Send a drawing

Posted on March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged an idea, Dove of peace, Drawing, Instagram, Life, London, Peace, peace not war, Russia, Russian Embassy, Sketching, UkraineLeave a comment

Sent today to the Russian Embassy from an idea on Instagram by @johnapedder

It’s worth a try. Using the postal system instead of digital media means there will be a physical object to show my objection to the war. Its a peaceful drawing. On the reverse I’ve written ‘from a concerned UK citizen, peace and love’.

I’m deliberately not using offensive language. I do not wish to be aggressive, I just remember that old film about Santa, where all the children send a letter through the US postal service, which proves Santa exists. Perhaps this might have a small effect.

Patterns again

Posted on March 15, 2022March 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Life, Pattern, Sad, Sketching, tempus fugit, Thinking, Time3 Comments

My brain likes pattern and complexity. I cannot abide plain white walls with no embellishments. Even my writing can be flowery? Is it because I’m interested in all sorts of things? I’m very visual, and yet I can walk past a friend without noticing them! I don’t have that face blindness thing that some people have. I think my glasses frames sometimes blocks the view.

Life is so difficult in the world at the moment. I am feeling a bit low with everything happening. But I pick up a felt pen and draw and time FLIES so fast.

Cheap

Posted on March 15, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cheap, Digital filter, Drawing, Felt pens, Filter, Hand, Nail polish, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was cheap, so I did a sketch in felt pens of my hand and added cheap, cracking, nail polish. I added a digital filter to add to the effect.

Connection

Posted on March 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Attack, Chain, Death, Drawing, Flag, Life, paper chain, Putin, Russia, Sketching, UkraineLeave a comment

We saw an airbase within 15 miles of the Polish border hit by cruise missiles today. Eighty one people were killed. Putin Russian madness continues.

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was connection so I drew our connection with family. I’ve created an imagined bracelet. The family at the bottom is connected too. Like a paper chain. I’ve used Ukraine flag colours. It’s meant to show a connection of countries supporting them.

Fishy

Posted on March 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digital doodle, Digital drawing, Fish, Fun, Life, pisces, Playing, Sketching2 Comments

Well I had to play. Changed hues, used a blue flood fill. Made the fish shiny, made it glint. Art is fun, I can’t help myself. When I can’t do art I don’t know what I will do. Also I suppose it could represent pisces. I might do more…

Face

Posted on March 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colours, Digital drawing, Face, Fun, Memory, Shaking, SketchingLeave a comment

Face, digital drawing from about four years ago. I used to do more of these but I’ve not felt as able to for a while because of my arm shaking. The lines I try and draw go too wobbly. This was drawn in ArtRage oils.

Blue goldfish

Posted on March 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2018, Art, Digital doodle, Digital drawing, Goldfish, Life, Memory, Sketching, Sketching appLeave a comment

Doodle from 2018. I think I’m sharing this again because of Ukraine. Ever more sad news. More death and destruction. More madness. I needed to see something calming and this fit the bill. I could probably filter it and change it to a gold fish in a blue or green pool, but where would the fun be in that? Digital doodle in a sketching app.

Stems abstract

Posted on March 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colours, Fun, Garden, greening, Life, Playing, Poem, Poetry, SketchingLeave a comment

Waiting fot the green to grow

Looking for the water flow

Abstract colours

Leafy feeling

Are your colours

At all appealing?

Glossy green,

And deep blue

Lots of subtle colour

Hue.

Poppy with blue and yellow shoe

Posted on March 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, civilians, Death, Drawing, Fear, innocent, Life, Peace, Poppy, Russia, shoe, shoe factory, Sketching, UkraineLeave a comment

Today Russia bombed towns and cities in Ukraine again. Even Russian speaking cities that were supposed to be safe. The Russians even bombed a shoe factory. My drawing is a poppy for remembering the dead and a shoe in Ukrainian colours. A single shoe, lost by its owner. What stupidity. How long will this violence, which is denied by the Russians, be allowed to go on. Give Peace a chance. Stop the war.

Keep your mask on!

Posted on March 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Covid, Covid 19, Government, Hospital, intensive care, lifting restrictions, Mask, omicron, Sketch, social distance, Thinking, Wear a mask5 Comments

Our marvellous, incredible, smart government raised all restrictions on Covid 19 a couple of weeks ago. No masks, no social distancing, wonderful?! NOT!

Now Covid numbers that were going down are going up again. What do you mean? you say. Yes numbers are now between 1 in 13 and 1 in 30 depending on where you live in the UK.

Hospitals are taking in more patients although they are not all ending up in intensive care. Our government seems to think we ‘have to live with it’ more like ‘have to die with it’. I wish our government had a few brains instead of bean counters!

Mallaband-Brown

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