Full…

Posted on December 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cost, Full, Full memory, Life, Old blog pages, Pictures, WordPress2 Comments

My WordPress is getting too full of images again. I try and put a new photo or art on each page, but when my media is around 86% full it won’t allow me to upload new images. So unfortunately I’m going to have to delete pictures to make more room. I will delete them from the older pages. It will probably mean that the page and writing will still be there, but the image might be missing. Sorry if this is a problem. I might try and increase my package with WordPress but that will cost me money. I don’t want to clutter my blog up with ads either. We will see what happens.

Pens all over the floor!

Posted on December 7, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Adult colouring books, Art, Colouring in, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, On the floor, Sketching2 Comments

What happens when your hubby decides to get an adult colouring book… I don’t mind, but does everything have to get spread over the floor? Also I wish he would get his own. I use these for my art course. I asked him how he thought I would feel if he’d tipped all my oil paints lying all over the floor!

Rocking horse

Posted on December 7, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Drawing, Fun, Looks like a print, Rocking horseLeave a comment

Digital sketch. Rocking horse. Using a drawing app, then playing with it to try and make it look like a linocut print. I tried changing the background colours and textures to see what it would look like if it were printed on different papers.

Faces

Posted on December 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital drawing, Faces, Fun, Image, Layout app, Multiplied, Picture, Sketcher freeLeave a comment

I did this drawing in an app called sketcher that I used to use a lot on my tablet, but when I got a new phone I found I was creating a lot of things on it and neglecting some of the apps on other devices. Having too many choices or just lucky to have them? But I do need to try and keep my hand in with other apps.

Band of sketchers, Treasure

Posted on December 6, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Jewellery, Life, Picture, Rings, Sketching, Sketchpad, TreasureLeave a comment

Our prompt was Treasure, but I don’t really possess any, so I drew the rings I wear every day. For instance I bought my own wedding ring for £27. I’m sure my friends will have better treasures.

Fine liner pen, marker pens, a gold and silver pen. On an A6 cartridge paper sketchbook.

lobster painting

Posted on December 6, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, blue lobster, crab painting, Environment, Fine Art, Lobster, neatness, Painting, professional, sea life5 Comments

A blue lobster I painted earlier in the year ( I used a stock image off Google to work from) I’ve now got to paint a purple crab to accompany it! I find it quite difficult holding my phone as I cant always print images off. It’s also interesting that I have reverted back to my old signature, I had started signing things “Mallaband-Brown” simply because my name is so long its not always easy to fit my full name on. Also it is meant to be my brand (my blog is called mallaband-Brown too). There are so many things I should be doing to improve the look of what I post. For instance this image is twisted slightly, so the edges of the canvas do not line up with the edges of the picture… I guess I should pay more attention, but my brain is more involved in the actual painting than being neat!

Time to draw or paint square 6.

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bonnard, Copy, Drawing, Fun, Life, Orme Art group, Painting, Wibter challengeLeave a comment

I’m doing a collaboration with the Orme art group. I have already done square 2, not very well, but I’ve also volunteered to do square 6 too. Today I went out and got some new permanent markers and some gel pens, so I will try and come up with a copy of the image. It’s a painting by Bonnard, but I can’t remember the title.

We have already done copies of a Picasso, a Monet, and a Matisse if I remember rightly. Fingers crossed 🤞

Pattern of hearts..

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colours, Cushion, Drawing apps, Fun, Pattern, ScarfLeave a comment

Digital drawing, I can’t remember when I did it. I don’t even know what application I used to draw it in. I guess it’s an abstract pattern. It could be used on a scarf or a pillow.

Have you heard of ‘Thunder Snow’?

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cold, Digital drawing, Edinburgh, Lightening, Snow, Thunder, Thunder snow, Weather2 Comments

No? Neither had I.

But in Edinburgh yesterday they got it! Basically it was a thunderstorm but because it was so cold there was snow instead of rain. The descriptions were that the lightening was brighter then normal (the whiteness of the snow made the light reflect more brilliantly). The thunder sounded like an explosion (muffled by the snow and clouds). Some people even rang the emergency services. Apparently its a rare phenomena but not unknown.

Dresdener Streizelmarkt

Posted on December 5, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Christmas, Chrustmas market, Half hour sketch, Life, Painting, Watercolour, Watercolour sketchLeave a comment

Today I joined #uskstoke for half an hour and painted this watercolour for the Saturday virtual sketch out. There were only a few of us but it was a nice chatty time. Good to catch up with people. I liked the colours and interesting architecture. Painting the letters was most difficult, trying to add white paint on top did not work brilliantly.