New paintings and regular art updates.
A money plant on our windowledge. Duplicated photo, it’s tortuous shape given extra twists by mirroring it. The pale green leaves are a nasturtium that was planted inside. I hasn’t matured in time to produce flowers. I think this looks like a green carving or sculpture. It’s like an odd insect about to pounce, perhaps a preying mantis.
I am going to try and keep doing things but over the weekend I have hurt my wrist and thumb somehow. I’m taking painkillers and have it strapped up. I will try and get in the doctors today. I don’t want to stop but I can’t draw well. The sketch was done on my tablet with a stylus and just holding that was a pain. I’m typing by holding my hand still and moving the phone round underneath it. Ouch
Dancing a jive
Swirling a jig
Almost alive
Tiny and big
Crumpled and flat
Spread on the ground
Shiny and matt
Colours abound.
Nature as art
Life and decay
The leaves take part
In dance and play
Drawing I did a while in Artrage oils. Then duplicated it. I don’t know where these ideas come from or even if they are any good. But I’m constantly creating and learning. I can’t help it and I can’t stop. I just get a buzz out of art and creativity.
A digital drawing I did a few years ago. It’s based on the Mandlebrot Set which is a fractal pattern that was found when mathematicians worked on chaos theory. It is an infinite pattern that you can zoom into and the patterns flow and twist but the basic shape that I drew keeps coming back. Obviously this is just a drawing but it was an interesting challenge.
I’ve hurt my wrist and I’ve had to put a bandage on it. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was healing. I’m hoping this heals quickly. I have already got a doctors appointment tomorrow so I will ask if they can work out what I’ve done. So frustrating. This is a digital drawing using a tablet.
Covered in armour
Impenetrable scales
Against all drama
Arrows and staves
Flying above
Crawling below
Graceful as a dove
With a loud bellow!
Only a myth
An imaginary creature
Family kin and kith
In which lizards feature
Wings full of woe
Mouth full of fire
Where he does go
Things will be dire!
What is this thing
We wish will be gone?
Of it we will sing!
The inimitable Dragon!
Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was leaves. I took some photos at Westport Lake and I based this sketch on one of them. Some of the colours are a bit to bright but it was the best I could do with felt pens.
I found a little skull on a walk a few years ago. Maybe a rabbit skull? Something with a printed snout. No teeth and no bottom jaw. I kept it as something to practice drawing on. Trying to get accurate details and shading. It struck me that I could use it as an idea for a dragon. I had an idea where the jaw would articulate, it would be a carnivore so teeth would be all along the jaw, (herbivores only have incisors and big molar teeth at the back). Now I have to think where the skin would sit and the size of its eyes….
Birches growing tall
Straight trunks
Slim and elegant
Seen on Clarice Cliff
Deco pottery
Ceramic classic
Birches move in
Colonise scrubland
Sunset colours
In post it notes
Add atmosphere
Collage of landscape
Industrial memory
Mallaband-Brown