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Workshop

Post author By inkdropk
Post date 14 Apr 2022
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Photo by Lisa Fotios on Pexels.com

A response to Scott Coe’s #Syntax Poetry Festival Prompt

You can’t call it a school

I don’t see blackboards, I don’t see books

Drills , Hammers and Saws make up the look

creative types – making things from wood

or metal and plastic – if they think they should

learning the skills of a noble craft

creating hooks for the cloakrooms in th’aft

what is the achievement ? summat to hang on the wall

something flashy and colourful – for a designer to call

and designed and created in appropriate time

and housed in a home – something flashy, sublime

Tags Arts, cloakroom, Crafts, Creative, design, Drills, Hammers, hooks, Learning, Metalwork, Napowrimo, Plastics, Saws, Skills, Syntax, Woodwork

Arts Poetry

Art in Glass

#Art #Stained Glass #Marble

Hummingbird (Marbled Stained Glass) by inky

The hot molten glass

found its way around each

leaden nook and cranny

not what you would call

your average coloured glass

tones mingled past lead

colours falling through

the cut panels of crystal

painting floor patterns

Movement by Sunshine

makes the bird in the wired glass

look as it takes off

Tags Art, Arts, Bird, Flight, Glass, Lead, octpowrimo, Poetry, Stained, Window

Acrostic Poetry

Hand-Made Gift

#Napowrimo #Gift

20th April 2020

stained glass window by Inky

A gift from the heart, that’s what it is

Really – the monetary value is – irrelevant

Time and care has gone into the creation

Specially made for you

Crafted colourfully and with great thought

Really great to look at, when its in front of the light

As the sun passes through each

Fixed piece of painted glass

Then casting up , down or straight ahead

Something the sun provides

Tags Art, Artisan, Arts, Crafts, Gift, Glass, Hand-Made, Metalwork, Napowrimo, Pottery, stained glass, Woodwork

Architecture Buildings Heritage IWM North Museums

Landmarks

Post author By inkdropk
Post date 30 Jun 2017
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Salford,30th June 2017

Hi folks.

The prompt for today’s post comes from a strange source – in that its not technological at all – it’s the humble letterbox.

Aside from my scribbles – and photography – I am a keen philatelist – or stamp collector.

There’s a reason for this – the pictures give me a source of inspiration in my own writing and photography, and the information contained within give me impetus to explore the world around me.

To avoid the fidgety nature of hanging the mini pics in an album – I get first day covers, which have an added bonus of having a cancellation (or postmark) with a connection to the subject matter.

Todays missive, however – brought a smile to my face

The forthcoming issue – Landmark Buildings has a stamp subject I’ve become very familiar with over the past few years

Yes, the iconic branch of the Imperial War Museum in the North, where I help out as a volunteer, has found its way onto a Royal Mail First Day Cover.

It joins other iconic landmarks such as the Everyman theatre in nearby Liverpool and the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff.

Tags Architecture, Art Centres, Arts, Buildings, First Day Covers, IWM North, Landmarks, Stamps

Arts BASIC Holidays Photography

Arts and Crafts

As you know, if you’ve followed this blog – I’ve been going to the Brain and Spinal Injury Centre in Salford to aid my recovery.

As part of this I’ve engaged in Photography and Arts Classes run by the local College at the centre.

The photography class still continues – despite a change in provision at the centre – and its allowed me to run free with my new digital camera – its a bridge camera from Sony – and does a great job for what I want it to do

Penny_Farthing_Ordinary_Coventry_Transport_Museum

You may have seen one or two of these before – liberally dropped around the stories on my blog, covering themes of Christmas to the Outdoors.

Tags Arts, Camera, Christmas, Holidays, Photography

Animals Art Arts Photography

The Wabbits have landed

A number of Large rabbits have landed on Salford Quays.

Its all to do with a digital lightshow taking place on the quayside,

entitled ‘lightwaves’ – the aim of the show is to animate the spaces around Mediacity and the surrounding piazzas. (for English purists: I can’t call it a Square – Its Round!)

There’s an interactive artwork opposite the Lowry, which changes colour as you pass the columns of light it creates.

The rabbits will be staying around for Christmas, and on first impression people, big or small – seem to like them!

Tags Arts, Lights, Lightshow, Lightwaves, Mediacity, Photography, rabbit, Rabbits, Salford, Wabbit, Wabbits

Art Gallery Arts Canalside History Media Museum Photography Studios Theatre Waterside

Out with the Samsung

SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES

Shots of the Mediacity & Quayside taken on a Walkabout of the Quays in Salford. Camera used was my Samsung WB-250…the one I use as a backup for Panoramic Shots.