Aunty socials piano keys?

Posted on September 10, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Fun, Life, Music, Musical notes, Piano keys, Random, Sketching, Spiral2 Comments

Auntysocial.wordpress.com is asking for a design for her old piano keys, 88 of them, because she’s dismantled her old upright piano. The keys are black and white (over 100 year old ivory). There are photos on her page of what other people have done. I’ve tried to draw something after failing abysmally on a drawing app that let’s you draw circles but not spirals. Anyway this is wonky but I thought some wall art, a square shaped white panel, and with a spiral or two of keys on it, plus some musical notes painted on it. A bit random…. I don’t know.

Eye colour

Posted on September 9, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colour, Design, Digital drawings, Eye, Metallic, Non-metallic, Playing14 Comments

Playing with ArtRage oils, another app I like to use. I haven’t drawn with it for a while. It’s a free app on android (you can get the ro version with lots of other tools for a price). I like the fact that you can turn up the metallic effects from zero to 100%. There are four brush types. A dry brush and everlasting oils are two of the options. You can also change the size of the brush tools. Maybe it can be a bit fiddly to work with but it’s interesting to use and has a different look to most of the other drawing aps out there.

If you know of other apps, let me know. I want to find other options for drawing.

Missing Barndances

Posted on September 8, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2019, Art, Barn dance, Missing fun, Mystery Play, Panto, Penkhull, Raising funds, Sad, SketchingLeave a comment

Next month we would probably have been holding a Barn dance in aid of the Penkhull Mystery play (that didn’t happen in July). We would also have started rehearsals for the Penkhull panto, both events, ( the mystery play and the panto) had big audiences. Now our government has decided to cut the number of people who can live in England down to six both inside and out. No more crowds. Sad….

Sketching challenge, Glass.

Posted on September 8, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Art challenge, Band of sketchers, Colours, Digital drawings, Glass, Picture, Rhubarb and Ginger Gin, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent, Woman artistLeave a comment

Todays challenge was to draw ‘glass’. I decided to do something colourful and as I like experiments, I drew in my Sketch app.

I tried to build up layers of colour using the spray paint tool first of all, then an eraser for the label and then paint brush tools, fountain pen and a text tool. It’s a bit wonky donkey, but I don’t think it looks too bad. I used a stylus to try and make neater marks. I might do a few more like this. I’m enjoying these challenges.

Rabbit or Hare?

Posted on September 7, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Digital drawing, Friends, Fun, Hare, Life, Rabbit, Sketchfu2 Comments

Sketchfu was another site I drew at. More sophisticated than Youdraw. It closed when the owners decided to send more time on another website. Lots of artists drew there. I made many friends and we did various challenges like copying photos of objects, but I also liked the freedom. You could also add to other people’s drawings. So it was almost like a joint animation. Like everything else in the world, things change, they never stay the same.

June sketch

Posted on September 7, 2020 Posted in Cat, SketchingTagged Birds, Cherries, Drawing, June, Life, Sketch, Trees, View, WindowLeave a comment

June, before all the leaves had grown on the trees. View out the kitchen window over the main garden. Usually there is a cat in the way but not on this day. The bird feeder on the window didn’t get used. I guess being stared at by an interested looking cat isn’t a good thing when all you want to do is peacefully eat some sunflower seed kernels. This view showed the ripening cherries on the tree, gone and eaten a month later. X

Today’s challenge ‘Soft’

Posted on September 6, 2020 Posted in Cat, SketchingTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Black and white sketch, Cat, Drawing, From life, Fun, iink pen, Pencil sketch, Sketchers, Sketching2 Comments

The second challenge set by our new sketching group ‘band of sketchers’ was ‘Soft’, not easy, until I saw my cat sitting in front of a big soft bag. Plus a mat she was sitting on. Its a pencil sketch with some black ink fine line pen work. It’s hard drawing moving cats. They have a tenancy to shift position just when you want to draw their eyes, or the position of their paws. I could have taken a photo but I wanted to draw direct from life.

Band of sketchers challenge

Posted on September 3, 2020 Posted in SketchingTagged Band of sketchers, Blogging, Building, Drawing, Fun, Home, House, Life, SketchLeave a comment

Yes I know its not a building, it’s INSIDE the building. I’m our living room. It’s still bricks and mortar. Anyway it’s the corner with the DVDs and Videos, an old hi-fi system and a lot of books and stuff. Amazing how media and technology changes so much. But not everyone is able to afford replacements. So it’s a case of watching things till they wear out. Anyway that’s the corner of the building I drew. Black ink on cartridge paper.

Tree

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Drawing, Environment, Life, Nature, Poem, Poetry, Sea, Sketch, Sketching, Tree, Woman artist2 Comments

Tree, look after me,

Let me climb up and see

Where the world ends

Where the sea sweeps

High views

Cliff edges,

Sand bars

Tree you let me see far

Over hill and vale

Into the distant waves

Crashing across the earth’s face

Like tears and mountains,

Flying spray

Blowing limbs from the tree

In a gale.

Hubby digging

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Etruria Artists, Friends, Garden, Life, Meeting people, Nervous, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Portuguese cafe, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

Fork in hand, pulling up weeds, tweed overcoat on, wearing a deerstalker hat, and enjoying a showery morning at Shelton allotments. No sketching challenge today, but we later met with some friends at a social distance so I got my sketch pad out again while enjoying a pleasant coffee in a Portuguese cafe. My nerves were a bit jangly after two seperate meetings with people so I wore a mask on both occasions and gloves when I was weeding. It’s hard to think the world might be going back to normal even though covid 19 is still here.

Mallaband-Brown

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