Drawing cats

Posted on September 16, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Cartoon, Cat, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Drawing, Life, Sketchfu, The adventures of...Leave a comment

Digital drawing of a cat that I drew a few years ago on sketchfu. I drew a series of these about the adventures of this cat. I imagined him getting up to all sorts of tricks, balancing on washing lines, chasing goldfish, stealing steaks from neighbours kitchens. I don’t know where the other old drawings went. I have had to change my computer a couple of times when it crashed so they may be lost for good.

I really need to save things to a seperate hard drive, the trouble is I have so many images, I don’t know how to store them….

Cat on a bag

Posted on September 16, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Cat, Cat sketch, Drawing, Fun, Happy, Life, Places to sit, Sketching, Sleeping cat, Sleeping places4 Comments

Why do cats like sitting and or lying on things? This is a blue carrier bag with a couple of fish on it saying save our seas, I think he just likes it because its soft. He also likes the washing basket, my rucksack, a cardboard box or two, the arm of the settee, and especially my hubby’s clothes when he’s got undressed ready for bed. The cat sleeps wherever he wants.

Cat washing

Posted on September 16, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Cute, Life, Love, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Sweet, Washing2 Comments

Keeping himself clean

Soft and shiny fur

He likes to be seen

It makes him purr

Sharpening his claws too

That’s what you have to do.

When you are a black and white cat.

Not too thin, not too fat.

Just lovely, friendly, neat

with neatly washed feet x

Structure

Posted on September 15, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Drawing, Fire escape, Fun, Industry, Life, Pottery, Sketch, Stairs, SuperstructureLeave a comment

View of the fire escape stairs across the road. We live opposite a pottery and of course it looks industrial. The superstructure allows people to come and go at various floors. The doors are always open in hot weather and sometimes people stand on the platforms during hot weather. They have gardens and trees around the grounds. At least they are trying to green the area.

Sketch

Posted on September 14, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colours, Digital drawing, Drawing, Face, Female art, Sketch, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

ArtRage oils sketch, edited in Sketch app. 2019. Digital drawing.

I like editing things in one application and then running it through one or two more. In a similar way to using different filters on Photoshop.

I have used lots of different apps over the years but I don’t always remember what I did in each of them which is why they look different each time. I want to find the best selection of drawing tools that I can. I hope they look OK.

Today’s prompt.. Pots

Posted on September 13, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Cartridge paper, Ellipses, pots, Sketch, Sketching challenge, Watercolour drawing, Watercolour sketchLeave a comment

I selected some pots in the kitchen for a quick watercolour sketch before the sun went down. I don’t do watercolours very often, these are Cotman colours which are quite strong. I painted in an A5 cartridge paper sketchbook.

It came out quite well, I could have done a better job of the ellipses, but I did not do any preliminary drawing and I just concentrated on the shadows and colours.

Kitty

Posted on September 13, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Colours, Digital drawing, Drawing, Kitty, Oblong tool, Sketcher app, Sketching app, ToolsLeave a comment

Digital doodle, using the Sketcher app on my phone. Instead of lines I used a tool that creates small oblong. Then a ribbon tool for the whiskers. Using a pink background and a dark green pen tool makes an interesting colour combination. With delicate lines I think it gives an ethereal effect.

confusion

Posted on September 12, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged back to my phone, blocks, can't upload, classic?, Confused, error, Learning, SketchesLeave a comment

just when I thought I had got this…

I clicked classic this time and seem to have converted to blocks? I really don’t know what I’m doing, but as with my art I am learning….

so anyway I’ve added a few recent drawings and experiments to see what a collage page looks like. The “this page has been left blank intentionally is to signify the blank stare I had when I clicked the wrong button.

oddly it wont let me upload any new images, just the ones I’ve already used,,, hmmm….

🐬 Dolphin doodle

Posted on September 11, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Based on maori design, Black and white, Dolphin, Doodle, Fun, Life, Sea, Sketch, Sketching, WaterLeave a comment

I was looking at Maori designs for whales and Orcas and saw one for a dolphin. I haven’t copied it but this is similar, with my own spin. I was still thinking of Auntysocials challenge to do something with her black and white piano keys. It won’t be possible to do womething like this without cutting and shaping piano keys. But it’s just an idea. I’m not quite sure why I added the waves. I can imagine the dolphin jumping.

Shouldn’t have added the curly lines to the title. It seems to read dolphik! Or dolphink, oh dear!

Prompt ‘wood’

Posted on September 10, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Buddliea, Drawing, Gardening, Green, Life, Pear tree, Pine, Sketch, Sketching, TreesLeave a comment

Our prompt from band of sketchers today was wood, so instead of drawing some brown furniture I decide to draw the trees outside including a pear tree, buddliea, pine tree and other trees, lots of wood. Our garden is a thicket! I hope you can see it OK, lots of leaves. The pears on the tree are growing larger every day. X

Mallaband-Brown

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