Reflected

Posted on June 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Image, Layout app, Multiplied, Peeling paint, Photo, Spode, Stoke, ThoughtLeave a comment

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Looking in and looking out, mirrored sky shining. The window frames flaking and peeling. Put through a mirroring filter and you find a floating tower. Could it be magic. What is art? Why is a photo? Can an image be trickery in a friendly way? Must it be cryptic.

See the world through an ant or a bees eye. See the world through the eye of a whale or a satellite.

Our vision is an average humans vision. At a cartain height, with colour vision like primates have. We don’t have slits in our pupils, or black and white vision. We don’t use echo location.

Photos are interesting to play with.

Abstract doodling

Posted on May 7, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Catterfly, Drawing, Fun, Glitter pad, Mirroring, Pattern, Permanent markers, Sketch pad, Sketching, SplodgeLeave a comment

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Fold some paper in half, splodge some purple ink on one side and press the two sides together. You get a pattern. I’m also using a spray of green ink on one of them. The results are above. I don’t know whether I like them, but it was fun doing them.

The first is called abstract catterfly and the second abstract splodge, (well it is!).

Used Nibb permanent markers, a spectrum noir ink brush, cosmic shimmer mist, mica shimmer and a cosmic shimmer glitter kiss sponge pad. Drawn on an A5, heavy weight, Windsor and Newton sketch pad.

Doodling again

Posted on April 25, 2020 Posted in SketchingTagged Abstract, Art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Face, Learning, Picture, Sketching, Tablet2 Comments

I’ve been playing with a sketching app on my tablet, I haven’t used it very often, so the results are very experimental, I just tried as many pens and brushes as I could, some of them are difficult to work out. I decided to do something bold!

Abstract art

Posted on April 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Decisions, Design, Digital art, Fun, Pattern, Selling, WorkLeave a comment

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A feathery or furry picture in blues. I would like to set up a service where I can print things off for people, but I’ve always been a bit nervous of etsy and shopify. I almost dipped my toe in last weekend, but the cost of it, in these difficult times, put me off.

It’s difficult to find a balance between art and selling. I really think I need a manager. At the moment I do things myself. That’s the reality, I have to try and get things right……

I did have contact with a company a few years ago who offered to take my designs and pay me 25%. But when I looked into their practices I found out they were slow paying artists and the things they made were sometimes of a oor quality. That was another thing that put me off.

Orme Art exhibition..

Posted on September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Astronomy, Design, Flowers, Free, Gallery, Jupiter tryptich, Landscape, Mars, Museum, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Orme Art group, Paintings, Plants, Staffordshire, The BramptonLeave a comment

I got my paintings up at the Brampton museum and art gallery now until the 10th November. I’m part of a group exhibition with fellow artists from the Orme Art group based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

I’m quite happy that they have hung my Mars painting upside down! After all in space there is no right way up! The art is along a corridor in the museum but they are well displayed and lit. If you are around you can always take a look. It’s at the Brampton museum and art gallery in Newcastle-under-Lyme .

Random

Posted on August 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Artrage oils, Design, Digital drawings, Micro poetry, Pattern, Poem, Poetry, Spiral4 Comments

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What do you see?

Planets and comets?

Spiralling out of control?

Or a vegetable sliced through?

A seed pod?

Peas in a pot?

A strange roulette wheel?

Abstract art?

Cheerleader pom poms?

Or just random noise?

Tiger Lily

Posted on May 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Blogging, Design, Fun, PaintingLeave a comment

I’ve decided not to do any more on this, called Tiger Lily. It’s just a bit of fun, something different, a cross between a green man and a cat. I could do more. I think the colours are probably too confused. I could keep messing with it but I’m busy trying to finish other paintings as well, like my poppy painting….

I seem to be using a lot of cadmium red at the moment! The contrasting green is pthalo green which is such a deep emerald colour.

Onwards and upwards hopefully.

Dot dot

Posted on May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Digital, Dots, Pattern, Photo, Pixelates, PlayingLeave a comment

Sparkle, shine, glitter

I was playing with one of my phone picture editing apps and came across something that pixelates in dots not squares.

I turned it into a black and white image, then added colours with a flood fill option in another app. sketch-1558111779786

I did more to it by using my phone editing suite. I went to the curves section which allows you to adjust the colours and brightness and adjusted it to make it more interesting.

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I’ve ended up with a dotty abstract.

Abstracts

Posted on May 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Blogging, Colour, Digital art, Drawing, Fun, Life, SketchLeave a comment

Something more abstract. Playing with colour and pattern. All I started with was a photo of the wallpaper on the ceiling. I edited it to change the colours, then added a few coloured strokes in my sketcher app. Then I changes the hue in the phones photo editing suite.

I wish I felt well enough to paint, but little steps….

Where do you start…?

Posted on November 25, 2018November 25, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Design, Face, Frost woman, Green man, Leaves Autumn, Winter2 Comments

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This is a painting called frost woman I think. I started doing it as a demonstration at the exhibition. Someone said she didn’t know how I do it. How do I get things looking right so quickly and someone else said she would need to spend ages working out a design. But I admire both of their work. I guess we are all different. I love patterns and work well with them. And yet struggle with other things. I’m not neat, I don’t really do clean straight lines. I’m often messy, my eyesight isn’t what it was and I don’t think my concentration is as good as it used to be.

But I love painting.

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