Horse in snow

Posted on December 18, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Fun, Horse, Horses in snow, Life, Memories, Sketching, Winter horses4 Comments

For as long as I remember I’ve drawn horses. I used to read horsey books. I’ve only ever sat on a donkey when I was a child and I’ve sat on a horse and been led on a walk a couple of times too. Sitting up on a horse gives me vertigo, and I certainly don’t think I’m built for it. But that said, I do love horses.

I used to draw them all the time when I was little. My bedroom wall was covered with either drawings of Asterix the Gaul, Elizabethan men and women wearing ruffs and dappled grey horses. It was always dappled grey. I used to watch show jumping on the TV (horses jumping over fences) and looking at the way they moved. I got so good I even sold one for sixpence when I was at junior school….. I felt really guilty!

Over time I have stopped drawing them as much, but sometimes I just have to draw them…

Ooo! Chocolates

Posted on December 18, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Boxes, Chocolates, Christmas, Handmade, In the post, Leek, Life, Staffordshire moorlands, Sweet, TastyLeave a comment

They arrived today, from Leek, in the Staffordshire moorlands, in a big box. Bang, bang, bang on the front door this morning. I dashed downstairs and opened the door. The postman handed me a box marked fragile. What could it be? The writing on the address was very similar to that of a friend, so I assumed it was something from him. But no, there were six Chocolate boxes that I’d ordered for Christmas presents. They are handmade and in beautiful boxes tied up with ribbons. They will now be posted on to family. I might save a small box for us. X

Drawing after Bob Ross

Posted on December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bob Ross, Drawing, Fun, half an hour, Learning, Quick, sketcher, SketchingLeave a comment

I was just watching a programme with the artist Bob Ross, he was painting a winter scene with autumnal colours and snowy highlights, so I decided to draw as I watched. I’m trying to get to understand my different drawing apps. I don’t think I did too badly, I just about managed to keep up and this took me about half an hour.

I am not sure I can get the whole image on the screen. Because I’m using a different device I seem to be into block editor mode….that’s better….

Old sketch

Posted on December 17, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, A day in the life, April, Art, Black and white drawing, Covid19, Diary, Drawing, Drawn diary, SketchingLeave a comment

17 April 2020 was a day I drew a days diary. The final day of drawing with Stoke-on-Trent urban sketchers. I went on to draw more afterwards. We didn’t know at that time that the virus was just going to keep going. We thought it would soon be over. We thought maybe we could conquer it! There was some optimism still out there. Now things don’t look so good. But you just have to keep going. I haven’t felt much like painting, but I haven’t stopped drawing yet!

Gold

Posted on December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Gold, Life, Permanent markers, Rings, SketchingLeave a comment

Two gold rings, drawing for #bandofsketchers prompt ‘Gold’ today. I shake sometimes these days so the drawings are a bit wobbly! Permanent markers and felt pens on cartridge paper. Added dots to give an idea of textured cloth under the Rings…

Christmas owl?

Posted on December 17, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Daft, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Funny, Humour, Play, Poem, Poetry, Silly rhymes11 Comments

Baubles and glitter

Owlish glass eyes

Tinsel and paper chains

Stationary supplies

Could be for Christmas

Could be for spring

Maybe for summer

A decorative thing….

What is this poem?

Totally daft

Owling not owing

Writing this draft.

Blossom time

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Blossom, Fruit, Ink drawing, Life, Memory, Sketching challenge, Trees2 Comments

I keep finding old photos of my drawings over the last few months. This was day 25 of our Urban Sketchers challenge to draw pictures in lockdown. Over the months I’ve had more drawing practice than I had for several years before.

I notice the tricycle, that had to have new back wheels one of the old ones collapsed and the other one was almost rusted through. And the copper coloured windmill that fell apart in a heavy wind!

The blossom was pink and white cherry and pear blossom. Billowing and beautiful, we had abundant fruit this year. Only five or six months to wait before it comes back.

Quick sketch

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #skyportraitartistoftheyear, Art, Carlos Acosta, Drawing, Fun, Having a go, Life drawing, Portrait, SketchingLeave a comment

Fifteen minute sketch, #skyportraitartistoftheyear. I just tried drawing Carlos Acosta in mid air. Bit scrappy, charcoal pencil…

The winner of the competition, Curtis Holder is doing a ten thousand pounds commission portrait of Acosta for display in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

I wish the sitters were set up so you could watch TV and paint or draw them, it’s an enjoyable programme.

Eddie Izzard drawing

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #skyportraitartistoftheyear, Art, Drawing, Drawn from an image on the net, Eddie Izzard, Fine liner pen, Fun, Picture, Sketching, Twenty five minutesLeave a comment

Just watching#skyportraitartistoftheyear Eddie Izzard was the sitter. Found a reasonably close image to what they are painting today off the Internet. I haven’t worked out how to find images of the sitters on the Web page. I must be doing something wrong. Anyway this was a quick 25 minute sketch. Using a unipin 0.8 black fine line pen. Which was running out

Dove

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Dove, Drawing, Helo, Icon, Love, Peace, Safe, Sketch, Sketch app, SymbolLeave a comment

Someday Peace and Love will be more important than War. Nature and the Environment will become recognised for how important they are. Maybe symbols of peace, like the dove, will get the message across. We need to take these concepts seriously. We need to stop being selfish and realise we shouldn’t be self centred. People in all walks of life, in this country, and abroad, are struggling. War wastes resources and ruins lives. We need to support each other not attack and deplore. As the song says. Let there be peace all over the world…

Mallaband-Brown

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