Ink and glitter

Posted on November 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, Drawing, Experiment, Glitter, Gold, Green, Idea, Ink, PatternLeave a comment

Thinking about making backgrounds, I tried using some green sparkly ink. It’s meant to spray out, but the spray nozzle won’t work, so I unscrewed the top and dragged the ink in lines with the plastic tube that dips into the ink. Then I added some black ink lines. Finally I used a gold, round glitter stamp. Of course I had forgotten to clean it from last time I used it, so it didn’t work as well as I wanted.

I don’t know what I could use this for. It looks a bit like trellis work in a garden so I might try adding images of flowers? Maybe in an analogue way or digitally. It could also be used for a screen print for perhaps a silk scarf?

Cloud over Barlaston

Posted on September 5, 2020September 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black, Blue, Canal, Dark, Life, Moths, Nightfall, Poem, Poetry, Sky, Towpath, WalkingLeave a comment

Soft little clouds

Fluttering like bird feathers

Swirling down the air currents

Darkness falling

Now the moon rises

Shadows lengthen.

Time to stretch our legs,

Head home,

A long, flat walk

Into the dusk.

Bat’s flitter overhead,

Moths race to our torches.

Mistaking them for the rising moon.

Home in time for supper.

Blue sky lost in the dark….

Ladybird poppies

Posted on August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black, Colour, Flowers, Fun, Garden, Poems, Poetry, Poppies, Red2 Comments

Beautiful

Red andcblack

Flowering

Like a ladybird.

Unfurled petals

Paper thin

Rouched and rouged

Strong red

Fluffy centres

Waiting for a bee

Or a hover fly.

You are beautiful x

New pens to draw with..

Posted on June 2, 2020June 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, Black ink pens, Blogging, Drawing, Life, Pens, Sketching, Tools, Urban Sketchers10 Comments

I’m drawing so much, I had to go and buy some new drawing pens today. Six thin to thick pens. I look forward to using them for new projects. I will start using them over the next few days. They contain pigmented India ink whick which has maximum light fastness, they are waterproof, odourless, permanent and have other attributes that seem to make them ideal for drawing with.

Today’s challenge was clothes

Posted on May 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black, Clothes, Day 16 challenge, Grey, Owls, Red, Selfie, Sketching, Staffordshire, Usk challenge, Usk Stoke-on-Trent2 Comments

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Day 16, USK S-O-T sketching challenge is a self portrait of me wearing my favourite top, covered in red and black owls. It’s funny and quirky.

A few people are still keeping to the challenge, and some say they will catch up later. Some of the subjects are a bit odd, but it’s fun.

I was watching the artist Maggie Hambling on a programme called ‘Grayson Perry’s art club’. It’s a weekly programme on channel four encouraging people to do art while we are in lockdown. Maggie Hambling said draw something every day, and Grayson Perry reiterated that. I think they are right. The drawings I’m doing are my diary of my life at the moment.

Other celebrities were either drawing or making sculpture. Grayson and his wife created ceramic images based on their cat Kevin. Both created wonderful, abstract, exciting sculptures.

After seeing it I decided I shall continue….

Sunset

Posted on September 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beautiful, Black, Blue, Bright, Colours, Firey, Maroon, Orange, Purple, Red, Sky, Sunset, YellowLeave a comment

When the sun set tonight it as like the sky was on fire. A deep purple/blue shading down to maroon, red, orange and then yellow.

I’m not sure I have quite the right colours on my phone camera, they seem slightly more intense, but that’s to do with how the eye accommodates in low light levels.

Whatever the colours the reality was spectacular. Beautiful. Colourful. Awesome. I would have liked to see the horizon but I was going into choir practice and didn’t have the time to drive over the other side of the hill.

Finished

Posted on August 18, 2019August 18, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Black, Blue, Eleanora st, Landscape, Painting, Spode, Spode exhibition, Spode Reflected, Spode site, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, What Spode means to me, White2 Comments

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Took all day but I finally finished this. Spent a lot of time painting the old, flaking window frame. I’m not sure the sky colour is right. I might get up early and tone it down. I’m handing it in in the morning….

It’s called Spode Reflected.

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