Paper

#fowc #paper pulped and rolled out wood chip a marvellous media to receive the pens contents even if the colour is red , blue, yellow or green

#fowc #trash The amount of Rubbish heading for An underground site is (believe it or not) Shrinking day by day – thanks to Helpful bin collectors They’ve separated the paper, plastic and glass Recycling them into new materials And Stainless Steel and Aluminium is Separated out before being melted down and Headed back to theContinue reading “Trash”

Cash

#Fowc #Cash I remember as a kid collecting the copper coins in an old tea caddy Ten penny chocolate drops your average spend for a little lads pocket sweets switched for comic books saving enamel for copper and a weeks reading funnies Hello Mister Twenty Pence Farewell Mr Pound Note Miss Shiny Pound has ArrivedContinue reading “Cash”

Recycling

Salford, 14th August 2019 Someone at the depot, didn’t really Enjoy the manual extraction of Paper , Metal , Plastics and Glass As they passed him by on the conveyor belt Reaction ? swift as bright coloured cousins joined the usual receptacle And Markets created to conjure household rubbish by the Tonne, into something muchContinue reading “Recycling”

Recycling

Wednesday 13th February They put the bins out last night The value of last weeks news dropped dramatically As it waits for the refuse van To take it to the paper mill While bottles of plastic and glass And tins and cans Await their next transformation Into the latest big thing

Paint 🎨

Paint proud little toddler, parades his masterpiece as mum and dad peruse the aftermath in consideration, there really is more colour on the paper and not the wall, now scattered in the maestros colours together they smile…as the soapy water will be out after bedtime

Emulating the greats

Homage Salford , 30th August 2017 Sat by the great stretch of Ontario, Aware of the place i was in Lowry’s backyard, I Found myself a bench facing Out onto this great stretch of Royal waterway, in sight of Rileys Flat and began to Draw a scene in simple pencil – one the great manContinue reading “Emulating the greats”

Once more into the ink…

Quill Quite the thing, the noble feather known as a quill under the hand of the wordsmith it paints pictures in type without a machine letters form on paper through ink lovingly transcribed by the writer with the sharpened nib

Blank Canvas

#coloryourworld #cyw #white I writer stares into white fluffy clouds ideas form paper awaits II blank canvas sits idle blue skies await application of cerulean on white III Work complete ten thousand notes await transfer of ink to paper creating a tune

Scribbles in Notebooks

Pens and Pencils Salford , 18th July 2016 “Just a humble little scribble from my notebooks” I like writing and drawing, and though i’ll never be the next big thing when it comes to these artforms – I still find them helpful in my never ending mission to concentrate the mind. Whenever i’mContinue reading “Scribbles in Notebooks”