Spiral

Posted on November 17, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Black cartridge paper, Dendrochronology, Drawing, Fun, Sketching, Spiral2 Comments

Drawing spirals calms me. Following the contours round. Sometimes I add a dot so that the line has to deviate around it. I used all my metallic pens for this, mainly silvers, a gold and a purple. I did have a green but it has almost run out. I think this looks a bit like a tree trunk, like dendrochronology. Tree rings that you can look at to see how old the tree is (the outer ring is the one which was current when the tree was cut down). If you count inwards then each ring represents a year generally. You can alsu tell by the thickness of the line. I know that’s not what my drawing represents, but it’s what I see when I look at it.

Xï

Green amaryllis

Posted on November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Amaryllis, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Flowering, Green, Indoor plants, Pen, Sketch, Windowledge4 Comments

Green amaryllis bulb about to burst, the last years leaves still surviving in another pot and some darker green leaves in another pot. The living room reflected behind in the background. Today’s #bandofsketchers drawing this afternoon. I kept the colours to a minimum to emphasise the greens.

At the museum

Posted on November 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artefacts, China, Collections, Day trip, Liverpool, Sketching, Terracotta army sketch, Visit, World museumLeave a comment

At the Terracotta army exhibition in 2018.at the World museum in Liverpool. I like drawing as well as taking photos. (I had over 100 photos).

The World museum is full of so many interesting exhibitions, ranged over several floors. These included Egyptian art, Clocks, Marine artefacts and other art and objects. Too much to see in one day. I would love to go back and see more!

Digital life drawing

Posted on November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digital drawing, Drawing, Life drawing, Patterns, Sketch, SketchingLeave a comment

I took my tablet to a life drawing class a couple of years ago. I wanted to see what a digital drawing would look like. I chose to use a program called sketcher free that gives you different texture tools, like fur long fur, ribbon, chrome, and other pens. You can chose the background colour. You can also use a colour slider and picker and a change in pen sizes. It’s a bit complicated to choose a pen shape that translates to the drawing well. There are other programs that are simpler to use but I liked (as usual) the patterned effect I created.

Mandalas

Posted on November 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black paper, Calligraphy pen, Drawing, Gold and silver, Layout app, Mandalas, Marker pens, Patterns, PhotodirectorLeave a comment

A doodled mandala and adjustments in photodirector to add lens flare and playing with the drawn lines (gold and silver pens on black cartridge paper).

I wanted to cover the paper in patterns, it started out as a reasonably balanced pattern at the centre, but I soon went off on a tangent!

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt

Posted on November 15, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Bathroom, Black ink, Cycle, Felt pens, Fun, Kitchen, Life, Sketching, WheelLeave a comment

Drawing every couple of days to a prompt helps me keep my hand in and makes me think about drawing things slightly differently to a straightforward image. Hence the bike wheel…. Can’t say I got it right with its wonky spokes and dodgy perpective but I did find it enjoyable. The only thing is the radiator in there doesn’t give out much heat so I drew the circles for the wheel in the kitchen first (it’s warmer). Then I tried to draw the spokes in the bathroom but I was shaking too much to get straight lines!

By the way I didn’t draw the oil cans and the old rags… I think he think his bikes are horses and need stabling….. Lol

Cat sketches

Posted on November 13, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Cats, Drawing, Life, Quick sketch, SketchingLeave a comment

A few sketches of two of our cats. Cats move and I found it difficult to capture the ones where they were moving. Especially with black fur to draw, some of the patches are not the right shape or position, but if you are not aware of the image of the original cat it’s not as important? They are very sketchy..

Sleeping

Posted on November 13, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Awkward angle, Black and white, Drawing, Hubby, Life, Partner, Sketching, SleepingLeave a comment

We were watching TV but he fell asleep. An awkward position, across the arm of the armchair. It was difficult because he was moving. Black and white sketch using a fineliner pen. It’s a small A5 sketchbook that I’m using. I have almost run out of paper!

Emotions

Posted on November 12, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Argument, Art, Concentration, Drawing, Face, Looking, Pencil sketch, Portrait, Sadness, Thinking2 Comments

What emotions or feelings do you think are shown in this portrait? Anger, sadness, upset? Concentration or thought?

Sometimes it’s hard to tell. I know I drew this a couple of years ago and the sitter was, I think, either listening to the radio or watching TV. I think the look is concentration. Some peoples can sag when they are in repose. I know it takes more muscles to frown than to smile, but sometimes a face takes on a characteristic look, a shape it settles into. That’s this look…

‘Together’ today’s prompt

Posted on November 12, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Black and white ink, Cat, Drawing, Embrocation, Objects, Pain relief, Sketching, Tenners, TV remoteLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers sketch prompted by ‘together’. This is a collection of stuff together on the chair arm. It is a was hard to decide what to draw, the prompt makes me think of groups of people, family, friends. Clearly I can’t do that. Also cats, if they were together, but our cats scatter to the four winds, unless they are play chasing each other. So I gathered a few things on the chair arm and this was the result.

Mallaband-Brown

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