Making a Zine

Posted on November 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 64 pages, Art, College, Design, Editing, Fun, Learning, Life, Photos, Sketching, zineLeave a comment

Sixty four pages (32 images, 32 text) later. More glue and parcel tape than I can cope with. The parcel tape is white and has fragile written on it in big red letters.

I started by taping 32 a6 cards together with parcel tape, then gluing down an image and plain paper alternating with each other. My measurements were a bit off so some prints overlapped each other. The result works but is messy. I wrote on the blank sheets vaguely telling a story but it needs doing properly.

We will see what happens.

Christmas cactus crab?

Posted on November 29, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animals, Clouds, Design, Fun, Pareidolia, Pattern, Pattern recognition, seeing shapesLeave a comment

Pareidolia, the ability to see creatures in patterns. Well I call it an ability. Some may feel its more a curse! I’ve always looked at patterns and shapes and seen things in them. Some of my earliest memories were looking up at clouds and seeing birds and animals, things like whales and elephants. The human mind is good at seeing patterns, that’s why Percival Lovell the astronomer seems to have seen canalli, I think he called them? on Mars (not canals).

The human mind recognises things and that visual ability must help our instinct for creativity and science. Concept design is probably aided by it too. I think that’s part of our success as a species…..

So I was looking at this Christmas cactus and noticed the flower buds. Then I decided to play with it and voila! A green crab shape..

My mind

Posted on November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Analogue, Art, Creativity, Design, Digital, Fun, Life, Mind, Pattern, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme2 Comments

Is full of confusion

Pattern flies round my head

Variations come and go…

Hard and soft, colours glow

Light and shade

What I’ve made

Begins to flow

To and fro

I see my thoughts

As ones and noughts

Digitally built messages

From analogue sketches

Busy…

Posted on November 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Contrast, Design, Instagram, Pattern, Sketch, SketchingLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was busy. I’m busy doing pattern designs for college and this is turning out quite ‘busy’ (complicated, convoluted, patterned) so I think it counts…felt pens then edited through Instagram to bring out the contrast.

Tyre track?

Posted on November 21, 2021November 21, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, convoluted, Design, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, Metallic, Pattern, Sketching, tracksLeave a comment

I was playing about with lines then added the grey infill. What does this remind me of? Tyre tracks! So I can’t say much more than that. I may have some more I can do with this. Or not. It’s only a sketch but it was fun to do. Convoluted complications. X

Vase painting

Posted on November 20, 2021November 21, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Design, Fine Art, Gold, imitating cloisonné, Japanese style, Life, Painting, Pattern, Satsuma style4 Comments

My attempt at painting a Japanese style vase. Using gold and lots of flower and leaf patterns I tried to recreate the feeling of a Cloisonné or Satsuma vase. I’m no expert but I just wanted it to have complexity and stature. My love of pattern really helped. This was taken when I had almost completed the work. I placed it on the floor to try and catch the sunlight illuminating it. One of my favourite paintings, it went to a very good home.

Doodle

Posted on November 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, Design, Doodling, Drawing, engrossing, Fun, Sketching, taking a line for a walk4 Comments

Where do doodles come from, why are they satisfying if you get the pattern right. Simple black lines twisted and convoluted. If I had drawn just a straight line how far would it stretch? Can you see bears or frogs in this? Or Elizabethan ruffs perhaps? Would you draw anything like this or would it be angular or something different? Playing with lines is fun and engrossing. Why not try taking a line for a walk as it’s sometimes called?

Could you knit this?

Posted on November 17, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Design, Digital manipulation, Drawing, Hue, Mosaic, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

More playing with pattern. I used a mosaic tool on this so it looks a bit like tapestry. I could imagine it stitched as a cross stitch pattern but it’s very complicated. I see butterflies and moths in it. Maybe even bats and little vampires? It’s fun making up patterns, playing with colours, adding shapes and variations. I changed the hues on this a few times before deciding on this blue, yellow and purple pattern.

Shiny

Posted on November 17, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Colour, Design, Dragon, Inks, Life, Metallic, Pattern, ScalesLeave a comment

1.23am on Wednesday morning. I’m messing about with filters to create a scaly pattern. The inks were metallic and I tried to enhance the shinyness of it. I mirrored the image four times. Yet another pattern for my current college project. One problem I face was that all the colours are quite similar and of a medium tone, it was difficult to distinguish between dark and light areas.

Glue and more glue

Posted on November 15, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, Design, Dragon, Fun, Plastic discs, post it notes, Scales, water soluble glueLeave a comment

Post it notes and plastic metallic colour discs. Thought about a pattern that I could make, using arrow shaped post it notes I decided to place the pointed bits over the discs. Have a glue stick, water soluble, so I glued each individual piece of paper and plastic… It took two hours! By the time I’d done it (after accidentally dropping the discs and the glue stick on the floor) my fingers were covered in a sticky gluey mess. Thank goodness it’s soluble!

Mallaband-Brown

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