Discussing abstract art

Posted on February 20, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged 20th century, Abstract, Art, Fine Art, Images, Painting, Picasso, Realism2 Comments

I was just discussing abstract art with a fellow blogger. I liked the person’s art because it was a self portrait but done in a very loose style.

I said I thought it will give them freedom of thought. I think of Picasso. He went from realism to abstraction, he had all the knowledge of both in his fingertips…

I don’t know if this makes sense but I’ve selected a few Picasso images to try and show what I mean. I’m not sure I understand Picasso but I do think it’s something to consider. When I was younger I was dismissive of his art , then I learned about Guernica, a village in Spain that was bombed and that Picasso memorialised in his painting of the same name.

I remember a tree

Posted on February 20, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Childhood, face in a tree, Illustration, Life, Memories, Park, Remembered, Scared, Spooky2 Comments

I remember a tree that seemed to have a face, and used to scare me when I was a child. There were knot holes where branches had broken off that looked like a face. I remember watching the Wizard of Oz and seeing the wicked witch. For some reason the tree and the witch were linked in my mind. I know I used to walk home through the park sometimes, but I wouldn’t go down that path if it was getting dark.. I also remember walking on the top of an old stone wall, balancing on the top of it, pretending to be a gymnast…. This was over forty years ago. When I look at photos of the park it has a lot more civilised appearance!

Second ‘set’

Posted on February 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Doodle, Drawing, Fun, Learning, Playing, Sci fi, SketchLeave a comment

based on my first ‘set’ drawing, this has changed into more of a landscape. Playing with sci-fi characters. I think I’m going slightly mad. I’m reading the brief and I’m supposed to draw again based on this…. I’m not sure what I will do next.

Drawing a set

Posted on February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Fun, Happy, Illustration, Imagination, Landscape, Life, Sci fi, Set, SketchingLeave a comment

My college course is getting us to make sets and draw from them. So I’ve created this bizarre landscape. The figures were decorated at a pottery workshop. The goat figurine was made by my friend Rie. The baby Buddha was a gift from a friend. The plants are from the kitchen as is the grater. Now I’ve got to redraw it but use my imagination to change it…. M

Delicate

Posted on February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, botanical, Bowl, Drawing, Felt pens, Floral, Jug, Life, Permanent markers, Pink, Roses, Vase2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt is delicate. So I drew one of the pale pink roses I got for myself on Valentines day.

Tonight was lockdown portrait night

Posted on February 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Faces, Fun, Group, Life, Permanent markers, Portrait, Ten minute sketchesLeave a comment

I really enjoy the chance to draw people so tonight’s lockdown drawings were fun. I’m trying out using permanent markers to give the faces a bit more definition. Maybe I can use watercolour next week? I did a pose too, I might try and draw myself as it’s been recorded. Not today though. A lot to catch up on…

knots and whorls

Posted on February 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Contours, Dendrochronology, Drawing, ink fine liner, Permanent markers, Sketch, Wood2 Comments

I do like contour lines, and this little doodle reminded me of wood cut through like when you cut down a tree. You can date the tree by its tree rings (dendrochronology) . I started out doodling round some pink and blue dots that had leaked through the page from a permanent marker pen, and then spread out and out, trying not to overlap the lines. This is like a meditation to me, as the pattern gets larger its more difficult to draw tidy curves and keep the line seperation. This took hours and i really had to concentrate. I’m sure it could be done with a digital platform but this is a fine liner ink pen.

Another Zoom

Posted on February 16, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, corners, Drawing, Fun, Life, Quick, Sketch, Zoom1 Comment

#bandofsketchers prompt was corners and as I was in another Zoom, why not draw the corners of the computer? It’s a quick sketch and I didn’t do a good portrait. I also got the date wrong, should read 16.2.21, x

Stencils

Posted on February 16, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Landscape, Layers, phone app, Plants, Playing, Sketcher app, stencils2 Comments

I just found some stencils on a drawing app I have on my phone. I’ve added the plants as layers, the mountain layer and the sky layer I sent to the back. Finally I stretched a tree and just allowed a small section of branches to protrude into the top of the image. I could have used a flood fill on the plants..

Watercolours

Posted on February 14, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Arteza paints, Black and white cat, indoor boy cat, Life, Metallic, observations, Painting, Sketches, Watercolour, Windsor and Newton WatercoloursLeave a comment

A couple of watercolours I’ve done over the last two days after watching a talk about using them. I wish I had stretched the paper as it curled because of the amount of water I used. The first is called ‘Why don’t cats keep still?’, basically it’s my boy cat washing, but he was constantly moving, the second is ‘lamp’. It’s the view of the back of our living room with a standard lamp and dream catcher with reflections. I used Arteza metallic watercolours and Windsor and Newton Watercolours to paint these sketches.

Mallaband-Brown

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