Looking back

Posted on November 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Back yard, Colours, Frost, Growing, Hanging baskets, Life, Photos, Plants, TimeLeave a comment

I didn’t venture out today because its really cold and I’m still a bit unwell. I was scrolling through my photos from the summer and came across this double hanging basket next to the house. It grew and grew and was magnificent in July and August. Now? The frost came last night, a glaze of white on the tiled roof opposite. I think all the baskets will wilt, the delicate annual plants are starting to wither, but the slightly woodier ones like fushias are still there.

Photos of the back to follow, and if I get out into the autumn landscape before all the leaves fall I will post some shots of the trees locally.

Fern leaves

Posted on November 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged App, Art, Colours, Design, Fern, Fun, Leaves, Memory, Muted colours, Pattern, PhotoLeave a comment

I can’t remember how I got this image, I know it’s based on a photo of fern leaves and I must have used layout to mirror the patterns. But how I added the various colours and added the tiles? I can’t remember. And just how did I get the embossed effect…. It must have been an app I no longer have on my phone. A puzzle, which is what the image looks like.

Another 🐲

Posted on November 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Fun, Illustration, metallic pens, Scales, Sketching, teardrop shaped scales, underwaterLeave a comment

Dragon with teardrop shaped scales. For swimming underwater, nostrils that close up with spring valves, a small mouth that can close tightly. Pressure resistant eyes and ears that can hear infrasound under the ocean. Another design idea. I duplicated and mirrored the dragon head as I had only drawn one half of it.

Mermaid

Posted on November 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital art, Digital drawing, exploration, fishermen, Mermaid, Mythological, Ocean, Patterns, photoshop filters, Sea, SketchingLeave a comment

You are strong and ethereal, the light glints on your skin, like a dolphin, sleek, slipping through the waters, twisting coral and seaweed in your hair.

Siren songs, calling out to passing boats and ships, but ignored as diesel engines drown your subtle music. You have lost your sisters to giant nets, trawled from their watery beds by fishermen that know no better.

Mystery surrounds you, mystic, mythological, mesmerising. No soft fairy story of prince’s and princesses. You are more powerful, a trident carrying warrior.

Cat

Posted on November 2, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Fun, Miaow, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Purr, Sleeping, snore, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

Purr said the cat

Hello to you

How do you do?

Hiss said the cat

Your hand is heavy

Please move it.. Now!

Miaow said the cat

Yes I know I sat

On the cushion next to you.

Snore, snored the cat

Yes I am quite fat

And sleeping next to you

Autumn acers

Posted on November 2, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, blanket of leaves, Colours, Fine Art, Fun, Leaves, Painting, Pattern, Trees2 Comments

I usually look out from underneath trees, but here I looked up and took a photo of twisting branches and limbs. Then I tried to paint the leaves. Dark towards the trunks, lighter where they reach out into airy space. Leaves are amazing. Because they can move towards the light (phototropic) they can move into the gaps where the light gets through. Like a jigsaw puzzle, filling in the spaces. Then suddenly in autumn deciduous trees drop their leaves as the cold and wind catches them out. Great blankets of leaves are now lying below the local trees. Crunching through their crispness is one of my favourite things before they turn soggy in the cold rain. Glorious!

Meditate

Posted on November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Design, Drawing, Life, Mandala, Meditation, metallic pens, Pattern, Sketching, TimeLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt is meditation. I wanted to do pattern to meditate on? I was trying to draw a mandala but it went a bit shaky and sideways. So I embellished it. Using various metallic pens.

Artrage drawing

Posted on November 1, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colour, Digital art, Digital drawing, Face, Fun, Life, Old fashioned, ProfileLeave a comment

Profile

Drawing over the top of a green faced man, I used Artrage oils to create this profile of a woman. I had the ‘oils’ set on metallic, it gave the image an old fashioned look. I am glad I can use this app.

Texturised

Posted on November 1, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white cat, Design, Drawing, Illustration, Photodirector, Sketching, Texture, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

I used photodirector to adjust the textures in the effects part of its editing tools. I like the rippled effect, it somehow reminds me of the patterns in the cloudscape on Jupiter taken by the Juno probe a few years ago. Because I didn’t shade all the way up to the outlines I like the dark edge that lies between them and the silver shading. I could imagine using this style to illustrate a book cover or within a magazine article. Perhaps one day I will get a commission to do something like this? I don’t know.

New pens on black paper

Posted on November 1, 2021November 1, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bic pens, Black and white cat, Black cartridge paper, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, Pens, Sketching7 Comments

I spotted five metallic pens made by Bic in the shop today. So on a whim I bought them. I have to say I was impressed! They have large felt pen nibs and the ink flows well. The lines you can draw are a good weight and if you tip them on their side you get wider lines because they have a bevelled edge. The colours are strong and they seem to work well on my black cartridge paper sketch pad, they are nice and opaque. I will see how they work on white paper next.

Mallaband-Brown

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