Hi, my name is SideshowBob!

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  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,976 Championing
    edited August 2024

    At the moment I am looking at light and shade. @SideshowBob

    This is done with Charcoal and chalk.

    and this using oil pastels red and white and black used to highlight areas. Two shades of green.

    Pencil drawing, shading changes with how hard you press.

  • SideshowBob
    SideshowBob Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    Fantastic!

    I can draw but not for a long time. I always second guess myself, it’s a confidence thing. I have two large bags of terracotta clay ready for when I buy a potters wheel. Got my eyes on one, but need desperately to buy a new mattress topper, I’m in a lot of pain with my pelvis and need physio, but I’m low on holiday allowance now so might have to wait. Do you have a favourite subject to draw or paint?

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,976 Championing

    Not really whatever I fancy on the day. @SideshowBob

  • SideshowBob
    SideshowBob Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    oh and I can babble for England

  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 221 Empowering

    Hello @SideshowBob !!! My son introduced me to the world of Buhurt through YouTube and I've been fascinated by the armour, history and of course the battles!!👍 Amazing sport! I'm actually a quiet, garden loving, arty crafty old girl, perhaps not someone you'd expect to sit with a bag of popcorn and watch armoured combat!!😂 Love the idea of working with clay, really like Grayson Perry ceramics, mainly his artwork that he applies to his pieces. Did you enjoy The Great Pottery Throwdown? Very inspiring. Just to add, I'm on day 3 of recovery from spine decompression surgery at home and have recently purchased a Panda double memory foam mattress topper for £150 from Argos. It's making a big difference 👍👍

  • SideshowBob
    SideshowBob Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    hello @onedayatatime

    If you’d of known me when I got into the medieval combat (which very different from buhurt, you’d of thought “what, him?” I wouldn’t say boo to a goose, but once I got into it the shackles of self doubt were off. In the fourteen years of combat 8-18 shows a year I had quite a good records, I was never an immortal, if I was beaten I’d go to ground, and always stuck to “we have to go to work on Monday!”

    I absolutely love the throw down even weeping Keith. Very inspire. I want to learn to throw as pots and bits and bobs break easily and it’s expensive buying at reenactment or reenactors markets. I know it will take time but I can be quite tenacious when I want to be. I’m going to gets some maile rings 8mm to make a maille shirt (for me slow going but time is one thing that I have in abundance. Love competition shows grow down, bake off, sewing bee and blown away (Netflix, glass blowing). With the reenacting, I do living history now I’m in a chair and have been gathering items for my display.

    the wheelchair is usually covered, and for next year I have wooden medieval folding chairs. Oh and the beard has gone as well

  • SideshowBob
    SideshowBob Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    sorry about my spelling

  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 221 Empowering

    Very impressive display and I would like to ask about that box please. Would that be for pulses, spices? I am super intrigued with your interests! I do like craftsmanship and would also like to know what is in that pie😁 What a very inspiring person you are!

  • SideshowBob
    SideshowBob Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    hi @onedayatatime

    The box was a find in a charity shop for £2.00 bargain, ha looks the part. Yes I keep spices in there: cubebs, long pepper, dried juniper berries, grains of paradise, salt. All super expensive in the medieval. Long pepper and grains of paradise can be purchased off of the internet. Worth trying them as they have unique flavours. I really enjoy the long pepper it’s not as hot as black pepper.

    The pie is salt crust pastry and the filling is wood shavings for pets. It is dun dun dah a Stunt Pie! Ha some many people say oh that pie looks good and when they ask what’s in it I say children!

    Zoom in on the middle of the second pic and you can see the spices in little wooden dishes.

    I also have a fake leg of ham, some stunt sausages a braceeach of phrasants, partridges and mallards.

    My son is going to make two new tables for me.
    It really is a great hobby and can’t wait to get back to it next year

  • SideshowBob
    SideshowBob Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    that rock like thing is actually jaggery a type of raw sugar.

