Baby 🐲 dragon

Posted on March 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Authors, children's stories, Fossils, Illustration, Learning, Life, Medieval, prehistory, report, Sketching2 Comments

For as many artists that draw and paint dragons, there’s a different style, shape, pattern, technique or colours.

I’m studying an illustration course and my final report is about the mythology and history of dragon illustration. I’m having to find out more about them, from the possible link with fossilised dinosaur skeletons, to medieval bestiaries, to more recent art including children’s and adult fiction that includes either dragon illustrations in the books or on their covers.

Here’s a question. Does anyone know any interesting dragon stories I can investigate? I have Ursula K Le Guin, Terry Pratchett, Anne McCaffery, Cressida Cowell, J. R. R Tolkein, T. H White and other authors. Are you aware of more?

Thanks x

Normal life?

Posted on March 10, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, black fine liner pen, body warmer, Drawing, LED light, Life4 Comments

Normal life? Hubby watching the TV, we have a small LED light that saves money, the heating is on timed to save money so he’s wearing his body warmer. Curtains are closed to keep warmth in. We are not in trouble but we are being cautious. We haven’t lit the gas fire fir two years but have a small portable oil heater instead. Todays #bandofsketchers prompt was normal life.

Heroine

Posted on March 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Covid, Covid 19, Drawing, Felt pens, heroines, heros, Life, nurse, PandemicLeave a comment

#bandofsketchers prompt yesterday was hero’s and heroines. This is Heroine in PPE. From an image on the Internet. They are real hero’s of the awful pandemic. Hopefully no one will need their help now. X

Dragon bright

Posted on March 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black, Doodle, Dragon, fire breathing, Flood fill, JRR Tolkein, Sketching, smaug, Terry Pratchett, the Hobbit, Thinking, YellowLeave a comment

Dragon doodle, then flood filled with yellow. ‘dragon burning in the night, why do you burn so bright?’

A question. Why are dragons supposed to breath fire. Why does JRR Tolkeins dragon Smaug live in a mountain full of gold that could almost be a volcano, but when fire comes it is from the dragon itself flying over Laketown in the story of the Hobbit.

They breathe fire in other stories too. And authors come up with elaborate ideas of how they make it. For instance the book ‘Guards, Guards’ by Terry Pratchett.

All art of their mystery.

Blue and yellow on my mind

Posted on March 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Complicated, Confused, Drawing, Life, Pattern, Sketching, sunflowers, Tangled, ThinkingLeave a comment

Sunflowers and blue leaves, abstract pattern. Waiting for a resolution, no sign of peace or compromise. Women and children, old men and women try to escape. But their routes are snared with artillery and arms. Meanwhile the world waits for what? Who can guess… Time flies, slowly. Only a few days feels like a month of Sundays. I’m starting to avoid the news. So bleak. So much pain but so much bravery. My country? Keeping refugees out! Talking about security breaches instead of desperate humanity. Bean counters. May they be told to help instead of hindering. Me.. I’m just sad and confused.

A storm with Sunflowers

Posted on March 6, 2022March 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Blue, Colour, Felt pens, fields, Green, Landscape, North Dakota, Sky, small drawing, Summer, sunflowers, Thunderstorm, YellowLeave a comment

A drawing of Sunflowers from a photo of a Summer thunderstorm in North Dakota, by Thomas Kee (used with his permission). I’m using felt pens and building up the colours light to dark.

Fenton cenotaph

Posted on March 5, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cenotaph, Drawing, fallen soldier, Felt pens, Fenton, Sketching, urban sketching Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

Fenton Cenotaph. Fallen soldier, from the 1914-1918 first world War. I was out with Stoke Urban sketchers today. We were outside Fenton Town Hall. A very cold wind was blowing so I just did a small sketch. I chose to use pale blue and yellow because of what is happening in Ukraine. The news continues to be terrible. The Russians had offered a ceasefire and escape corridor for civilians to get out of Mariapol but they haven’t stopped shelling the city.

Annoying

Posted on March 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blocked, Instagram, IPhone, Life, pestered, reported, spam, spammers, spamming, ThinkingLeave a comment

I keep getting messages on my Instagram account that I have won an iPhone. The trouble is I don’t want one and I’m fed up after a couple of months of being spammed. I will never click on a link. I’m not daft, I’m not tempted, I will keep blocking the posters. I think I’ve had fifteen or twenty messages so far. If I’d won that many (from all different peoples Instagram accounts) I could make a great deal of money selling them all. But I’m NOT INTERESTED. I keep blocking them and reporting them. OK that’s enough, I’ll stop spamming you xxx

Filtered design

Posted on March 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, artillery attack, chain reaction, dress, Molecules, nuclear power plant, Pattern, Sketching, VintageLeave a comment

Just a filtered version of the vintage dress I drew yesterday. Trying to keep my mind off Ukraine 🇺🇦 and what is happening there. Russians fired on a huge nuclear power station and set part of it on fire. It made me think of nuclear chain reactions if it blows up. It could be worse than Chernobyl in 1986. Funny how a pattern can spark ideas. I pray for peace.

Vintage

Posted on March 3, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, dress, fifties, Life, Pattern, sixties, Sketching, VintageLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was vintage. OK, so I looked up vintage dress on my phone then made up a pattern. I think I’ll call it ‘molecules’. I was aiming at one of those 50’s/60’s patterns I remember from my childhood. The background was just to try and make it stand out.

Mallaband-Brown

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