Colouring my hair purple

Posted on October 16, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2091, hairdresser, Layers, Purple, purple hair dye, shampoo2 Comments

What could you try for the first time?

I was singing with the choir tonight and I noticed a friend had got her hair coloured very subtle purple shades. A bit like this free photo but on much shorter hair.

I have had a box of hair colour in the cupboard for a couple of years, but I keep chickening out on using it. I’m worried I might be allergic to the dye and also I have watched several videos and you can’t just use it like shampoo you have to put it in thin layers to spread it evenly over your hair. I don’t think I can physically do that!

I once asked a hairdresser to do it but she would not use a dye by a different supplier as it was a problem if it went wrong. Shall I just try and shampoo it in or give up and throw it away? I have become very risk averse!

Play using photodirector

Posted on September 26, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged AI, Art, Butterflies, Colour, Design, Drawing, Experiment, Life, Pattern, Photodirector, Sketching4 Comments

I started drawing circles, then decided to run it through several iterations of photodirector using it’s AI style button and adding a background of butterflies, then sending it through the AI texturiser again. I think it makes a quite gentle image, I like the colours, enhanced in the Clarendon Instagram filter. I do enjoy experimenting.

Bird?

Posted on September 16, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Bird, blue bird, Colour, Imagination, Metallic, nonmetallic, Sketching2 Comments

Thinking of things to draw. I sketched this blue bird using a stylus again. I love the control that it’s giving me. This is using the Artrage app on my phone. It’s about to take flight. Using various tools gives it a more textured effect. I could have copied a photo and made it more realistic, but this way I can use my imagination.

Stylus!

Posted on September 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Colour, Drawing, Finger painting, Sketching, Stylus, stylus paintingLeave a comment

Found my stylus, I can draw better than with finger painting. Artrage app I did the initial drawing then realised a bit looked like a mouth… I’m amazed how it improves the control over the image production.

Ivy

Posted on September 12, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, extension, Gardening, Growth, heavy work, Ivy, Life, Roof, salmon pink, Silhouette, Sunset2 Comments

Ivy is growing right over our roof and into the yard. I’m worried that the roof of the extention will be damaged. The problem is neither of us are up to the heavy work required to sort it out. So the yard is starting to look like a picturesque ruin. I took a photo because the sun was setting and the sky was a nice, contrastong pink, but I think my camera over exposes photos, so you can only see a hint of the salmon pink it was glowing.

Hand made

Posted on September 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Abstract, Art, Artrage, Colour, Drawing, Handmade, Photodirector, Prompt, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was handmade. I tried to do an abstract, an imagined explanation of the prompt. I drew a hand holding a hand made of ice that is starting to melt. I used Artrage app and photodirector.

White and red

Posted on September 9, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Biddulph Grange, Blossom, Colour, deep red, Frothy, Garden, green grass, hedging, National Trust, White2 Comments

At Biddulph Grange garden last year. I’m not sure what the stone signifies, but the frothy white blossom flowers of the bush contrast with the larger strong red colour of the flowers below it. I love the combination of colours together with the green of the grass and hedging. I love coming across views like this and my phone is crammed with images that I have taken over the years.

Too hot

Posted on September 7, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Digital, Drawing, Experiment, Fire, Flower, Fun, Heat, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Sun2 Comments

Flower or Sun?

Sunflower fun

Digitally drawn

Edited with love

Playing with colour

To make it less bright

Always experiment

Like a digital atom

Exploring it’s orbit

A phantasm of heat.

Digital doodle

Posted on September 7, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Colour, Digital drawing, Doodle, Finger painting, Green, Photodirector2 Comments

Surrounded by wavy lines I drew a green pearly ball. Just experimenting with layers in Artrage and smoothed out with photodirector. Too hot to do much at the moment.

Had to add

Posted on September 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, black and grey, Blackbird, Colour, Digital drawing, Drawing, Finger painting, Life, Sketching, Sky, Sun, texture tools2 Comments

A bird in a tree…

I always find finger painting trees and details difficult in digital apps, I really need to find my digital stylus out, but I don’t know where its gone. This was drawn in the Sketchbook app.

Anyway this fits in with the poem I wrote this morning. The bird on the tree is probably a blackbird (it’s difficult to draw something that delicate accurately). I loved creating this because it’s different to my usual style. And I’m really pleased with the colour combination of yellow overlaying black and grey.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Colour