Histology.

Posted on June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink fine line pen, cells, Doodle, Drawing, histology, Life, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

I don’t know what I was doing but this emerged today. It looks like a slice through some tissue. Maybe animal or vegetable. I kept doing lay ers of pattern. A line of the drawing had to stick to rules that I set for myself, like a curve every few centimeters or a wobbly line, so that some areas are lighter and less marked than others. It actually drawn on the back of the bird doodle I drew yesterday. I could see where the ink was showing through, but then I decided to extend it further. This was the result.

Psychedelic

Posted on June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Doodling, Experiment, expression, lesson learned?, Life, Pattern, Peace, Poem, Poetry, psychedelic, WarLeave a comment

Playing and dazzled

Colours shimmer

An age of experiment

Tickling imagination

Make love not war?

We know it’s bad for us

Now

Thai food

Posted on June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Evening meal, Food, green curry, Ingredients, Sawadee Thai taste, Sticky rice, Thai tasteLeave a comment

We went to Sawadee Thai taste restaurant in Stoke tonight as the owner, Apple, has just come back from Thailand.

The food was good, with friendly service and it was not too expensive despite all the increases in the cost of living at the moment. It’s amazing how food from different cultures tastes. I think it’s down to the different spices ot amounts of spice each culture uses. I like mild curry and sticky rice.

So if you happen to be in the area and like Thai food why not try it out?

Counter culture

Posted on June 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, 60's, Art, CND, Colour, Design, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, hippy, Life, Love, Peace, SketchingLeave a comment

Decided to look up this topic. Our prompt for #bandofsketchers was Counter culture. I’d forgotten about hippys and ‘Peace and Love’ in the 60’s. Lots of pattern and colour. Chilling and relaxing ‘man’! I went for flower power and the CND symbol. Have a happy day! X

Declutter in summer?

Posted on June 16, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged attachments, Books, charity shop, declutter, Dusting, Emotions, magazines, MemoriesLeave a comment

Just got rid of twenty books to the local charity shop.

Relocating ‘stuff’ is hard work in the Summer. Especially since its forecast 29 to 30°C over the next couple of days. We found a damp patch so now there a tray of absorbent crystals under this space, I think it’s just condensation because it was stuffed with books!

That’s the main problem, books, more than one thousand when I gave up counting. The trouble is that especially with hubby, every book has to be checked to see if he still wants it, there is a lot of emotional attachment, a lot of connections and memories. I’m proud of him. So this spring cleaning in the summer is hard and tedious work, but it needs doing.

Horses from splodges

Posted on June 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on paper, Art, Blue, Design, Green, horse heads, Horses, Paint, Pareidolia, Red, Splodges, White, YellowLeave a comment

Horses are wonderful animals. They have such amazing characters. When I tried to find something in the matching splodges to the previous post I almost immediately found the large horse head. Then the other two emerged from the patterns. I just needed to add some white, green and yellow to differentiate between them.

Splodges into heads

Posted on June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on paper, Art, Faces, heads, Images, Pareidolia, Real life, Sketching, SplodgesLeave a comment

Paint splodges turned into heads. First I saw an eye, then a nose. An open mouth and teeth. I just like looking for things. I was always good at spotting things on those spot the difference cartoons in magazines and newspapers.

I’m good at navigation too and I think that’s the same kind of thing- pattern recognition. I think it’s something humans can practice. Maybe digital and social media is a bad thing if it does not help you interact with the real world.

Digitally altered

Posted on June 16, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on paper, Art, computer apps, Design, Digital drawing, Felt pens, Fine Art, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

I am not listing what I did to this, I just like the end result! Computer programs and apps can do lots to your work to change and distort, add or reduce colour, duplicate or delete. Its fun and it’s great to experiment, at least that’s what I think. Splodges turn into complex patterns. Acrylic paint, felt pens and megabits!

Local murals

Posted on June 15, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, B'arts, constellations, Design, Draco, Hare, Leopard, Local, Murals, Painting, Rabbit, Stars, Stoke, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

Round the back of B’arts are a series of three murals. I think they may be constellations? I know there is a star group called Draco but I’m not sure about the Leopard or the Hare /rabbit? Anyway it’s a random piece of art but I do like it. There are chalked in letters above each animal so I’m guessing it’s not finished yet? Whatever, I love the movement in the animals. Good to see colourful art in the area.

Doodling again

Posted on June 15, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, B'arts, chamber of trade, Creativity, factory group, Quiz, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

This was meant to say: fledgling artists? at factory event at B’arts.

Basically it was a meeting of local artists and creative to talk about how the pandemic and other events was effecting the local creative community. It was good because they had a comedy quiz set up so we merrily brainstormed ideas of what we could do to improve things.

Eventually four teams came up with varying ideas, and the ‘factory’ team from the local chamber of commerce agreed to act on our ideas! Some of that will hopefully be about art administration, accounting, mentoring and other practical help. I hope it does.

Talking about creativity it comes in a week when our local city council held a creative conference about our city, but declined to invite local historic and architectural experts. Instead they held it by invitation only and bought in people from other cities. Thanks for the non inclusion!