Dorothy Clive Garden.

Posted on June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2018, Art, Day out, Dorothy Clive garden, Drawing, Fun, Gardening, Pictures, Plants, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, VisitLeave a comment

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This was my drawing of the Dorothy Clive Garden on 6.5.18. It’s recently reopened but with a booking system so you have to book morning or afternoon slots to visit. There is a self service system at the cafe. I hope we can go one day next week if the weather improves, after a month or more of sunshine we have been having rain for the last few days. Good for all gardens including the Dorothy Clive.

It will be lovely to see different landscapes, beautiful flowers, and peaceful water features.

When you draw a place you are interpreting the world in a different way to simple photographs. That’s why I enjoy it. Trying to tame nature and describe it.

LOTR drawings

Posted on June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Characters, Computer, Digital drawings, Digital portraits, Fun, Lord of the Rings, Portraits, Sketchfu2 Comments

About ten years ago I was doing a lot of drawings at sketchfu. I did a series of drawings there of the Lord of the Rings characters. These are three of them. I also drew one of Gandalf, but I can’t find it on my camera roll.

Digital portraits. I’m hoping when I get a new wacom tablet I will be able to do more art like this.

Still struggling with the online course I’m doing, I’ve had a few problems today. I had to download a fix for something and ended up in a mess. I sorted it out but it cost me time to download what I needed. If only computers were simple.

Local drawing

Posted on June 10, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Drawing, Life, Local, Penkhull, Penkhull Church, Pictures, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent2 Comments

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As I was busy yesterday I missed doing a drawing of something local that was the prompt from stoke urban sketchers. I wanted to do a picture of somewhere a bit further away as my local pottery is not the most exciting image and I’ve already drawn it.

This is Penkhull Church at the top of our hill. It was built in the Victorian era and it is a lovely piece of architecture and centre of the community. It needs some restoration, which has partly been done but as with everything old work needs to continue on it.

If you ever feel like donating I’m sure there is some sort of fund that donations can go to. I don’t know exactly where.

Lots of activities are held there, from services, music festivals and the yearly mystery plays. The local theatre group has held musical evenings there too.

Anyway I might do the next challenge tomorrow. I’m not sure what it will be. Looking forward to it.

This was I

Posted on June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Books, Canal, Canvas, Cat, Drawing, I, Illustration, Me, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Pottery, Radiography, Spode6 Comments

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Where I live,

Who I am,

What I do,

How I think,

Where I work,

My companion,

What I trained as,

My books,

My life,

My I.

My me!

Got some new canvases.

Posted on June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists block, Canvases, Fun, Garden, Landscape art, New canvas, Painting, Pictures, Want to paint the gardenLeave a comment

Excited to have got some new canvases. I hope to get out in the garden and paint from real life. The weather is not really good enough for it at the moment. We are having heavy showers so I would need cover to keep dry. If the weather improves I will try….

One day I might be able to exhibit my art again and I would like to have some new work ready for that.

I’d say ‘watch this space’ , but it might be better to say ‘don’t hold your breath!’

Necklaces

Posted on June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Fused glass, Glass, Glass necklaces, Inspiration, Jewellery, Random, Wire weavingLeave a comment

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I got some of my necklaces back from a gallery that closed down last week. Most of them are quite chunky. I had a few small ones that were being made (my friend does wire weaving) but with the lockdown I haven’t been able to get some of them back.

I promised a couple to friends and I’m very disappointed they haven’t been able to have them yet. It’s only because of covid 19 that I haven’t been able to pass them on.

Time moves on…

Posted on June 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Drawing, Garden, Life, Plants, Sketch, Spring, Trees, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent2 Comments

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About six weeks ago the buds were just bursting in the garden. Now they have emerged and the garden is clothed in green. The Walnut tree looks like it’s gained another five or six foot. It towers over the garden. Water seeps out from underneath it. We have had it checked to see if its a split pipe but the workers who looked at it said no, it’s a spring. Whatever it is, we seem to be growing a pond or a lake now. We have put a bird bath in its way, a shallow bowl, so that the birds and animals that frequent the garden can get a drink in the warm weather. I’m now thinking of planting some hostas or iris or bog plants in that area. I would like to pipe it away into a drain if I can.

We have had a bit of heavy rain over the last few days. Dark clouds fly past overhead, dumping rain and hail over us. I’m waiting for the next downpour.

Alphabet?

Posted on June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alphabet, Art, Colour, Coursework, Design, Life, Mark making, Pattern, Pencils, Pens, SketchingLeave a comment

Part of my study is to come up with patterns or shapes to indicate individual letters. You are supposed to use shapes you sketch with or others that fit into a usable vocabulary of marks. I shade a lot but also use dots and dashes. I have added straight lines and spirals. Some squiggles. I wonder if I should have added curves or ellipses. It’s hard to decide what shapes to use. I wanted things to be quite organic, and I’ve used various pens to see how each would look.

I may have completely got the wrong end of the stick, but I’m hoping this is what they want. Perhaps I should have made it neater. Not sure.

Snack sketch

Posted on June 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Blogging, Challenge, Drawing, Fun, Life, Urban sketch, Urban Sketchers, Usk challenge, Usk Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

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OK so today’s Urban sketchers challenge was to draw snacks. I chose pringles, my favourite apart from salt and vinegar crisps. Its not the most exciting drawing I’m afraid.

This challenge is every other day. Saturdays challenge was to draw red square in Moscow, but I’m afraid I didn’t get round to doing that. I have saved one of the photos so I might have a go later in the week.

Toothache is getting me down at the moment!

Three counties open entry.

Posted on June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blogging, Entry, Life, Painting, self portrait, Three counties open art exhibition, Virtual exhibitionLeave a comment

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I’ve entered this painting ‘self portrait as a green woman’ to try and get in the local three counties open art exhibition. The pictures will be chosen from submissions made before 27th June. I don’t know if I will get it in,but I am trying. The exhibition will be a virtual one as the pandemic makes it impossible to hold a physical one.

Acrylic on canvas. Wish me luck.

Mallaband-Brown

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