Funny face

Posted on January 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Face, fun-day, Games, Memories, pulling a face, School, Sketching, sports field, TimeLeave a comment

When I drew a very grumpy picture of myself today I remembered how much I used to like pulling faces. Then a memory came back to me… I suddenly remembered that I won the funny face competition and my twin won the funny walk competition at a school sports-fun day one year. We won a pound and a half of full cream chocolate! I think we must have practiced a lot, but I’m not sure I knew that this was what the prize was.

It’s funny because I can remember the scene as if it was yesterday now. A group of children on the sports field and kids taking it in turn to make the others laugh. Whoever had the idea was a genius, much more fun than running races. No doubt influenced by ‘Month Pythons Flying Circus’ TV show which was on at the time. (Which I wasn’t allowed to watch because it was too ‘rude).

Grumpy!

Posted on January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, Drawing, Grumpy, Life, self portrait, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was grumpy. I had two reasons to be grumpy, a big bill, and still feeling ill. So I pulled this awful face (I look disgusted!) and drew this miserable looking self portrait! I really hope I don’t usually look like this. I’ve already deleted the photo I drew it from.

Searching

Posted on January 11, 2023January 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Collected, documents, Hidden, Letters, Lost, lost cause, Paper, shredder, Time2 Comments

Five hours searching paperwork. I’ve still nof found everything I need. I have got to get some information in by the end of this month but can I find it? Can I Heck! It’s always the same. I put things away somewhere I think it will be safe, but then I’ve lost it a year or so later. So frustrating. I also blame the fear of identity theft. I keep more documents than I need to because I don’t want to put anything that identifies us in the waste bin. I should shred things but my shredder gets too hot so it doesn’t get used very often.

Which Saint so I pray to, to find things? Is it the Saint of lost causes?

Musical instruments

Posted on January 10, 2023January 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Music, Prompt, Recorder, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was musical instruments, I drew a recorder. I have a plastic one, but when I was a kid I had a lovely wooden one. The wood was golden and had an amazing grain to it. I’ve tried to remember how it looked. I didn’t do much music as a child and it was one of my sisters that tried to learn more complicated instruments such as the violin.

Close-up

Posted on January 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Close up, Cloth, Digital manipulation, Drawing, Life, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was close-up. I decided to try and draw a close-up of some plaid cloth. I used a digital filter from photodirector to add some texture. I think it makes it look more interesting.

Doodles

Posted on January 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink pen, Creativity, Design, Doodles, Drawing, Feelings, Felt pens, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sketching5 Comments

Sometimes my pen drifts

Across the paper

Black pen and colour

Shading over the lines

Faces and a donkey?

Why not play

Create a design

Learn and develop

Experience and experiment.

Quick

Posted on January 8, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, clue, crossword, crossword clues, Drawing, Life, quick crossword, SketchingLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Clue. I only just did this one. I like trying to do the New Scientist Magazine Quick Crossword. I’d like the backgrounds of crosswords to be coloured, but the ones I try and do are always black and white.

Abstract face

Posted on January 7, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract face, Apps, Art, Blogging, Digital art, Filters, Memory, self portrait, Sketching, WordPressLeave a comment

Abstract self portrait. I can’t remember how I got to this point. It’s got to be a couple of years since I created this. I’ve got an idea that I used various filters but which ones? My WordPress Media library has some odd images in it and every so often I have to edit them and delete some of them because my memory on WordPress is 99.8% full. I can’t afford to pay more for my blog page so it’s a case of managing what I have.

Saying that, does anyone know what else I can do? I don’t want to delete blog posts, I don’t have the time or the energy to do it. What I am doing is to delete some of the images as they take up more space on my site. What do people think?

Still coughing

Posted on January 6, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Cat, diagnosis, Feline, Odd, Short story, Silly story, Very short story, Werecat?Leave a comment

I don’t want to worry you doctor, but I don’t think the tablets you gave me worked? You see I’m still coughing, and I keep wheezing, and I feel odd…

Thank you for examining me. So you can hear the wheeze? Oh, more like a purr? How odd.

Now look doctor, I don’t understand. What do you mean, feline blood? No my family keep cats, they aren’t actually cats!

But it doesn’t make sense, I am not licking my cat! How can it be? A Furball? That’s what I’m coughing up?….. That’s Mad! And why have my pupils suddenly gone from round to slits? Oh doctor, am I turning into a Werecat!? Is that your diagnosis?

Mandelbrot

Posted on January 4, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Chaos, Drawing, fractals, infinite, mandelbrot set, SketchingLeave a comment

For Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt Chaos. This is an old digital drawing I did on the computer years ago. I don’t know if this is cheating but I tried to draw the Mandelbrot set, a fractal image that can be viewed at all scales and this shape keeps being revealed. It might be infinite. It is a product of Chaos theory! If this wasn’t OK I said I would try and draw something else.

Mallaband-Brown

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