Stained glass view

Posted on April 4, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Church, Colour, Design, Glass, Lead, Pattern, Rode heath, Staffordshire, Stained glassLeave a comment

A few weeks ago we visited Rode Hall and the church across the road from it. I was running out of battery power so only took this photo. I just decided to look at it again because I like the colours in the glass. Blues, reds and whites highlight the figures and the textiles and architecture. The detail of the pattern at the top and base of the window panes help link each panel together. Just cutting the glass pieces out must have been so difficult and time consuming. Using lead to hold the glass in place. How do artists manage to do this? I’m full of admiration.

Tulips

Posted on April 3, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Celsius, Cold, Colour, Daffodils, Gardening, Life, Plants, Snowdrops, Spring, Tulips, UK, Warm, WinterLeave a comment

Not this years ones, they haven’t opened up yet. But they are starting to grow up. I just can’t wait. I’m used to waiting for spring but sometimes it seems to take an awful long time to get here. A couple of weeks ago the temperatures were in the high teens Celsius, last week they dropped to freezing or below, and there was a snow in a few places across the UK. We didn’t get more than a bit of hail and snow here. Meanwhile the daffodils and snowdrops are up. We haven’t had much rain though, so the buds on the trees are not fully open yet…

Spring

Posted on March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colour, Daffodils, Drawing, Orange, Sketching, Spring, YellowLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Spring. I decided it was too cold to stand outside and draw daffodils so I decided to draw one from memory. Also couldn’t get my sketchbook page flat so it’s a bit curved… I have some with very strong orange trumpets and bright yellow petals so I think these colours are close.

Spanish taster

Posted on March 27, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged chorizo, Colour, Food, Green, Meat, poem poetry, Red, Spain, tapas, The Waiting Room galleryLeave a comment

Colours red and green

Meats and basil

Taste of Spain

Plus olives and more

Tapas, tasty

Plates of colours

On display.

Waves or scales

Posted on March 22, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Design, Dragon scales, Felt pens, Fun, Playing, WavesLeave a comment

Layers of ink, using three coloured pens held together. Then another layer with three more felt pans. By using different dark and light colours you get an effect that makes the paler colours recede. I wonder if I should fill in some of the gaps in bright colours. I might try doing that digitally….

Spectrum

Posted on March 18, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Beauty, Colour, Light, Poem, Poetry, Rainbow, Seeing, Spectrum, subtleLeave a comment

Shared colours

Falling light

Breaks through crystal

Splits asunder

Flies apart.

Subtle shades of light

All created by white

A rainbow hue

A delight.

Patterns again

Posted on March 15, 2022March 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Life, Pattern, Sad, Sketching, tempus fugit, Thinking, Time3 Comments

My brain likes pattern and complexity. I cannot abide plain white walls with no embellishments. Even my writing can be flowery? Is it because I’m interested in all sorts of things? I’m very visual, and yet I can walk past a friend without noticing them! I don’t have that face blindness thing that some people have. I think my glasses frames sometimes blocks the view.

Life is so difficult in the world at the moment. I am feeling a bit low with everything happening. But I pick up a felt pen and draw and time FLIES so fast.

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.

Spring-filtered

Posted on March 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Filter, Fun, Hues, Photodirector, Poem, Poetry, Rainbow, Rhyme, Spring2 Comments

Oh you beauty

Colours split

Spring in a rainbow sits

Gaudy yellows

Proper reds

Generous greens

Flower heads

Blues and purples

Different hues

Oh what fun

When a filter is used!

Yellow purple complement

Posted on February 12, 2022February 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colour, complementary colour, Digital sketch, Drawing, Sketching, yellow and purple3 Comments

Playing with complementary colours. I like red/green and blue/orange but a favourite is this combination yellow/purple. I yexturised the original pattern then mirror ed two of each, original and textured. Interestingly the colours seem to change as I used the texturising filters so I put them through Instagram to boost the intensity of the colours. It’s just a fun pattern.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Colour