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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

This was my first attempt at a landscape a few years ago.
I found it restful to look at, even though it has its problems!



The shaft of light coming from off picture on the left is a artefact of the light coming in the window when I took the picture, but it could raise questions as why the artist put a hole in the sky out of scene!
Derek
 
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I absolutely agree with what you are saying.
 
Brilliant pastoral scene, I agree restful and pleasing on the eye, a nice piece of art.
 
good evening all

4.7 today

feels very cold again here, though we got sunshine rather than the snow we did get ice everywhere, made our village walk around a bit skiddly at times we still enjoyed it though, haven't walked enough recently. I had on a lot of layers

a quietish day today, just a few sorting out jobs in the kitchen done and I've decided we're having a chicken curry for tea

I must say that not feeling the same pressure to buy the 'fancy' special food for Christmas the last few years because of eating LC has been quite a bonus and we shan't be wasting anywhere near the amount we used to
We still eat very well, we just consume less marketing

I too enjoy the variety of chat subjects we share here

Hope your day is treating you well and your weather is kind

@Muddy Cyclist - glad you managed your trip safely and cheers for neighbourly spirit I like your pollard willow sketches and the first wash of colour looks interesting

@Sugarlisa - welcome

@ianpspurs - thank you for today's poem, a timely reminder

@dunelm - even if you feel you didn't capture things the way you wanted to it's a fine waterfall sketch, as usual you have managed to create weight in those rocks

@gennepher - I enjoyed your poem, is it a haiku? I look forward to hearing about your papermaking endeavours, not something I've ever tried
Your picture today has more of those lovely fluid textures and colours

@lindisfel - nice landscape, and I agree it has a restful quality

art bit -

my take on an image by an artist called Teresa Ascone - I enjoyed the way she managed to create so much scale

 
You have really captured the icy coldness of your snow scene. I really like it
 
Than
Thank you.

That's and you have also managed to get the scale of that Mountain Massive and the snow covering and depth. I do like this winter landscape.
 
Watching the 2012 Olympic opening Ceremony ( no BBC commentary.) We did that right, That was our high point. Not sure where we are going now with the Brexit thing.
 

Thank you @geefull
It is a tanka. Haiku is 3 lines. Tanka is 5 lines. When you do a tanka on a picture (painting, photo, drawing) about something personal to you (for whatever reason), often a real life event, then it becomes a haiga.

Paper making is easy. But it is time consuming, and takes a lot of space to dry. In my last house I turned over a whole room floor to do my paper making (it was a big 13 roomed Edwardian house), so I had space rooms and space. It is also heavy on liquidisers which blew up periodically with the amount of use they got...
But you can make lots of different papers, to paint/draw on, for craft etc, and you can utilise all that junk mail, Amazon brown paper packaging, newspaper packing. Nothing need go to waste. Once you have made your frame size of choice (using old picture frames, and I found A5 was an easy convenient size to work with, although A4 is good too. I wouldn't like to make larger than that), the only cost was when I overloaded the liquidisers (me trying to be clever and quicker), but liquidising a smaller quantity worked great.

I love the majesty of your mountain. It is a wonderful watercolour. Very effective.
 
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My painting started yeasterday became influenced by today's snow covered landscape and so Willow Trees in a dusting of snow.
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I love this painting @Muddy Cyclist
It reminds me of sunrises and sunsets where I spent a lot of my childhood on my grandma's farm. I was usually out at dawn watching the misty sunrises along the river banks of pollarded willows. Beautiful memories.
 
Fbg 5.9

I binned the thick dark chocolate biscuits. Delicious but not worth it.

My digital painting for today. In Procreate.



I am taking some time away from this forum and thread. I have a lot on, and I am falling behind on stuff, and I can't keep up. Also that poem, tanka/haiga of yesterday was of something personal, something very sad I found out on Sunday. And I need time.

I hope 2021 brings you all a promise of better things than what we have experienced in 2020.

Take care
>^..^<
 
First that's a lovely painting, great sun and reflections.

Secondly, what a shame you are taking a break from the forum, your input will be greatly missed, I'm sure it helps so many others on here. It seems circumstances are driving this and I hope all sorts itself out for you and you are able to return in the not too distant future. Keep safe look after yourself.
 
Good Morning and 5.8 for me today.

I have a ENT appointment today in some strange building in Cannock. Snow is forecast just at the time I need to leave home so could be interesting. Apparently not seeing any consultant as they won't do face to face so Audiology first then 1 hour later a telephone call with Consultant, still it's a start at sorting my reduced earring loss since March.

Keep safe take care.
 
4.9 this morning @ 7am. Woke up thinking I'd forgotten to do the bins and recycling forgetting its a day later this week due to the holidays No news on the care front, so my guess on no care this week is probably correct. I'm so thankful that I have my partner, and my mum nearby if needed otherwise I'd be screwed.
 
Of course we all have issues to resolve in our own lives. Some major, some minor and somehow a new year brings these into focus.
What is essential is we hang on to the stabilising and supportive sources of help for ourselves and others.

I heard something I found immensely sad on R.4 before 7am.
The Canadian Government with the Crown stamp formerly tried to remove First Nation culture from the Inuit and instead of using their given names gave them a number instead.

Grand to hear the Great Northern Diver also on R.4. several times this am. It evokes memories of wild places but also the Texas coast in the deep south.

Have a good day everyone and stay safe.
D.
 
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I agree with @Muddy Cyclist that you will be greatly missed. So sorry that something really sad has happened. Take care - and hope to see you back on here soon.
 
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