Proserpine

Posted on September 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawings, Drawing, Images, Life, Portrait, Proserpine, Youdraw, Youdraw.comLeave a comment

Youdraw is a website that used to rely on Java script but after a while of being down its started up again. The area you draw on is only an inch by two inches in portrait orientation. You have a thick and thin black pen and a thick and thin eraser. But despite the limitations if you played with it you could thin the black lines or reduce the eraser marks. I did thousands of drawings there as Christine M-B. I’ve done just a few since it’s started back up. They are trying to collect 500,000 drawings. I copied a lot of my drawings and added colour to them.

Tree spirits painting

Posted on September 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Dots, Faces, Leaves, Ree spirit, Spirit, Sunset, the Croft, Twigs and branchesLeave a comment

Painted a few years ago. Each dot of paint chosen to fit together and the branches and twigs manipulated to form faces. This was actually based on a photo of a tree up at the Croft at Penkhull, when the sun was setting and the sky looked like it was on fire. But I had to embellish it. I really like finding ‘spirits’ in my art. Sometimes I paint a subject straight, without playing with it, but other times I let go. This was one of those occasions. It might not work for you, but it made me very happy when it was finished. It went to a new home. Wish my photo of it was better.

Today’s challenge ‘Soft’

Posted on September 6, 2020 Posted in Cat, SketchingTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Black and white sketch, Cat, Drawing, From life, Fun, iink pen, Pencil sketch, Sketchers, Sketching2 Comments

The second challenge set by our new sketching group ‘band of sketchers’ was ‘Soft’, not easy, until I saw my cat sitting in front of a big soft bag. Plus a mat she was sitting on. Its a pencil sketch with some black ink fine line pen work. It’s hard drawing moving cats. They have a tenancy to shift position just when you want to draw their eyes, or the position of their paws. I could have taken a photo but I wanted to draw direct from life.

Spode window.

Posted on September 4, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Eleanora street, Exhibited, Fine Art, Painting, Spode, Spode site, Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

I’m in the reflection, you can see my fingers holding my phone in the bottom right hand pane of glass. Acrylic on canvas. Approx three foot by two foot. Painted a couple of years ago and exhibited at Spode and The Waiting room gallery at Longport. I’ve not painted much for the last six months because of covid 19 and doing my MA in illustration. But I know I need to paint again. I don’t want it to stop. I will be planning to paint more images from the Spode site. I love industrial archaeology. I hope to celebrate more of it in paint.

So I did play…

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bubble wrap, Design, Editing apps, Layout, Life, Photo director app, Photos, Playing, RandomLeave a comment

I’ll just leave these three here. I do like messing about. Goodnight all.

Hubby digging

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Etruria Artists, Friends, Garden, Life, Meeting people, Nervous, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Portuguese cafe, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

Fork in hand, pulling up weeds, tweed overcoat on, wearing a deerstalker hat, and enjoying a showery morning at Shelton allotments. No sketching challenge today, but we later met with some friends at a social distance so I got my sketch pad out again while enjoying a pleasant coffee in a Portuguese cafe. My nerves were a bit jangly after two seperate meetings with people so I wore a mask on both occasions and gloves when I was weeding. It’s hard to think the world might be going back to normal even though covid 19 is still here.

Painting, nebula on a star…

Posted on September 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Eleanora street, Life, Nebula, Painting, Space, Spode, Staffordshire, Stars, Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

Picture from the studio at spode last year. I thought it would be fun to paint a nebula onto a star shaped canvas I found. I’ve never seen another one. I also painted the Earth on a hexagonal canvas, but again I’ve not been able to find more. The shops seem to have less options to what they had even a year ago. I would really like to get hold of a circular canvas.

Huchera Square

Posted on September 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, copper leaves, Design, Fun, Huchera, Layout app, Pattern, Photos, Plant4 Comments

I played with this photo as the Huchera leaves look like copper sheets. The little sprigs of green in the centre look like tiny green people. I would really like a macro lens so I could take some very close shots of animals including insects, and also plants, together with things like lichen. Whatever I do, I find I want to do more. I deliberately take off centre pictures to make interesting compositions. I like trying to make patterns out of trees and clouds too…..

Thesis illustrations

Posted on August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Bronze, Celtic art, Drawing, Horse, Horse gear, Illustrations, Ink drawings, OrnamentsLeave a comment

I’ve posted these ages ago but since I deleted a lotof photos everything is jumbled up. These were drawings I did of a horses bit, and cast bronze fittings for a cart or chariot wheel.

I tthink I might have used a cartridge pen or a fountain pen to draw these. I can’t remember, they are almost forty years old. I can’t even credit the book I drew them from as I don’t remember and I’m not sure where I have put my thesis. I still like these…

Sun fire

Posted on August 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Digital drawing, Fire, Life, Paintings, SunLeave a comment

This popped up in my memories on Facebook and I remember doing four of these, Earth, Fire, Water, Air in ArtRage oils, but I can’t find the other three. I did them as companion pieces to four acrylic on canvas paintings of the same subjects that are in my studio down at spode which I really need to start going back to now things are a little more normal.

I’d like like to do some illustrations for a child’s book using ideas like this. Anyone interested?

Mallaband-Brown

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