Scenes from childhood.

[Aged P]

A scene from my childhood in the hope that it triggers off scenes from yours.


This is a sad one to start with.

The scene is mid 50's when London had severe winter fogs.
My house was on the left.
During the fog Bus Conductors had to walk in front of the buses with flares to guide them through the streets. A Shire horse pulling a cart full of coal saw the flame coming towards it and panicked. It attempted to leap over a stone wall at the front of the houses and never made it. The driver who had worked with the horse for 20 years is kneeling at the horse's head. It still haunts me over 50 years later.

The kid leaning on the back of the cart is me.

[ENCHANTER]

:cry:

[Selby]

thankyou for sharing this really emotive image with us AgedP ...its amazing how strongly images can stay with us years later and now you can carry us all ther to greive with yourself and the driver for the shire horse

...it makes me think of black beauty one of my favourite stories from childhood even though i always howled bucketloads reading it


Selby

[Weeks]

Aged P,

Sad and unfortunatly, part of our lives...

:cry:

Weeks

[Selby]

I remember being a flowergirl at an Aunts wedding when i was about 4 and I was proud as punch to hold the boquet and very pleased with the fact that i got new leather shoes with cutouts of silver flowers and leaves on them.


Selby

[Aged P]

Hi Selby,

Like most men, I suffer from shoe blindness. :cry: :lol:

They obviously meant a lot to you to have recalled them so well.
I find that painting memories , good or bad, sets off huge recollections.
It's a great thing to be able to do.


Phil

[Selby]

Hey Aged P-well apart from the fact it was the first wedding i went to as someone old enough to remember which was a big deal at the time- the shoes were so exciting and shiny (much better i thought than my plain black leather ones)...funny i can still seem them so clearly ...lots of my early childhood memories are like that though just a clear image of a particular thing in a scene almost like a photo, but i know ive not seen photos of these things


Selby

[Aged P]

Another Wedding, my daughter, on the left, and grand daughter. She was about 3. All the shoes turned out the same. :oops:

Acrylic.

Phil

[maror]

@aged p

did you that picture? it's great....

greez

[Rkngel]

Beautiful images...

I take the time to make a mental snapshot of lifes events. I will literally make the snapshot motion with my hands and squint with my eye like I was using a physical camera.

The last glance around an old comfortable apartment before I move out..
My wife absorbed in a good book...
My parents playing with their grandchildren..
A shadow racing across the fields as a cloud passes by the sun...

I am full of albums of mental pictures that I intend to transfer to the digital canvas, I just hope I can do them justice like you have.

[Selby]

wow AgedP thats fantastic :) what a nice way to capture the day



Selby

[Rkngel]

I remember my dad would work long night shifts and have to sleep during the day and we wouldnt be able to spend much daytime together.
Sometimes he would take me to the park before work in the late fall when the time would change and there would still be some light to play by.
He would fly this gull winged kite and get it really high in the air then let me hold the string.
The dusky light and cool fall temperatures mixed with my unending energy of youth running beside my dad as he made magic just for me

[Selby]

Rkngel-really lovely sunset colours you captured the scene really well and you have shown you fondess for this time in the way you've painted it :)



Selby

[Jules]

This is a childhood memory of me riding the dodgems at Butlins lol.
(ok I had some reference, and yes it is me) :lol:

[Selby]

thats a cute one jules

Selby

[Selby]

when i was little we had a tyre swan in the front yard...sometimes i rode it by tying a string to its neck and having it fly me away


Selby

[Jules]

aww selby :D That reminds me of this duck thing I used to ride, its head used to bob back and forth with momentum hehe..

[Selby]

hehe...you should paint it here then jules :)


Selby

[Aged P]

You both did that without doing a "risk analysis" and wearing hard hats and goggles? :lol:

Two fascinating pics. The Dodgems just so sums up the whole experience, minus the homicidal big kids.

That "Tyre Swan" is such a technically elegant piece of recycling. I have never seen that done in the UK. Was it fixed to the ground or did too much enthusiasm tip it over? The drawing is also very good, it indicated exactly how it was made.

Phil

[Selby]

Hi Phil- I think they were sometimes fixed in with a peg or similar and others just sat, but lots of the ones i knew were put over the water meter (the one with a ticker to say how much you used) in the front yard and the act of sitting over that held them in place or other times people had soil in them and grew a plant too..a fern coming out between the wings


Selby

[Aged P]

Hi Selby,

I see what you mean. We did a much simpler and boring version which involved the whole wheel as well.

Australia would have course have been more likely to do this, because you have Black Swans.

This forum is such an educational place, as well as artistic.

Phil

[Selby]

hehe cool AgedP ...although i must say all the ones i met were for reasons best known to their owners painted white :) bizzare i know cant see why you would when we have black swans too here but thre you are one of those oddities of life i suspect...maybe people felt they had put in more artistic effort if they painted them white


Selby

[Peter Pinckney]

I remember a scene like this when I ran out of the air raid shelter (Anderson Shelter they were called) and I remember my Aunt Violet screaming at me to come back or a Doodlebug would GET ME.

