An Artist

Posted on April 2, 2025 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artist, BA, College, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1891, Fine Art, Illustration, life memories, ma, Painting, SketchingLeave a comment

When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I must have been about five when I realised I wanted to do art. I would make patterns on graph paper, draw and doodle and sketch. I know my mother started to collect some of my drawings. As I got older I put them on my walls. I even strung them across my bedroom held on by pegs because I didn’t have enough wall space.

When I was in my teens one of my paintings was sent to our twin town in Germany to be exhibited. My headmistress was given a drawing I did of my fellow pupils as a leaving present and I knew I wanted to be an artist as I told my careers teacher, not a nurse as she tried to persuade me. On to Art school to do a degree, and even 40 years later an MA in illustration. Now. I’m struggling. But iooking at different methods and skills. I’m not giving up!

Woof

Posted on March 31, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Dog, Drawing, Fun, Jumping, Life, Moving, pooch, Portrait, Quick, Sketching, Sweet, YoungLeave a comment

Quick sketch of a Husky called Zorro, he was very lively so I had to try and build up a portrait as he moved around and jumped about. He was only young and will grow bigger. His owner had another one but she’s a lot quieter apparently. I’m going to the same venue tomorrow so I might do some more sketching.

Can you see the wire cat?

Posted on March 30, 2025 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cay, Fine Art, Friend, Life, Model, Ornaments, Sculpture, Windowsill, wire catLeave a comment

It’s a wire cat my friend made, she’s done fairys and birds and squirrels. But now she’s gone onto making cats. I really like this, it’s about 12 inches tall and 9 inches wide. I’ve got it on my windowsill along with a collection of ornaments and a couple of plants (which I keep forgetting to water). I think its well modelled and quite cute. She certainly put a lot of work into it.

Finished planting pocket

Posted on March 26, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, Blue, Ceramics, Colours, Glaze, Orange, planting pocket, Plants, Pottery, Slip1 Comment

This is the planting pocket I made at BArts pottery project a few weeks ago. It was made with rolled out terracotta clay and coloured with bright slip. I used plants to impress patterns into it’s surface. It looked OK, but the colours intensified during firing. I think they are almost too bright. I hope when it has soil and a plant in it, it will look nicer. X

Sketch time

Posted on March 25, 2025 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, autobiographical, descriptive, Fiction, Learning, Life, Memory, Sketching, Writing2 Comments

Writing group today, I sat and sketched a couple of the group. Most of the stories and poems are autobiographical, I want to be more fictional. The woman writer was very atmospheric, giving a feeling of ‘place’. Using unusual descriptions to evoke childhood and adult memories of being drawn back to the sea. My poem about love was well received. I’ll keep going.

Patterns

Posted on March 21, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, carpet, Design, Fun, incollage, knees, Photodirector, Playing, SketchingLeave a comment

These are my knees and a very patterned carpet. It’s been put through various style and texture choices in photodirector and also incollage. I like adding and changing textures in these apps, it makes things more interesting.

Duplicated bird

Posted on March 14, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, Artrage, Birds, Digital drawing, Duplicated, Finger painting, Flight, incollage, mirror image, Sketching2 Comments

Bird, digitally drawn in Artrage, duplicated by incollage app (finger painting using various tools)

Playing with scraper board art

Posted on March 12, 2025 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, based on a photo, Cat, Etching, Fine Art, Horse, Illustration, Imagination, Scraper board, SketchingLeave a comment

It’s hard to get a good photo when the surface of the underlying scraped board is so reflective. I’ve been playing with scraper board art, in the 1st and 2nd pictures the holographic surface changed colour due to the angle of the light hitting it. The image is based on a photo of my cat. The 3rd and 4th are a copper colour, the horse was made up from my imagination. The underlying board was metallic not holographic but still changed colour based on the angle of incidence of the light.

I’ve had a varied life…

Posted on March 4, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cars, Cycling, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1867, eoroies, Hubby, Life, Together, Travel, WorkLeave a comment

You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?

I’ve had a varied life, most of it devoted to art, but I’ve also managed to cram a lot of experiences into it.

I would then go on to detail sow of the art work I have done, but also the adventures I’ve had with my hubby, who was a most eccentric man. Our main mode of transport when we were younger was by bicycle and then a series of pulled old cars that consequently meant we had a lot of situations to deal with. My jobs were also varied and I would talk about as much as I could without disclosing personal information. I am not sure if it would be interesting to anyone else though?

Props

Posted on March 1, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Making props, Memories, Painting, Papier mache, penkhull mystery plays, Scenery, WhaleLeave a comment

A whale that was made for the Penkhull Mysteries plays. It was used in the story of Jonah and the Whale and the story of the river Trent which rises on Biddulph Moor and travels through England in a North East direction to eventually flow through Nottingham and on to the Humber Estuary at Hull. This was made of willow withies held together with masking tape then covered with water based glue and newspapers (papier mache). It was painted white to block out the printing and then painted in grey black and white. The makers added serrated teeth and the jaw was articulated so it could open wide. I think the throat and tounge were painted pink and white. We made lots of props for the plays including a set of horses, butterflies, flowers, plants, and all sorts of other objects. I used to help paint some of them and also large flat boards that were joined together as scenery. I hope we get to do more this year.

Mallaband-Brown

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