My friend painting.

Posted on December 13, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art group, Cartridge paper, craft group, Drawing, effort, Life, Parkinsons, SketchingLeave a comment

Quick sketch, crafty group, I wasn’t well so just did this. Pencil on cartridge paper. I think I still have my skill in drawing but Parkinsons makes it harder. I still hope to get better medication and reduce the dopamine breaking down in my brain. I love art and hate the way this disease is making me “stick”, or shaking uncontrollably.

I’m trying hard to keep going, I do not enjoy how things are. But I realise my life is a lot better than some peoples lives. I’m lucky to live in a country with a universal health service. My eternal gratitude goes to the NHS., without which I would be stuffed!

Lifedrawing

Posted on June 24, 2023June 24, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cartridge paper, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Life drawing, life model, Sketching, watercolour pencils2 Comments

Life drawing, 30 minute sketch with the Orme Art Group. Felt pen and water colour pencil sketch. Dark blue acrylic paint curtain courtesy Steph from the group. Back to work again in a min!

Strawberry

Posted on August 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cartridge paper, Pink, Red, Sketching, StrawberryLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was fruit. I drew a strawberry. Felt pens on cartridge paper. This is a photograph from a free clip art site. I liked using pink and red together. It makes an interesting combination.

Drawings

Posted on February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cartridge paper, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Pens, Portrait, Sketching2 Comments

A group of us are holding video drawing meetings where we draw each other. Tonight was the first one. Remind me to use pencils next time, the pens I used were a bit harsh…

Jenni Murray watercolour

Posted on October 2, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, BBC, BBC radio 4, Cartridge paper, Jenni Murray, Painting, Portrait, Tricia Youkevich photo, Watercolour, Watercolour sketch, Woman's HourLeave a comment

Jenni Murray, who has presented BBC Radio 4’s long running Woman’s Hour for the last Thirty three years, retired from the show yesterday.

This painting is based on a photo by Tricia Yourkevich in the Guardian newspaper today. The painting is approximately the same size as the photo.

I hope Jenni Murray doesn’t mind me painting her. I have followed Woman’s Hour for years and have always found her to be an intelligent, warm and humourous host.

I also hope Tricia Youkevich doesn’t mind me using her photo, If she wants me to take this post down I will as I would if Jenni Murray objects.

I don’t do many watercolours and this is a quick sketch on on white cartridge paper in a small A4 sketchbook.

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt, old.

Posted on September 27, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cartridge paper, Drawing, Eating, Face, Food, Hubby, Ink, Kept moving, Pattern, Permanent markers, Picture, Portrait, Tea4 Comments

My hubby, forty years together and we are both getting old. Various marker pens on cartridge paper. He didn’t keep still or I would have done a better job on it. I’ve bought a few more permanent marker pens. Some are OK, but some seriously smell of something like acetone? I used a silver pen to try and add grey to his hair and reflections/highlights on his face.

Today’s prompt.. Pots

Posted on September 13, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Cartridge paper, Ellipses, pots, Sketch, Sketching challenge, Watercolour drawing, Watercolour sketchLeave a comment

I selected some pots in the kitchen for a quick watercolour sketch before the sun went down. I don’t do watercolours very often, these are Cotman colours which are quite strong. I painted in an A5 cartridge paper sketchbook.

It came out quite well, I could have done a better job of the ellipses, but I did not do any preliminary drawing and I just concentrated on the shadows and colours.

Drawing faces

Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Cartridge paper, Cross hatching, Drawing, Face, Life, Pen and ink, Renaissance, Sketch2 Comments

Last night I was watching a programme about the European renaissance. You know, one of those ones where you get a glimpse of paintings for a few seconds, before they are on to the next face or body. Impossible to draw a face from there.

One revelation was that the Greek and Roman statues would have had painted patterns and faces coloured when they were first carved. As the centuries between then and the renaissance passed, the colours would have faded or washed away. The response of sculptors like Michaelangelo was to carve their figures out of bright white carrera marble. Because what they were seeing coming out of the ground was sculptures that had lost their paint.

That is why I drew patterns and shade on this drawing, it’s an imagined figure. If I had some good colouring pencils I might colour it in… I will look.

Close-up

Posted on April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Apple, Art, Cartridge paper, Charcoal, Colours, Crayon, Design, Drawing, Illustration, Ink pen, Permanent markers, Sketch, Sketch book, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent2 Comments

I just thought I would show you a close-up of the apple I drew today, so you can see the effect of layering up pencil crayon and permanent marker, black ink pen, and charcoal pencil. I enjoyed using fine lines to define the shadows. I was going to leave a patch if white paper as a highlight on the apple, but when I looked at it, it was to white. So I used orange, red and pink permanent markers to try and make the apple stand out. Using different colours and textures is really exciting, it makes the image less flat. But I’m not trying to make it 3d either.

Comfy challenge

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Blogging, Cartridge paper, Drawing, Fun, Ink pens, Life, Metallic paint, Painting, Urban SketchersLeave a comment

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A sketch of my very old, but very comfy, pink slippers. Used metallic acrylic paint over the sketch, then added more details in pen over the top.

This was today’s challenge with #uskstoke today. It’s not my best sketch or painting, it’s a bit dark, and you can’t really see the metallic paint. But it was fun to do, and after all, why not?

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Cartridge paper