Bicycle on the wall

Posted on January 13, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bike, Burslem, Gold paint, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

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I remember this cafe in Burslem. Its called the market place cafe. We sometimes visit it when we are in the town. They do nice food. What I really liked was this bike displayed on the wall. Painted gold, it was high up and shining in the sunlight. I took the photo in 2016. Another taken on my old phone.

It seems bikes can be used as art works. We have just got a multi coloured bike from the Art Stop in Stoke It’s going to be restored to a working bike but I want to keep the colours it’s been painted (mostly pink and blue) so I will varnish the frame.

The painting’s on the wall.

Posted on January 13, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Banksy, Blog, Blogging, Graffiti, Life, PaintingLeave a comment

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There is a form of art called graffiti that has been created for centuries. But there is a modern take on it by artists creating pictures using stencils. The most famous of these is called Banksy.

Recently a painting has appeared on a garage wall in a Welsh town called Port Talbot. It’s of a fire burning on a garage and a young girl standing in that pose when you are standing in the snow, arms and face held upwards with the snow falling on them. But in this case the snow is actually the ashes falling down from the fire. I think it questions what sort of world young children are growing up in. Banksy paintings are worth a lot of money, so a fence has been erected around this one. His work has been defaced, painted over, removed and sold, and in one case shredded. It all goes to show what an influence he is having.

Art is fascinating because it is ubiquitous. Without it what a dull place the world would be. If we have to have graffiti I would prefer a Banksy to rude or crude images that sometimes appear on local walls. Art can be interesting, startling, ugly or beautiful. As can life.

Waiting for Spring..

Posted on January 12, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Poem, Poetry, Spring, WinterLeave a comment

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It’s barely winter, and I’m waiting for Spring.

The snow hasn’t fallen yet, I’m waiting for Spring.

The skies are grey, waiting for Spring.

Snow drops awaken, for Spring.

Daffodils flower in Spring

Life drawing with Orme Art

Posted on January 12, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Clothed life drawing, Drawing, Life drawing, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Orme Art, Pen and ink, Pencil sketches, Red dressLeave a comment

I had the great pleasure of spending the day drawing my friend Eve when she came and modelled for us at Newcastle Fire Station. One of the art groups I’m in, Orme Art group had booked he as a clothed model for the day.

Here are my attempts at drawing her. The red dress was really spectacular and hard to draw! I felt really out of practice but I felt like I was getting into it more as the day wore on.

A friends exhibition

Posted on January 11, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Paper, Porcelain, Pottery, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

Here are a couple of photos of my friend, Alice Thatcher’s, exhibition on at 118, Church Street, Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent. It’s on from today, and is made up of peices of porcelain made by placing thin layers of the porcelain clay on paper and then firing it.

The exhibition is called “Porcelain and Paper”. I’m not sure when it’s on till but it will be visible through the windows of the building until the show ends. The pieces are delicate and fragile. They are displayed in various ways along with drawings of them.

Parquet

Posted on January 11, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Floor, Life drawing, Life studies, Parquet, Wood blocksLeave a comment

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This is some old flooring which may be tiled. I don’t think it’s actual parquet flooring which is a type of wood block flooring. Usually laid in a herringbone pattern. The floor is then buffed to a shiny finish. I saw this floor somewhere in the recent past, and it reminded me.

We had a floor like this at the gym at school, and then in the life drawing room at college. I remember painting and drawing many models there and trying to draw the floor pattern from lots of different directions. It made the pictures more interesting and once you got the hang of it quite easy to draw.

Anyway I was doing quite a bit of life drawing early last year but things got busy. But I’m going to try and go back. I also want to learn some new drawing techniques. I think they have parquet on the floor in the hall where they do life drawing. Things do come round full circle.

New Blue

Posted on January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, An exhibition of blue, Art, Astronomy, Jupiter, Jupiter in Blue, Painting, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent4 Comments

I have finally got back in the studio and started a new painting. It’s called Jupiter in Blue and will be part of an exhibition at Spode called “an Exhibition of Blue” from 1st February 2019.

The painting will be for sale so if anyone is interested in it please drop me a line!

The price will be £300. Its 24×30 inches so its a decent size.

Better get on with it.

1st layer done.

Combining drawing apps

Posted on January 6, 2019January 6, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, Blogging, Design, Digital art, Digital sketch, Doodling, Drawing, Fun, Internet, KaleidoscopicLeave a comment

The first three drawings are based on a drawing done in a kaleidoscope app. Then I changed them in picsart using the stretch/spiral tool and then the colour curves tool which allows you to change the hues and tones.

The fourth drawing background was done in ArtRage oils which is a free Google play store app. It was then drawn over with sketcher free which allows you to draw with different brushes. I used the ribbon option to draw a masklike face. The fifth drawing was a quick sketch of a face, drawn in a sketching app. In this case I used picsarts colour curves to change the levels of colour, then a stretching app to change the shapes. Finally I used a tool to create an embossed feel and then the mask option to layer up lighting effects.

I’m using my phone a lot of the time and I tend to forget there are more options on my tablet. Then today I realised that there was a drop down menu on the masks option, so I found a whole new section of the app to play with.

What I guess I’m saying is don’t be afraid to play with drawing apps, you learn more when you do, and you can come up with some really interesting ideas.

I used digital art as a sketchbook. I may not use it in the analogue world of oainting, but it fascinates me.

Pointellism

Posted on January 6, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digitally doodling, Fun, Humour, Poem, Poetry, PointellismLeave a comment

A swarm of bees

Flies

Or birds,

Form and unform

Swooping and swirling,

Flying,

See an infinity of possibility

A dolphin,

A typewriter,

An elephant

A face?

Some strange creature without features?

Have time to stop and watch,

Make a note of the cloud of bits

Digital? Does it fit?

Is it analogue,

A catalogue of dits, not dots!

One Whole year here!

Posted on January 3, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Anniversary, Art, Blogging, Design, Life, Stories4 Comments

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It doesn’t feel like a year! I’ve posted over 600 blog pages and over 10,000 views….. How did that happen?

I do varied posts, from art to poetry, small short stories and hopefully funny stories. I didn’t think I could write so much and such varied things.

I think it’s worth being on here and as long as I continue to enjoy it, and don’t get too foxed by things like blocks and the new Gutenberg editor, I will carry on blogging.

Mallaband-Brown

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