Silver Sliver?

Posted on March 7, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cough, Digital manipulation, Drawing, Filters, Flow, Life, mindful, Now, silver, Sketching, Sliver, Sore throat, Time2 Comments

When you sit all day feeling ill with a sore throat and a cough what do you do? I draw wobbly sketches! Play with filters, add colours, use metallic pens. Play with words. I think since I’ve been doing Esther Chilton’s blog challenges (limericks and five word challenges) it’s made me think more about words and how they work. It’s also taking part in #bandofsketchers prompts which gives me the chance to illustrate different ideas. Yes it is just a minor, wobbly, not very clear sketch, and I have put it through digital filters. But it keeps my mind busy and takes it off other thoughts, like feeling too sorry for myself. I think I experience flow, that feeling of time passing without you noticing, and being in the ‘now’? X

Distant

Posted on March 7, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Distance, distant, Drawing, Landscape, Life, Perspective, Sketching, two points of viewLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was distant. I used to like to play with perspective drawings, using either one or two vanishing points. Both show how buildings or streets dwindle into the distance, becoming distant. It’s also fun to make up your own architecture.

Invisible

Posted on March 6, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Ideas, Invisible?, Life, Prompt, Sketching, ThinkingLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was Invisible. I imagine the invisible man would have to be naked if he wants to wander about. Or would have to wear bandages or makeup. There was a series on TV with David McCallum. If he drank you might see the coffee going into his stomach-Etc! Until it was actually absorbed. I got the stomach too high up in this sketch.

New ideas?

Posted on March 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Daffodils, Environment, Flowers, Helibore, Ideas, Life, Mecanopsis, Nature, Painting, Spring, VincaLeave a comment

I’ve just been to the gallery where II have some of my paintings today. I thought they would be asking me to take some of my paintings away because they have been up too long, but they only wanted me to take one of a poppy field. But I do need to do some new paintings, to swap out with the ones I currently have there. I’m trying to think of spring images, maybe flowers? This is a Vinca. I was also thinking of doing a painting of a Blue himalayan poppy (mecanopsis) or other similar ones like Helibores. Also maybe snowdrops or daffodils. We will see.

And the moon landed on his head….

Posted on March 5, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, domed, Drawing, Head, hit, Hubby, Life, Moon, night light, Oops, Plastic, SketchingLeave a comment

One of my Christmas presents was a night light, about 18 inches in diameter that is based on the moon. It lights up as a full moon but you can also set it to gently run through phases like the real moon with a remote control.

Last night I couldn’t sleep. The nightlight gives enough light, if you sit up in bed, to read a book by. So about six am I got the novel I’m reading out and read for about twenty minutes. Then I lay down to try and sleep. I reached up to turn out the light with the little switch at the base of it. Oops! I pushed too hard, the large plastic domed moon slid off the little nail it was loosely hooked on, it slid sideways as I tried to grab it, and bump! Hit my hubby on the head. He was fast asleep but shouted out wha? Then fell back to sleep. This morning after hooking the moon back up, I asked him if he remembered being hit by the moon. He replied he wondered what had happened? I said the Moon fell on him!

Bucket list wish

Posted on March 4, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, aurora borealis, bucket list, Colours, Drawing, Earth, Life, Light, Magnetic, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, SunLeave a comment

One day I want to see

Shimmering Northern lights

Lighting up the sky

The Aurora Borealis, bright.

Green or red or white…

Different colours, different elements

Curtains of particles

Flying on Earth’s magnetic field

Falling to land at the poles

Glowing glory

Suns power manifested in air

My bucket list wish.

Seen in England last week

But hidden by clouds….

💍 Jewellery

Posted on March 2, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Felt pens, Imagination, jewel, Jewellery, Mosaic, Prompt3 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was jewel. I made up a jewel. I was going to draw a ring but the stone turned into more of a micro mosaic. I titled it jewellery by mistake. Its a big lump of a necklace but it was fun to draw! Another felt pen drawing.

Playing with silhouettes

Posted on March 2, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, Fine Art, Imagination, Jetpack, like a woodcut?, Photodirector, Plants, Sketch app, Trees, WordPressLeave a comment

A previous digital drawing of a fence against a colourful background. My Sketch app on my phone has silhouettes of trees and plants that I rarely use. I also added extra texture and overlays in Photodirector. These are a couple of the art apps I have on my phone that I use frequently and don’t want to remove if I have to get the Jetpack app. Am I irritated? Yes. Must stop going on about it. Creativity isn’t important after all is it (sulks)…. Sorry!

Fence

Posted on February 26, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fence, Life, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was fence. So I drew a digital drawing of a fence. It’s a bit abstract.

Baker St Park, with flying dog!

Posted on February 25, 2023February 25, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Baker Street Park, Charcoal, Drawing, Fine Art, Landscape, Penkhull, Sketching, Stoke-on trent, winter view2 Comments

A cloudy sky (with an odd dog shape- I’m not changing it) flys above a park. The grass is shaded by the long shadows of trees. The sun is bright, but starting to set. I used various techniques taught to us by Jo Watson, an artist who comes out and teaches charcoal workshops.

Most of the group used images supplied by Jo, but a few of us chose our own images. This drawing was based on a photo of Baker Street Park in Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent.

I really loved learning about charcoal, I’ve used it before, but not been in control of it! ❤️

Mallaband-Brown

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