Don’t trust the results!

Posted on April 30, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 3d, bolt game, Colours, Hand eye coordination, IQ, Play, Screws, Silly, Test, ThinkingLeave a comment

I frequently get games popping up in adverts on my phone and sometimes they say they will measure your IQ?

I just played a game where you ‘unscrew’ bolts that hold a building together. You have to rotate the building in 3d to find the bolts, and also you have to chose the correct colours to remove so that they slot into three matching coloured holes at the top of the page.

I started and kept going to the end, when the counter for IQ got over 120 I was surprised, but as I removed the screws it kept increasing (it didn’t get more difficult). When it finally got to 600 at the end of the game my scepticism peaked!

Silly game, just a test of hand eye coordination.

Swirls

Posted on February 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 3d, Abstract, Alien, Drawing, incollage, Layers, Light and dark, Sketchfu, SketchingLeave a comment

Sketchfu drawing collaged four times. The layers are the circular pens on sketchfu alternating light and dark, then shaded with lower opacity browns and greys to give a 3D effect. I think the result looks quite abstract and alien.

Random

Posted on December 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 3d, Back scrubber, Blue, Colour, Duplicated, Imagined, Mirrored, Photo, Plastic, ThoughtsLeave a comment

Random design using a bath back scrubber as a starting point. I think it looks a bit like sea urchins with little feelers sticking out. Then again, it could be the inside of an alien spacecraft, or a sound deadening surface? Imagine this created in a 3d printer. What material, soft or hard, would it be made of? I could add paint to its surface to create a print, or use it to hold plant roots in… Imagination is fun.

Bats?

Posted on October 1, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 3d, Animals, Art, Bats, Design, Fun, Life, Pareidolia, Spirals, Squares, trianglesLeave a comment

Another pattern that I can see creatures in. This time bats I think. Drawn with spirals, squares and triangles, tried to make them a little, 3d. I thought leaving some white space around the shapes gave it a bit more of an interesting look.

Going 3d

Posted on January 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #MendNotTrend, 3d, Abstract, Art, carrier bag, Design, Is it art?, Photos, Plastic, Sketching, WasteLeave a comment

Today’s challenge on #MendNotTrend (day four) was to create something three dimensional out of string or plastic and perhaps draw it or draw the idea of what it would look like if you didn’t have anything to work with. So I cut a carrier bag in half (down the front, then down the back) leaving it uncut at the bottom. I twisted both sides by the handles to make a plastic ‘rope’. I then looped it through one handle and looped into the loop over and over, finishing at the other handle loop…. See photos. I finally drew the outcome…

Experimenting

Posted on October 12, 2018October 12, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 3d, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Brusho, Canvas, Colour, Design, ModellingLeave a comment

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These are two small canvases that I worked on yesterday. I used a modelling medium on them to build up textures One had leaf shapes built up on it, and the other a spiral of shallow spikes.

I also bought some brusho. I’d never used it before. It’s a dust or fine crystals that you can either sprinkle on a wet or damp surface or sprinkle on dry and then add water. The colours change when you add water. For instance lemon yellow looks orange in the pot. You also only need to use tiny amounts. I ended up with a paper plate under the canvases to catch the drops. I tried to get the colours to surround the raised sections then used some acrylic colours to delineate the edges of the shapes.

I’ve left them with Etruria Artists at the warehouse to dry out.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: 3d