Will life be quieter?

Posted on January 20, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 46th, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, healthy, inaugeration, kind, Life, new regime, Safe, Vice President2 Comments

Times are changing. When I drew this more than ten years ago I never imagined there would be a female Vice President in the United States, but Camalla Harris has just been inaugurated. It is another step on the change in society that has happened in the twentieth and now the twenty first century. The Suffragets would be amazed and, I hope, pleased.

As for the 46th President of the United States, I hope he presides over a safer country. A kind country. Perhaps a country that dumps fake news generated by spin doctors and naysayers’. A healthier country and a healthier world. As a bystander across the pond I can only wish you well…

Jewellery

Posted on January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #30daysketchbookchallenge, Art, Beads, Coloured pencils, Drawing, Felt pens, Jewellery, Life, Pencils, SketchingLeave a comment

#30daysketchbookchallenge, jewellery. Struggled to draw the tiny beads on this necklace. I was trying to make it look realistic, I’m not sure I did and the photo is a bit blurry.

Used pencils, felt pens and coloured pencils to produce this.

Redo with metallic paints and better photo…

Day five #MendNotTrend

Posted on January 20, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #MendNotTrend, day five, Drawing, drawing prompt, Life, Mandala, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s prompt for day five of #MendNotTrend was calm, do I tried to draw a mandala to meditate to, (not a corona virus!)

Two variations. The top one reminds me of a patterned tile. Drawn in Sketch app. I feel a little bit calmer.

Mandalas

Posted on January 20, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Flood fill, Layout app, Mandalas, Pattern, Photodirector, Playing, Sketch appLeave a comment

Playing with colour and pattern. I drew this in the Sketch app then used a rainbow flood fill option in the same app and then used photodirector. Finally I put them together in the Layout app.

I like the colours on the drawn lines when I flood filled them. They remind me of Mandalas.

I miss my Mom

Posted on January 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Eyes, Gone, Life, miss her, Mom, Portrait, Sad, Sketch2 Comments

I miss my Mom, its been around ten years since she died, but I often wish I could just phone her up for advice. I did a painting of her in 2008 and I just did this sketch from it. I can see so many mistakes. I need to set an easle up. Trying to draw while holding the painting… Tired arms…

The best thing are her eyes, they are right…

Day 19

Posted on January 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #30daysketchbookchallenge, Art, Bright, Colours, day 9, Drawing, Lamp, Lampshade, Marker pens, SketchingLeave a comment

#30daysketchbookchallenge. Day 19, standard lamp with pink sparkling lampshade. Plus view of vegitation out of the window. The prompt was lamp and lampshade.

Drawn in marker pens. I went for bright colours. A little A5 sketch.

Going 3d

Posted on January 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #MendNotTrend, 3d, Abstract, Art, carrier bag, Design, Is it art?, Photos, Plastic, Sketching, WasteLeave a comment

Today’s challenge on #MendNotTrend (day four) was to create something three dimensional out of string or plastic and perhaps draw it or draw the idea of what it would look like if you didn’t have anything to work with. So I cut a carrier bag in half (down the front, then down the back) leaving it uncut at the bottom. I twisted both sides by the handles to make a plastic ‘rope’. I then looped it through one handle and looped into the loop over and over, finishing at the other handle loop…. See photos. I finally drew the outcome…

Drawing with something different

Posted on January 18, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Hubby, Ink roller, Life, Profile, Sketch, SketchingLeave a comment

If you want something difficult to draw with try one of those ink rollers that you can cover over your name and address with.

I decided to see how it would handle. The answer? Hard to manipulate. Difficult to draw thin and curved lines.

Anyway, this is a profile portrait of my hubby.

Orme art group

Posted on January 18, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bonnard, Challenging, Coloured pencils, Drawing, Orme Art group, square threeLeave a comment

The challenge is to copy a Bonnard painting. I’ve tried to copy this square., number three. I know I’ve made it too wide. My other two squares were painted in watercolour and felt pens, so this time I decided to use metallic coloured pencils. I’m afraid I gave up a bit on the vegiration. Trying to copy something from a photo on your phone while holding a sketchpad and drawing isn’t easy. I changed the colours because the pencils I was using were to pale..

#MendNotTrend day three

Posted on January 18, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #MendNotTrend, Abstract, Art, Challenge, Cogs, gold stamp, letter print roller, Printing, TimeLeave a comment

The challenge today was to created a printed, sculptural image. That was hard, I only have a round gold stamp and a black roller printer with letters. I also used a gold pen. This is called Cogs. Tried to get some movement in it!

I’m not really convinced by it, but we are meant to be creating abstracts, so perhaps I was being too literal?

Mallaband-Brown

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