August 2019 – Creativity Everyday

Tetley Tea Folk

Posted on 29 August, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

A painting on a round teabag popped up in my Instagram feed recently. It was really well done: a dark background with a boat seen from above. Actually, I mentioned it before. It was the inspiration for my rowing boat...Read More

Needs Must

Posted on 24 August, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

Maybe it's the time of year (not my favourite, as I've explained previously). Or maybe it's just circumstances. Maybe both. My mind has been buzzing over the last week. Not always in a productive way. Sometimes art for me is...Read More

Currents

Posted on 21 August, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

Rivers scare me. In the 1960s, when I lived in Glenageary, a neighbour drowned in the river Shannon. I overheard a conversation that suggested that he was wearing wellingtons when he fell off his boat and that they sucked him...Read More

Bzzzzzzzz

Posted on 20 August, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

Doodling, Distractedly

Posted on 20 August, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

It's that 'back to school' time of year, when people take a deep breath, gird their loins and get ready for the return to term time routine. It's not my favourite time of year, to be honest. I love the...Read More

Atchoooooo! Echinacea.

Posted on 17 August, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

Not sure that this deserves its own post but it's getting one anyway. Echinacea flowers are distinctive, with their downward facing petals. Not that I would know them, to be honest, but Christine was able to name them when we...Read More

Catching Up. Sort of

Posted on 17 August, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

Over the years, we've kept a record of our summer holidays. Sometimes in scrap books, sometimes in photo albums, and there have been a few videos. Some of these items have been quite elaborate and they are lovely to look...Read More

New Toys

Posted on 15 August, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

But before I tell you about them, I did this. It's a copy of something I found on Pinterest, done in pencil in my notebook. It could be better but it's OK. I'll do it again, but better, in paint...Read More

Hmmm! Almost

Posted on 14 August, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

The art-related things I did when I was away on holiday were all quite structured. They were about trying to represent things on paper that I saw or saw and captured in a photograph. The stuff you'll see below is...Read More

Holliers

Posted on 13 August, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

I've been on me holliers with Christine. We flew to Vienna, spent a couple of days there, then cycled from Vienna to Budapest, via Bratislava, and had a few days extra in Budapest. We cycled 350k. The cycle generally followed...Read More