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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
Engage brain before inflating…
22 Apr 2009

Engage brain before inflating…

by stephen | posted in: Family | 0

Otherwise you’ll end up with this monster in your back room… And then, by the time you’ve squeezed the bloody thing through your house and into the garden, you’ll have no more pictures hanging on your walls and quite a … Continued

bouncy castle, brain, Engage, Inflation, stupid

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

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 πŸ™‚

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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 πŸ™‚

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

Ink, acrylic and collage on paper

42 x 30cm 

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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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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 

'DΓΊn Laoghaire' - 2020

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

42 x 30cm 

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Annie Mac portrait with Steph
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Another of my ink & collage portrait videos. This time I decided to give a self portrait a go πŸ™‚ Always an interesting challenge...

"Still She Haunts me, Phantomwise" 2020

Ink, acrylic on collage 

42 x 30cm

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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 πŸ™‚

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Music: Fugetta
Musician: Ilya Truhanov
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Mary Beard portrait with Steph
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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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Pride flags with Steph
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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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Puppet theatre with Steph
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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 😯 I was trying to say how awesome she was to watch πŸ˜ƒπŸ’—πŸ˜ƒ

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Musician: Spaceinvader
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Clare Balding Portrait with Steph
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UK trans female, gin loving, fine artist 🎨
Occasional writer, casual photographer and wannabe chef
Happily married to my soul mate πŸ’–

Stephanie SiΓ’n Coley
Much love to all of the amazing, lovely & inspirat Much love to all of the amazing, lovely & inspirational women I share my life with πŸ’—πŸ™‚πŸ’—

#internationalwomensday 

(67/365)

#photoadaychallenge #women #female #love
Sunday stroll... πŸ• (66/365) #photoadaychallen Sunday stroll... πŸ•

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#photoadaychallenge
Poncy Saturday grub again... Spiced crusted bream, Poncy Saturday grub again... Spiced crusted bream, coconut masala, tandoori crushed potatoes & chapati πŸ’—πŸ™‚πŸ’—

Decided that, Covid permitting, we really must get this Coley's Supper Club up and running this year πŸ™‚

Watch this space...

(65/365)

#photoadaychallenge #curry #homecooked #homecooking #food #poncygrub #supperclub
Another day at the Ram painting HQ with my lovely Another day at the Ram painting HQ with my lovely fellow Ram painting chum @paintingtheroom πŸ’—

Today I finally got to physically meet up with my sponsors @timms_solicitors

So nice to meet up and chat with you πŸ™‚ 

The Ram is inching ever closer to being finished... Just a bit of tidying up next week and hopefully I'll be done πŸ˜€

@sharonjefferywhite @derbyramtrail @derbymuseums 

(64/365)

#photoadaychallenge #derby #derbyrams #theramsarecoming #derbyramtrail #wildinart #sculpture #ramtrail #ramsculpture #art #painting #sculpture
The Bungo πŸ•πŸ•πŸ• (63/365) #photoadaychalle The Bungo πŸ•πŸ•πŸ•

(63/365)

#photoadaychallenge #springerspaniel #dogs
Paints, brushes, pens and...... CAKES πŸŽ‚ (62/36 Paints, brushes, pens and...... CAKES πŸŽ‚

(62/365)

#photoadaychallenge
Sparkly 🀩 (61/365) #photoadaychallenge Sparkly 🀩

(61/365)

#photoadaychallenge
Today's Ram painting was largely a fun day fiddlin Today's Ram painting was largely a fun day fiddling πŸŽ»πŸβš™

@derbyramtrail @derbymuseums @timms_solicitors @sharonjefferywhite 

(60/365)

#photoadaychallenge #derby #derbyrams #theramsarecoming #derbyramtrail #wildinart #sculpture #ramtrail #ramsculpture #art #painting
Today's far from leisurely dog walk had my hand ya Today's far from leisurely dog walk had my hand yanked through a metal fence (thanks dog!!!) so I'm now minus a bit of skin on my fingers 😬 I then fell over into mud, in front of a family having a picnic (thanks dog!!!)

