Abstract Christmas tree?

Posted on December 2, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digital art, Digital manipulation, Felt pens, Fine Art, Fun, Life, SketchingLeave a comment

Art is complex, it can mean anything. Art can be good and bad, but one person’s good art is something someone else might loathe. I just edited this image to crop a smaller area and add a circular frame. Now I look at it I can see a series of stacked triangles that look like graffiti. It could represent a Christmas tree, or a forest, or rain on a window distorting an image outside it. It could also be a Christmas tree bauble. The digital filter distorts my linework, and adds textures and pattern to my drawing. The colours were originally felt pens but they to have been altered by the digital filters.

Radio

Posted on December 1, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Battery, Bush radio, car boot sale, Drawing, Life, Old, Radio, Sketching, WorkingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was radio. A bad and wobbly drawing of my old bush radio. Bought it at a car boot sale years ago. It was covered in emulsion paint that I managed to scrape off. It works, takes a huge battery. Can only get long wave.. Which is OK when there’s a test match on.

Bust doodle

Posted on December 1, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink pen, bust, chequered, Doodle, Drawing, Fun, Gold, silver, Sketching, TriangleLeave a comment

Doodle in gold and silver pen. Originally a contoured drawing in three quarter position, I added chequered squares to fill in the spaces. That left the image surrounded by blank paper, so I added silver triangles. The gold ink had covered some of the original drawing so I added black pen shadows. I thought this was a fun idea.

Tabby or tiger?

Posted on November 30, 2022November 30, 2022 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Ceramics, Design, long tail, Pottery, scraffito, Sculpture, short legs, Tabby, TigerLeave a comment

In a display case, trapped like a tiger in a cage. Black and brown tabby sculpture. Little legs, massive tail. Iove this piece of cat sculpture at Salts Mill in Saltaire, Yorkshire. I think the technique is scraffito? Where you have a thin layer of slip pover a different colour. When it’s dry you can carve through it to reveal the underlying colour. A purrfect decoration for this wild tabby!

Back to yoga class

Posted on November 29, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Life, Mandala, positions, Relaxation, Relaxed, Yoga, yoga class, yoga pose2 Comments

After several weeks away from the yoga class I went back tonight. I do chair yoga as I cannot get up from the floor, but our teacher allows me to adapt positions so I can get the same effect. I also join in the breathing and relaxation parts of the session. The only thing I cannot do are inverted postures, where your head is on the ground and your legs and arms are raised so the blood goes to your head.

I have been doing yoga on and off for a few years, I don’t feel like I’m an expert, I’m not capable of doing some of the moves, but I try my best, which I think is a good part of yoga’s ethos. I am never going to be to do all the balances and postures, but it does help me relax.

Framed

Posted on November 29, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, 'I wis framed', Art, Drawing, Felt pen, framing, Life, Shop, shop front, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was framed. I rarely frame my pictures, I think it’s nicer for the person buying them to chose something. If I do it’s usually quite simple. I do use ‘I wis framed’, in Liverpool Road, Stoke, sometimes as they help you chose what’s best.

Almost sold…

Posted on November 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Commission, customer, Fine Art, Life, Owl, Painting, ThinkingLeave a comment

On Sunday my owl painting almost sold, a lady came along and was interested in it for her daughter. She even took a photo of it to show her daughter, but unfortunately it was a no from her. I wonder what I can paint that I love that a customer would like? I try and do good paintings, but it is that balance between a commercial image and a more individual picture. I guess everyone is different, we all have our own ideas and unless I paint commissions I have to second guess the audience I have. My work is so eclectic, if I kept painting the same theme over and over again I know I would get bored x

Date

Posted on November 27, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, date, Dendrochronology, Drawing, Sketching, Time, Tree, tree ringsLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was ‘date’ I was going to draw an old mechanical calendar (one that you turn round to change the date) but I can’t find it. So then I decided to sketch a log, cut in half, to represent tree rings (dendrochronology) you can count the rings to find out the age of the tree and as the widths of the rings change with the weather you can also work out the years it was growing.

Some miniatures sold…

Posted on November 26, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, annual exhibition, Art, Fine Art, good day, minature, Orme Art group, Painting2 Comments

I managed to sell about six mini paintings, a medium sized one and a little jigsaw at our Orme Art Group Exhibition today. A small profit when you take into the cost of producing them. I also made a small sale at Middleport at the Arts and Minds Gallery. I just wish this was more of a regular thing. At the moment my business is really just a nice hobby. X

Cycling

Posted on November 25, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bike, Broken, Car, collapsed, Cycling, Driving, head injury, Life, Memory, Sad5 Comments

I was thinking about when I used to cycle several years ago. I used to be able to ride for miles. Unfortunately I was knocked off my bike and sustained a head injury. When I recovered I carried on cycling, but I did not know the brazing on the front of the bike had been damaged. I was cycling up a hill when the headset and down tube seperated. The front wheel bent forward and the forks collapsed!

I decided to have the bike repaired as I only have short legs, I’d tried getting a new bike, but it wasn’t the right size or shape of frame. Unfortunately the bike shop I took my bike to was a little disorganised. They lost the frame for a year. I didn’t have a bike, so I took driving lessons. By the time I got the bike back I had a job that I had to commute to, so I used the bike less and less. I eventually gave up. I keep thinking I will try and get on my bike again, but my hips and back are too stiff…. Life, sometimes it really gets you down.

Mallaband-Brown

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