Some digital drawings I did nine years ago.

Posted on June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized, SketchingTagged Art, Drawing, Sketching, Abstract, Design, Digital drawing, Fun, Sketchfu, nine years agoLeave a comment

Drawn at the old Sketchfu website, four digital drawings I did there nine years ago.

Sketchfu had four sizes of circular pens, a palette, an opacity and transparency tool and probably an eraser. No applets, no layers, you just built the drawing up. You could share your drawing and others could draw onto it, so we did some collaborations, but it woukd take ages for the pages to load if you had added to other pages. There were four or five of us sometimes building a picture up on a theme. It was fun!

drawing of a profile

Posted on June 6, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Colour, Design, Fun, Illustration, illustration MA, pastel, Portrait, portrait sessions, Profile, Sketching, studentLeave a comment

drawing with an ink roller

This was one of the portraits I did in a student led portrait group at college during the last few months.

The face was mostly drawn with one of those ink rollers you can use to blank out your address on letters so that you can throw them away without anyone seeing your details and stealing your data. Its quite hard to use because you have to sort of turn and twist your hand and press firmly to sketch curves. AfterId done that I added colour using pastels and the thick black lines were done with black calligraphy pen (most of these have run out so I need some more).

I quite like the strong feel to this. I am trying to find my illustrational voice. I have been told to look for illustrators that my work resembles, but I think mine is different? Is this a good or bad thing? I’m definitley developing my analogue skills. Digital work is more difficult for me.

Glass time

Posted on May 29, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Experiment, Fun, Fused glass, Glass, Learning, Life, looking forward, WorkshopLeave a comment

Today I found someone at a place called Art Glass Lounge where they do glass workshops. I was really pleased because I had wanted to do some more glass pieces and my hubby wanted another go too.

We met a lovely glass artist who was very informative and helpful. Social distancing was used and at the end we bumped elbows. We had a go at grinding the glass to shape it, melting thin glass rods with either a candle or a blow torch to slump it or with the blow torch, fuse it together.

Very interesting and enjoyable.

Heart and Love

Posted on May 17, 2021May 18, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blood, College, Design, Drawing, fonts, Fun, Heart, Illustration, Love, monoprint, SketchingLeave a comment

Small drawing of a heart that I drew on top of a bit of black monoprinting. I’d cut this section out of another bit to create a negative space for a portrait, I’ll post that drawing later. Done during a student led session that just finished tonight. Part of idea generation for the illustration course I’m doing.

One thing I do need to look at is fonts, it’s hard to draw them accurately and I struggle to copy them, and I didn’t have a particular font in mind, just the idea the letters should be red, I might try and make them look a bit more like blood with a fine ink pen.

Spent all day fighting PowerPoint!

Posted on May 9, 2021May 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Computer problems, Design, Drawing, Illustration, Learning, Need a rest, PowerPoint2 Comments

Today was hard. One of our college presentations has to have our illustrations in a PowerPoint. But my computer was playing up and instead of being able to use the tabs at the top of the page they were greyed out. So I started a new presentation, copied and pasted the work over… Then I had a break for lunch, and the new powerpoint would not work, but the old one would! So I shifted all the new work over and continued. I just finished it. I don’t think it’s well presented. PowerPoint gives you design options so each page looks good, but together it’s a bit of a mush mash.

I have got to finish off another piece of work and hand both in this week so I might be missing for a few days.

On the bottle oven art trail.

Posted on May 8, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic paint, Art, Art trail, bid art trail, Design, falcon planter, Goss works, painted planter, Varnish6 Comments

I delivered my varnished bottle oven planter to the BID Art-trail today. Here’s the photo to prove it. See their website : https://thestoke2000.co.uk/artisan/?v=79cba1185463

I don’t think my photo is on yet but there are some really good images of around fifty bottle oven planters.

There is enough space in the top of the planter to fit a small pot. I think once the art trail display exhibition is over and I get it back I will plant it up with a strawberry plant or some trailing lobelia.

Spring collage

Posted on May 7, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, black fine liner, Color, Design, Drawing, Experiment, Flowers, holographic paper, Illustration, post it notes4 Comments

Post it notes, holographic paper and fine liner pen.

Just a drawing of the tulips, I decided to use these colours to represent the spring and added the holographic paper as shards of pottery. You can make up all sorts of ideas in a collage…

Old digital doodle

Posted on May 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, eyebrows, Eyes, Face, Faces, Mouth, SketchingLeave a comment

Faces, I love them, portraits, doodles, there’s something that makes me draw them. Trying to get features right. I’ve always drawn eyes as well. I try to get them right, but I have a default eye or face, the way as I sketch I try and it from memory. Things like the size of the eyes. The eyelids, the shape of lips. The size and shape of eyebrows. Hairline. I find hair the most difficult. I need more practice, even after sixty years!

Something different

Posted on May 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colours, Design, Drawing, Experiment, ink liner pen, Metallic pencils, Pattern2 Comments

Had no idea what to do so drew the pattern on my trousers that is black and white but then added colour for today’s #bandofsketchers prompt. It’s not very good but it’s definitely different to what I’d normally do!

Batik workshop

Posted on May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Batik, Design, fabric inks, Fish, Fun, pisces, Sketching, sketching with wax, Workshop3 Comments

Fish from a batik workshop I was part of a couple of years ago. It was with an artist called Belinda Latimer. She moved away or I would have liked to do another one. The pictures round the side are by other people in the workshop. It’s great to let yourself do something new if you can.

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