Back home I then grabbed a metal tray that had come straight from the oven 😳 Fortunately it was with the same hand I'd injured earlier, so I had a lot less skin to blister πŸ˜„

May be time for bed 😴😴😴

(59/365)

#photoadaychallenge #ashiteday
Full Snow Moon with the 18:45 Chesterfield to Alfr Full Snow Moon with the 18:45 Chesterfield to Alfreton train 

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#photoadaychallenge #snowmoon #fullmoon
Week 2 of my Ram painting done. Inching slowly clo Week 2 of my Ram painting done. Inching slowly closer to the finish... Thanks for keeping me entertained @paintingtheroom πŸ’—

Next week will be a lot less blue and I'll get to finally meet my sponsors @timms_solicitors
& @sharonjefferywhite πŸ™‚

@derbyramtrail

#art #ramtrail #ramsculpture #derby #derbyrams #theramsarecoming #derbyramtrail #wildinart #sculpture #painting
Turns out I can use other colours that aren't blue Turns out I can use other colours that aren't blue 😳😳😳

@derbyramtrail
@timms_solicitors
@sharonjefferywhite @derbymuseums 

(57/365)

#photoadaychallenge #derby #derbyrams #theramsarecoming #derbyramtrail #wildinart #sculpture #ramtrail #ramsculpture #art #painting #sculpture #red #notblue
Another cryptic Ram painting photo... This is basi Another cryptic Ram painting photo... This is basically what my dreams look like right now πŸ˜€ Tomorrow I may go a little crazy and use a paint that isn't blue 😳

@derbyramtrail @derbymuseums @timms_solicitors @sharonjefferywhite 

(56/365)

#photoadaychallenge #derby #derbyrams #theramsarecoming #derbyramtrail #wildinart #sculpture #ramtrail #ramsculpture #art #blue #boredofblue
Another day Ram painting and another sneaky little Another day Ram painting and another sneaky little peek photo... 

@derbyramtrail @wildinart @sharonjefferywhite @timms_solicitors 

(55/365)

#photoadaychallenge #derby #derbyrams #theramsarecoming #derbyramtrail #wildinart #sculpture #ramtrail #ramsculpture #art #painting
On the day I get my rejection email from the Portr On the day I get my rejection email from the Portrait Artist of the Year show πŸ™„ my pic of the day today is a small selection of my portrait work πŸ˜ƒ

As a sensitive, delicate little artist, you kinda have two choices when rejection comes through... Let it get you down or let it motivate you further. Today I'm going with the latter πŸ’—πŸ™‚πŸ’— If the Arts Council say no to my recent application in a few weeks I may struggle to be quite so positive...

I didn't want to go to London anyway πŸ€“

(54/365)

#photoadaychallenge #art #portrait #ink #inkpen #drawing #portraits #portraitartist #artwork #collage
Another fun and productive day in the @derbyramtra Another fun and productive day in the @derbyramtrail painting space with the lovely @paintingtheroom πŸ’—πŸπŸ’—

The Ram is getting there slowly...

@sharonjefferywhite @timms_solicitors 
@derbymuseums 

(53/365)

#photoadaychallenge #derby #derbyrams #theramsarecoming #derbyramtrail #wildinart #sculpture #ramtrail #ramsculpture #art #painting #cake
The bouncy hound 🐢🐢🐢 (52/365) #photoada The bouncy hound 🐢🐢🐢

(52/365)

#photoadaychallenge #springerspaniel
A Ram free painting day, so a trans update post op A Ram free painting day, so a trans update post opportunity...

I'll keep it brief πŸ€“ HRT is still going great. Regular 10 weekly  blood tests have been shifted to every 6 months, as my levels are all grand, which means a lot less needles πŸ˜€ Another paid for Gender Care appointment in April, probably via Zoom. As for free NHS treatment... Well, still no initial gender clinic appointment. Over three years I've been waiting so far πŸ™„ Checked tonight and due to lovely Covid the current NHS gender clinic waiting times have risen to 44 months πŸ˜ƒ You kinda have to laugh, otherwise you'd get stupidly and probably dangerously depressed πŸ’—πŸ’—πŸ’—
(51/365)

#photoadaychallenge #transgender #transition #gender #female #nhs #genderclinic #
Four days of Ram painting done... The next time I Four days of Ram painting done... The next time I do one of these sculptures, can someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me not to include circles, cogs or elipses in my design βš™πŸ˜΅πŸͺπŸŒŽ

@derbyramtrail
@sharonjefferywhite
@timms_solicitors

(50/365)

