I still love this meme

Posted on September 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Design, Education, Fine Art, Fun, Learning, Meme, Pattern, Thinking, Time2 Comments

1 in 5 teenagers experiment with art….I don’t know who created it, but I love it!

I shared this meme three years ago on Facebook because it spoke to me. Art is so important to the world. You need art to design things, to have an idea of what clothes, cars, white goods, trains, homes, workplaces will look like. Cutting funding for the arts hits theatre, performing arts, music, computer aided design, surface pattern, and so many other services that bring income into countries. It’s not just painting and sculpture, printmaking and textiles, ceramics and surface pattern. Artists and designers help support the world. Next time you use a plate to eat off, cutlery to eat with, use a table to sit at, wear clothes that fit you and are not grey tubes of rough cloth, then remember art helps to design out world.

Before it was jazz

Posted on September 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Design, Doodle, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, Gold pen, Possible painting, SketchLeave a comment

I started the previous drawing like this. It was going to be a background for something else, so the pattern is spread across the whole surface. I might recreate it on a canvas in paint. Not decided yet. I have an exhibition coming up in November and I’m thinking of creating a series of abstracts based on some of these designs.

Jazz melody

Posted on September 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Bold, Design, Drawing, Fun, Gold leaf, jazz, Melody, Musical, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was melody. My melody is Jazz. Subtle juxtaposition of lilting tunes and jagged zinging dischords….

I added gold leaf to add the sparks of musical energy.. I used felt pens for the background. I drew triangles around dots that had bled through from the other side of the page.

Another pattern

Posted on September 25, 2021September 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawing, Curves, Design, Fine line pen, Pattern, Squares, trianglesLeave a comment

Chunky curves, squares and triangles. Growing across the page. I keep doing these. I enjoy making up patterns that can be expanded or manipulated.

Black ink again, thin fine liner. I has fun with it.

A creature?

Posted on September 24, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Animal, Art, Black and white, Design, Doodle, Fun, Layout app, Mirrored image, PareidoliaLeave a comment

Twisting the pattern I drew as a doodle seems to create a strange creature reflected in a mirrored surface. There could be other alien creatures lurking in there. I enjoyed doing this. I had some fun with it. I could make three more versions, choosing different corners to match up in the middle. I think this is my favourite.

Green face

Posted on September 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, bite, Design, Digital sketch, Dream, Fun, Green man, Nightmare, Poem, Poetry, TV adLeave a comment

Can you see me?

Man or lion…

Staring angrily

Out at you.

… I’m hidden

Camouflaged…

Lost in your mind

Dream or nightmare?

One day I will catch you

And bite you

Twist and turn you

Revelation

.. While listening to a TV ad.

Seated abstract

Posted on September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black felt pen, chain shapes, Design, Drawing, Figure, Fun, Mark making, SketchingLeave a comment

Seated figure. Mark making sketch drawn in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep because of the pain in my leg. I tried to draw a chain like pattern and to see what arrived on the page. I do think it looks interesting and I might add some rusty colours to give it a metallic feel. I think I will do a few more drawings using patterns to make them.

Contour 4

Posted on September 18, 2021September 18, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Contours, Design, Drawing, Felt pen, Layout, Mirrored, Multiple images, Photodirector, Sketching2 Comments

Drawn this morning then mirrored and played with in photodirector. The idea is to draw a contour line around ink marks that have bled through from the previous page in my sketchbook. The initial drawing took a couple of hours, the duplication and mirrored images a few minutes. This is a combination of two lots of three images.

Knot prompt

Posted on September 15, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Design, Drawing, Fun, Kite, Knot, Life, Pattern, Tail, versionsLeave a comment

Two versions of my #bandofsketchers drawing for the prompt knot. The bottom one was first, a collage using felt pens and off cuts of sketchbooks. The top one is with a collaged kite added. The string becomes the knotwork.

Profiles

Posted on September 14, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Life, ProfileLeave a comment

Just a few digital drawings, one initial one then I used photodirector to change the colours and tones. I like to play with drawings and see how it can be altered without losing the definition.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Design