Ford Green Roof

Posted on July 30, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Fine Art, Ford Green Hall, Life, Outside, Painting, plein aire, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Watercolour painting2 Comments

Watercolour painting done today, mostly of the roof of Ford Green Hall. I started over to one side so it’s a bit squashed up on the left. I was just finishing as the rain started to come down so we went inside the cafe there for a brew and a cake.

This was a plein aire (spelling?) with the Orme Art Group. Our last session until we start up again in September.

I really enjoyed being out in the fresh air, although there was a noisy motorbike (2 stroke) zooming around and being very annoying. Ford Green Hall was built in the 15th century. Brilliant place to visit and there is a nature reserve at the back.

Patterning

Posted on July 28, 2023July 28, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Design, Drawing, Flood fill, Fun, Pattern, picassoish, Sketching2 Comments

Symmetrical doodle, could be a vase? I love pattern, I found the flood fill on my sketchbook app, using gradient and radial fills. I can’t work out how to change it from black, grey and white. But I think it sort of works? I was trying for a picassoish line effect although there are no bits of anatomy from animals and humans like his abstracts have.

Green eyes

Posted on July 27, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apollo, Art, ArtRage app, Cassandra, Doodle, Drawing, Green eyes, Life, Trojan priestess3 Comments

Drawing and doodling, I had fun dig this, just playing with layers in my Artrage app. The Green eyes give her a spooky look. I imagine this woman as some mythological person. Perhaps Cassandra who Wikipedia states:

Cassandra or Kassandra in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believed. In modern usage her name is employed as a rhetorical device to indicate a person whose accurate prophecies, generally of impending disaster, are not believed. Wikipedia

I was interested in Greek and Roman mythology when I was a child. I think I read about Cassandra then.

Butterfly

Posted on July 25, 2023July 25, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colourful, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Prompt, sketchbook app, Sketching, Sunday2 Comments

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was butterfly, moth or insect. I decided to do a symmetrical drawing of a butterfly using the Sketchbook app on my phone. Basically I haven’t seen many of them so far this year. So I preferred doing my own design rather than using an Internet image to work from. It’s definitely sketchy!

Quick sketch

Posted on July 24, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bird, Bluebird, cross, Drawing, Life, logo, Money, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Thinking, tweet, Twitter5 Comments

Farewell little Bluebird,

You will never tweet again

X marks the spot where you sat

Crossed out by a new logo

Time to say goodbye X

Wave curl

Posted on July 22, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Digital drawing, Life, Metallic, nonmetallic, Oils, spin, splashing, Twist, Water, wave2 Comments

Artrage oils digital finger painting creating a spinning, swirling, twisting splashing wave. A mixture of metallic brushes and a non metallic air brush spray digitally achieved this effect. Like a mad spin speed in a washing machine drum! I had fun xxx

Patterned

Posted on July 21, 2023July 21, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Design, Dots, incollage app, Line, Metallic brushes, Pattern, skewed, turned, Twisted2 Comments

Artrage drawing played with in Incollage and Instagram. You can do all sorts of things by playing with a digital image, you can make interesting patterns and skew and tilt images if you try. I have often done things like this quite frequently, but it’s a while since I’ve created something like this.

Idea for a semi abstract painting based on rain.

Posted on July 20, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, ArtRage app, Commission, Design, digital finger painting, Drawing, Fun, Sketching2 Comments

I have a small commission and I need to create something gentle based on the idea of rain. I’ve used the theme of raindrops and water running down glass as an idea. This was drawn in my Artrage app and it’s a digital finger painting. I will try and do the painting in metallic acrylic paint.

Fruit

Posted on July 20, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colour, Drawing, Felt pens, Fruit, gin, Lemon, limes, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was fruit. Lemon and limes sitting in a bowl for gin and tonics, but I haven’t had any gin in for weeks! Felt pen drawing, as usual. But I tried to use a minimal amount of black and not use much outlining, so it’s more solid colour.

Le Tour

Posted on July 20, 2023July 20, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Bicycle, Cycling, Exciting, France, Sketch, The tour de France, tour, Yellow Jersey3 Comments

I’m really enjoying the Tour de France this year. I don’t have all the names of the Cyclists, but it’s impressive to see the work they put in and the speeds they move at.

Today a breakaway of four riders stayed away until the end of the stage. There are three more days to go, with the final stage on Sunday when the current yellow jersey holder expected to win the overall three week tour.

Up and down mountains in blistering heat and massive rainstorms, this years tour has not been without incident. Motorbikes and cars in the way, crashes into barriers on fast, technical descents. The steepest stage (yesterday), for several years caused the rider who was second in the race to loose precious time during an individual time trial.

If you can see it. Watch it! It’s fantastic.

Mallaband-Brown

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