#photoadaychallenge #rams #ramtrail #ramsculpture #derbyrams #derbymuseums #theramsarecoming #painting #sculpture #wildinart #art #artist #circles #cogs #elipses #complicated
Another Ram day, more cogs βš™ more cake @painting Another Ram day, more cogs βš™ more cake @paintingtheroom πŸ™‚ some much needed heat in the painting space 🌞 and a splash of colour 🐏

@derbyramtrail @sharonjefferywhite
@timms_solicitors

(49/365)

#photoadaychallenge #derby #derbyrams #theramsarecoming #derbyramtrail #wildinart #sculpture #ramtrail #derbymuseum #derbymuseums #art #artist #cogs #cake #heat
Day two of my Ram was largely a cog day βš™βš™βš™ Day two of my Ram was largely a cog day βš™βš™βš™

@derbyramtrail @sharonjefferywhite 

(48/365)

#photoadaychallenge #derby #derbyrams #rams #ramsculpture #theramsarecoming #art #painting #sculpture #wildinart #artwork #artist
I've waited almost a year to get my hands on my @d I've waited almost a year to get my hands on my @derbyramtrail Ram... Felt really good to actually get some paint on it πŸ™‚

@sharonjefferywhite @timms_solicitors

(47/365)

#derby #rams #derbyrams #theramsarecoming #ramtrail #ramsculpture #wildinart #art #sculpture #artist
One happy 14 year old 😎 Happy happy birthday S One happy 14 year old 😎

Happy happy birthday Sawyer πŸ’—

Massive apologies lovely neighbours 😬

(46/365)

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Frozen ❄❄❄ (45/365) #photoadaychallenge #f Frozen ❄❄❄

(45/365)

#photoadaychallenge #frozen
Poncy monkfish & prawn masala kebabs, plus a few g Poncy monkfish & prawn masala kebabs, plus a few gins with the lovely wifey πŸ’—πŸ’—πŸ’—

Early Valentines loveliness πŸ™‚

(44/365)

#photoadaychallenge #homecooked
#homecooking #fish #curry
Happy New Year... 新年快乐 πŸ‚ 牛 (43/365 Happy New Year...

新年快乐

πŸ‚ 牛

(43/365)

#photoadaychallenge #chinesenewyear
A day that began with a bathroom leak and water pi A day that began with a bathroom leak and water pissing through our kitchen ceiling πŸ™„ I'm shite in the morning and struggle to make breakfast most days, let alone do plumbing!!! 

A day with lots of swearing at our temperamental boiler, who we've now renamed Rhymes With (its a Tin Star reference πŸ˜„)

A day with a walk in near Baltic conditions πŸ₯Ά I seriously hate the cold weather.

A day with a job rejection email πŸ™„ Oh well, their loss.

A day with a hefty art commission rejection email πŸ™„ Oh well, saves me some money on paint and petrol to Leicester.

A day being humped by our rather randy dog everytime I even look at him 😡

I've had better days...

A day that will end with wine and some RuPaul πŸ’—πŸ™‚πŸ’—

(42/365)

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Another portrait day... Trying to work rough, to a Another portrait day... Trying to work rough, to avoid detail, to not fiddle... Which is damn hard when you're a massive fiddler πŸ˜ƒπŸŽ»πŸ˜€

(40/365)

#photoadaychallenge #art #portrait #pastel #colour
Prints πŸ‘£πŸ‘£πŸ‘£ (39/365) #photoadaychallenge Prints πŸ‘£πŸ‘£πŸ‘£

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Cold πŸ₯Ά (38/365) #photoadaychallenge Cold πŸ₯Ά 

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Zoom, gins, friends and a 'horn of plenty' πŸ’“πŸ˜€πŸ’—

(37/365)

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Stephanie SiΓ’n Coley - Fine Artist

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Week 2 of my Mixed Media Zoom class this week... No nasty perspective this week, no straight lines and no watercolour πŸ™‚ All foxy, furry and pastel 🦊

I'll probably get my version finished and posted on here later in the week. But as always, do feel free to add your own finished artwork onto this post πŸ™‚

Fiddly pen & ink next week I'm thinking πŸ€”

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Stephanie SiΓ’n Coley - Fine Artist

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Start of another run of Zoom Portrait classes this week... Week 1 and we had this rather chiselled photo to work from...

I'll post my finished pencil sketch onto here tomorrow. If people in the class want to share their attempts, please feel free to add a photo into the comments πŸ’—πŸ™‚πŸ’—

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