I miss youdraw

Posted on October 23, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawing, population growth, simple sight, Sketching, Youdraw.comLeave a comment

Youdraw.com was a simple black and white site with small and large black pens and erasers. The space to draw in was tiny but people drew wonderful images. For a while I drew and moderated at the site. It was trying to collect 500,000 drawings to represent population growth. I had to delete rude and racist pictures, and spent hours on some days deleting the same scrawl over and over again till the person posting eventually gave up. The site then had protection put in place to block the bad posters, so things improved. Then I found I couldn’t make enough time to volunteer anymore so I had to stop. This drawing was one of mine X

Pumpkin time

Posted on October 23, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Art group, Food, food festival, Halloween, Painting, Pumpkin6 Comments

Decided to paint a pumpkin today. Acrylic on canvas. It’s for a food festival that’s coming up, our art group is doing pictures of vegetables and fruit to illustrate the theme

This took about 2 hours to paint. It’s a little bigger than A4. It’s sort of a mixture of halloween and nature.

Fabric sunflowers

Posted on October 22, 2024October 22, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cloth, Craft, fake flower, Memories, Stuff, Sunflower, Time, tranklementsLeave a comment

I forgot to ask how these were made when I saw them at the weekend. I don’t normally like fake flowers but these were cute and life size. I think they are made of cloth. I suppose you could wash them if necessary. It’s fascinating how many crafts there are, and what you can make things out of. Like plastic, wool, wood, cotton, paper, ceramics and metal. The world is full of “stuff” , often nice “stuff” but these tranklements take up a lot of space, and are they necessary to enhance your life? You choose.

Forgot to add a title I’m so tired!

Posted on October 21, 2024October 21, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Craft fair, Exhausted?, falling asleep, Life, Miniatures, Painting, Sleep, Time, Tired2 Comments

Paintings from the weekend. The central painting was done previously but the rest, smaller ones, were painted over the previous three days. I was happy with the outcome. Unfortunately I only sold one, my excuse? Gale force winds and heavy rain made for a grim morning. Thankfully it improved in the afternoon. But we only had a few customers.

Today? It’s caught up with me! I’m shattered, tired, absolutely knackered. Just fell asleep typing this!

Cyanotype

Posted on October 20, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged a type of print, Art, Blue, cyanotype, Fine Art, light sensitive paper, Sketching, stencil2 Comments

@creaderart showed me how to do a cyanotype today. It is made using light sensitive paper that is exposed to light then washed in water to wash away the coating. The bird stencil was hers. If you can see a vague cat shape that’s my drawing which I added a few minutes later. Looking slightly like a reflection in a window. It’s oddly like an xray?

Little owl

Posted on October 18, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, exploring art, Fine Art, Fun, Little owl, miniature canvas, Painting, rough, TextureLeave a comment

One of the problems with the little canvases, the weave is too bumpy so it’s hard to get a smooth surface, I could put a thick layer of paint on first but it might not stick properly? Anyway it’s fun exploring different images.

Halloween face?

Posted on October 18, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Complementary colours, Face, Fine Art, Green, Painting, Playing, Red, SketchLeave a comment

Weird little green face, red hair or scarf. I’m just playing with complementary colours on a little canvas. I don’t know if I will elaborate on it. Maybe I should add extra details? What do you think?

Tiny paintings

Posted on October 17, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, craft sale, Etruria Industrial museum, mini canvases, Painting, Stoke-on trent4 Comments

Some mini paintings including abstracts, I’m trying to get some work done for a small stall at Etruria Industrial museum in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire this weekend. It’s the last steaming of the princess engine this year. I haven’t done anything for months but I finally got some miniature canvases so decided to have a go.

I need sleep

Posted on October 16, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Busy, Choir, City centre, Group, Life, Music, Rain, Sleep, Storm, Support, TiredLeave a comment

I’m shattered. I went to an art group that supports mental health this morning and was given some help with something I’m trying to deal with. Then a friend rang and I tried to give her advice, but I wasn’t up to going and seeing her. Sometimes it’s hard to take on others problems when you have enough of your own. Finally I went to choir practice in the city centre. I got a lift there and back, but got soaked to the skin as I tried to get the few yards between the car door and the front door. I’ve just dried out!

Old celtic cat drawing

Posted on October 16, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Celtic cat, Drawing, faded, Filters, Fun, Image, Inks, Knotwork, Sun, SunlightLeave a comment

I drew this in the 1980s I have it on the stairs and it’s badly faded. I might use filters to try and restore how it looks? It’s sad when you have created something but the sun destroys it over time. I don’t know if you can buy ink that is resistant to sunlight? Maybe?

Mallaband-Brown

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