more time planning the collage background.

"The Stars that light my Garden' - 2020

Ink, acrylic and collage on paper

42 x 30

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All comments, likes, shares and subscribers  are always welcomed ๐Ÿ’—
Nihal Arthanayake portrait with Steph
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One of my ink & collage portraits... This is another of the Sky Arts Artist of the Week  attempts, with sitter Annie Mac 

'Dรบn Laoghaire' - 2020

Ink, acrylic, pencil on music sheets and an old Irish map.

42 x 30cm 

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All comments, likes, shares and subscribers  are most welcome ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—
Annie Mac portrait with Steph
YouTube Video VVVXcVhGY3JqOG9RT3NmblVvV0JKQS1nLk1NZ3E2ODZKZ2Y0
Another of my ink & collage portrait videos. This time I decided to give a self portrait a go ๐Ÿ™‚ Always an interesting challenge...

"Still She Haunts me, Phantomwise" 2020

Ink, acrylic on collage 

42 x 30cm

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As always, any comments, likes or subscribers are most welcome ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—

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Music: Feel like that
Musician: Nordgroove
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Self portrait with Steph
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Another of my ink, acrylic and collage portraits and another of the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week challenges. This week's lovely sitter was Mary Beard, who was an absolute joy to draw ๐Ÿ™‚

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All comments, feedback, likes and subscribers are always most welcome ๐Ÿ’—

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Music: Fugetta
Musician: Ilya Truhanov
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Mary Beard portrait with Steph
YouTube Video VVVXcVhGY3JqOG9RT3NmblVvV0JKQS1nLjdMbHNBVGhmZURj
Here's a fun little craft activity to celebrate Pride month.

Materials needed are:

A4 paper
Pencil
Marker pen
Coloured pencils or crayons
Scissors 
Pencil rubber

Here's a link if you want to see what Pride flags are currently available...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_symbols

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Comments, questions, feedback and subscribers are always most welcome ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ’—
Pride flags with Steph
YouTube Video VVVXcVhGY3JqOG9RT3NmblVvV0JKQS1nLm9ZblFEbWgtZVRJ
This is craft activity which demonstrates how to make simple peg puppets and a theatre booth.

Equipment you'll need:

Card - Pencil - Eraser - Scissors - Glue - Pegs - Coloured pens, pencils etc - Some circular to draw around - Black fineliner pen.

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Any questions, comments, feedback, likes, subscribers all welcome ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—
Puppet theatre with Steph
YouTube Video VVVXcVhGY3JqOG9RT3NmblVvV0JKQS1nLnl1djJBUEFIVDgw
Another of my Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week challenges, with this week's lovely sitter Clare Balding. As with all of my others, this is done in ink pen & acrylic, on top of some appropriately found collage pieces...

A must point out that in my intro, I wasn't remotely implying that I'm not a fan of lovely Aine Devine's great artwork ๐Ÿ˜ฏ I was trying to say how awesome she was to watch ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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Any comments, likes, feedback, questions or subscribers are always greatly welcome ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—

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Music: Turismo
Musician: Spaceinvader
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Clare Balding Portrait with Steph
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2020 was rather a creative & productive year... P 2020 was rather a creative &  productive year... Portraits (lots of), collage, mixed media, a bit of sculpture and quite a few commissions ๐Ÿ™‚

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2 days 23 hours ago

Thanks to all who came to the first of my Zoom Portrait classes this morning ๐Ÿ™‚ Today we kicked off with the pros & cons of grids, measuring & checking, different ways of working and how crucial it is to look... Today was also the day my Internet decided to play up, my laptop fan decided to go really noisy and the unusually bright day made it really hard to see what I was actually drawing!!! Apart from that I think it all went swimmingly ๐Ÿค“

Here's my finished scribble of this week's portrait, with a slightly bigger forehead (a 4.5 head ๐Ÿค”) and glasses that aren't bang on accurate ๐Ÿ™‚

Feel free to share you own attempts if you'd like to. It's always nice to see how we've all done ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—

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1 week 3 days ago

Hello fellow arty friends. Don't panic, I'm not selling anything ๐Ÿค“

Basically I need to get a bit of feedback/input from as many local arty folk as I can. Today I spent ages trawling through my Facebook friends list for any local Derbyshire based arty people. I then added all of those people into a Messenger Group, but apparently Messenger has new European rules that currently prevent certain features from working ๐Ÿ™„ So I'm posting on here instead...

Last summer I worked on an arts project for Community Growth CIc -Arts, Heritage and environmental Education a Chesterfield Cultural Education Partnership organisation. We got talking after the project and they are really keen to support the arts as much as possible going forward, which is obviously really nice to hear. Especially in these barmy times. So I was tasked with the lovely job of gathering a bit of feedbackโ€ฆ

One possible way that was mentioned was a Facebook Page (or other such connectivity site) called something like Creative Collaborations. A place for artists, schools, cultural organisations etc to find each other, moot and share ideas and collaborate. What are your thoughts on this? Is it something you would engage in yourself? Does this already exist elsewhere? Do you have any other ideas for how we could support local creativity and culture in Chesterfield and surrounding areas?

So there you go. Have a think. Let me have any of your thoughts. Share with other local arty folk that I may not know. And many thanks for your time.

Steph
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