It was many years later that I learned what,in fact, a Doodlebug was...........not as I'd thought, a monster but a V1 flying bomb!

Best to you


Peter

[Peter Pinckney]

I just had to add this.......................10 minutes after posting my memory I went outside for a cigarette and a local disco was shining a laser beam onto low clouds.........spooky!


Peter

[D Akey]

I just had to add this.......................10 minutes after posting my memory I went outside for a cigarette and a local disco was shining a laser beam onto low clouds.........spooky!


Peter



Ah!!!! Now Time plays for you the refrain. . . or is it the chorus. . .

(Are you getting all this down, Peter?)

[Aged P]

Hi Guys,
Particularly Peter and Rkngel.
http://www2.ambientdesign.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=456&highlight=evening+kite
http://www2.ambientdesign.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1555&start=0

Our childhood memories have some common threads. :)

Peter,
I read, years ago, that these experiences would come back strongly to us in later life. I might do a few similar ones , when I get my cataracts fixed. :roll:

Rkngel
My childhood experiences were actually with a bright yellow box kite , Kept in a hhaki tube container.as it had been when part of the survival equipment for a crashed aircraft. It was intended to lift an antenna.

[Peter Pinckney]

Hi Aged P,

what threw me completely was the lasr beam on the clouds last night.........sorry to hear you have cataracts.............but after the op it was amazing (I had them too as well as glaucoma) my sight was soooooooooo sharp...............the problem is we don't notice the deterioration because it's so gradual. Hope you get yours done soon.


Best to you


Peter

[Peter Pinckney]

This is a memory I cherish........used to do this with my Grandad on chilly nights.....................Yeah!

[Aged P]

Hi Peter,

A lovely surface on the toast!
My grand parents lived next door, so I did the same thing.

White bread.
High cholesterol spread.
No safety gauntlets, goggles or risk assessment surveys.
Stabbing madly when the slice fell off.
No fire guard.
Lungs full of acrid gases when the wind blew "the wrong way".
Hearth rug with little charred holes in it.
Double page of newspaper to make the fire "draw".

With all that danger we'll never make it to 60!

Phil

[D Akey]

Hi Peter,

A lovely surface on the toast!
My grand parents lived next door, so I did the same thing.

White bread.
High cholesterol spread.
No safety gauntlets, goggles or risk assessment surveys.
Stabbing madly when the slice fell off.
No fire guard.
Lungs full of acrid gases when the wind blew "the wrong way".
Hearth rug with little charred holes in it.
Double page of newspaper to make the fire "draw".

With all that danger we'll never make it to 60!

Phil


Ninteen Sixty you mean.

Best watch it boys n' grills.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Nice picture you just painted too Aged P! I got it loud and clear. heh.

[Aged P]

Hi D akey,

If I can raise the $3000 by Friday. i can have a rejuvenated eye by Monday evening! Then two weeks later for another $3000 I can get the other one done. Then about another $300 for new glasses. Until then you get word pictures. :lol:


Phil

[D Akey]

That so? Wow.

Is that enough time to make sure the first one is working?

I briefly worked in a place were I gave rudimentary eye exams to see if people were able to drive. So I saw lots of miracles, since many were coming in having had various procedures done.

The most dramatic for me was an artist who had been declared legally blind. He had an out patient procedure and had perfect vision.

Some people were even making one eye for close up and the other for distance.

Some eye doctor had discovered that the brain generally focuses out of one eye at a time. I assume that the brain looks through the eye that has the sharpest vision for that distance.

Who knows. For me, I'm nauseous just thinking about that. But it seemed to work.

It's an age of medical miracles we're living in.

I wish you the very best speedy recovery so we can get you painting again.

:D :D :D

[Aged P]

Hi D,

The second one could be delayed but we wanted a firm date so that we can arrange transport, and various other things, to fit in round my daughter's job. Plus , keeping clear of reduced Christmas medical coverage if I have problems. Two weeks is probably the minimum gap, the gap is to avoid a possible double infection.

Monet got his cataracts done in about 1913 and repainted a lot of stuff, so I'm hoping to follow his example. :D

That thing about using the best eye available ties in with a piece I read about using the best nostril available, we're amazing machines!

Phil

[creationsings]

Well, this isn't exactly a scene from childhood...but more like a childhood memory. I remember one of my mom's favorite things to draw when she was just goofing off was this little cartoon dog. As a child I thought it was the neatest thing...with just a few lines and circles, a dog would appear. (When she's doodling he still sometimes appears even to this day.)

So I've taken my mom's line drawing and spruced him up a bit. :)

[Selby]

Hi CS, cute little pup...you obviouslt had a creative mum...and you sparked memories for me of some of the funny carachters my mum used to draw while waiting on the phone...ill have to ask her if she still does them :D


Selby

[Netdevil]

He! It reminds me of Hong Kong Phooey :D