Beautiful brickwork

Posted on October 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Architecture, Art, Bricks, Building, Ceramic, Colours, Design, Interesting, Laying bricks, Pattern4 Comments

I don’t know much about bricks, except that they are fired clay. But I do like to see them when they are used decoratively. The way they are laid is called the ‘bond’ where it depends whether they are laid horizontally across the surface of the wall, or with the short end showing on the face of the wall and the length turned 90° so that the brick is across into the layer behind or allows the wall to turn the corner at the edge of the building.

As you can see from this photo, different coloured bricks are often used to make patterns and shapes in the brickwork or are used to frame tiled areas of text stating when the building was built.

I also know that brick sizes changed over time. That they were smaller in the past and hand made. Then molds were made and the brick sizes became standardised. I don’t know all the history of that sorry.

Spectrum

Posted on October 8, 2020October 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Burning, Chemicals, Colours, Nova, Random, Spectrum, Stars, Sun, Super nova, ThinkingLeave a comment

White light

Split into colours

Created by sunlight

Rainbows glow

Chemicals create different colours, sodium used in street lights glows yellow. Chemicals are used in fireworks, like strontium (red?) or copper green, creating different colours, blues, purples, oranges.

The reason sunlight is made up of a spectrum is because the sun is made not only of hydrogen and helium but all the chemicals in the periodic table up to iron (any chemicals beyond that can only be created in Super Novae explosions). All the chemicals in the sun glow in different colours, which is why they show up when the white light from the sun passed through a prism. If you split the spectrum further you can find dark lines, these are markers of which chemicals are present. The older the star the more chemicals. As a star gets older it starts to burn up its hydrogen and helium. New chemicals are created by atoms fusing together. That’s where new chemicals are made. When you think about it, if it wasn’t for stars burning or exploding we couldn’t exist.

Basis for a drawing

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Drawing, Life, Photo, Picture, Shade, shadow, Sketching, ViewLeave a comment

This was the view I was looking at when I did my Sketch earlier on. As you can see things were a lot darker in reality. I looked more at the shapes, concentrating on drawing them in first, then adding trees and branches afterwards. The silver grey seems to sit back in the background, the tones do not match this photo but does that matter? I keep drawing and hope I’m progressing. X

Orange

Posted on October 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Challenge, Colours, Drawing, Life, Orange, Permanent markers, Prompt, Shading, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s prompt for band of sketchers was the colour orange. I gathered a group of things together and used permanent markers to draw it in. I tried to colour the areas without drawing it out first.

Orange is a peculiar colour, some people identify reds as orange, and orange as yellow. Everyone has different eyesight and abilities to differentiate colours. I imagine someone with colour-blindness would just see muddy browns?

digital background

Posted on September 27, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Artrage oils, Colours, Design, Digital doodle, Digital drawing, Drawing, metallics, Sketch, Woman artistLeave a comment

Another doodle, this time a possible background for something, or even a stand alone piece of art. Created in ArtRage oils and sketch app, digital drawing. learning to use different tools in the apps. I did this a while ago. If I’m not learning and playing with things I get really bored.

that’s it for now, I really have tired myself out just sitting at the computer and typing. Need a rest. Phew! Plus I have not had an evening meal yet and I will have to cook it, might be back later if I feel a bit better.

cat and dragon doodle

Posted on September 27, 2020 Posted in Cat, SketchingTagged Art, Cat, Colours, Design, Digital drawing, Dragon, Ideas, Picture, pin bdgeLeave a comment

A cat I drew for one of my projects last semester, I seriously need to tidy up my style a bit. Then I have been doodling again ….

Now I’m working on a cheeky dragon for a possible pin badge.

Question? Do you think people would be interested in buying a well drawn and crafted pin badge of a dragon? This is just a sketch…

What colours should dragons be?

My idea is for a spotty dragon, do you think that would work?

what should it be made in, metal or plastic?

Any ideas/ suggestions?

Leaves

Posted on September 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Brown, Colours, Death, Gold, Green, Life, Poem, Poetry, Red, Tree, WinterLeave a comment

Leaves leave

Leafy loss

Trees shiver

Bare branches shake.

Wind blows

Northern ice

Frost burns

Firey colours

Through your crown.

Here today

Gone tomorrow….

Gold, red and green….

Brown

Mulch.

Sketch

Posted on September 14, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colours, Digital drawing, Drawing, Face, Female art, Sketch, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

ArtRage oils sketch, edited in Sketch app. 2019. Digital drawing.

I like editing things in one application and then running it through one or two more. In a similar way to using different filters on Photoshop.

I have used lots of different apps over the years but I don’t always remember what I did in each of them which is why they look different each time. I want to find the best selection of drawing tools that I can. I hope they look OK.

Kitty

Posted on September 13, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Colours, Digital drawing, Drawing, Kitty, Oblong tool, Sketcher app, Sketching app, ToolsLeave a comment

Digital doodle, using the Sketcher app on my phone. Instead of lines I used a tool that creates small oblong. Then a ribbon tool for the whiskers. Using a pink background and a dark green pen tool makes an interesting colour combination. With delicate lines I think it gives an ethereal effect.

Exhibited three years ago.

Posted on September 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Batik, Colours, Design, Etruria Artists, Etruria Industrial museum, Exhibited three years ago, Life, Warehouse12 Comments

I mmust have been feeling cheerful when I did these paintings plus a batik picture of some fish. The first bottle oven painting is an attempt to do a clarice cliff design. If I did it now I would make the building more curved. The batik is sort of a Pices idea. The dragonfly was an interesting compositon and the half bottle oven is meant to be mirrored by blue sky or water in a canal. It is slightly remenicent of a yin yang symbol. The exhibition was held at the warehouse at Etruria industrial museum at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent three years ago. At the moment we cannot use the building because of covid19.

Mallaband-Brown

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