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.

Three minute cat

Posted on April 30, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Design, Drawing, Fun, Greek letters, Ink roller, Sketching, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Cat I drew at the start of march. I used an ink roller that you can blot out addresses with. I would have done more of these but the cat decided to play with the roller and I think it’s been knocked under a cupboard. I will have to try and find it. Sometimes the simplest experiments work well.

I noticed the letters on the roller are Greek, I don’t know why? If you tip it on one side you can achieve thin lines and also get some curves.

Flats

Posted on April 29, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Female artist, Green, Ink roller, off cuts, Orange, Paper, post it notes, Sketching2 Comments

I used off cuts from my sketchpad to create windows for this picture. The orange lights are from post it notes and the green is another lot of post-it’s that I folded and glued to give a feeling of branches. The black was achieved with an ink roller that can be used to blank out addresses on letters when you want to dispose of them.

I should be typing

Posted on April 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Design, Illustration, Learning, Microsoft, Project, Thinking, Typing, Writing2 Comments

I started with all good intentions this morning and wrote about 500 words of a 4000 word project I’ve got to do for my illustration course. But then things got in the way. We had an avalanche of carrier bags (my hubby buys them all the time). I put them by the washing machine but today they all slid down onto the floor. Cue a lot of folding and an offer to take them to the local food bank.

Then the cat decided she wanted a cuddle, she jumped up on the keyboard and knocked me out of the page I was on.

Hubby wanted to chat… Shuddup! Then Microsoft decided it wanted me to verify who I was before it would let me back into Word? What, how do you do that. I was halfway through a paragraph, had gone to have something to eat and came back to that!

Ugh!

Possible sculpture

Posted on April 26, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Ash Tree, Carving, Commission, Design, Fox, Green man, Owl, Sculpture, Tree trunk, WoodLeave a comment

We went for a walk last week and saw a fox carved into an old tree stump. Unfortunately the photo I took didn’t turn out (memory problem on my phone). I spoke to the person whose garden it was in and he told us the artist who had done it.

I decided to enquire about a carving, I have an idea of either an owl, a fox, or even a green man being carved into it. I’ve passed on my details and the size of the tree. Maybe in a few weeks I’ll be posting photos of a sculpture.

Mallaband-Brown

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