drawing of a profile

Posted on June 6, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Colour, Design, Fun, Illustration, illustration MA, pastel, Portrait, portrait sessions, Profile, Sketching, studentLeave a comment

drawing with an ink roller

This was one of the portraits I did in a student led portrait group at college during the last few months.

The face was mostly drawn with one of those ink rollers you can use to blank out your address on letters so that you can throw them away without anyone seeing your details and stealing your data. Its quite hard to use because you have to sort of turn and twist your hand and press firmly to sketch curves. AfterId done that I added colour using pastels and the thick black lines were done with black calligraphy pen (most of these have run out so I need some more).

I quite like the strong feel to this. I am trying to find my illustrational voice. I have been told to look for illustrators that my work resembles, but I think mine is different? Is this a good or bad thing? I’m definitley developing my analogue skills. Digital work is more difficult for me.

Four drawings

Posted on June 5, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged cafe garden, Cheshire, Dorothy Clive garden, Four sketches, Quarry garden, Shropshire, Staffordshire, View, woodpecker carvingLeave a comment

Four sketches I did at the Dorothy Clive Garden. The view from the hill it’s on over to Shropshire and Cheshire. The Quarry garden with the waterfall. Sculpted woodpecker in the bark of a tree stump and my hubby sitting in the cafe garden.

Post it note portrait…

Posted on June 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Experiment, Life, Pencil, Poem, Poetry, Portrait, post it notes, SketchingLeave a comment

Art can be anything

Anything if you experiment

Experiment and learn

Learn to try

Try to play.

Play with Art

Art….

Trying to think of a three panel story

Posted on June 3, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, cat cartoon, Cat doodles, College, Funny, Humour, Learning, Life, no words, Thinking, three panel storyLeave a comment

Rough sketches, three panel wordless piece. I experimented with colour and the positioning of the panels. Also could it be a front, side or top or bottom view of the cat and of it breaking out through the cat flap? Could the sequence change? What are the cats emotions? Why does it want to get out? Fear, adventure, looking for a friend? Lots of reasons, even sunshine….? Or a bird it’s seen singing outside… Oh dear!

Dancer/music

Posted on June 3, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Arteza metallic watercolours, Drawing, Experiment, Fun, ink liner pen, Learning, Sketching, Watercolour sketch2 Comments

I went a bit mad for this, today’s #bandofsketchers prompt dancer/music. Made a drawing in metallic watercolours of a ballet dancer, I didn’t base it on a particular pose. When it was finished I wasn’t happy so I drew over it, then changed it in the photo app on my phone . I’m including all three versions I saved.

Using monoprint

Posted on June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic paint, Art, Black and white, Drawing, Experiment, monoprint, Picture, Portrait, Sketching, TextureLeave a comment

Ten minute sketch using cut out monoprint

The monoprint was made by rubbing paper onto black paint brushed onto silver foil and then scratched through a bit. I then cut out a shape to fit to the shape of the woman body and arm, side of the face and hair, (basically the shaded side of her face and body). This was a bit nerve wracking as I only had ten minutes to do the cutting out, sticking, and drawing the rest of the portrait. I used the monoprint from a stock of them I’d made already.

Mythology

Posted on June 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, cornucopia, Illustration, Life, merman, monoprint, Mythology, Pegasus, post it notes, Unicorn, Zebra9 Comments

Another post-it note and monoprint collage, drawn over with fine liner ink pen. The subject I found was mythology. The unicorn/ zebra/pegasus is adding all the elements I like together, the merman is holding a cornucopia from which fish are leaping. A bit of fun.

Aqualegia

Posted on June 1, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Aqualegia, black ink liner pens, Colombine, Drawing, Gardening, grannies bonnets, Ink2 Comments

Something to make me happy, aqualegia flowers. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was happy. They are also called Colombine or Grannies bonnets.

Ours come out in May. They hibridize and come in many forms and colours, with double or single flowers, pale yellow, pinks, reds, blues and purples. Some of them are single colours and others are bi colour. When the flowers fade and the seed pods ripen I collect the seed and scatter it all over the garden so they come up the following year.

Self portrait

Posted on May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, black pen, Collage, College, Drawing, Illustration, Ink, life study, post it notes, self portrait2 Comments

A self portrait done when I would have been drawing portraits of other students, but the server was down. Its a mixture of collaged magazine paper, watercolour paint, black ink and ink spray and post-it notes. I think I wasn’t in a good mood when I drew it. I had been doing the drawing session once a week for about seven weeks and then something went wrong and I couldn’t join in. Anyone that follows my blog will know that creating art makes me very happy, it cheers me up, (although I don’t look it in the drawing!)

The inevitable

Posted on May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat flap, Cats, escapes, freedom, Garden, Learning, returned, Safety, time to go, Tuxedo cat, WorriedLeave a comment

Sigh, it happened. Our intrepid outdoor cat has led my two indoor cats out into the great big green world of our garden. He is a bit of a cat burglar. Strong claws had forced the cat flap mechanism round so that the flap opened both ways. He must have come in for food overnight then forced it to get out. His Foster brother and sister were both ‘not in the house’ when I got up. That deafening silence that indicates ‘absence of cat’.

All I could do was call and whistle. Five minutes later, outdoor cat and Foster sister came in through the open door. Five minutes after that, Foster brother saunter up. You’ve been out I say, who me? He stares in innocence. I open the cat flap for him. No he wants the door opening. Finally they breakfast…. Now they are sitting tapping the cat flap again! Argh… Inevitable!

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