Playing Mahjong

Posted on April 13, 2025April 13, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged App, Challenge, Competition, digital game, Fun, Life, mahjong, matching, Playing, Speed, Tiles5 Comments

I’m well and truly addicted to this game. First it was Spider Solitaire, then Wordle, now this. I seem to be able to do it quite well and quickly, sometimes matching 3 pairs of tiles in 1.51 seconds. I’ve won a few games because I keep going for too long, but the competitivness inside me makes me want to win. Although I feel guilty leaving other players behind. I guess I’m slightly obsessed by this at the moment! And because I can play by just using a finger it’s not physically difficult to do. My shake is mainly in the left hand and arm so I rest my phone on the chair arm to play.

Odd look?

Posted on March 5, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged App, Drying, Hair, Photo, Photodirector, sketching with photos, stiff, Texture, towel, Washing, WrappedLeave a comment

I washed my hair earlier. My towel is a bit stiff because I don’t use softener in the machine, so when I wrapped it round my head it stuck out! I laughed when I saw myself in the mirror. I took a photo but I was in silhouette so I tried to lighten it and reduce the contrast. Then I put the picture through my photodirector app which can add texture…. This is the result.

Textured cat

Posted on August 3, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Adjustments, App, Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Photo, Photodirector, Playing, TextureLeave a comment

I do like adding texture to photos, in this case I used an app called photodirector. There are lots of options in it, but I tend to use the same tools each time. It has the effect of just ruffling the surface rather than adding some mad AI effects which you have to pay a premium for anyway. This was my lost cat, but he came back!

Island views

Posted on April 25, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, App, Art, Artrage, Digital drawing, Drawing, Life, Sketching, St Micheal's mount2 Comments

#bandofsketchers prompt was island views. I tried to do a drawing of St Michaels Mount. I couldn’t work directly off a photo as its on a website and I couldn’t take a screen shot of it. Then I had to draw sideways to fit in my screen on the Artrage app I drew it in. Finally rotated it, it’s a bit of an impressionist image x

Artrage doodle

Posted on April 22, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, App, Artrage, Black, Doodle, Drawing, Experiment, Fern, Green, Grey, metallic pens, Plant, WhiteLeave a comment

Based on a fern plant. Just grey black, white and green using different pens in the Artrage app. Included a metallic background on this abstract drawing.

Nose

Posted on April 18, 2024April 18, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged App, Art, Artrage, Drawing, Life, Metallic, Non metallic, Nose, philtrum, Sketching, Stylus2 Comments

Nose is one of the recent #bandofsketchers prompts. I couldn’t resist trying to draw a nose from my imagination. The bit that goes in underneath is called the philtrum. Artrage app stylus painting. I used a metallic gold flood fill to start with, then used non metallic colours and pens.

Blue profile

Posted on August 11, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged App, Art, Artrage, Digital drawing, Drawing, Finger painting, Instagram, Life, Profile2 Comments

Finger painting using tools in the Artrage app on my phone. When I published it on Instagram I chose the ‘Clarendon’ filter which gave it a stronger blue hue. Originally drawn with the glitter tool then built up with spray pens and using varieties of metallic and non metallic pens to add to the textured feel.

Angel sketch

Posted on June 17, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Angel, App, Art, Artrage oils, Blue, Drawing, Experiment, Finger painting, Life, SketchingLeave a comment

Figures are hard to finger paint, the details are difficult to draw clearly. In this Artrage oils drawing I threw pretty much all the pen tools at it, including watercolour, spray paint, and an eraser pen. I’m not quite certain why it turned into an angel, I think I was just trying to fully fill the page. Again this experiment seems to say freedom is a good thing to try and work to…

Bad painting with added filters

Posted on April 22, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged App, Art, Digital filter, Digital manipulation, Experiment, Life, Photodirector, print like4 Comments

Life isn’t all perfect paintings. Sometimes if you can’t work out what to change you could take a photo and then use some digital filters to alter the image. It may not be perfect but it can be more interesting…

I used photodirector tools to make this look more like a print. It could also be painted on wood. The point is playing can help creativity. I like being a mad professor of experimental art. X

Abstract horse sketch

Posted on April 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged App, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Experiment, Horse, Life, Sketching, Sketching app6 Comments

Playing with my sketching app again. This time I found my drawing stylus so I had more control over the lines in it. Although you can see by my writing that it’s not much more under control!

The pens in the app are very varied, here I used a solid flowing line, a texture and a watercolour effect. This could represent a chess piece, the knight. I like the way it’s turned out.

Mallaband-Brown

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