Potteries

Posted on January 7, 2022January 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ceramics, Craft, Design, Greek potter, Life, Ornaments, Pottery, Six towns, Stoke-on trent2 Comments

Burslem, Tunstall, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent, Fenton, Longton.

Six towns United as one city. Stoke-on-Trent.

I remember seeing this print and taking a photo of it, but I cannot remember where it’s from. So apologies for using the image and if I’m infringing copyright let me know and I will remove it. I like the style of the illustration. It’s almost grecian in style. The Potter is throwing a pot on a foot treadled wheel. The background looks a bit like a Minton tile. I did Google it and found some very similar images.

Pottery is such a wonderful craft. The things you can make out of clay. From tableware to ceramic insulators. Sanitaryware (bathrooms) to delicate ornaments. The Potteries has a great history. It’s fame is world wide. I’m proud to live here.

Dragons get everywhere

Posted on December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Design, Digital drawing, Dragon, Drawing, Fun, Illustration, Sketchers2 Comments

Oh I do like creating a dragon now and then. I decided to rotate my sky drawing and then add a bit of symmetrical drawing over the top. I think the result is quite cute.

It’s getting towards the end of the day, week, year and I’m looking at some of my older stuff. I might have to delete some of the earlier work. Memory on computers and phones seems to run out faster than humans!

65

Posted on December 29, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 65, Beauty, Birthday, Colour, Design, Mobile, Pink, Red, Sunset, WireweavingLeave a comment

A mobile my friend did for my hubby for his 65th birthday. It hangs in the bedroom window and I just happened to notice it as I took a photo of today’s sunset. I think she did a splendid job. The mobile above it was another one she did of ygdrasil, the world tree. She’s the person who has done wire weaving for some of the glass jewellery I made. I might do more in the new year.

Building up pattern

Posted on December 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, bath scrubbing device, Design, Fun, Humour, Iterations, Pattern, Photo, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

Layers and layers

Iteration after iteration.

An every day object

Transformation

Into patterns

Light and confusion

Twisted and tumbled

A muddled reunion!

Owl keyring

Posted on December 25, 2021December 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink fine line pen, Christmas day, Design, Fun, keyring, Life, Owl, Sketching, TimeLeave a comment

I was keeping my hand in drawing even though it was Christmas day. Funny what you find to draw. I was doing the cooking so I could have drawn the food, but I was not doing the main meal till later on Christmas day night (If that makes sense).

It meant I could either draw or watch TV. But you can only watch so much TV. If it wasn’t so cold and wet and windy I might have been going out for a walk. But there’s always tomorrow. My hands are always restless and ready to draw, sometimes are better than others but you can’t beat drawing and sketching.

So what to draw? I was given this owl keyring as an extra Christmas present, I might just use it as a decoration though, its got coloured stones glued to a gold coloured body and I think they would soon detach if I carried it around. I have a mobile hanging in a window and I might try and attach it onto that? Next question is should I colour it in? I quite like the simplicity of black and white, so for now thats how its staying. I might work on it in photoshop. Not decided yet. anyway I’m posting this at 5.30am after yet another sleepless night. Aches and pains and whirling thoughts. I know I should not be looking at screens, but its either this or watching TV news…

An angel

Posted on December 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Christmas, Colourful, Design, Digital drawing, Mouse drawing, paintshop, Seasons greetings, SketchLeave a comment

One of my first digital drawings. I think I used a paintshop program. The angel was drawn in bright colours. With blue and purple wings. She places a star in the shape of a snowflake on top of a Christmas tree. I think when I created this I was just learning to draw with a mouse and gaining control of it. It was challenging but fun.

Seasons greetings to all my friends. X

Panto hat

Posted on December 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Fun, Hat, History, Life, Pantomime, Pattern, Photo, Spode, Teacup, Theatre, TimeLeave a comment

This large papier mache hat was made for out pantomime a few years ago, it was about a meter wide. Painted to look like an old Spode pottery design. With roman or grecian patterns round the cup. I wish we could be certain that the pantomime we are rehearsing at the moment. This is a photo I found on my phone because I’m trying to clear off some of them to make more space, but I’m keeping this one.

Eye eye!

Posted on December 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Eye, Fun, Learning, Sketcher app, Sketching, Skills, TechniquesLeave a comment

I do like playing with images, as you can see! (literally and metaphorically). By playing with them I learn new techniques, skills, and expand my ideas. Just getting the reflection on this to seem to float above the ‘iris’, by having the background slightly darker it makes the reflection stand forward. It should probably be shaded to get an apparent curvature onto the front of the eye. I used simple tools in my sketcher app on my phone to achieve this.

Sea urchins?

Posted on December 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Fun, Glitter glue, Layout app, Pattern, Photodirector, sea urchin, SketchingLeave a comment

Playing with pattern again. Red and green complementary colours using glitter glue. I used photodirector again to add texture and also to warp it slightly. Then I used layout to multiply the images. I think it looks a bit like sea urchins?

Bang!

Posted on December 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Fun, Glitter glue, glittering, Mark making, Pattern, Red, Spiral, Texture, wet glueLeave a comment

Red glitter glue poured in a spiral then dragged out with a small piece of wood. I finally put the image through photodirector to change the texture. Yes I know it looks like a splodge of ketchup… I really want to take a photo of the glittery surface, but my phone doesn’t want to capture it!

Mallaband-Brown

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