Birds

Posted on April 10, 2021April 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bird, Birds, Breeze, Digital drawing, Drawings, Poem, Poetry, purple and green, Rain, ShowersLeave a comment

Digital drawings of birds, using ArtRage oils and then my sketcher app.

Birds sing

Rain falls

Washes the air

Bird song

Crystal sounds

Twinkle like stars

On the breeze.

My friends drawing of me

Posted on April 10, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged @rumfluffart, Art, Colours, Drawing, Friend, Fun, Illustrator, Life drawing, Portrait, procreate, Sketching2 Comments

This is by my friend Ruth (@rumfluffart on Instagram.) it was based on her drawing of me that she did during one of our portrait drawing sessions. I like the way she has altered it in a programme called Procreate I think. Is something I would like to use but I don’t have the right type of phone or tablet to run it.

She has a good sense of colour and her artworks are accessable and fun.

Today’s portrait session 9.4.21

Posted on April 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Friends, Painting, Pictures, Portrait, portrait session, Sketching, Watercolour, watercolour sketching8 Comments

Today we were playing with lighting effects, either with the light from a lamp, a phone or the screen light. I decided to try and use watercolour (mainly blue and brown) and a couple of extra colours depending on the backgrounds. The paint set doesn’t have a black, which makes it interesting trying to get dark enough colours…

Rest in Peace Prince Philip 9.4.2021

Posted on April 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawing, Drawing, his royal highness Prince Philip, HRH, Portrait, Prince Philip, SketchingLeave a comment

A quick sketch of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, who died this morning at Windsor Castle aged 99. Rest in Peace.

#bandofsketchers today

Posted on April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, Chilli, Drawing, easy Chilli, Food, Hot, jar, Sketching, today's promptLeave a comment

Jar of easy Chilli, had it about a year. Hardly used any of it! I could have coloured it in but decided just to try different marks to create light and shade. The shadow is from a felt pen that’s running out. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was ‘Jar’.

Watching skyportraitartistoftheyear Canada

Posted on April 7, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #skylandscapeartist Canada, Art, Coloured pencils, Drawing, Lake, Landscape, old felt pen, pine trees, Sketching, Sky, ten minute sketchLeave a comment

I just watched a grand final, not sure what year, but it was a lovely landscape in Canada. Lake trees and sky. In the middle of the artists time a thunderstorm blew up. There was a wide range of styles from strongly impressionistic and expressionist, to bead work and realism. Also mixed media. I won’t say who won but I enjoyed it.

While watching #skylandscapeartistoftheyearcanada I just decided to try and sketch for ten minutes as you only get glimpses of the landscape… This was difficult but I had a go….

Old felt pen and coloured pencils A6 sketchpad

Reflected..

Posted on April 5, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white, Black ink marker, Drawing, Face, hand mirror, Reflected, self portrait, Sketching2 Comments

Reflected, today’s #bandofsketchers prompt. Trying to draw my face in a little hand mirror. I think I’ve got the distance between my nose and mouth too close..

Not really up to doing much today, still feeling a bit off.

Digital faces

Posted on April 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Layout app, Learning, Life, Sketch, Sketcher free, TabletLeave a comment

This is a sketcher free drawing that I did a couple of years ago. I mirrored it in my layout app. I wish I could remember how I did it. But when you don’t practice using things for a while you forget. The ap is on my tablet, but I don’t use it very often at the moment. I need to get my act together…

Self portrait

Posted on April 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged black acrylic, Black ink, Collage, College, Drawing, drawing group, Frustrated, Paint, portrait group, self portrait, server down, Sketch, WatercolourLeave a comment

Collage, sponged black acrylic and ink. Then watercolour on top.

We were due to have a portrait drawing session yesterday but the server wasn’t working. So I decided to have an experiment and throw some ideas I’ve been playing with at the subject. The background wasn’t that important, it was more about texture and frustration than anything else. I missed meeting up with my college friends…..

Celtic cross

Posted on April 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, arm, Art, celtic cross, cross, Doctors, Drawing, Easter, Fed up, Painting, Shaking, Stone carving2 Comments

Tried to do a celtic cross (wonky). Sponged black paint. Black ink, then watercolour and finally a bit more black ink on top…
#bandofsketchers prompt today is Easter. I did try and copy this from a photo, but my left hand and arm wobble and shake so much its affecting my right arm. Very fed up. Would love to do something more accurate. I think I’d better try and get in the doctors.

Mallaband-Brown

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