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?

Circle

Posted on May 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Circles, Drawing, Felt pens, Pareidolia, shower curtain, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was circle. I drew Circles. I used to have a shower curtain showing bubbles, a bit like this… It drove me mad because I kept seeing bubble people like this on it! It was an example of Pareidolia.

Sunday beauty

Posted on May 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Beauty, Felt pens, Life, narcissus, Nature, Prompt, Rode hall, Sketching4 Comments

I’ve just got round to drawing Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt beauty. This was a narcissus flower I think at Rode Hall on Sunday. I was thinking of drawing bluebells but my photos were a bit blurred.

Manipulated images

Posted on May 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, but different, Drawing, Fun, Photodirector, Playing, Sketching, The same2 Comments

Both these images started out the same. One I adjusted to add texture. The other I used a mozaic, fisheye and inverting tool. It’s fun to digitally finger paint. I need to get my PC working so I can do something more complex and finely manipulated. I’m learning all the time.

Artrage face

Posted on May 8, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colours, Digital drawing, Doodle, Drawing, Face, Life, Mark making, SketchingLeave a comment

Abstract face finger painted with the Artrage app on my phone. I like the way the different brushes and changing the roughness of the surface and grain size gives it a real textured surface. I added lines on the eyes and mouth rising a roller tool that left a line if you dabbed your finger on the surface of the phone. I also added spirals on the edges of the picture, I was trying to make it look like material. If you turn the pen up to 100% metallic the colours get darker.

Not art?

Posted on May 6, 2023 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Digitally manipulated, Doodle, Drawings, Sketching, Stripes, Tabby, tortoise shell cat2 Comments

Playing and learning, using metallic felt pens and the filters and mosaic tool on my phone.. It’s the sort of thing you might call a doodle or an illustration. But is it art? I could imagine using these images for cards or for a children’s book. The cat is titled “tortie”. Not much more I can say.

Listening.

Posted on May 5, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Ear, Felt pens, Listening, Prompt, Sketching, Thursday2 Comments

Hubbys ear with hearing aid sort of visible
He’s got grey hair but I didn’t have the right felt pens to draw them so I’ve suggested dark hair. Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was listening. Felt pen drawing.

Mallaband-Brown

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