Photo. Kit Miller

Monday 26 July 2021

Mushrooms

Someone kindly gave me some very old paper and an old notebook. I liked the effect of the watercolour paints on the dry paper, so I painted some mushrooms.


Some of them were painted from life. some from photos and some from my head.







 

Camera Obscura

In April I turned the kitchen into a camera obscura. The whole room was filled with the image of the outside world, but the camera on my phone found it too difficult to capture. 


I attached a weak lens to the aperture which produced a clear image at about a metre away.

The  aperture was on a south facing window, which meant that the glare from the sun affected the clarity of the image. Next time I'll use a north facing window and hope that the spectacular sight of the room filled with the image will be light enough to capture on camera.













Monday 12 April 2021

Bloddau Gwanwyn

Spring Flowers through the video lens.

Eirlys. Snowdrops.

Worcesterberry flowers.
Worcesterberries are like a cross between blackberries and gooseberries. They don't grow as quickly and as vigorously as blackcurrents, but our shrub has lived for more than 30 years so far. The berries are lovely raw, when ripe, and they make lovely jam. Care is needed when picking as they have large, sharp thorns.