Sleeping like a baby

Posted on November 28, 2020November 28, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Black and white, Cat, Life, Love, Relaxed, Rest, Sleeping, Tuxedo cat7 Comments

He’s coming in at night more and more, he’s finding comfort and warmth. My cats are being tolerant (probably because they were rescue cats where there were twenty cats in the house). They sniff each other and then find somewhere to rest. This cat stays in longer ever night, we are his safe space. After an hour or two he goes to the back door and yowls, asks to be released. One day he might stay the whole night, but I understand he wants his freedom. In the meantime I’m getting him flea and worming treatments so he doesn’t pass anything on to my two. I’m glad he’s befriended us. X

Duplications

Posted on November 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black and white, Blanket, Fun, Haligen heater, Layout app, Life, Memory, Pattern, Photos, PlayingLeave a comment

If you start with a photo of an object and multiply it you can get some interesting effects and patterns. I started with a photo of our halogen heater, changed it to black and white in a filter and then duplicated it over and over again with my photo booth layout app. I have put them next to each other so you can see the original black and white photo and the duplicated ones. I think the second photo reminds me of a wool blanket I had on my bed as a child.

Spiral

Posted on November 17, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Black cartridge paper, Dendrochronology, Drawing, Fun, Sketching, Spiral2 Comments

Drawing spirals calms me. Following the contours round. Sometimes I add a dot so that the line has to deviate around it. I used all my metallic pens for this, mainly silvers, a gold and a purple. I did have a green but it has almost run out. I think this looks a bit like a tree trunk, like dendrochronology. Tree rings that you can look at to see how old the tree is (the outer ring is the one which was current when the tree was cut down). If you count inwards then each ring represents a year generally. You can alsu tell by the thickness of the line. I know that’s not what my drawing represents, but it’s what I see when I look at it.

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Comfy cat

Posted on November 16, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Black and white, Cat, Gold leaf, Painting, Sleeping cat, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Sleeping cat (I can’t quite see the title), lying on a stripey cover with gold leaf patches. Another small 6×6 painting, done a couple of years ago. Acrylic on canvas.

My cat is lying on the settee now in almost the exact same position. It’s like he’s time travelled from there to here….

Cat sketches

Posted on November 13, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Cats, Drawing, Life, Quick sketch, SketchingLeave a comment

A few sketches of two of our cats. Cats move and I found it difficult to capture the ones where they were moving. Especially with black fur to draw, some of the patches are not the right shape or position, but if you are not aware of the image of the original cat it’s not as important? They are very sketchy..

Sleeping

Posted on November 13, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Awkward angle, Black and white, Drawing, Hubby, Life, Partner, Sketching, SleepingLeave a comment

We were watching TV but he fell asleep. An awkward position, across the arm of the armchair. It was difficult because he was moving. Black and white sketch using a fineliner pen. It’s a small A5 sketchbook that I’m using. I have almost run out of paper!

Tee shirt idea

Posted on November 7, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Analogue, Art, Black and white, Copyright, Drawing, Fun, Playing, Sketch, Tee shirt design4 Comments

So when I was watching a lecture yesterday about copyright © I doodled this. Apparently I own the rights to anything I draw or paint and I don’t have to register it with anyone. So even this doodle, scruffy and just roughly drawn is my property. I guess I haven’t really thought much about it. I know my finished work is copyright but I hadn’t thought about little sketches. You have to be aware of other people’s designs, and plagerism, but I don’t think I have seen anything like this before. Anyway I think it would be fun to design tee shirts.

Prompt, Blue

Posted on November 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Black and white, Blue, Box, Colour, Cross hatching, Nail varnish, SketchLeave a comment

The prompt was Blue for #bandofsketchers today. I decided to use a black pen to draw my box of old nail varnishes. I coloured the bottles with the blue nail varnishes that I have. One way of using them up.

Old radio abstract

Posted on November 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Bush radio, Filter, Learning, Lens flare, Old radio, Photo, Still working, TextureLeave a comment

When I took this photo it was dark and underexposed. I decided to change it with a black and white filter but was going to delete it from my phone. Then I decided to put it through a texture filter, still not satisfied I added a lens flare to the handle. I’ve decided not to do any more to it.

The question is if you had to do something with the original what would you do? Here’s the plain black and white version.

Which do you prefer?

Twins?

Posted on October 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black and white, Black and white photo, Friendship, Life, Memories, Photo, Portrait, Toy soldier, Two years agoLeave a comment

Christmas a couple of years ago. My friend took this of me taking a photo of my other half… Can you tell which one he is? He’s definitely an eccentric. I think this was round the back of the German Market that was held locally. I’m not sure why the wooden soldier was parked there but it was an interesting object.

This is good because it is black and white, so the details of textures stand out more than they would if it was a coloured photo.

I was cheered by receiving this photo today. It bought back happy memories. I can’t find the photo I took though!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Black and white