Phycobilins?

Posted on September 18, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged carotene, Chlorophyll, Colours, Gardening, Orange, phycobilins, Plants, Red, Trees, Trentham Gardens, Yellow2 Comments

At Trentham Gardens today.

Red leaves on plants at Trentham Gardens today. Usually leaves are green but these have a strong red colour. The light shines through them giving them a glow. I remember hearing about other plant colours that happen in autumn. The green chlorophyll is absorbed back into the plant (usually a tree) and other underlying pigments that help to phosynthesise carbon dioxide and water to join together into simple sugars that can then be transformed into cellulose and other plant structures.

As the chlorophyll is absorbed, red phycobilins, yellow xanthophylls and orange carotenes are left in the leaves giving Autumn colours. This usually happens as the temperature cools and the plants start to store food and chemicals for winter.

I don’t know if these plants are doing thus? They remind me of the colours that are found in Swiss Chard.

Contour 4

Posted on September 18, 2021September 18, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Contours, Design, Drawing, Felt pen, Layout, Mirrored, Multiple images, Photodirector, Sketching2 Comments

Drawn this morning then mirrored and played with in photodirector. The idea is to draw a contour line around ink marks that have bled through from the previous page in my sketchbook. The initial drawing took a couple of hours, the duplication and mirrored images a few minutes. This is a combination of two lots of three images.

Pair

Posted on September 17, 2021September 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, pair, Shoes, Sketching2 Comments

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was pair. Here are my new shoes I bought in Rhyl. I tried to draw in patches without an outline. I used felt pens to do the drawing and tried to make an interesting pattern on the carpet.

Profiles

Posted on September 14, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Life, ProfileLeave a comment

Just a few digital drawings, one initial one then I used photodirector to change the colours and tones. I like to play with drawings and see how it can be altered without losing the definition.

Still growing

Posted on September 9, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Flowers, Gardening, Green, Growing, Growth, Poem, Poetry, YardLeave a comment

How does my garden grow

Fast and green

Full of colour

Spreading out

Hard to walk through

So many plants

Too many plants?

Very lovely to see…

No golden bells

Or cockle shells

Or pretty maids all in a row?

No just colour and flowers!

Fish

Posted on September 7, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Goldfish, Painting, Swirls, Time, Watercolour, Watercolour sketch, White1 Comment

My watercolour of goldfish I did this April. I just came across this while I was looking back at my previous art.

I was talking to someone yesterday about letting white paper come through in watercolours. I rarely soak the paper before I start painting and I frequently mix up strong colours, leaving patches of white where I want to show light coming through. The way I think about it is that I can control the paint without having to use masking fluid… And it’s cheaper tgan using white paint or gouache.

Drinks?

Posted on August 24, 2021August 26, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged beakers, Colours, fruit juice, Glasses, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, refreshing, TastyLeave a comment

Coloured drinks glasses

For…..

Fruit juice

Or……

Apple

And…..

Orange

Maybe

Lemonade?

All look good

In these

Lovely beakers.

Clouds

Posted on August 7, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Clouds, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, Prompt, Sketching, Sunset2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was clouds. I went for a short walk this evening and saw a nice sunset so decided to draw it. This was done with felt pens. I didn’t have the right colours for it, so it’s more purple than the real colour.

I just found this draft, so I decided to publish it.

Cat pattern

Posted on August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Colours, Design, Filters, Flood fill, Fun, Photodirector, Playing, techniqueLeave a comment

I decided to put a cat drawing through filters

Cat drawn with a biro. Then I altered it in photodirector, and then added colours with a flood fill and a digital pen. I like building different layers. It’s fun being creative.

Colours

Posted on August 5, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, colour chart, Colours, Fun, Humour, Old, old colour chart, Painting, Paints, pallet5 Comments

Just saw this posted at Facebook. It says it’s from 1574, but I doubt it. But some of the colours names are really funny. Trying to read the font is a bit difficult so I’m leaving this as a large format picture. For instance ‘Gooseturd Green’, very descriptive! I will leave you to ponder the rest!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Colours