How?

Posted on October 30, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2104, Description, Face, facial recognition, Family, Fat, Hairy, how?, Short, silly post, What?, Why?3 Comments

Describe a family member.

So how to do describe a family member? The wrinkles on their face? Their hair colour, skin colour, other physical attributes? Height, weight, hairstyle, glasses or not.

Faces are square, firm jawed, soft skinned, made up, lipstick, mascara. Eye colour, hair colour.

Musical, artistic, crafty, cook, reader, tidy scruffy or normal?

Add a few of these as a combination…

Arthritic, short, hairy, smiling, vegetarian, rock chick?

Or balding, bearded, blue eyed, tall, scruffy, and a mechanic.

A person may describe me in one way, someone else in another. Without facial recognition would you recognise me from my description? How many other people fit the discription?

My family members will remain hidden from the Internet. Because I don’t want to share. I think that’s fair enough.

A sketchbook page

Posted on October 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, French Impressionists, Hand, Renoir, Sketching, summer challenge, Time5 Comments

Trying to draw part of a Renoir painting yesterday was hard work. I didn’t get the shape exactly right, and trying to use felt pens was hard too as I only had a limited range of colours. I didn’t do a good job of the hand on the woman’s shoulder, the felt pens bled and I really should have used a fine liner pen. But at least I completed a challenge.

Mugs

Posted on October 29, 2023October 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white, Drawing, Drinks, Life, Mugs, Sketching, Still life, Tray6 Comments

#bandofsketchers prompt still life…. Still catching up. Still life with mugs, why use one when you still have plenty available. Last night’s horde! Black ink drawing. I just washed them up.

Summer challenge

Posted on October 28, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Degas, Drawing, Felt pens, French Impressionists, oil paintings, Painting, Renoir, Sketching, summer challenge4 Comments

Finally completed our Orme art summer challenge. Choose a section of a Renoir and Degas painting and copy it in paint or another medium. The top images are my felt pen attempts today.

Facing my fears

Posted on October 27, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Artrage oils, Concern, Digital drawing, Face, Fear, Finger painting, Life, Time, Worry4 Comments

This came up on Facebook memories and I thought it was so close to how I’m feeling now. Jangling nerves, my heartbeat spikey, thoughts all over the place moving at a million miles a second. Suspicious of everyone. Anxiety and tiredness mixed into a morass of stress. It’s been a bad few days and I don’t know if it’s going to get better. Fingers crossed.

Artrage oils digital drawing.

Vehicle

Posted on October 27, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Awake, Car, Digital drawing, Finger painting, Green, green car, Insomnia, Late night, Police, Tired2 Comments

Another #bandofsketchers catch up. Prompt was vehicle. Digital drawing, in Artrage app. I’m up late because someone was in the garden. We rang the police and they are trying to catch them. Can’t sleep so drew a green car.

Lock

Posted on October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, circular padlock, Felt pens, Ink pen, late drawing, Prompt, Shed, Sketching2 Comments

Hardware was the prompt. One of the circular padlocks I got for our sheds after they got broken into. Felt pen and ink pen. #bandofsketchers.

Back paw

Posted on October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Black and white cat, Black ink, Cat, Felt pens, Late, Life, Prompt, Tuxedo cat, under your foot, underfootLeave a comment

Under his foot, my cat washing his back paw. I’ve been meaning to catch up with my sketching so this is a start…for #bandofsketchers prompt under your foot from a few weeks ago. Black ink and felt pens.

Fear

Posted on October 26, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fear, Invasion, Life, Loss, Sketching, WorriesLeave a comment

I tried to draw an abstract image of fear. Everything is chaotic, your not in control, tight chest and gut. Swirling colours…

I’m not afraid of halloween or anything silly like that, but I’m scared to go out into our garden without my hubby. We have been through a series of thefts from our garden and now I can’t stop looking out of the window to check if anyone had come back. Hubby just rushed out because he saw someone on a bike like his, and I’m afraid to go into the garden incase someone is lurking, so many bad thoughts of what might happen!

Hence the drawing, a bit of self art therapy.

Settle to Carlisle line

Posted on October 22, 2023October 22, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 1994, Art, Cycling, Drawing, holidays, Life, ribblehead viaduct, Sketching, YorkshireLeave a comment

Another image drawn on holiday, this one is from 1994 whan we were on holiday near Settle. We cycled around the area and I did this sketch in biro when we stopped to have lunch and look at the view I think. But this was 29 years ago so I may have misremembered. By looking at the notes it looks like I revisited in the October of the same year.

Mallaband-Brown

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