My art and friends art.

Posted on August 10, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged AI, Art, Artists, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2026, Digital drawing, Fine Art, Painting, Prompt2 Comments

If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?

I’ve accumulated a lot of physical and digital art over a lifetime of being an artist. A lot of it is still in my house. I would set up a shop to clear some of it so it could go to good homes. I’m sure friends would do the same.

I realise people like to be clutter free, and now AI is creeping in they could press a few buttons and make something. But wouldn’t it be nice to have a creation made by a human that suits your taste and is created with love and attention? Go on, give an artist a try.

Terry

Posted on August 8, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Hat, Life, Pencil sketch, Portrait, Pub, Sketch, sketching group, TerryLeave a comment

Ten year old sketch. I used to like drawing people when we went out to the local pub, or to visit friends. It’s just an easy and quick way of keeping my hand in for drawing portraits.

There are groups you can join on the Internet to draw portraits of each other but I always forget its on until it’s over and I hardly go anywhere anymore.

Textured cat

Posted on August 3, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Adjustments, App, Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Photo, Photodirector, Playing, TextureLeave a comment

I do like adding texture to photos, in this case I used an app called photodirector. There are lots of options in it, but I tend to use the same tools each time. It has the effect of just ruffling the surface rather than adding some mad AI effects which you have to pay a premium for anyway. This was my lost cat, but he came back!

Peeling paint

Posted on August 2, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Life, Paint, Peeling paint, Possible painting, Restore, Time, weathering, WoodLeave a comment

Old building in Stoke Town centre. The paint and layers of wood have been deteriorating for years. It’s like some fancy abstract painting. As the weather attacks the surface, more of the lifts. Part of me would like to see it in good repair, but my artistic side sees it as a painting.

Our Art group

Posted on July 27, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Art, Discussion, Fine Art, Mood, Orme Group, Sharing, Support, Talking, ThinkingLeave a comment

I forgot to talk about being in an art group because I was interested in what I had painted. I know that talking to people helps my mood, it’s just going that’s the problem….

I knew I needed to get some sleep but after going to bed relatively early I was awake from 4 in the morning until 9am. Then I fell asleep again so I was late getting to the group.

I am glad I went. It was a good session. I managed to work on my green woman painting. I noticed how helpful people are making suggestions and supporting each other. Sometimes I just keep my head down and just concentrate on what I’m doing. But listening today made me feel less anxious. X

Art group

Posted on July 27, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Green woman, Life, Painting, Pattern, StyleLeave a comment

I’m painting a green woman and I’ve been trying to sort out how to differentiate the foreground figure from the background trees. I’ve accentuated the stripes on the bark and made them more black and white than in reality. Since the figure is abstracted in a different way I think it’s starting to work.

View

Posted on July 17, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Imagination, imagined view, Leaves, Mountains, Painting, Trees, ViewLeave a comment

Imagined view, I think I need to have a look at some real clouds. I’m not sure if I’m going to call this finished. Acrylic on canvas. I just wanted to paint something calm and peaceful so I created this sketch view X

Pots

Posted on July 15, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, BCB, Fine Art, pots, Prompt, Sketching, Teapot, Watercolour sketchLeave a comment

A really old painting I did from when we visited a BCB exhibition at Spode I think. I really liked this watercolour so I thought I’d share it. This was my selection for today’s #bandofsketchers prompt “pots”.

Flowers

Posted on July 11, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Drawing, Flowers, Plant, Prompt, Sketching, SunflowerLeave a comment

Trying to catch up… A quick sketch of a sunflower in Artrage app. #bandofsketchers prompt flowers…

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a band of sketchers prompt. I’ve decided to resume so I at least post a bit of art here. I’ve been feeling down for too long. I don’t know if this will help, but I’ve got to try.

Application unsuccessful

Posted on July 3, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Burslem, Fine Art, Leopard Hotel, molly leigh, Mural, Painting, Stoke-on trent, three counties open exhibition2 Comments

I’m sad to say that I didn’t get my painting of Molly Leigh the Burslem witch into the three counties open exhibition this year. (Staffordshire, Cheshire and Shropshire).

I know they had over 200 entries and it depends who is selecting the works of art. I also know that the exhibition has to be cohesive and not too eclectic. So will I enter again? Yes, but I will probably choose to do something less specific. But I’m glad I painted this.

The reason why? I painted something similar to this as a mural in the Leopard Hotel in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, several years ago. The building burned down a couple of years ago and I wanted to try and recreate the memory of it. The painting means a lot more to me than getting it in this competition. X

Mallaband-Brown

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