Drawing to scale

Posted on November 27, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Circles, Curves, Difficult, Drawing, Illustration, Plan drawing?, Sketch, Time piece, Watch2 Comments

Oh I wish I’d done technical drawing at school. I’d know how to draw perfect circles and how to indicate cross sections. Yes I can draw around things, like this watch, but the line is very wobbly, then I wanted to draw an inner circle, but again its approximately a circle….. I’m a bit disappointed to be honest. I must find out if there is a particular template I can buy. If I’m going to learn, I need the right equipment. Another thing I need to invest in, and maybe an illustrated guide to technical drawing?

Fog, what Fog?

Posted on November 27, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Life, Looking out, Photo, Scene, View, Window, WindowsillLeave a comment

It was meant to be foggy this morning. I was looking forward to going out to take photos in the mist… But it didn’t arrive! Instead I took an ‘atmospheric’ photo of the cat on the windowledge. There’s a teatowel on the wooden chest that I use when I’m painting.

I’ve seen lots of misty photos over the last few days, so I hope I’ll be able to get some interesting images… We shall see.

selfie drawing?

Posted on November 26, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Female artist, Gif, learning to GIF, Portrait, self portrait, selfie 2020, SketchingLeave a comment

This is part of a set of drawings I did to learn how to make a GIF. its more complicated that I imagined. I managed to do it but you have to optimise files and do all sorts of things. Trouble is Ive forgotten what I did – maybe i should have another go.

The drawing built up over several frames. In the missle was a wild swirling pattern and then it built back down to the original sketch.. I wish I could run it here but I dont think I have enough memory and I dont know if WordPress works with GIFs?

Winter blossom

Posted on November 26, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blossom, Exhibiriin, Orme Art, Panting, Picture, Trees, Winter tree4 Comments

This popped up on my Facebook memories from a couple of years ago. Winter blossom shows a face in profile hidden in the twisted branches. The idea of the tree is based on a tree across the road from us that actually blossoms in December. It’s just coming into flower now. But clearly my idea is a bit more abstract and surreal. I did the painting and it sold at an Orme Art exhibition in the November, where my friend had fallen in love with it.

Cat toys

Posted on November 26, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cat, Catnip, Drawing, Playing, Prompt, Spectrum noir, ToysLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was games or toys. I have a scrabble game somewhere but haven’t seen it for years. I don’t have any toys, but the cats have plenty….

A lot of them are filled with catnip which drives the cats mad with pleasure. It tends to fade over time, hence the number of toys! Drawn in spectrum noir metallic pencil colours in a little sketch book with a bit of black felt pen to define the edges.

Changing colours

Posted on November 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Brightness, Colours, Contrast, Curves, Fun, Graph, Learning, Photos4 Comments

Have you tried adjusting the colours in a photo in curves? I had taken a bland photo of a tree outside my window and I decided to see what I could do with it. I wanted to increase the contrast, change the colours, add brightness to bring out where the light was in the photo to differentiate between the tree leaves and the background.

Curves is like a graph, by changing the height and depth of the curves you can enhance brightness and colour by making the curve higher, or lower the curve and the image loses brightness and can lose contrast too….. The curved graph representing this was up and down then back up again. All I can say is have a go and see what happens. You don’t have to accept the result and you can go back to how it was originally.

Face sketch

Posted on November 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Image, Life, Pencil sketch, Portrait, Sketch, Sky portrait artist of the week, Twenty minutes2 Comments

Tried drawing Jane Horrocks in twenty minutes while watching Sky Portrait artist of the week. Done with a blunt spectrum noir pencil crayon. Where’s my sharpener when I need it? I couldn’t find an image from the day so I used a stock one. I’m afraid it looks a bit more like another celebrity, Annika Rice?

Scarf designs

Posted on November 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, CYAN, Fun, Glitter, Gold, Green, Ink, Iteration, Learning, Pattern, Scarf9 Comments

A couple of iterations of the pattern I just drew…. Now how do I get them printed off as scarves? Do I have to save them in Cyan colours?

Any info would be helpful. X

Ink and glitter

Posted on November 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, Drawing, Experiment, Glitter, Gold, Green, Idea, Ink, PatternLeave a comment

Thinking about making backgrounds, I tried using some green sparkly ink. It’s meant to spray out, but the spray nozzle won’t work, so I unscrewed the top and dragged the ink in lines with the plastic tube that dips into the ink. Then I added some black ink lines. Finally I used a gold, round glitter stamp. Of course I had forgotten to clean it from last time I used it, so it didn’t work as well as I wanted.

I don’t know what I could use this for. It looks a bit like trellis work in a garden so I might try adding images of flowers? Maybe in an analogue way or digitally. It could also be used for a screen print for perhaps a silk scarf?

Online lecture

Posted on November 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Backgrounds, College, Fun, Ink, Learning, Lecture, Life, Painting, Student led, WatercolourLeave a comment

Just watched a lecture by one of our fellow students. It was fascinating to watch. About watercolour and ink and how to use it. She showed us how to use salt and also cling film to add texture, masking fluid to preserve white areas and glue mixed with paint and ink to created textured backgrounds. I will certainly have a go at using some of them.

She also showed us her sketchbooks, she mainly does abstract work, but also does realistic work, (she showed us a lovely painting of a friends dog). It’s great that students are adding to the teaching experience at college….

Mallaband-Brown

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