Stop the War

Posted on March 19, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, black smoke, Blue, Burning, Death, Fire, innocent people, Life, murder, propaganda, Putin, Russia, Sketching, stop, Ukraine, War, YellowLeave a comment

Photos, film and video of the War in Ukraine show huge plumes of black smoke rising over burning and ruined buildings, theatres and peoples homes. Meanwhile Putin continues to lie to the Russian people that no civilians are being targeted. He is using the same tactics he facilitated in Syria with President Assad. He is trying to encircle Kyiv and raise cities like Mariupol to the ground. He is evil and brutal. His propaganda to his country is that it is a ‘ special project’ not all out bloody murder.

Make Art

Posted on March 19, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, artillery, Blue, civilians, Death, make Art not War, rockets, Russia, Ukraine, YellowLeave a comment

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 storm with Sunflowers

Posted on March 6, 2022March 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Blue, Colour, Felt pens, fields, Green, Landscape, North Dakota, Sky, small drawing, Summer, sunflowers, Thunderstorm, YellowLeave a comment

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.

Construction

Posted on March 1, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Blue, Construction, Drawing, Life, Perspective, Sketching, Ukraine, vanishing points, Yellow2 Comments

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.

Pier

Posted on February 26, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Blue, Llandudno, Ocean, peer, Pier, Poem, Poetry, Sea, Sky, victorian2 Comments

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.

Faded..

Posted on January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Blue, blue Jeans, Drawing, faded jeans, Jeans, Prompt, Sketching2 Comments

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

Posted on December 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 3d, Back scrubber, Blue, Colour, Duplicated, Imagined, Mirrored, Photo, Plastic, ThoughtsLeave a comment

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.

Pallette

Posted on December 14, 2021December 16, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bad poem, Blue, Colours, Green, Orange, Poem, Poetry, Purple, Red, Silly, YellowLeave a comment

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…

Sailing

Posted on November 10, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Boat, Design, Drawing, flip, Fun, Gold, Grey, Life, Mirrored, Sea, Sketching, Sky, Water, White2 Comments

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.

Brushes

Posted on September 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Blue, brush pens, Drawing, Red, Sketching, Winsor and Newton, YellowLeave a comment

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.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Blue