Look into my eyes

Posted on May 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Amazing, Art, BBC, Drawing, glow up, Life, Make-up, Sketching, TV programme2 Comments

I was just watching a programme called ‘Glow up’ about make up artists competing to win a make up artist of the year award. They are all young, enthusiastic people and the work they did was amazing. The first challenge was to create fresh makeup for an advertising campaign. The results were varied between very subtle and very bold. The second challenge was to create a make up which represented the place the contestants came from. One competitor came up with a bee for Manchester on her models nose, and eagles wings using feathers on the models eyebrows.

I’ve never seen this programme before on BBC 1, but I’m glad I did. I have done a small amount of face-palming in the past but this was on an entirely different scale. Really amazing and artistic! My sketch here is nothing in comparison. X

Profile

Posted on May 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digital drawing, Doodling, Drawing, Glowing, sketchbook app, Sketching2 Comments

A doodle drawn in sketchbook app, there are a lot of pens and brushes on the app, so I chose glowing colours and then a thin magenta pen to draw a profile over the top. Spirals are one of my favourite geometric patterns. It’s just a finger painting.

Spock!

Posted on May 14, 2023May 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1936, Logic, Science, sketchfu app, Sketching, Spock, Star TrekLeave a comment

Share a story about someone who had a positive impact on your life.

When I was a child I decided to be logical…. Because I saw the character of Spock on TV in a Star Trek and he gave me a love of science and knowledge.

I also think it triggered a love of astronomy together with watching the Sky at Night TV programme (although I never drew Sir Patrick Moore).

All that interest in the world sparked by a science fiction character..

Found

Posted on May 14, 2023May 14, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, bark, Ideas, Life, Painting, Stones, Trees, Winter, Wood, Work in progress2 Comments

Acrylic on canvas painting, work in progress. Of trees and rocks or stones. But I don’t remember what I was doing with it. I found it in the summerhouse while I was helping clear it up. I must have started it sometime last year. Perhaps in the winter. I’ll have to make a story up? Maybe it was too cold in there and the water froze, or the weather changed and continuous rain put me off. I’m going to get my brushes out and try and finish it off….

Guess?

Posted on May 14, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Bird, Cartoon, Doodle, Guess, Life, silly sketch, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was guess.. Guess what bird this is? A teet owl….? Just a silly digital cartoon drawing using Artrage and trying to use all the different tools on the app.

Atoms?

Posted on May 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Atoms, Crystal, Drawing, Energy, Fun, Imagination, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, ThinkingLeave a comment

Atoms surge

Vibrate and link

Molecules appear

Crystals, compounds

Quanta of energy

Scrambled electrons

Muons and Gluons

Barely existing.

Tiny and powerful

Forces pulling

and pushing

Making, creating

And destroying

Conservation

Of energy

Universal

Career? What career?

Posted on May 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bad rhymes, career, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1933, Flower, Petals, Poem, Poetry, Sad, WorkLeave a comment

What is your career plan?

My life is like an open flower

Petals may soon drop

A career I had

But it is gone

Retired and tired I am.

Work over now

Unless I have

To seek

A few hours here

A few more there

To keep going on.

I wish I could restart time

And make a change to life

Perhaps the years

I toiled at work

Would have been better spent.

My life was dull

To some extent

I played the game of life

The early morns

The evenings dark

When I came home again.

I’m glad that I escaped to art

And life began once more.

Drop

Posted on May 11, 2023May 11, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Drops, Felt pens, fine black ink pen, Sketching, WaterLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was drop. Drop or drops. Tried to imagine how water drops fall and splash… I know drops fall like a flat oval, not the pointed ones that kids draw, and water splashes back up like a crown…. I didn’t use a reference picture, just tried to remember…

Tweet bird

Posted on May 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Bird, Budgie, Colourful, Doodle, Drawing, Fun, Parrot, Sketching, tweet2 Comments

Drew over yesterday’s monster to create something else. A little parrot or budgie? If I don’t do anything else artistic I’m still doing doodles. Still using Artrage app to draw interesting images. It’s just an imaginary bird. Tomorrow is a new day, perhaps I can do something more than a sketch. X

Eye see

Posted on May 10, 2023May 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Alien, Art, Collage, Eyes, Life, Looking, Mythological, nonsense poem, Pink, Poem, Poetry, Silly, Sketch, Staring, Symmetry2 Comments

Eye see you looking out at me. What are you? A mishmash? A chimera….

An ape or monkey? Imagined monster, alien symbol.

Is that a volcano or a scientific flask full of acid. How were you created. Are you a figment?

Have you got whiskers or a moustache? Close set eyes stare back. A mythological owl.

Do those eyes hide a soul, will you start to howl? A dark night could hide you, are you foul or fowl?

Mallaband-Brown

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