Watercolour background morphed

Posted on July 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Altered hues, Analogue, Art, Brushwork, Digital, Learning, Playing, Scratched through, Sketchbook, Watercolour, WetLeave a comment

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I have a wide paintbrush you can use to spread watercolour across a page. On the right hand side is part of the original picture and the left hand side has had the hue digitally changed. The grass style marks were created by scratchingvthruogh the wet paint with the edge of a bit of plastic. I might try and use the original background in my sketchbook for a new drawing, and I might upload this image to draw something else. I like the feel of this. I might add a lone pine tree or something like that. X

Face

Posted on July 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital spray paint, Graffiti, Illustration, Learning, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Selfie? Or someone else?, ThoughtLeave a comment

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Stern, thoughtful

Face seen in patterns,

What are you thinking?

Are you at peace

Or do you feel tragedy?

Could you be happy,

Or peaceful and calm?

Are you real

Or just captured as a sketch.

A Digital grafitti?

Spray can causing an image

Caught on computer wallpaper.

I made this thought.

I made this face

But does it describe me?

Beehive project

Posted on July 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists, Beehive, Bees, Collaboration, Etruria Artists, Fun, Hexagon project, Hexagons, Individual images, Photos, ProjectLeave a comment

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I started this month asking friends to share images that could be cropped into hexagonal shapes. Most of them have been added and I will share it next week. The idea was to have the selection finished by the end of July. I’m just hoping a couple more people come on board. I am a bit uncertain how good it will be to look at. But the individual images should work well together. Watch this space?

The new normal?

Posted on July 23, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white sketch, Black ink fine line pen, Drawing, Fine Art, Friend, Life, Lockdown, Sketching, Usk challenge, Usk Stoke-on-Trent, Visit8 Comments

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Visiting my friend today who’s a fine art student. Because we were inside her house we both wore masks. This is the final Stoke Urban Sketchers challenge for this run but I don’t think it will be the last. This was so good, to be able to visit someone. I feel like crying, I felt nervous, I felt touched that someone would let me in their house after all this time. I may dream about it! It was an honour to be allowed to draw her. I hope she does well in her fine art degree.

After Hokusai

Posted on July 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, After Hokusai, Art, Copy?, Japanese artist, Life, Painting, Picture, Woodblock print2 Comments

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I painted this small painting a few weeks ago. I was seeing if I could even get close to the great artist Hokusai’s work. If I’d painted on to paper I might have added the fishing boats that are being dragged into the great wave while the fishermen in them try and row away from it. It was so hard to get the fingerlike protrusions that show the wave breaking. The colours are not too far off. I think the sky is greyer? When you try and analyse a picture its hard not to miss the the mistakes you have made. Being self critical is important because you try and improve each time.

USK challenge 21.7.20

Posted on July 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white, Drawing, Hill, Picture, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke, Usk Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

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Out and about. A local street I have not walked down since March. Got to it by going up our very steep hill. It was only a couple of miles but I’m shattered. Black and white sketch taken from a photo. I wish I had drawn it in situ, but I didn’t have my sketchbook with me.

The plant really was growing out like a triffidcacross the pavement. I really liked it. Very interesting.

Today’s variation

Posted on July 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Fun, Illustration, Playing, Sketching, Tarot, VariationLeave a comment

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Work for my course. Take four images, a person walking, an animal, a recognisable plane and a building or part of a building. Three of them are mine and the fourth is a fellow student. I turned the images into tarot cards this time. I enjoyed doing this one. I tried to make it more coherent than the other three I’ve done. I’ve also got an usk challenge to do. I might try and get it done today.

Colours

Posted on July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Carrier bags, Cleaning cloth, Colours, Design, Layers, Layout ap, Pattern, Photos, Playing, Rainbow colours, Random, Tee shirt, ThrowLeave a comment

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Remind me not to play with colours! I have stacks of samples of colours on my phone. Sometimes, like this, I put them together in a simple pattern. Different layers and shapes, folds and twists. I chose rainbow colours, but I think the red is actually a deep orange.

Interesting how colour perception differs from person to person.

I like the way there is a definite hard line seperating each line of hot colours from the blues, greens and purples. Interesting what you can do with photos of carrier bags, tee shirt material, yellow paper, a cleaning cloth and a patterned throw.

USK challenge, Making

Posted on July 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Blancmange, ddesign, Food, Glass dish, Ink, Jelly, Permanent markers, Trifle, Usk Stoke-on-Trent2 Comments

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Well I made another trifle. Sugar free jelly (raspberry flavour), with added cherries off the tree. Then vanilla blancmange because I didn’t have any others. I poured a punnet of blueberries in the mix as I boiled the milk for it. Now it’s a nice pink colour. It’s setting in the fridge and I will add whipped cream when it’s ready. Yummy.

Enough of the recipe. But the challenge did give me the excuse to make it. Now there are only about three more of this set of challenges left. We will have to come up with some new ideas.

Second idea

Posted on July 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bright, College, Drawing, Experiment, Fireworks, Fun, Illustration, Life, Picture, VariationsLeave a comment

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Fireworks. That’s what this is called. This is my second variation using four initial A6 images on an A3 page. I played with the background I did yesterday, with more black ink, more shading, but I added iridescent white to brighten plus thin strips of paper to try and make little explosions to brighten it.

Next step may be to swap a couple of images. I might cut into one or two of them. We will see….

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