Thumbnails

Posted on December 13, 2021December 14, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, files, Full memory, Life, Memory, Mobile, Phone, Size, Thinking, thumbnails, WordPressLeave a comment

I’m going to shrink a lot of my images to thumbnail size and derlete the old photos. It’s going to take some time, but my phone memory and WordPress memories keep getting fuller. I don’t like doing it because I want people to see my art, but I’m hoping if you look on the images on a tablet and a computer you will be able to see them OK?

I hope the blogs will still be acceptable. I am also deleting a few older images. I’m on 97.7% full media at the moment. It’s going to take ages to try and reduce my file sizes, hopefully the words don’t take up too much space.

Mini paintings

Posted on December 12, 2021December 15, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged acrylic in canvas, Art, Life, Matchbox sized, mini canvases, Mini paintings, Painting2 Comments

I like doing miniature paintings on small canvases. It’s hard to get small details though as I am still shaking from whatever is affecting my left arm and shoulder. There is an artist who lives near Birmingham who creates miniature sculptures in the eye of a needle and on the heads of pins. He creates them using an eyelash attached at 90° to a fine brush or rod. He works between heart beats and holds his breath. He works at night so traffic doesn’t disturb him. Now that is skill! He works through a microscope and his work has to be viewed through one.

His details are:

WILLARD WIGAN: World’s most incredible microscopic artist with new exhibition. Dr. Willard Wigan’s MBE, Latest exhibition is open now at The Birmingham Contemporary Art Gallery. Born June 1957, Willard is a world renowned British sculptor who makes microscopic art.

Frodo

Posted on December 12, 2021December 16, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, BBC radio 4, Book, Drawing, drawing site, Film, Fun, Lord of the Rings, Moria, Sketchfu, Sketching, StingLeave a comment

Another one of my digital drawings that I did on the Sketchfu website (closed a few years ago). This was Frodo and his sword Sting. I’m re-reading the Lord of the Rings and they have just come through Moria where Gandalf falls into an abyss with the Balrog. Reading a book is different to seeing a film, the story is visualised by you, not by a digital animator. Frodo looks like your imagined hobbit, not someone acting him. That said I did like this actor, Elijah Wood, but I also liked Ian Holm who played him in the BBC radio series.

Birdy

Posted on December 11, 2021December 14, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Budgie, Digital drawing, digital finger painting, Fun, Parrot, Pigeon, SketchingLeave a comment

Is it a parrot a pigeon or a budgie? Just something I drew with the free Artrage oils app. I used metallic and non metallic colours and played with different brushes.

I like the way you can play with textures, the metallic dots look a bit like scales, or shiny feathers. This is a finger painting so it’s difficult to control the shapes and edges. Also because the ‘paints’ have a ‘liquid’ effect, it means they sort of smudge into one another. It’s definitely different to real painting.

Butterflies

Posted on December 11, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Drawing apps, Instagram, SketchingLeave a comment

Digital drawings, playing with colours. Used a couple of apps and posted them to my @mallabandbrown Instagram account. This was drawn over the top of another drawing I had done a couple of days ago. Colour and its balance are very important.

Art box

Posted on December 10, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Found, Fun, Life, Lost, Pencils, sketch box, thirty or forty years, Time, Watercolour2 Comments

I thought I’d post another picture of my old art stuff. I’ve certainly collected a lot of art equipment over the years. The pastels have dried out but the pencils are still OK. The watercolours are a bit old and powdery, maybe I can use them in a painting.

Ask me how old they are? I think twenty or thirty years old? Certainly not when I was at college, but not long after that.

Where is the box now? I think its upstairs somewhere. This photo was taken a year or two ago. I have a tenancy to find things, then put them somewhere ‘safe’ again. Which means I’ll probably not see them for another ten years! Life….

Yeti Alert

Posted on December 10, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Fun, Life, Mythology, myths, Silly, Sketching, yetiLeave a comment

Drawing of a Yeti. I thought I could write a children’s book about one, but I don’t really know what it would be about, I just liked the idea. Then I saw Terry Pratchett had written a story about a baby yeti. It’s due out on Christmas day on the BBC. I’m looking forward to it… Whatever my Yeti story is I hope its funny enough.

Shops or shoes

Posted on December 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, black ink liner pen, Drawing, Felt pens, Prompt, Shoes, shops, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Shops. I don’t go to the shops very often unless it’s to get grocery shopping. I couldn’t think what to draw so I decided to sketch an imaginary shoe shop. It didn’t help that my black ink liner pen was running out so it’s a bit scratchy. I just used felt pens for colour, but they are starting to run out too.

MAA! (Messy Artist alert)

Posted on December 9, 2021December 14, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Fun, Messy, Pallette, Poem, Poetry, Silly, Splash, vibrant, Watercolours2 Comments

Spotted these photos of my watercolour paints today. I must be a messy artist!

Colour pans out

Messy splashes

I’m a real lout.

Red and blue

Green and yellow

My colour pallette

Is not very mellow.

Splish and splash

Water and pigment

A real stramasch

Let art ferment!

Structure

Posted on December 9, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Easle, Material, Mirrored, Pattern, Photo, Sketchpad, Structure, three dimensionalLeave a comment

Material, easle, sketchbook, collages together to make a pattern. Then I’ve used an app to multiply and twist it. The funny thing is I see figures in the dark patches. Like they are standing inside a dark cavernous structure. Because I started with a photo of overlapping things it gives the resulting pattern a three dimensional look. Almost like architecture.

Mallaband-Brown

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