Owl sculpture

Posted on June 5, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Day trip, Dorothy Clive garden, Owl, Photo, Sculpture, Visit, wood carving2 Comments

I saw this today on our visir to the Dorothy Clive Garden. I really like it. Not much more to say really.

Post it note portrait…

Posted on June 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Experiment, Life, Pencil, Poem, Poetry, Portrait, post it notes, SketchingLeave a comment

Art can be anything

Anything if you experiment

Experiment and learn

Learn to try

Try to play.

Play with Art

Art….

Tonights sky

Posted on June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cloud appreciation society, Clouds, Hot colours, Penkhull, Stoke-on trent, Sunset, the Croft, Thistley Hough3 Comments

The sky was stunning tonight, layers of cloud with light escaping from behind them. Reds, yellows, oranges, purples and some blues. Silhouettes of trees and buildings and the fencing around the Croft at Thistley Hough.

Ou could even see wisps of snow or rain falling from the clouds but not reaching the ground.

Taken about 9.45 pm tonight….

Jack of all trades

Posted on June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Books, Eclectic, Graphics, History, Humour, Illustration, Reading, Sci fi, Science, TravellingLeave a comment

I looked at all my book cases and realised how eclectic my reading must be. I’m not sure exactly how many booked I have but I gave up counting after I reached over 1000.

Sci-fi, science (biology, chemistry, physics) novels, biography, art, graphics, illustration, history, old books, new books, even magic Eye books from a couple of decades ago.

Can your reading be too chaotic? I’ve got a book about chaos theory… There are a few cookery books and travel books. There are books that were Christmas presents, birthday presents, and ones I bought for my college course. Too many? I don’t know….

Trying to think of a three panel story

Posted on June 3, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, cat cartoon, Cat doodles, College, Funny, Humour, Learning, Life, no words, Thinking, three panel storyLeave a comment

Rough sketches, three panel wordless piece. I experimented with colour and the positioning of the panels. Also could it be a front, side or top or bottom view of the cat and of it breaking out through the cat flap? Could the sequence change? What are the cats emotions? Why does it want to get out? Fear, adventure, looking for a friend? Lots of reasons, even sunshine….? Or a bird it’s seen singing outside… Oh dear!

Dancer/music

Posted on June 3, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Arteza metallic watercolours, Drawing, Experiment, Fun, ink liner pen, Learning, Sketching, Watercolour sketch2 Comments

I went a bit mad for this, today’s #bandofsketchers prompt dancer/music. Made a drawing in metallic watercolours of a ballet dancer, I didn’t base it on a particular pose. When it was finished I wasn’t happy so I drew over it, then changed it in the photo app on my phone . I’m including all three versions I saved.

Using monoprint

Posted on June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic paint, Art, Black and white, Drawing, Experiment, monoprint, Picture, Portrait, Sketching, TextureLeave a comment

Ten minute sketch using cut out monoprint

The monoprint was made by rubbing paper onto black paint brushed onto silver foil and then scratched through a bit. I then cut out a shape to fit to the shape of the woman body and arm, side of the face and hair, (basically the shaded side of her face and body). This was a bit nerve wracking as I only had ten minutes to do the cutting out, sticking, and drawing the rest of the portrait. I used the monoprint from a stock of them I’d made already.

Mythology

Posted on June 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, cornucopia, Illustration, Life, merman, monoprint, Mythology, Pegasus, post it notes, Unicorn, Zebra9 Comments

Another post-it note and monoprint collage, drawn over with fine liner ink pen. The subject I found was mythology. The unicorn/ zebra/pegasus is adding all the elements I like together, the merman is holding a cornucopia from which fish are leaping. A bit of fun.

Self portrait

Posted on May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, black pen, Collage, College, Drawing, Illustration, Ink, life study, post it notes, self portrait2 Comments

A self portrait done when I would have been drawing portraits of other students, but the server was down. Its a mixture of collaged magazine paper, watercolour paint, black ink and ink spray and post-it notes. I think I wasn’t in a good mood when I drew it. I had been doing the drawing session once a week for about seven weeks and then something went wrong and I couldn’t join in. Anyone that follows my blog will know that creating art makes me very happy, it cheers me up, (although I don’t look it in the drawing!)

Valley view

Posted on May 30, 2021May 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, black fine liner pen, clayton, Drawing, Life, Shaking, Sketching, Trent Vale, Valley, View, Walking, wobbly lines3 Comments

View of Trent Vale and Clayton from Thistley Hough

We went for a walk in the evening yesterday, and instead of just taking photos I took a small sketch pad with me. I couldn’t draw all the details I could see and because its black and white it’s hard to get shade and tone, but I did my best. The two blobs in the sky were hot air balloons. Too far away to see any detail and they were travelling sideways on to us very slowly (left to right). This took about 15 minutes, just trying to get an impression of the view over the valley. I wish I didn’t shake, my lines are very wobbly!

Mallaband-Brown

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