Easter flowers

Posted on April 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Collage, Colours, Design, Easter, Eggs, Filters, Finger painting, Flowers, Fun, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Can’t stop playing with my phone apps. I don’t know where I get all my ideas from. I hope you enjoy them. I like using multiple apps to get different results. Then you can use various filters. I really like the freedom of finger or stylus painting. I have only ever “built” an image with CAD when I did a course in computer aided design several years ago. Yes I could build boxes into a house, or circles and elipses into a face, but it’s not the same as the freedom of drawing. Yes I’ve used flower templates here, but I had to change and add to it. I get bored otherwise!

Light

Posted on April 7, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Knowledge, Light, Photons, phrases, sir issac newton, Spectrum, speed of lightLeave a comment

What a strange thing light is. It gets into corners, shines brightly and illuminates. You can see it at a distance even if it’s millions or billions of miles away. It might be made up of packets of energy (photons) or waves. It has different wavelengths for different colours and is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. It moves at the speed of light in a vacuum. But slower in an atmosphere or travelling through another medium like water or glass. It can be refracted (bent) depending on the wavelength which is why Sir Issac Newton found it was made up of a spectrum of rainbow colours when he passed a beam of daylight through a prism in a darkened room.

Apart from the scientific details which I only have a sketchy knowledge of, there are lots of phrases that are used in English :

Shed a light on it, light of my life, light at the end of the tunnel, thunder and lightning, the light fantastic, by the light of the stars.

Light is a fascinating subject.

Doodling digitally

Posted on April 5, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Colours, Digital art, Digitally manipulated, Drawing, Ideas, Learning, Life, Pens, SketchingLeave a comment

When you get new apps you have to learn how to use them. There are similarities and differences. You try one app and then transport an image into another app and try and alter it by using different filters and pens and markers. Each of these started with the bottom left sketch and then I took a screenshot of it ( I had to find out how on this new phone), then added more on top. It’s not going to be my favourite method of altering images, but I’m learning. I have found recently that drawing tools seem to be limited. Instead you get backgrounds and filters to alter faces and landscapes but using photoshop like tools, not paintbrushes or pens. I know I can do more if I had the tools. Perhaps I will find something more satisfying soon.

Spectra

Posted on April 3, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digitally manipulated, pattern shadows, Photo, Rainbow, SpectrumLeave a comment

Spectrum on a silver/purple cushion and a pink blanket. Digitally manipulated to add symmetry and then twist and move the plain of the picture. I’d like to draw over this to try and create a butterfly shape, but I need to learn a bit more about the new app I am using. I love the rainbow colours cast by a glass crystal in a mobile I have hanging in my window. The different cloths moderate the colours and one is more sparkly than the other in the original photo. (Not shown here).

Renewed

Posted on March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Fresh, Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, renewal, renewed, Spring, Thinking, WinterLeave a comment

I was sad to see winter

I want life to be renewed

Green and gold leaves

Pink blossom

Blue sky with fluffy clouds

Pour on a wash of yellow

Daffodils and tulips

Give me Spring!

Now.

Sour

Posted on March 20, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, apples, Art, Autumn, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, Green, Life, Sketching, Sour2 Comments

Slightly late for Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt sour. My sour is really gentle, crab apples. You can add lots of sugar to calm them down and make crab apple jelly. Felt pen drawing, tried to make it a bit impressionistic.

World map

Posted on March 17, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Contours, Design, Digital art, Fun, Map, Sketching, Textures, World2 Comments

Digital map, playing with textures. I think it looks a bit woven. I won’t explain how I did it, I spent ages colouring it in. It could look like an old TV screen, but it wouldn’t be in colour! I tried to add continental shelves which is why the colours are shaded in contours. Anyway hope you like it.

Spring Helibores

Posted on March 4, 2023March 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Colours, Gardening, Helibores, Leaves, Life, Nature, Overlooked, Plants, seasonal, Spring, subtleLeave a comment

I think of daffodils and crocuses at this time of year, or snowdrops and later tulips. But an often overlooked plant is the Helibore. The flowers tend to droop their faces towards the ground and they have larder five lobed leaves. There colours can be a mottled grey green, white with green splotches or a greyish pink. This is a manipulated image to show how interesting they can be. Lift up a flower and be captivated by its hidden subtle beauty.

Bucket list wish

Posted on March 4, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, aurora borealis, bucket list, Colours, Drawing, Earth, Life, Light, Magnetic, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, SunLeave a comment

One day I want to see

Shimmering Northern lights

Lighting up the sky

The Aurora Borealis, bright.

Green or red or white…

Different colours, different elements

Curtains of particles

Flying on Earth’s magnetic field

Falling to land at the poles

Glowing glory

Suns power manifested in air

My bucket list wish.

Seen in England last week

But hidden by clouds….

Only colours

Posted on February 17, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Close up, Colours, Experiment, Exploring, Ideas, macro, perspectives, Photo, Thinking, ViewLeave a comment

I saw this canal boat and just wanted to take a photo of the colours and the perspective lines. You don’t always have to take a photo that shows the entire object. Close ups and distant shots can be good. Macro photos can be very interesting. There are bad photos, but then you can crop them to show a different aspect. Be open to different ideas. Be creative, be comfortable with trying something new.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Colours