Some digital drawings I did nine years ago.

Posted on June 17, 2021June 18, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, nine years ago, Sketchfu, Sketching2 Comments

Drawn at the old Sketchfu website, four digital drawings I did there nine years ago.

Sketchfu had four sizes of circular pens, a palette, an opacity and transparency tool and probably an eraser. No applets, no layers, you just built the drawing up. You could share your drawing and others could draw onto it, so we did some collaborations, but it would take ages for the pages to load if you had added to other pages. There were four or five of us sometimes building a picture up on a theme. It was fun!

I don’t know where the ideas come from, I just can’t help being creative.

Abstracted birds

Posted on May 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Birds, Collage, halftone, Pattern, Photodirector, Sketch appLeave a comment

When you play with digital apps you can get all sorts of effects, especially if you use more than one app.

In this piece I created the image using cut monoprint and post-it notes. Next, I imported it to my photodirector app, I used the effects button and converted it to a half tone pattern. Next I took it over to the sketch app and I added a flood fill with rainbow colours a few times. Finally back to photodirector, changing uthe texture and splitting the image into two seperate patterns. Always remembering the back button if I didn’t like the effect!

Abstract leaves

Posted on May 23, 2021May 23, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Close up, Colours, Garden, Photo, Photodirector, wind spinner2 Comments

When you look out the window and wonder what to do with a long, multicoloured mobile that twirls in the wind. I took a zoomed in, pixilated shot of it, then put it through photodirector to add texture and tipped it from the vertical. I think it looks like the photo has been taken through textured glass. I like the wrinkled, dappled effect.

The road

Posted on May 15, 2021May 15, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Abstract, Art, Drawing, Hobbit, Illustration, Road, Sketching, Tolkien2 Comments

And the road goes ever on… Black acrylic monoprint spiral. I was remembering a song or poem from the Hobbit by Tolkien. Bit abstract but fun…I haven’t slept much tonight so thought I would catch up with some #bandofsketchers pictures. This was last Sundays prompt, road

Abstract?

Posted on April 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colours, Ink, Life, Paint, Pattern, Shibui, Splodges2 Comments

A pattern of splodges and marks in ink and paint. What can I turn it into if I draw over it? I’m not sure, it might be a series of faces, eyes, animal heads. People dancing. Whatever is there I will try and find it.

There is a friend of mine on Facebook who creates art from patterns like ghus. She calls it Shibui Found Art. She creates wonderful pictures, maybe I can try and do something with this.

Abstract nasturtiums

Posted on March 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Colour, Green, Nasturtium, Photo, Photodirector app, pixels, PlayingLeave a comment

Just playing with a photo of nasturtium leaves. I mirrored the image, then put it through photodirector, making it halftone, then using a circular dispersion tool to break the pattern up even more. It ooks like pixels on a TV screen. Granular and interesting.

This is what I started out with.

Discussing abstract art

Posted on February 20, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged 20th century, Abstract, Art, Fine Art, Images, Painting, Picasso, Realism2 Comments

I was just discussing abstract art with a fellow blogger. I liked the person’s art because it was a self portrait but done in a very loose style.

I said I thought it will give them freedom of thought. I think of Picasso. He went from realism to abstraction, he had all the knowledge of both in his fingertips…

I don’t know if this makes sense but I’ve selected a few Picasso images to try and show what I mean. I’m not sure I understand Picasso but I do think it’s something to consider. When I was younger I was dismissive of his art , then I learned about Guernica, a village in Spain that was bombed and that Picasso memorialised in his painting of the same name.

Movement

Posted on January 30, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Blurred, Design, Movement, PhotoLeave a comment

Blurred abstract, signifying speed and movement. Not sure whether I will make more out of this or not. It reminds me of arches in a church. Or I feel like I’m falling….

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…

#MendNotTrend day three

Posted on January 18, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #MendNotTrend, Abstract, Art, Challenge, Cogs, gold stamp, letter print roller, Printing, TimeLeave a comment

The challenge today was to created a printed, sculptural image. That was hard, I only have a round gold stamp and a black roller printer with letters. I also used a gold pen. This is called Cogs. Tried to get some movement in it!

I’m not really convinced by it, but we are meant to be creating abstracts, so perhaps I was being too literal?

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Tag: Abstract