April Showers?

Posted on April 11, 2023 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged April Showers, Cats, cold wet, Jet stream, Rain, Roof tiles, Showers, Snow, weather warning, Wind, yellow warningLeave a comment

Weather forecast.. Yellow warnings for severe weather. Gale force winds and heavy rain. Apparently we have a fast moving jet stream above us which is bringing rain and strong winds over the next couple of days. Hang on to your brolly! We went out in it and got soaked, but the blossom is starting to open on the pear and cherry trees, so spring is making itself known round here. The wind has blown a couple of slates off the roof. I don’t know if I can claim on the insurance? I will have to find out, I don’t hold out much hope.

The cats keep coming in like wet otters and curling up in warm places. I don’t know why they want to go out at all. I can tell the direction of the wind because the rain is lashing the back of the house and the gutter is overflowing and dripping down onto the back windowledge, you can hear the drips. It’s also due to get colder for a few days and there may be some small snow showers, heating will have to go on again….

Sleepy (insomnia diary)

Posted on April 11, 2023April 11, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Awake, Digital drawing, Drawing, Insomnia, insomnia diary, Sketching, Sleep, TiredLeave a comment

Five hours sleep, that’s not bad for me. I woke up twice in the night, and on the third gave up and got up. I feel so tired, I have things to do, an appointment to keep. Just had breakfast and I’m nodding off… I don’t know how many times I’ve dropped my phone on the floor because it’s slipped out of my hands. I sometimes manage to catch it, but my old phone had a cracked screen because I dropped it so often.

I think I’ll take a nap for an hour!

Dragon sketch…

Posted on April 11, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Colours, Digital art, Dragon, Drawing, Fun, Glitter, Sketching, Sketching app, spiky2 Comments

A dragon drawing, I found a spiky line on the sketching app that really made this look interesting. I did my final major project at college on Dragons last year. So when I find a new way to represent them I like to experiment.

This is done in two apps, the initial line work was done on Sketcher app and then I exported it and opened it up in Artrage because the tools there are more flexible for colouring in and it also has metallic and Glitter options. I like it.

Roses

Posted on April 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Finger painting, Flowers, Fun, Life, Roses, Sketching2 Comments

Finger painted in the new app and then collaged. Is anyone getting bored by these digital drawings? I am not going to keep posting these. I will try and do something else unless I can create something a bit better. There are lots of pens and tools on this app and it is interesting, but it’s going to take a while to get used to it….

Twinned

Posted on April 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Gone, Grief, Learning, Loss, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Sister, Sketching, Texture, Twin2 Comments

Sleep, memory, chases my mind.

I remember we were twins

When you were still here

Now your shape is gone

A space left in my landscape

So before I weep again

Bring me more dreams of you

Here beside me

Her next to me

Sister, twin.

A new drawing

Posted on April 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Doodle, Drawing, Fast drawing, few minutes, Life, Sketching, Sketching app, Time2 Comments

I’ve found a new sketching app to download. I’ve used it before on my PC but not on my phone. It has a myriad of tools and a lot more flexibility than the previous sketching app I had. It’s not as intuative but as I sort of know my way round it I’ve got a headstart. This doodle was done in a few minutes. It was meant to resemble the Alfred Hitchcock cartoon but it doesn’t really. Still it sort of works I guess.

The water horse

Posted on April 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Horse, Imagined, Lake, Life, Mystery, Photodirector, pond weed, Short story, Sketch, Water, water horseLeave a comment

Looking down into the water I saw a reflected horse, brown and white with a dark mane. Pleased to see some life around me I looked up from the reflection, but there was nothing there. Only an old tree overhanging the water, flecked with red and brown leaves, that was all, then the sky and a wooden fence….

I looked back down into the water, it was murky now, covered with ripples from the wind, no sign of my previous vision.

I stood up and started walking around the path. The lake was not big and it took me ten minutes to walk through the grass and sedges to the gate. The lake was in a dip so it was soon disappearing behind me. Flowers and hedges shimmering in the sun. I looked back over my shoulder and saw a horses head appearing out of the water, it stepped onto the bank, it started to trot, gallop, it was moving fast towards me. Covered in pond weed, mud slipping off its coat, steaming in the sunshine. I RAN as fast as I could. I could feel its breath on my neck as I reached the gate and flew through it. I stumbled and looked up. Just the sky with white clouds scudding by. No water horse!

Orange face

Posted on April 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Colourful, Digital drawing, Drawing, Flood fill, Fun, History, Imagined, SketchingLeave a comment

Flood fill, low opacity, changes an image I drew a couple of days ago in Artrage. The white patches were created using either the eraser tool or a spray tool (I can’t remember). Adding light to a drawing can make an object look more three dimensional. As if a chink of light has found it’s way in through a gap in a curtained window or a hole in a roof.

Who is she? Could she be from an ancient Celtic tribe, perhaps a Bronze or Iron age person. I might make designs for jewellery for her.

The bird

Posted on April 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bird, black bird, Flight, Food, Poem, Poetry, searching, sketching drawing, swoopLeave a comment

Black bird

Swooping down

from the sky

Wings tucked in,

Falling fast

Ready to grab

A morsel

from the ground.

A bit of grain.

Or a tasty snail?

Swoop and flash

It’s gone up high

Searching

Again.

Easter flowers

Posted on April 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Collage, Colours, Design, Easter, Eggs, Filters, Finger painting, Flowers, Fun, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Can’t stop playing with my phone apps. I don’t know where I get all my ideas from. I hope you enjoy them. I like using multiple apps to get different results. Then you can use various filters. I really like the freedom of finger or stylus painting. I have only ever “built” an image with CAD when I did a course in computer aided design several years ago. Yes I could build boxes into a house, or circles and elipses into a face, but it’s not the same as the freedom of drawing. Yes I’ve used flower templates here, but I had to change and add to it. I get bored otherwise!

Mallaband-Brown

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