Patterns again

Posted on March 15, 2022March 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Life, Pattern, Sad, Sketching, tempus fugit, Thinking, Time3 Comments

My brain likes pattern and complexity. I cannot abide plain white walls with no embellishments. Even my writing can be flowery? Is it because I’m interested in all sorts of things? I’m very visual, and yet I can walk past a friend without noticing them! I don’t have that face blindness thing that some people have. I think my glasses frames sometimes blocks the view.

Life is so difficult in the world at the moment. I am feeling a bit low with everything happening. But I pick up a felt pen and draw and time FLIES so fast.

Cheap

Posted on March 15, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cheap, Digital filter, Drawing, Felt pens, Filter, Hand, Nail polish, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was cheap, so I did a sketch in felt pens of my hand and added cheap, cracking, nail polish. I added a digital filter to add to the effect.

Alien world?

Posted on March 15, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Architecture, Art, Colours, Copper, Design, Duplicated, Galaxy, Metallic, Mirrored, Photos, space shipLeave a comment

Close up photo of a metal ring holder and a copper coloured stapler. It’s interesting what you can do with duplicated photos. I didn’t know it was going to look like this. It looks like architecture or a space ship with a distant galaxy reflected on the shining floor of the ship. I will play with some more images, juxtaposing different shapes, textures, and colours.

Looking out

Posted on March 14, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, abstract effect, Art, Design, Learning, Photo, Photodirector, Playing, self portrait, TextureLeave a comment

A self portrait, using a self portrait photograph then using a texture filter by photodirector. Finally I used a flood fill to lighten the surrounding sections. I never know what is going to happen when I start. But something emerges. Something changes. And I end up with a picture that interests me.

Such strange monsters

Posted on March 14, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, beasts and monsters, bestiary, Draco, Dragons, Humour, Poem, Poetry, RhymeLeave a comment

Such strange creatures

Monsters of myth

Seen in the morning

In the valley in a mist.

Draco, dragon, leather winged

Sharp of teeth

It’s head fringed

With scales or feathers

Glistening claws

How ugly they are

With ferocious Jaws!

Dragon illustrations

Posted on March 13, 2022March 13, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, bestiary, Dragons, Drawing, Fun, History, Life, Mythology, Prints, reportLeave a comment

Image from a book of beasts and monsters

For my final college report I’m looking at the history of the depictions of dragons (OK very niche). I’m trying to understand how they were illustrated and how they change across the world. I’ve found out Korean dragons have five toes, Chinese four or five and Japanese three toes. They have different shapes. They go from serpentine to with two or four legs. No wings or wings. Some are fire-breathing. They may be mythical but they seem to evolve.

Fishy

Posted on March 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digital doodle, Digital drawing, Fish, Fun, Life, pisces, Playing, Sketching2 Comments

Well I had to play. Changed hues, used a blue flood fill. Made the fish shiny, made it glint. Art is fun, I can’t help myself. When I can’t do art I don’t know what I will do. Also I suppose it could represent pisces. I might do more…

Face

Posted on March 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colours, Digital drawing, Face, Fun, Memory, Shaking, SketchingLeave a comment

Face, digital drawing from about four years ago. I used to do more of these but I’ve not felt as able to for a while because of my arm shaking. The lines I try and draw go too wobbly. This was drawn in ArtRage oils.

Blue goldfish

Posted on March 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2018, Art, Digital doodle, Digital drawing, Goldfish, Life, Memory, Sketching, Sketching appLeave a comment

Doodle from 2018. I think I’m sharing this again because of Ukraine. Ever more sad news. More death and destruction. More madness. I needed to see something calming and this fit the bill. I could probably filter it and change it to a gold fish in a blue or green pool, but where would the fun be in that? Digital doodle in a sketching app.

Stems abstract

Posted on March 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colours, Fun, Garden, greening, Life, Playing, Poem, Poetry, SketchingLeave a comment

Waiting fot the green to grow

Looking for the water flow

Abstract colours

Leafy feeling

Are your colours

At all appealing?

Glossy green,

And deep blue

Lots of subtle colour

Hue.

Mallaband-Brown

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