Chinese dragon

Posted on January 15, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bowl, Chinese dragon, College, Dragon, Drawing, five toes, Fun, pottery class, SketchingLeave a comment

A dragon 🐲 in the Chinese style. Head and tail are large. The body thin and snake or worm like with a sinuous shape. Four legs, clawed feet. Apparently Imperial dragons had five claws and normal dragons had four.

I once made a dragon bowl in pottery class. I’d made the bowl in a mold and I carved a dragon like this inside. I gave it five claws and toes on each foot and it was carved to show the scales. I had it biscuit fired and it survived the heat. No cracks or blemishes. Then I glazed it. I can’t remember what colours, but I looked forward to seeing the result after the Christmas break (about thirty years ago). Unfortunately when we came back it was missing! The consensus was it must have been stolen! Soon after that I left the pottery class because I was so disappointed.

Wordless cartoon

Posted on January 14, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, campfire, Cartoon, College, Design, Fire, Fun, Life, Memory, Sketching, Snake, TimeLeave a comment

I can’t remember the story behind this or whether there was a prompt. I drew it last year. I had to draw something with four panels for my college course. It starts with someone by a campfire. The fire goes out so they go to get more wood, But instead of it all being sticks, a snake, which had been asleep wakes up. I like the simple style I drew it in and the minimal images in it. But now I look back at it I worry that the snake would have been burned or might have woken up before being put on the embers. Even with a simple story you have to be aware of consequences!

Relief

Posted on January 14, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Charity, Comedy, comic relief, Fun, Money, red nose, Red nose dayLeave a comment

#bandofsketchers prompt on Thursday was relief. I wanted to draw a comic relief red nose (a charity that collects millions of pounds for people in need all round the world) but I can’t find one, (been buying them every couple of years) so I tried to draw one from memory. The telethon has been going for years and mainly relies on comedy to encourage people to donate.
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Little Earth painting

Posted on January 13, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Astronomy, Clouds, Earth, Land, Painting, Sea, Space, Time, WeatherLeave a comment

A couple of years ago I painted this picture of Earth. I was trying to get the shading right so the clouds sit above the surface was difficult. This is North America, Canada and part of Mexico and the Caribbean.

I hope the cloud shapes work and you can see the weather patterns. I wonder if anyone would be interested in paintings of worlds. It’s something I’m interested in. I’ve painted pictures of Jupiter and other astronomical images. I don’t use an airbrush for painting so it’s quite hard to get the granularity and softness of space and planets.

Dragon 🐲 head

Posted on January 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Dragon, Dragon head, Drawing, first for 2022, Fun, Sketching, tippex2 Comments

Drawn from my imagination. Half a dragons head drawn in tippex correction fluid on black cartridge paper. Mirrored in a photo edit, then stitched together as a whole head. My first Dragon of 2022. I’m just wondering when the Chinese year of the dragon is. Their images are amazing. I need to find out about their history x

Tree art

Posted on January 12, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Cold, Design, Fun, Layout app, Reflection, Silhouette, Sky, Sunset, TreeLeave a comment

Capturing tree abstract ideas today. I saw a wonderful silhouetted tree on my slow, short walk this afternoon. Looking at the world is important. You have a chance to see things that you wouldn’t if you just stay home. But getting out is not always simple.

Life can get in the way. My knees ache now. But I’m glad we went. The air was clear and cold. I enjoyed walking and Ben managed a short bit of uphill walking.

Hand

Posted on January 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black ink fine line pen, Challenge, Drawing, Fun, Hands, Life, Prompt, Sketching3 Comments

#bandofsketchers prompt today is hands.
Insomnia struck and I wanted something to do so I drew round my left hand as I used to when I was a kid. Then I filled it in, wondered what it would look like with nail varnish. Finally added a pattern so it looks like it’s resting on something. X

Drawing Van Gogh?

Posted on January 10, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, BBC, Documentary, Drawing, Oil painting, Painting, Sketch, Study, the potato eaters, Van Gogh1 Comment

When I look at this I see my mistakes..

I’m watching a drama documentary about Van Gogh. I decided to try and do a quick study of one of the women from ‘the potato eaters’.

The documentary is about Vincent Van Gogh. It is by Alan Yentob and stars Benedict Cumberbatch. It is about Van Gogh’s life and creativity. His mental health and the art he created. It’s a BBC documentary and might be available to see. I’m enjoying it.

Photo experiment

Posted on January 10, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, experience, Experiment, Hubby, Life, Photo, Photographer, Reflection, thoughtful, Youth2 Comments

Hubby did this in the 1980’s. It’s still up on the stairs. I don’t know how he did it. Is it a camera on a bench looking up to a lamp overhead and the hands interposed between the two? Or perhaps it’s a mirror on the wall with a tipped up lamp? I don’t even know if they are his hands, maybe he had someone place them in shot? It could be a bowl of water with a light reflected in it….

Do you know I’ve never asked him. Its just a dusty, fading photo. But it’s part of him, part of his idea of life, it expresses something about a younger person. Someone still in there.

Sweet treats

Posted on January 9, 2022January 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colourful, Desserts, Drawing, Felt pens, Food, Prompt, Sketching, sweet treat, Wayne Thiebaud2 Comments

Our #bandofsketchers prompt today was sweet treat in honour of artist Wayne Thiebaud who died recently and who created art based on this theme (he did some beautiful work). Mine is Sweet treats. A bit dodgy because of my shaking arm and I was drawing on the back of a page where ink had bled through. Cup cakes in paper cases with icing and cherries on top…

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