Feed the birds

Posted on September 29, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, Birds, Collage, Design, Feeding, Flight, Food, Fun, grain, Paper, sunflowers, Weather1 Comment

As the autumn approaches the northern hemisphere the weather gets colder. Local bird populations are looking for food. Some of them need to stock up so they can migrate others so they can overwinter in the UK.

You can get bird foods from local shops and pet stores. Grain, peanuts, sunflower seeds, fat balls, together with a fresh supply of water is what they need. If you feed them bread make sure it has been soaked in water, otherwise it can swell up in their crops and cause harm to them.

See your local nature charities for more information about feeding specific birds.

A few recent doodles

Posted on September 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black white grey and gold, Collage, Doodles, Drawing, Fun, Gold leaf, SketchesLeave a comment

Playing and twisting lines. Black and white, gold and grey. Plus gold leaf. A bit of collage too. Its a bit of fun, different ideas, not sticking to one style. Using contours and texture to get different ideas across.

One thing I do tend to do is draw profiles or three quarter portraits facing left. I discussed this with other artists a while ago. It may be that right handed artists draw left facing profiles and vice versa? Is it something that’s ever been tested?

Energy

Posted on September 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black, Collage, Drawing, Energy, Felt pens, Fun, Gold, Gold leaf, GreyLeave a comment

I keep doing abstracts! This one is based on electricity and uses gold leaf for the sparks!

Gold leaf, gold, grey and black felt pen, bits of paper that held the gold leaf. For the prompt for today for #bandofsketchers which was ‘energy’.

I enjoyed doing this collage, but the gold leaf was fiddly. I cut out a star but it didn’t work very well.

Weather

Posted on September 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Collage, extreme, highlighter, Rain, ripped paper, Scribble, Sketching, Thunderstorm, WeatherLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was weather.

Not seen a thunderstorm so drew one last night. Scribbled the sky and houses then ripped the paper where I wanted the lightening bolts to be. Glued it down and added highlighter and grey.

Tuesday flower prompt

Posted on July 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bee, black cartridge pen, Black ink, Collage, coloured paper, Flower, Life, post it notes2 Comments

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was flower. I decided to do a collage of a flower… I was going to draw a hanging basket but they got bashed in the hail from a thunderstorm. So I decided to create something from post it notes and coloured paper. Also holographic paper and black calligraphy pen.

Helium balloon…

Posted on July 23, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Birthday, Collage, Floating, Fun, helium balloon, holographic patterns, landfill, Waste6 Comments

What to do with this? It’s gradually deflating, the balloon gets more crinkled every day. I cut the ribbon off and it drifted back upwards again.in

The balloon is about a month old, it was part of my birthday celebrations. My first thought was to burst it, but I’ve watched its behaviour as its gradually deflated. This morning it was floating just above the floor. The ribbon, which must have weighed only a gram or two, was enough to weigh it down.

Now? It’s floated upstairs, it’s in the room I use for making art. When it’s fully deflated I shall use it for collage rather than throwing it away to go to landfill… It will be recycled.

My style?

Posted on July 16, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, College, freedom, Illustration, Learning, Playing, Speed, Time, transformedLeave a comment

A torch shines. It’s light illuminates a running figure. A trail of blood shows its steps.

This was a transformation we had to do in our illustration workshop this afternoon.

How to show up the image? I used post-it notes to show the shape of the surface as the figure is running across the floor. If I hadn’t had just 20 minutes I would have added a chequerboard pattern. As it was it was fun to do.

Sailing on a pink sea

Posted on July 16, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Boat, Collage, Drawing, Fun, Illustration, Ink, pink sea, post it notes, Torch, transformedLeave a comment

Transformed a drawing of a torch into a boat by covering over a lot of it with pink and green paper, bits of black monoprint and some black ink and green spray ink. Playing with obscuring the image to create something new.

Seedpod collage tonight

Posted on July 12, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, Collage, coloured paper, Ideas, monoprint, post it notes, singing class, Sketching4 Comments

Abstract of seed pods, made with spray ink, off cuts of post-it notes, bits of black monoprint and a fine line pen.

I made this during our singing class tonight, it’s just a bit of fun. I’m playing with different ideas and the circles of monoprint looked like blueberries or seed pods. The coloured bits of paper are there to add highlights in pinks, orange, and yellow. I like the chaotic complexity of it.

Le Tour

Posted on July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, France, Fun, le Tour, malliot jeun, peloton, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Yellow JerseyLeave a comment

Chasing, racing, riding fast

Le Tour enthrals

France in three weeks

A journey of courage

Tail wind, head wind

Peloton group

Cycling up alps

Down valleys

Rain or snow

Burnt by the sun

Super human effort

Yellow Jersey holder

Speed and elation

And the winner is?!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Collage