Abstract Christmas tree?

Posted on December 2, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digital art, Digital manipulation, Felt pens, Fine Art, Fun, Life, SketchingLeave a comment

Art is complex, it can mean anything. Art can be good and bad, but one person’s good art is something someone else might loathe. I just edited this image to crop a smaller area and add a circular frame. Now I look at it I can see a series of stacked triangles that look like graffiti. It could represent a Christmas tree, or a forest, or rain on a window distorting an image outside it. It could also be a Christmas tree bauble. The digital filter distorts my linework, and adds textures and pattern to my drawing. The colours were originally felt pens but they to have been altered by the digital filters.

Transparent

Posted on November 15, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, Green, Lime, Prompt, Sketching, transparentLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was transparent. I drew a piece of lime floating in a glass of tonic water. It’s hard to draw when your felt pens are drying up. The transparency is difficult to define and delineate. The colours aren’t right, but give an idea of what it looked like.

Lovebirds

Posted on November 14, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Birds, Change, Colours, Daylight, Life, Living, Love, love birds, poetic, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

Leave the nest and find a partner, lovebirds dance and coo. Symbol of love, kissing turtle doves. Blue birds fly over white cliffs, a timeless memory caught in glass. Does the sunlight shine through and cast flitting shadows, flying across the room so slowly and gradually, a slow motion, stop and go motion, drift of love. Like an orbit around the sun celebrated in a year but played out in a day. Background colours changing fron bright white to rose to purple and blurred blue.

Peppers

Posted on November 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Capsicums?, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, Life, Sketching, Sweet peppers2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was vegetables. Just drew some sweet peppers. I like the different colours you can get. Felt pen drawing of them in about twenty minutes. I chose a generic image off the Internet as an example.

Doodle, drawing a line

Posted on November 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colours, Contours, Doodle, Drawing, Fun, Life, Lines, Meditation, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

Draw round anything with a thin pen and you get an interesting effect. It’s something I do occasionally as a meditation. Trying to keep a little distance from coloured splodges or around lines that I have already drawn or doodled. Somehow the lines remind me of the contours on a map, because they seem to join things together. Mostly I look at the back of my pictures and see if the ink has bled through it. I’ve written about this technique here before. It’s a way of creating something a little more abstract.

Close-up poppy

Posted on October 27, 2022October 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Black, Colours, Flowers, Plant, Poppy, Red, White, Work in progressLeave a comment

I think this might be finished but I’m waiting for daylight to check the colours. I might tone down the white and I may add some blue tones to make it feel like the sky is being reflected in it. The poppy was real, but I took this from a painting I did of a photo so I might look at some images of poppies.

Freedoms

Posted on October 22, 2022October 24, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Design, freedom, Fun, Kaleidoscope, Life, Meditation, PatternLeave a comment

I like the freedom of playing with pattern and colour. This is my way of chilling, relaxing, meditating. Using a kaleidoscope style of drawing app on my phone. I cannot remember how I did this, it’s a few weeks or months ago since I drew it. Maybe I need to use things like this on teeshirts? Or on bags, but I’m good at prevarication, I need to give myself a kick I think…

Nasturtiums

Posted on October 22, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, autumn colour, Colours, Fall, Favourite, Flowers, Gardening, Growing, Leaves, Nasturtiums, PlantsLeave a comment

Nasturtiums sprawling in the back yard. They are in our front hedge too. There are flowers six foot up in the air. You can tell its nasturtiums because of the shape of their leaves, sort of like umbrellas. The leaves, as you can see, are sometimes variegated. The colours vary from pale cream to deep red. I’ve never seen a blue or purple one? Maybe they will do some genetic modification to change that? At the end of summer they are something cheerful to look at.

Doodled Halloween costume.

Posted on October 19, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Costume, Design, Drawing, Face mask, Funny, Halloween, Life, Scary?, Sketching, SpookyLeave a comment

I decided to doodle a mask for Halloween 🦇, but it ended up being more of an extravaganza! Sharp and spikey with googly eyes…. The face has half a mask, half face, but with green lipstick and yellow contact lenses… I’ve never worn anything like this. It might be a laugh to make it up, but I haven’t got a clue how to create it!

Trees

Posted on October 19, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Autumn, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, Leaves, SketchingLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Trees. Twenty minute sketch, ‘watching them change colour’, my interpretation of trees in the autumn. Felt pen drawing.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Colours