Is this a map?

Posted on April 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Description, Doodle, Drawing, five words, is it a map? Creating characters, Map, SketchingLeave a comment

OK, this was a doodle for a project in one of the weeks at college. We had five words chosen for us and had to create characters and situations for them to be in.

Mine were: copper, glasses, bedroom, sarcastic and star.

I’d made a crown earlier in the year for a virtual panto I was in. It was made of card covered in holographic stars. I finished the work, but now we are doing a project on creating a map. I was looking back on previous work and found this. It’s a map I think? It’s not what I’m doing for the project but it made me think about what a map is.

I would define a map as:

Describing a place pictorially with images, or using sound to give directions.

It can be imagined or realistic. Using icons or symbols to describe objects within the map. Indications of pathways or roads, ways to navigate the area. And rules to show whether places are only accessible in a certain way. Exits and entrances. Also is the map two or three dimensional, how is that represented. Lots to think about.

Old watercolour

Posted on April 21, 2021April 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drought, Flowers, grey skies, Painting, Rain, rain clouds, Water, Watercolour sketchLeave a comment

I miss rainclouds, full of dark grey promise. We’ve had a few weeks of dry weather and apart from a few spots of rain this morning we’ve had nothing. With that and the cold, frosty mornings, it’s taking a while for the plants to grow. We have a few seedlings, but when I went to a garden nursery they had hardly any perennial plants ready for growing on. I for one am hoping for rain soon.

Remembered scary tree

Posted on April 21, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Childhood, Drawing, faded memories, History, Life, Memory, Sketching, Spooky, Time, TreeLeave a comment

Oh I used to run past this tree. I was convinced as a child that it was inhabited by a ghost. As part of this terms college work we had to remember some landscape from our childhood and this was what I thought of.

I’ve probably missed out trees and I can’t remember if there were houses in the background. But it will remain with me forever!

Mark making.

Posted on April 20, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, blue pencil crayon, College, Drawing, Fun, Learning, Life, Mark making, Sketching, Workshop7 Comments

Not a good photo, but this was me drawing different marks as part of a mark making workshop.

It was supposed to be in pencil but all I had was a blue pencil crayon. I also tried rubbing over the top of an embossed tin. You had to come up with as many different marks as you coukd in a five minute period. It gets your mind working… Good for creativity.

On

Posted on April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, black pen, Drawing, Felt pens, Lampshade, Light, living room ceiling, on, Shadows, Sketching2 Comments

OK, a strange one of our living room light, we have textured paper on the ceiling (courtesy of the builder who did up the house). Bright felt pens and dark shadows. The light is on.

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was the word ON.

Sometimes it’s hard to know what to do for these prompts. I was thinking of drawing a bird on a twig, but it went dark before I got round to it.

Cat behind nets

Posted on April 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black ink, black paint, Bubble wrap, Cat, Felt pen, net curtain, Splodges, Watercolour, WindowLeave a comment

I decided to do a simple drawing and painting of one of my cats looking out the window. Then I thought I would use the bubble wrap I’d added black paint to. I stuck it on so it acts as a flap. Now it looks like net curtains. The black splodges also give the bare branched tree a few leaves!

Goldfish?

Posted on April 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, black paint, Goldfish, Imagined, Life, Pond, Splodges, Water, Watercolours1 Comment

I used monoprint black splodges for this. They were collaged onto a page I’d printed dots from bubble wrap covered in black paint. I realised I could make out two goldfish in the patterns. So I used watercolours and black ink to complete the picture. Slightly reminds me of Japanese woodblock images.

Positive and negative

Posted on April 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, edge of page, Ideas, Photo, positive and negative, Sketching2 Comments

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt.
Finally did a positive/negative self portrait after trying to think what I could do. I used the edge of a page cut off and added to the centre of this to make an interesting division.
Sometimes the challenges are really hard to do. I was going to draw a battery! Not exactly interesting. The negative side of the photo really lacked detail even when I tried changing the exposure.

Portraits with splodges

Posted on April 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, black paint, Bubble wrap, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Painting, Portrait, Splodges, Watercolours6 Comments

Ten minute portrait studies with black paint splodges from bubble wrap. I used watercolour and black ink pens for the portraits. We did some minoprint a few weeks back but I found gluing down bits of paper then drawing over the top difficult so tried this instead. It also makes you consider where to paint the face!
We were using found items to add interest. My favourite is the pot of brushes obscuring the face of one of the sitters.

Plum blossom

Posted on April 17, 2021April 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Garden, Gardening, Painting, plum blossom, Plum tree, Spring, Tree, Watercolour4 Comments

View from the kitchen window. This is the little plum tree ar the bottom of the garden. There is a cherry tree trunk in front of it and branches from that obscure the view. I decided to leave that out. I painted with watercolours. Palest first, then the pale greens and blues. It’s hard to fit the dark colours in without leaving white edges but I have never used masking fluid to hide the paler areas and I don’t want to start now.

Mallaband-Brown

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