Imagined aurora

Posted on October 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Aurora, Colours, Drawing, Green, Life, magnetic field, Memory, Pink, Sketching2 Comments

Still obsessed by not seeing the main auroras so I tried to imagine them and their spectacular colours. When you look at the incredible photos people have taken my rendition isn’t very exciting but I would have liked to see more than I did. Auroras are charged particles that follow the Earth’s magnetic field down to the poles. Without that magnetic shield we would be exposed to the radiation of space that would slowly deplete our atmosphere. Our magnetism is caused by Earth’s rotating molten core. Life on Earth is protected by it. Mars, a smaller planet has no magnetism and has lost its atmosphere because of this .

Playing with Artrage app

Posted on October 3, 2024October 3, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Colours, Deleting, Digital drawing, Drawing, Life, Memory, Pattern, Sketching, symmetricalLeave a comment

Playing, digital drawing, trying to add colour and using symmetrical mirrors images.

I’ve had to delete several images again as I don’t have enough memory to keep all of them. If you find some of my blogs without a picture, that’s why!

Variations

Posted on October 1, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, asymmetry, Drawing, Face, Image, Life, Mirrored, Sketching, Symmetry2 Comments

Playing with illustration ideas. If you mirror image half a picture you can create completely different faces. Asymmetry and Symmetry. Artrage app.

When you look at a real face it can be lopsided. Often one eye will be higher up than the other. The underlying skull can be lopsided too. This can be because one side of a brain may be more dominant than the other. I’m not sure of the actual physiological causes of this. I could find out, but just enjoyed experimenting with the original drawing. X

Fly

Posted on September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Acrylic paint, Art, Drawing, flies, Fly, Insects, Life, Sketching, Wings2 Comments

#bandofsketchers prompt was fly. I had to ask for a pallette on Saturday at the Orme Art Group because I’d forgotten mine. I splodge some paint on it, but had some left at the end of the day. I doodled wings and legs on it because the splodges looked like insects.. So I’m calling this “flies”!

Tranklements

Posted on September 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged bits and bobs, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2058, dialect word, England, Fun, Midlands, Old fashioned, Stuff, Things, tranklements, Word4 Comments

What’s your favorite word?

Tranklements is an old fashioned word meaning bits and bobs, a collection of odds and ends, shiny things like a magpie would collect.

I think it is an old historical word from the Midlands of England. Certainly I’ve only really heard it used in The West Midlands around the Birmingham area. I think its a dialect word.

In context you could say I’m just getting my tranklements together if you wanted to gather your lace making kit or a bag full of knitting stuff. Or bits of costume jewellery, a bag full of paints or makeup.

I like it because it sort of explains what it means just in the sound. It should be used more often!

Digital “fire”

Posted on August 30, 2024August 30, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 7 years ago, ancient elements, Art, ArtRage oils app, Drawing, Fire, Memory, SketchingLeave a comment

A digital drawing I did 7 years ago from my Facebook memories. It was one of four, earth, wind, water and fire. Each was a face portraying the four ancient elements. I don’t know if I posted all of them on Facebook. Done in Artrage oils.

Shoes

Posted on August 25, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, pair, Prompt, Red, Shoes, Sketcher app, Sketching, stilettos, symmetricalLeave a comment

Another #bandofsketchers prompt was Shoes. Another digital drawing, I then put it through the collage app on my phone to make it a pair not a single shoe. I liked trying to get some reflections into the drawing.

Diamond prompt

Posted on August 25, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, diamond, Drawing, Life, Prompt, sketchbook app, Sketching, SymmetryLeave a comment

It’s about time I tried to join in again so here’s a digital drawing attempt of a diamond stone for the prompt diamond for #bandofsketchers.

Drawn in the Sketchbook app on my phone. I’ve missed several weeks of drawing and sketching. I just haven’t felt well enough to do it but I wanted to try. Watch out, more to come! It was interesting to try and a crystalline symmetry.

Kate playing fiddle

Posted on August 14, 2024August 14, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged boatband 2014 memories, fiddle, Fun, Music, Night out, Pub, scurling, SketchingLeave a comment

2014 drawing, we used to go to the pub and watch the Boatband playing cajun and folk music. Sometimes I would get up and sing a song a cappela, I like “Summer time” from the musical “Porgy and Bess”. I never remembered to learn new songs, life was too busy then. Now I long to time travel back to those days. I’d give anything to be back then sitting listening to the fiddle, guitar and accordion while beautiful music scurled around us.

Frappachino?

Posted on July 31, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged air conditioning?, ArtRage app, brain freeze, Chocolate, Cold, frappachino, Freezing, Rest, Shopping, Sketching, TiredLeave a comment

I went to my art group for mental wellbeing this morning and decided on the way home because the weather is sunny and burning hot. So I went shopping to save having to go out again later. While I was in the supermarket I treated myself to a chocolate frappachino? Is that what it’s called (milkshake) it was so cold I got real brain freeze! (drawn in Artrage app).

It’s about 30°C outside and I was in the car which was incredibly hot. No air conditioner so I had the windows wide open. I was so tired and overheated when I got home I’ve just come in and kicked my shoes off. Now for a rest!

Mallaband-Brown

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