No toes…

Posted on August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, carpet, Cat, colour picker, Foot, Hubby, Life, Mat, Sketch app, tin box, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Our cat looked cute, but hubbies foot in a sandal was in the top right corner of the picture. I decided to try and hide it. I used my sketch app on my phone. Using the ‘chalk’ pen tool and the colour picker option. I carefully chose colours that corresponded with the parts of the mat that needed redrawing. I also drew over a metal tin that was in the bottom right of the picture. The chalk option was good because it gives a more mottled pattern to the mat. It’s not perfect but I’m reasonably happy.

Crumpets

Posted on August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Afternoon, Butter, Cheese, crumpet, Food, Honey, margarine, Tasty, Tea, Toast, toastedLeave a comment

‘and shall we have crumpets for tea ?’

I don’t remember where that quote comes from. But that’s what we had for our meal this afternoon. Toasted to a slightly brown colour and hot so that the crumpet is cooked through. I usually have butter or margarine on it but today I had butter and then as a treat a small amount of Greek honey.

The porous, sponge like consistency of the crumpet makes it good for absorbing melted butter. The top of a crumpet is full of a lattice of holes, whereas the base is solid, so these lacunae stay filled and only leak slightly. Yummy! I’ve also toasted crumpets, then grated cheese on them and then I gently microwave them for a savoury snack.

This bought back a memory of using a fork pierced through a crumpet and pushed onto the front bars of a gas fire. A tricky thing to do as the fire might burn your fingers as well as the crumpet! Cook the back first then the front, then take it off the fire and butter and eat. (Childhood memories of when life was more basic).

old digital work

Posted on August 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2019 drawing, Digital drawing, Experiment, Filters, Memories, Photoshop drawing, Profile, sequence, WaterLeave a comment

a long time ago (2019) , I was playing with photoshop and came up with a series of images. I would start with one digital drawing, put it through a filter or two until I was happy with the result, save it and then filter it again. I have several series of jpegs where I have changed the images incrementally, up to 9 or 10 times. Its a way of learning how you can alter or edit an image without loosing the sequence. I dont tend to do it anymore unless someone wants to see how Ive worked something out. I do have too many images, but I do like to look back at them occassionally, it helps me understand how I got here.

Digital face

Posted on August 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged App, Art, Artrage oils, Doodle, Filters, finger drawing, Fun, Photodirector, Pleased, SketchingLeave a comment

Combination of artrage oils sketch and then worked on in Photodirector, oo I like it! Sounds simple but I did a lot of work on the digital sketch before I started using filters. I won’t post the original, it’s a bit too scrappy.

picnic time

Posted on August 4, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Driving, Falmouth, Food, ivans_uk_tours.com, picnic, Tewkesbury Abbey, Travel, TravellingLeave a comment

Nothing nicer when you are travelling to stop off for a break. In this case we were on our way down to Falmouth and stopped off at Tewkesbury Abbey. My friend who runs Ivans_uk_tours.com provided a picnic hamper full of goodies. I want to go on another trip like this. Its great not to have the responsibility of a long drive and to have an itinerary sorted out by us but undertaken by someone else. I kept saying it was like having a butler!

Fly

Posted on August 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, Doodle, Fly, fly in the ointment, Insect, post it notes, SketchingLeave a comment

A couple of splodges of black ink on a post it note inspired this fly doodle. Just waiting for my PC to sort itself out, I haven’t switched it on for a while and it’s playing up… So a fly in the ointment?.. Maybe

Above prompt

Posted on August 4, 2022August 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, above, Art, Drawing, Earth, Felt pens, Life, Moon, Sketching, SpaceLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was above. Thinking of above, anything over 5ft 6in is higher than me it could have been tree branches, buildings, Blackpool tower, but I went astronomical, Moon above Earth…, felt pen drawing.

Above

Posted on August 3, 2022August 4, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Building, Hills, kitchen cupboards, Moon, Mountain, Planets, Stars, Sun, Sy, Thinking, Tree, UpstairsLeave a comment

What is Above? Is it only sky? I have a prompt to draw for and I’m trying to think what to do. I can start with tree branches or tall buildings towering over me. They reach up above me. Basically as I’m short anything above 5ft 6 inches is above me, so that includes kitchen cupboards! Upstairs? That too….

Then the blue sky and clouds are above us. The clouds could be white and fluffy or dark and threatening rain…but mountains can also tower above us. Even hills. The Blackpool tower?

Follow that with planes, satellites, space stations….

Asteroids, meteors, comets, planets, the moon, the sun, stars, the Oort cloud, cosmic rays, the milky way, galaxies, the universe.

I’m starting to feel rather small….

Feed me!

Posted on August 3, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Etruria Industrial museum, Forge, Fun, Gardening, little shop of horrors?, Photo, Plant, Seymour, Teasel4 Comments

I posted this photo on Facebook last week and someone wrote ‘Feed me Seymour!’

I guess it does look a bit like the plant in the film ‘Little Shop of Horrors’! It’s strange how life imitates art, or vice versa. Photo of teasel, taken outside the forge at Etruria Industrial Museum on the Trent and Mersey canal in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.

Bird limerick

Posted on August 3, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bird, Collage, Drawing, Ill, Limerick, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Tired2 Comments

Bird on a post it note

On paper it seems to float.

Bright yellow and white

What a pretty sight..

Drawn for fun, gets my vote!

You can probably tell, I haven’t been very active today. Bit ill, not feeling well. I found this bird collage on an old sketchbook from 2021. I decided to share it with a little limerick. I had lots to do but haven’t been out. My hubby did some shopping and I’m laying low. If I feel better later I will blog again.

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