New paintings and regular art updates.
Maybe Putin needs Art therapy. To try and calm his mind. He needs to concentrate on stopping the war, stopping killing and maiming people. Stop destroying people’s homes, their cities, their hospitals, their schools. Apartment buildings, theatres, vicious bombing and shelling. Ukraine needs peace. Children and babies are dying. Civilians are dying. Evil times.
A drawing of Sunflowers from a photo of a Summer thunderstorm in North Dakota, by Thomas Kee (used with his permission). I’m using felt pens and building up the colours light to dark.
When I was young I used to practice drawing perspective using one or two vanishing points. When our #bandofsketchers prompt came up as construction I thought I would do something along those lines. Then thinking of Ukraine and how it will need rebuilding I decided to colour it blue and yellow.
I peer from the pier
At the sea
Look at the blue
Waves and sky
The handrail mimics the ocean.w
White clouds the balustrade.
Llandudno pier
Victorian beauty.
Today’s (Sundays) #bandofsketchers prompt was faded.
Faded jeans… I only have a limited pallette I’m working with. It gives me more of a challenge. I was also drawing in a darkened room as hubby was watching TV so it was hard to see the folds and crumples in them.
Random design using a bath back scrubber as a starting point. I think it looks a bit like sea urchins with little feelers sticking out. Then again, it could be the inside of an alien spacecraft, or a sound deadening surface? Imagine this created in a 3d printer. What material, soft or hard, would it be made of? I could add paint to its surface to create a print, or use it to hold plant roots in… Imagination is fun.
Colour theory
Just remember
Orange and blue
Make brown..
Red and green
Make brown
Yellow and purple
Make brown.
Yellow and red
Orange
Yellow and blue
Green
Blue Red and a bit of white?
Purple
Colours…
I wanted to use the ‘knitting’ pattern that I had drawn as a background for another image. Flip it over, mirror it and crop it, draw over it and add a boat and its reflection. I think it actually works quite well. The sea looks calm as a mill pond despite the wind catching in the boats sails. I added white lines to dilineate the surf as it flows onto the beach.
Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was brush so I drew my three Winsor & Newton watercolour pens and brushes (one end is a pen and the other a brush). Red yellow and blue primary colours. That’s it really.
Last night’s walk, a ‘cloud’ of hydrangea flowers, pink and blue.
Each sphere of colour (florets?) made up of many flowers of four petals. Like saggy pom-pom’s. Some of them have gone over (stopped flowering). The flower heads stay on the plant into the autumn. Leaving skeletal memories of a summer now gone.
Mallaband-Brown