I should be typing

Posted on April 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Design, Illustration, Learning, Microsoft, Project, Thinking, Typing, Writing2 Comments

I started with all good intentions this morning and wrote about 500 words of a 4000 word project I’ve got to do for my illustration course. But then things got in the way. We had an avalanche of carrier bags (my hubby buys them all the time). I put them by the washing machine but today they all slid down onto the floor. Cue a lot of folding and an offer to take them to the local food bank.

Then the cat decided she wanted a cuddle, she jumped up on the keyboard and knocked me out of the page I was on.

Hubby wanted to chat… Shuddup! Then Microsoft decided it wanted me to verify who I was before it would let me back into Word? What, how do you do that. I was halfway through a paragraph, had gone to have something to eat and came back to that!

Ugh!

For sale

Posted on April 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Chains, Fused glass, Glass cabochons, Jewellery, multi coloured, Necklaces, Wire weaving2 Comments

I have just been asked to put these necklaces in the waiting room gallery in Longport, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. They will be for sale over the next few weeks. I already have some small paintings on display there. The Waiting Room gallery can be found online on Facebook.

One has already been sold. I hope people like them.

LOTR drawing

Posted on April 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Frodo, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, Muzy, Sketchfu, Sketching, WebsiteLeave a comment

Frodo, drawn on a website called sketchfu a few years ago.

I liked it because it had simple tools to draw with, but you could get reasonable results. Unfortunately it was closed down a few years ago. I think the owners were overwhelmed by the amount of chat on it, the art started to become secondary to people writing fan fiction and stories, the site was getting full and they couldn’t afford to extend it. Then they started up a new site called Muzy and Sketchfu seemed to be forgotten. In the end I managed to save a lot of my drawings before the whole thing was closed down. It was very sad, a lot of people lost a lot of art that they had spent a lot of time over.

Possible sculpture

Posted on April 26, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Ash Tree, Carving, Commission, Design, Fox, Green man, Owl, Sculpture, Tree trunk, WoodLeave a comment

We went for a walk last week and saw a fox carved into an old tree stump. Unfortunately the photo I took didn’t turn out (memory problem on my phone). I spoke to the person whose garden it was in and he told us the artist who had done it.

I decided to enquire about a carving, I have an idea of either an owl, a fox, or even a green man being carved into it. I’ve passed on my details and the size of the tree. Maybe in a few weeks I’ll be posting photos of a sculpture.

Tonights sketch

Posted on April 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Choir practice, Face, Movement, Picture, Portrait, Shadows, Singing5 Comments

One of tonights choir group, each week I’ve been drawing a participant as they sing. It’s good practice as they are moving and the shadows move with them. If you notice the image is slightly distorted. That’s because I had the sketchpad flat on my desk and it’s caused a slightly elongated drawing that is tipped slightly to the right…

It’s something to check on when you are drawing, sometimes it can cause a lot of distortion if you are not careful.

Penkhull tree.

Posted on April 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 6B, Art, Drawing, fine line ink pen, Life, Pencil sketch, silver pen, Sketching, Sunset, Trees, twenty minute sketchLeave a comment

My first outdoor sketch apart from in our garden or from a window or a photograph for a year. View of a tree on the Croft, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent.Drawn with a 6b pencil over about twenty minutes on our evening walk. I added black ink fine line pen and silver felt pen later.

Pendants

Posted on April 25, 2021April 25, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Craft, Fused glass, Glass, Glass cabochons, Jewellery, metallic inclusions, Wire weaving2 Comments

I was so pleased to get these yesterday. My friend had got them before the pandemic but because of her work we could not see each other for months. Now each fused glass cabochon has a smart wire weave bale and chain.

I tried to get good photos of them although the light in our house isn’t good, perhaps I should get a light box? I think they work really well together.

Tonights portrait session

Posted on April 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Calligraphy pen, Five portraits, Fun, Life, Sketchbook, Sketching, students2 Comments

Five portraits, one five minutes and the other four are ten minute ones. Black calligraphy pen on cartridge paper. The lighting isn’t good so the paper looks a bit grey. People provided objects to add to the portraits. I really enjoy these sessions.

Zine

Posted on April 23, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged arrived today, Art, College, Fun, Life, monoprint, Printing, Riso, students, Work, zine2 Comments

Today my copy of Falmouth Zine arrived. Its the work of myself and fellow students, we all made self portraits using cut up pieces of monoprint. Then it was Riso printed and we now have the result.

Yes my self portrait looks nothing like me, but it was fun and experimental, and I learnt about making my own monoprint and how a Riso printer works, so yes it was worth having a go!

Over..

Posted on April 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black ink, Drawing, Hartshill, Hawthorn, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Tree6 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was over… Today’s walk led us under this hawthorn tree that was growing over the road. Its in Hartshill on the way up to Queens Road. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Mallaband-Brown

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