Green woman?

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Challenge, Fun, Garden, Green, Inspiration, Life, Photo director, Rainbow, SelfieLeave a comment

I love green. I’ve done a painting of myself as a green woman, and this is a selfie I did in the garden today. I was trying to complete a challenge with a group of friends to post an image of myself with different colours of the rainbow. Today the colour was green. I started out wrapping a pale green scarf round my head, but it didn’t work very well, so I went outside and stuck my head through the leaves of various bushes.

Are you doing any strange challenges or being prompted to do things you wouldn’t normally do?

Art you enjoying doing some crafts or art work. What occupies your time in these odd times?

Fun

Posted on May 14, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white sketch, Cat, Cat toy, Challenge, Drawing, Fun, Playing, Pouncing, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Following the cat theme.

As she is so quick, I had to take a quick photo of her, then I drew her and added in the background. The toy has cat nip in it, it’s fun for her to chase and jump.

Urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent challenge, day 26….5b pencil in an A4 cartridge paper sketch pad.

Love, today’s challenge, day 22.

Posted on May 10, 2020May 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Challenge, Drawing, Fun, Love, Sketching, Tractor, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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He loves his tractors, I love him, I’m not sure I love his hair.

I just realised how long my hubby’s hair is getting. If I cut it will he be like Sampson and lose his strength? Should I put it in a pony tail? He does have the look of a mad professor!

Anyway I did this one early, I’m usually a lot later doing a sketch for our Stoke Urban Sketchers challenge, but the prompt was love. My hubby was a good model, and including the tractor calendar just worked. If you look the little drawing above the bowl on the wall is meant to be me sketching. My friend did a caracature of me and its on the wall there. X

Cutlery drawer

Posted on May 7, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, 5b pencil, Art, Black ink, cchallenge, Challenge, Cutlery drawer, Drawing, Fun, Sketchbook, Sketching, Usk Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

USK Stoke challenge today was to do a sketch of your cutlery drawer. The final sketch had black ink lining round the objects which I originally did with just 5b pencil, but it looked too indistinct.

Sketching is getting to be a habit now. I don’t think I can stop when it gets to the end of this particular challenge. To add to that I also like the fact that the ideas are from different people, so they are eclectic choices. It’s much more interesting drawing things like cutlery as well as the view out the window.

What will tomorrow bring?

Keys, today’s challenge with #uskstoke

Posted on May 6, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Bold, Challenge, Colours, Day 18, Design, Drawing, Fibs, Keys, Permanent markers, Sketch, Sketching1 Comment

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Today’s #uskstoke challenge, day 18, keys.

Drew round the keys with a fibre tip ink pen. I then coloured in the different keys and fobs and the magazine and DIY instructions for my wire fairy. Finally I added some thick black felt pen to the instructions and around the keys.

The keys do look a bit chunky, but overall I think it’s OK?

Day fourteen USK challenge.. Pets

Posted on May 2, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white cat, Cat sketch, Challenge, Drawing, Life, Pet, Pet drawing, Sleeping, Sleeping cat, Staffordshire, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent4 Comments

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I drew this at about 3.30am but waited to post till now. This is my fourteenth urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent drawing.

I have tried to draw the darker areas with heavier pen strokes. The lighter ones I’ve drawn with the same pen, but trying not to put as much pressure on. I used a unipin ink pen 0.8 size nib. On an A5 sheet of cartridge paper.

The stripey thing he is lying on is a knitted cushion in the shape of an owl. It’s my cats favourite sleeping spot as it’s over the gap between the chair arms of our two arm chairs, so he gets the chance to sleep between the two of us when we are there. He’s lying there now. Dozing…

Man-cave

Posted on April 23, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Challenge, Day 5, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Life, Lockdown, Man cave, Mess, Pasting tables, Shed, Sketching, Toy trains, Train, Urban SketchersLeave a comment

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Urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent day 5, draw inside your shed or garage.

Where do I start. In my case our shed has had all the tools expelled to the outer darkness of our little shed. Instead some rickety pasting tables have been put up. The tops are covered with boxes, lengths of train track, bits of trains, engines, train trucks, stuff…. Plus he’s got different controllers to send power through the tracks. The pasting tables are so warped it’s like the trains are running through hills!

Then he’s got his bike bits, wheels, and a box that the stray cat sleeps in, which is surrounded with bags of straw… I’m allowed in as long as I don’t mess with anything… In the meantime he wants to upgrade things when the lockdown is over. We are going to buy some better tables. Exciting eh?

Day four of the new challenge.

Posted on April 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Breakfast, Challenge, Drawing, Food, Fun, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Today’s challenge was breakfast. Unfortunately I’m setting the challenges and I didn’t get up till almost noon! When I finally did break my fast it was two pm. Apologies to any vegetarians out there. But I’ve got to say bacon butties really taste nice when you are hungry.

My drawing was with a black felt pen, then coloured in with blue, red, brown, yellow, green and purple felt pens. The USK challenge is getting a few participants, its enjoyable to draw every day and having set themes makes you think!

New USK Stoke challenge day three.

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white cat, Black and white sketch, Cat, Challenge, Day three, Drawing, Sketch, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Try drawing a speedy cat, and include the background. Our challenge today was to draw something we love. In my case its one of our cats. She likes balancing with her front paws on the airer I use for washing, and her back paws on the cat tree. The result is a bit wibbly-wobbly.

I haven’t done an exact portrait, but that’s because she keeps moving, unless she’s curled up in a tight ball. Her brother is a bit quiet at the moment. He’s been enjoying sleeping on the windowledge upstairs in the sun.

An apple a day

Posted on April 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Apple, Art, Challenge, Drawing, Food, Fruit, Fun, Life, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent, Usk Stoke-on-Trent12 Comments

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USK Stoke day 26 challenge. Eating fruit. So I drew this wrinkly apple, balanced on my easel, then ate it… Not the easel, but the apple.

Drawn with coloured pencil crayons, charcoal stick, black ink pen and permanent marker pens.

I’m now hungry….

Mallaband-Brown

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