Delamere

Posted on April 1, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumn, Blues, Cheshire, Colour, Delamere forest, Distance, Fine Art, Leaves, Life, Reds2 Comments

Third painting. I used the reference photo less and added leaves on the left hand side that were further towards the centre than was on the original photo. The lady who lent me the photograph told me this was taken at Delamere forest, which I think is in Cheshire.

I tried to emphasise the blues in the background to give it a distant feeling. Then I emphasised the reds and greens to ring them to the fore. The leaf litter was fun to paint trying to shape it and add light shining through the leaves onto the ground. It’s a small acrylic on canvas.

Seclusion

Posted on March 31, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Bang!, Colourful, Design, Drawing, Graffiti, Life, Obsessed, Phone, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was seclusion. I was secluded for about 20 hours when my phone battery started to overheat. I took it to the phone shop but it was closed, but I went back later and got a replacement. The pattern on this is meant to be a design for a phone case. Just taking something positive out of a difficult day x

Filter coffee?

Posted on March 31, 2023March 31, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Conversation, Filter, Friends, Photodirector, Photograph, Poem, Poetry2 Comments

Friends chat

Over a filter coffee

So I take a photo

Add a filter

On my phone

Filtered friends

Filtered conversation

Fun exploration

Of life.

My phone died!

Posted on March 31, 2023March 31, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Battery, Blog, burnt, frustration, Mobile, password, Phone, phone died, Settings, TimeLeave a comment

Every single app has disappeared! I’ve got the mammoth task of uploading everything I use. But I’m not used to this phone. I’m all over the place. I keep closing the screen instead of hitting the space bar. My PC needs syncing to everything on the phone. Goodness knows how I’m doing this. I have the landlines phone here as well. The chap in the shop said he’d sorted my email out, but it’s not linking to the server.

Mind you I feel sorry for him! As he tried to download all my contacts and images the phone superheated and burnt him! I’m very lucky to have anything to transfer! The battery was down to 17% when he got the phone and 1% when he finished!

So if there is a hiatus in my posts, please forgive me. X

always an artist

Posted on March 31, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, artist. drawing, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1891, Germany, head teacher, Memory, Painting, School, Thinking2 Comments

Daily writing prompt

When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

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I always drew for as long as I can remember and I knew I wanted to be an artist. I stuck drawings up on my bedroom walls as I got older, i would copy pictures of Asterix the Gaul, or draw Elizabethan people with ruffs round their necks and wonderful clothing. When the walls got covered I strung string across my side of the bedroom and hung my drawings and paintings on with clothes pegs or sellotape. As I got better at art I was asked to do a painting for one of the deputy head teachers who was retiring. I remember painting portraits of some of my school mates as if they were in the school playground in clothes that would look very old fashioned now. Eventually one of my paintings got sent to a display of childrens art in our twin town in Germany. That was a big highlight of school life. Luckily I got to go to art college, and here I am, still doing art all these decades later!

Spooky Stonehenge

Posted on March 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Salisbury Plain, silhouettes, Sketching, Spooky, Stonehenge2 Comments

I did a digital drawing of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plane ages ago and I’ve tried to add a misty, foggy, mysterious effect over the top of the original drawing. Because I drew it in layers, the image in the bottom layer shows the stones and this stayed in place so I could distort the upper two layers of black that I had added and then a blueish grey with a smudging tool. The overall effect is slightly spooky, I could imagine shadowy figures or spooky silhouettes detaching themselves from the stones and moving towards anyone visiting the ancient site. What ghosts of druids reside there?

Digital doodles

Posted on March 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Design, Digital art, Digital drawing, Fun, Layout app, Pattern, Photodirector, Sketching3 Comments

Spring and flower themed digital doodles using ArtRage oils. Then edited in Photodirector for one of the four images and layout app to create symmetry for all four. Finally I stitched them together in layout and have published the variations on my Instagram account. I could imagine this as a woollen blanket.

Rose doodle

Posted on March 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digitally manipulated, Drawing, Felt pens, Filtered, Life, Photodirector, Rose, SketchingLeave a comment

Gold felt pen doodle coloured in with more pens then filtered through photodirector. Made up of dashes, squiggles and dots. I do like playing with images. I tend to use the same filters quite frequently. I may try variations on a theme. I added the thorns afterwards. I decided to leave a white background rather than adding another colour to it. Felt pen sketch.

David

Posted on March 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, David, Drawing, Felt pens, Michealangelo, Renaissance, SketchingLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was renaissance. Since the statue of David by Michealangelo has been in the news lately I thought I would try and draw his head. I really need to get some new felt pens or fish my watercolour paints out of wherever they are hiding.

Digital drawing

Posted on March 28, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, changed my life, conference, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1889, Digital drawing, Drawing, drawing tablet, Life, new skills, Sketching1 Comment

How has technology changed your job?

When I first started using technology in art it was at a conference and there was a stand with a digital drawing screen. It was a large flat screen with a stylus attached with a wire. There was a limited pallette and you drew by picking brush sizes and colours. I have always been an artist, but because it was a science based conference no one knew. I started drawing a horse I think and the people on the stand were surprised by what I could do. But I was hooked. As soon as I could get a small drawing tablet I did. I even had a digital drawing I printed off exhibited in a local Open Exhibition because it was not something they had seen before. Since then I’ve got bigger and better tablets, drawing with styluses attached with wires and then wireless ones. Now you can draw on a phone screen with your fingers. I’m glad I went to that conference.

Mallaband-Brown

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