11 years ago

Posted on May 20, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 11 years, Art, Drawing, Life, London Road festival, Make up mirror, Pencil sketch, self portrait, Sketching4 Comments

About 11 years ago I drew this self portrait. I was with a group of other people who went to a pencil drawing workshop. What strikes me the most about this is how chubby I was, it reminds me how I’ve changed.

The sketch was done using a small makeup mirror and it was impossible to see my whole face at once, but I did my best. In one section of the drawing I almost rubbed through the paper trying to remove some of the graphite. That’s why there is a dark smudge on one of the cheeks.

We were told the drawings would be used for the London Road festival in Stoke. Imagine my surprise when I was driving home one day and this was attached as a 6ft square banner on the front of an empty shop. I now have it at my studio at spode.

My mind…

Posted on May 19, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Autumn acrylic on canvas, Fine Art, Painting, Spring, Styles, Techniques2 Comments

An old painting, Autumn and Spring…. Acrylic on canvas. A mixture of styles ideas. I’m not sure whether I will ever do another one like this. I am happy I did it, but it feels like a one off.

Landscape

Posted on May 19, 2023May 19, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Sketching, Landscape, Life, Bluebells, Felt pens, Photodirector, incollage2 Comments

Collage of three versions of my drawing of midday. By flipping the central image it created interesting effects where the edges join. One side seems to travel along a dark tunnel, the other into some sort of tree temple? I used photodirector for the textures and incollage for joining the images together.

Midday

Posted on May 19, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized, SketchingTagged Art, Drawing, Sketching, Bluebells, Prompt, Colourful, Felt pens, #bandofsketchers, middayLeave a comment

Midday was the #bandofsketchers prompt for Thursday. We were at Rode Hall bluebell walk a couple of weeks ago. The overhead sun shining directly down onto the ground threw quite dark shadows. It wasn’t perfectly sunny though so the contrast wasn’t too strong. Felt pen drawing.

Old digital sketch

Posted on May 18, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized, SketchingTagged Art, Doodle, Dotty, Drawing, Eyes, Face, Pattern, Pointellist, Sketchfu, Sketching2 Comments

Drawn with dots at a now defunct site called sketchfu. The site had a colour picker, about six round brush sizes. An opacity/transparency setting, zoom option and a pallette. Not many tools, but simple to use and it attracted a lot of traffic (thousands of users). In the end the owners abandoned it, they ghosted us moderators (I was one) I think they sold the site off.

Flow

Posted on May 18, 2023May 18, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Blue, Drawing, Felt pens, Green, Prompt, Tuesday, turquoise2 Comments

Bit late with this prompt of flow. It was posted on Tuesday but I missed it. I drew two lines in curves by holding a blue and a green felt pen together to give me a meandering river shape with vertical banks, the used blue, green and turquoise colours to give an idea of flowing water.

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt flow.

Look into my eyes

Posted on May 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Amazing, Art, BBC, Drawing, glow up, Life, Make-up, Sketching, TV programme2 Comments

I was just watching a programme called ‘Glow up’ about make up artists competing to win a make up artist of the year award. They are all young, enthusiastic people and the work they did was amazing. The first challenge was to create fresh makeup for an advertising campaign. The results were varied between very subtle and very bold. The second challenge was to create a make up which represented the place the contestants came from. One competitor came up with a bee for Manchester on her models nose, and eagles wings using feathers on the models eyebrows.

I’ve never seen this programme before on BBC 1, but I’m glad I did. I have done a small amount of face-palming in the past but this was on an entirely different scale. Really amazing and artistic! My sketch here is nothing in comparison. X

Profile

Posted on May 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digital drawing, Doodling, Drawing, Glowing, sketchbook app, Sketching2 Comments

A doodle drawn in sketchbook app, there are a lot of pens and brushes on the app, so I chose glowing colours and then a thin magenta pen to draw a profile over the top. Spirals are one of my favourite geometric patterns. It’s just a finger painting.

Spock!

Posted on May 14, 2023May 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1936, Logic, Science, sketchfu app, Sketching, Spock, Star TrekLeave a comment

Share a story about someone who had a positive impact on your life.

When I was a child I decided to be logical…. Because I saw the character of Spock on TV in a Star Trek and he gave me a love of science and knowledge.

I also think it triggered a love of astronomy together with watching the Sky at Night TV programme (although I never drew Sir Patrick Moore).

All that interest in the world sparked by a science fiction character..

Found

Posted on May 14, 2023May 14, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, bark, Ideas, Life, Painting, Stones, Trees, Winter, Wood, Work in progress2 Comments

Acrylic on canvas painting, work in progress. Of trees and rocks or stones. But I don’t remember what I was doing with it. I found it in the summerhouse while I was helping clear it up. I must have started it sometime last year. Perhaps in the winter. I’ll have to make a story up? Maybe it was too cold in there and the water froze, or the weather changed and continuous rain put me off. I’m going to get my brushes out and try and finish it off….

Mallaband-Brown

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