An artist!

Posted on March 28, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artist, Childhood, Colouring, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1891, Drawing, Etch-a-sketch, Figures, Life, Memories, PaintingLeave a comment

When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Give me crayons, give me colouring books. Books with paper covered in dots that you wet with a paintbrush and colours emerge.. Dot to dot books, pages with squares on that I could turn into patterns. I might have been a bit older than five for some of these, but I always wanted art things for my birthday or Christmas. I must have heard of artists because I always wanted to be one. I got an etch-a-sketch machine to draw with, I loved that.

My sister wanted to be a musician, she eventually borrowed a violin from school. I got jealous because my parents said I was doing art and they couldn’t let me have a musical instrument, so I overtightened the strings on the violin and they snapped ( bad/very guilty memory!)…

Now? I’ve been an artist all my life. I started drawing when I was a child such as historical people in tudor dress, Asterix the Gaul, horses, clouds, all sorts of things. I still do that, anything is interesting to me.

Daft alphabet

Posted on October 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alphabet, Colouring, Drawing, Fun, Learning, Letters, Random idea, Screens, Text, Typing, Writing6 Comments

I was reading a friends blog and she was explaining that she knows some children that use screens all the time so their handwriting isn’t good.

Thought if you added drawings to the letters you could make them interesting and fun. But it’s hard to think what to do, and I’m sure it’s been done before.

Thought I’d concentrate on capital letters first. Some would be easy, like a D turned into a dogs head, or an S for Snake. I’ve doodled a few ideas, greens for consonants, red for vowels.

I don’t know, it needs work, but it could be fun. For instance I’ve turned F into a piece of pie, and V into clock hands, but V could be pie? If I was doing this for real I’d make the shapes more recognisable and also turn it into a colouring game….

Alphabet

Posted on March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alphabet, Colouring, Colours, Design, Doodle, Drawing, Evening, Fun, Glitter pan, Italic pen, Late night, NightLeave a comment

Late night doodling over a couple of nights. Staying up late, listening to the news and drawing at the same time. Used contrasting colours to try and bring out the letters, plus outlining things in black. It’s a pleasure to draw things.

I think this looks like an old fashioned sampler and could imagine it in embroidery on canvas or linen. One way of relaxing in these stressful times. Why not create your own?

Sketch idea

Posted on March 25, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink marker, Cartridge paper, Colouring, Design, Drawing, Experimenting, Felt tip pens, Fun, Pencil crayons, Playing, SketchingLeave a comment

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I did the first drawing on Monday, a simple cat sketch, I coloured it with felt tip pens, but the ink bled through the paper, so I got a reversed image on the back of the page.

I decided to experiment and added some bright colours with pencil crayons . Then I got a black ink pen and outlined the gradations of colours in the drawing. Made it interesting…. Its something I’ve done before in paintings, I enjoyed doing it. X

Caught a cold.. So colouring..

Posted on February 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Adult colouring books, Art, Cold, Colouring, Cough, Design, Easy to do, Flu, Fun, Humour, Illness, Painting by numbers, TiredLeave a comment

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I hate getting colds, but it’s that time of year….

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So my sister visited and showed me a website that does something similar to the adult colouring books you can buy these days.

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Now I think I’m addicted! It’s certainly taking my mind off the cough I’ve developed. It does mean I’ve wasted a lot of time doing nothing. But I need a rest. I’m hoping whatever it is, it doesn’t develop into anything worse. In the meantime, back to colouring.

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Garden design.

Posted on December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colouring, Design, Drawing, Ellipses, Fun, Gardening, Ideas, Ruler, SketchLeave a comment

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Firstly, I’m not a garden designer, but I just wanted to talk about putting ideas down either on paper or digitally. I’m using my sketch app on my phone to work something out. It’s a bit scruffy but gives you an idea. I’ve used a short oblong because it’s approximately the shape of our garden. I’ve drawn in some of the trees using the elipse tool. Then marked in possible paths using a ruler tool for straight lines. Then filled in with a spray tool. I’ve added a blue patch to indicate a pool and sprayed in colour where I want flowers. As there are a lot of trees I’ve shifted the flowers over away from shade although you can get woodland flowers to cover the ground below the trees.

Basically it’s worth doing a drawing if you can to get an idea of what you want. Also work out the compass points. Then you will know where plants will do their best.

He’s finished colouring

Posted on September 2, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Beads, Cat, Cheerful, Colouring, Colours, Design, FunLeave a comment

my hubby finished this. I like the fact he’s done the cat in green. Also that he’s left some of this white. I’m to blame for the beading, it was too fiddly for him.

It’s definitely a riot if cheerful colours. I’m not sure where it’s going. It might go on his side of the bedroom..

Colouring in

Posted on September 1, 2019September 1, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colouring, Drawing, Fun, Relaxation2 Comments

It’s doing it again, saving to draft failed. Buy I’m hoping that if I just post this without editing it, perhaps it will post?

Anyway my hubby has been having fun colouring this cat in. I guess it really doesn’t matter that it’s green, as long as he is enjoying doing it. Adult colouring books seem to be the in thing these days. They are good to take your mind off things, they give you the relaxation you need, using enough concentration to give you ‘flow’.

More people could use this technique to help themselves to calm their minds. Life is too stressful, and maybe something gentle like this, taking your mind off things, could help?

Anyway it has posted x. I still don’t understand the draft posting warning I’m getting. Anyone know why?

Adult colouring books

Posted on October 4, 2018October 4, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Adult sketch books, Art, Colouring, Drawing, Enjoyment, Sketchbooks, Stress3 Comments

I see perfectly coloured pictures on Instagram that adults have done to release stress, and it’s almost as if they are in competition with each other. No one colours outside the lines. The colors match perfectly and they are always filled in with solid colours.

This is my partners drawing, it’s a bit messy but expressive. He is not an artist but he still wants to enjoy the freedom to relax, he has some problems and doing this helps him relax. Time flows, the pattern of colour grows. When I asked him if he had finished he said he wanted to do some more to it.

It’s fascinating watching him. It’s great that anyone can just do this. Why didn’t someone think of this before?

Art of whatever sort needs to be encouraged. Art is life, the opposite of our stress led world.

Instead of being tied to a computer all day perhaps we should all carry a small sketchbook around with us. Of recycled paper of course

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Colouring

An artist!

Daft alphabet

Alphabet

Sketch idea

Caught a cold.. So colouring..

Garden design.

He’s finished colouring

Colouring in

Adult colouring books