  • SideshowBob
    SideshowBob Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    @onedayatatime

    What crafty type stuff do you do???

  • SideshowBob
    SideshowBob Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    @onedayatatime

    the helmet I used to wear and also the maille standard that I made and wore. Helps to stop someone chopping one’s head off

  • SideshowBob
    SideshowBob Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    oh and I have a friend who has a kiln and workshop and says I can come down and glaze and fire my creations. I told her I would come down with gf and throw some pots in her workshop as once gf can drive again we can go see our friend and then it’s throwing time. My gf says she can give me pointers as she has already done a couple of ceramics courses. My aim is to throw some bowls and pots for the reenactment displays

  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 221 Empowering

    That sounds brilliant! The kiln firing part always seems to be the make or break exciting bit!😂 My craft hobbies have varied but I guess I'm more comfortable working with textiles, I like hands on stuff and making mess. I call myself a gardener but mainly enjoy the dirt and mess😂 Let me make something in concrete or Papier mache, anything large scale, wall hangings, mixed media. Obviously a bit limited right now but have gotten back into my mixed media and am letting the garden go a bit wild this year. Always fancied learning how to weld. 👍

  • SideshowBob
    SideshowBob Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    excellent.
    I love visits to hobby craft.

    When I first got into reenacting I taught myself to sew (still not brilliant). I made a few arming jackets one of which is still worn by an acquaintance. I’ve made a few shirts and also a doublet (not my swish green one).

    Can can draw, have over the years convinced myself that I can’t.
    any photos of your work?

    I also write poetry ( not for a while though) have to been the mood for that. Ogden Nash was a very good poet as was Benjamin Zephaniah and Roger McGough

  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 221 Empowering

    Ill have to take some pics from my sketchbooks. I'm not very good with using colours! A lot of my sketches are of art dolls that I used to make from cloth, stain and use texture rather than colours. A lot of my sewing stuff has sadly been put away at the back of the cupboard along with 5 sewing machines 😂 I do aim to eventually be able to sit and sew again soon. Right now I find it more comfortable to stand to paint. I really enjoy the process of making things though. I'm not a big book reader and it's been a long time since I have picked up a book to read. I struggled to find something recently to take to hospital to read. The last books I've read would have been Irvine Welsh and Ian Rankin. And for poetry, it's been a while, but Pam Ayres 😁

  • SideshowBob
    SideshowBob Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    Pam Ayers is good.

    Sewing is good as well. I broke my machine when it swallowed some cloth and came to a juddering halt, lucky me. I was in the process of teaching myself to make quilts. Hey ho.

    I suppose you read my missive about why I’m in a chair, my own fault really, now I have a good adaptation within me for life on wheels. My son and gf are my inspiration and also my my muse (the pair of them). The both encourage me to do stuff (stuff being a generalisation). Trips to hobbycraft etc. once I start making a mailer shirt that will keep me busy for a while, each one has upward of 60,000-79,000. Rings in it and can weigh a fair bit to. I just settle in and watch a film whilst I work away. Sorry I blather. I am currently reading tithe Count of Monte Cristo, a book I bought with a gift card from my son. Always wanted to read it having seen the films, well, a lot.

    Got a few good books on the go at the moment. I’m a big Stephen King fan so I am in the process of purchasing and re reading the Dark Tower series of books, a slog but rewarding

  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 221 Empowering

    Always keep an eye out on eBay and at boot sales for the old metal sewing machines👍 Modern machines cost a fortune! I've a couple of semi industrial machines that don't look pretty, weigh a tonne but can stitch through leather, with the correct needle. The old hand crank machines are also good for heavy, layered fabrics. I love a boot sale!!!!😂

  • SideshowBob
    SideshowBob Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    Goovey. I love as good car rummage too.

    Well now I'm off to bed as have to be up at 4:50am fo work.

    Night night

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,976 Championing

    Good morning @SideshowBob