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.

Tears

Posted on March 27, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, blubbed, Choir practice, Crying, emotional, Life, Music, Sad, SingingLeave a comment

I just came back from choir practice.

We were singing quite a sad song and suddenly things got a bit too much and I found tears in my eyes and rolling down my cheeks. I know I was tired, and my arm was hurting, but I’ve never really done that before. But I stood my ground I could have gone out of the room but I wanted to carry on singing, so I kept my head down, tried to dry my eyes, and kept going.

I’m glad people let me get on with it, I know I would have got even more upset if someone had come over to speak to me and really blubbed! Emotions, it’s bad how they can creep up on you.

Settled

Posted on March 27, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Butterfly, Colourful, Daisies, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Poppies, red admiral, SketchingLeave a comment

Red admiral? Settled on a poppy flower. Internet image, couldn’t find the author. Hope it was OK to base my drawing on it. Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was Settled. Felt pens again. I loved getting the bright reds and greens, a really jazzy contrast of complimentary colours.

Next Saturday

Posted on March 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Artisan sale, Drawing, Fine Art, Life, Orme Art group, Painting, Sketching, spring sale, Whitfield centreLeave a comment

Orme Art Group is having a Spring Artisan sale. There’s going to be a variety of stalls, from wire weaving, soft furnishing and painting and prints. I hope to be demonstrating minature painting, and selling some of my mini works. I also have a few glass necklaces for sale.

I don’t do craft fairs very often anymore, I went off them when covid was (still is) about and I’ve had to pluck up courage to do it again. I like space around me, not crowds, but this will be with friends so I should be OK.

The Whitfield Centre is a community centre and the people there are very friendly. I hope visitors will be impressed by the variety of work for sale and I hope we get a good attendance.

Thunderbolts and lightning!

Posted on March 26, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1886, Drawing, Dream, Electricity, Exciting, lighter, Sketching, Thunder, Weather42 Comments

What is your favorite type of weather?

No thunderstorms in my sketch, just heavy rain. I have memories of several ⛈ thunderstorms though.

Years ago I dreamt of meeting some friends in a thunderstorm, a few days later we cycled over to visit our friends. We suddenly saw them coming towards us, we met up, pleased that we had got together. Then it started raining.. Hard! We ended up sheltering under a bus shelter while it thundered and lightning struck all around us.

Another incident was visiting a friend and a storm started a couple of miles away. We sat and watched it move across the sky while drinking red wine. As it passed over a beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky.

Finally during a particularly vicious night time storm I stood on our back doorstep trying to catch an image of lightning on my camera phone. I did, but I can’t find it on my phone to show you so I’ve posted this drawing instead. X

Pastel drawing

Posted on March 25, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Fine Art, Land, Landscape, Life, mounted drawing, Pastels, Sea, Sketching, Sky2 Comments

Pastel drawing of sea, land and sky. Came up on my Facebook memories from four years ago. Where does the time go? It was one of the drawings I did during a pastel workshop a while ago. It was framed and has a mount over it so any loose pastel dust falls behind the mount and not in front of it. I think I’m going to take it over to a gallery where I have some work so I can try and sell it.

Three new?

Posted on March 25, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumnal, Fine Art, Life, Painting, reference, Umbrella, Weather4 Comments

Enjoyed starting a few paintings today at the Orme Art Group after turning up with no reference photos, I forget to take my phone and it has some flower photos I was going to use! Thanks to a lady called Steph for letting me borrow her pictures.

These are only daubed in… I will go over them and add details later. I started one little canvas but I didn’t want to muddy the colours so I started another picture, then another. I’m hoping these all have a feeling of atmosphere. I want them to look misty and damp.

Mirror.

Posted on March 24, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, bevelled, Branches, Colour, Mirror, Rainbow, Reflected, Shop, Spectrum, TodayLeave a comment

Seen today, a mirror in a shop, reflected branches. And the bevelled edge was shining with the spectrum. I had walked to the shop and on the way it poured with rain. The sun broke through behind me and I took a photo of a rainbow. But the camera did not save the image because I turned my phone off too quickly. So when I saw a similar effect in the bevelled edges I tried to capture those colours. Lots of things inspire me x

Eye news

Posted on March 24, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Age, Art, cataracts, dazzled, Eyesight, Fuzzy, Life, Light, Opticians, optometry2 Comments

Oh dear! I thought things were getting a bit ‘fuzzy’. I just had my eye test and they are. So far things are not bad, just a blurring round the edge of my lenses, like fogged up glasses when you come in from the rain, or being dazzled by the sun. My central vision is clear. But it’s something to keep an ‘eye’ on literally and metaphorically.

I need to eat healthily and have anti-oxidants in my diet. I will try and do everything I have to. I just don’t want to lose my eyesight, art means so much to me, reading too. I just hope this is a gradual process. I know it can be treated, I hope when I need it, it is.

Arrived today

Posted on March 24, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Beauty, Fine Art, Nature, North America, note cards, sand cranes, Sensitive2 Comments

Note cards from my friend Martha in Colorado. She’s a brilliant artist and loves the Sand Cranes that migrate through her valley twice a year. She has cards for sale through her Etsy shop I think.

I hope she doesn’t mind me using her image. I think it’s so atmospheric. I like the different positions the birds are in, so well observed. And the sky is blustery and lively. It’s great to have something like this from such a talented artist. I’m definitely putting one of them in a frame. Is so sensitivley painted, I love it.

Mallaband-Brown

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