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Posted on June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alphabet, Art, Black and white, Blogging, Colour, Design, Drawing, Illustration, Life, Mark making, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

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As part of my coursework I need to come up with a different mark for each letter of the alphabet. The first decision is to choose what tool to use to make these marks. I have used a 0.8 tip unipin ink pen. But I could have chosen charcoal, or a brush, or some other form of mark making. Then I could choose colours as well as shapes. I am not sure if I have chosen the right sort of format. The next step will be to draw something using shapes for a few letters only. Say five or six of them. Maybe my shapes are too small? It’s all like a big puzzle.

Finished doodle

Posted on June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Black ink, Design, Doodle, Drawing, Etch-a-sketch, Fun, MazeLeave a comment

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Contours. I’ve always liked them. On maps, on artworks. I used to have an etch a sketch and I got good at drawing mazes on it. I would draw lines, round and round from the centre, build in dead ends, and spend hours creating structure. That’s basically what this is, not that there are any dead ends, apart from where I made mistakes.

Hope you like x

Mask

Posted on May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Digital drawing, History, Life, Mask, Random, Thinking, ThoughtLeave a comment

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What mask do you hide behind? Are you a wise owl or something more peculiar. I’ve seen photos of Italian masks, all black, with a massive beak shape. I think they wore them during the plague? Apparently people have recreated them and are wearing them during the pandemic. It’s because we are more interconnected than in the past, so people can reference historical times and be recognised as doing something that would not have been understood in the past…..

Life, the world, history, fascinating,

Mandala?

Posted on May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Calming, Design, Doodle, Drawing, Fun, Layout app, Line drawing, Mandala, Relaxing, SketchLeave a comment

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Drawing really helps keep me calm. This is another doodle I started this morning. I’ve mirrored it to make it more symmetrical and to create a new pattern.

I like drawing in black ink, and by mirroring, it makes a simple act of putting pen to paper more complex.

I may cover the whole page. Might take a few more hours…..

Contours

Posted on May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Contours, Design, Drawing, Flow, Fun, Illustration, Nuclei, TimeLeave a comment

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I enjoy drawing contours, daft I know. It was very time consuming doing this and eventually I decided to stop and leave some white paper showing.

The nuclei of the pattern were coloured dots created from ink coming through the back of the previous page. My hubby thinks they look like electron shells for benzene? I think I understand where he’s coming from. I’m starting a course on illustration on Monday. Trying to calm last minute nerves with a little drawing meditation. Doing this creates flow, and I forget the time, day, the stresses of the world around me.

Blue

Posted on May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Blue, Challenge, Colour, Design, Fun, Humour, Life, PhotoLeave a comment

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Today’s challenge in a friends Facebook group was to post a picture of yourself with the colour blue. I can’t find my facepaints so I put on a hat, picked up a magazine and stood in our bathroom with its blue painted walls.

I guess I could filter it and change it to intensify the blue.

Meanwhile I’m thinking of how to depict purple, which is tomorrows challenge. The idea is to collect a whole rainbow of colours and then the admin of the group will create an artwork. Interesting…

Our flag just won the FA Cup of flags!

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #FAcupofflags, Art, Design, Flag, Penkhull, Preston, Twitter, Twitter poll, Vexillology, WinnerLeave a comment

I helped design this flag with about seven other people in a competition to design a flag for the village of Penkhull, part of Stoke-on-Trent. I didn’t realise till last week that it had been entered into a national competition to choose the best flag design in an FA style set of votes.

After weeks of tension we reached the final and fought against Preston today.

The result was very close. After Preston took an early lead, votes for Penkhull overtook them. At the end the result was 52% to 48% in favour of Penkhull!

We are a village of about 6000, in a city population of about 250,000. Apparently around 6000 voted on twitter for the penkhull flag which equals 100% of Penkhulls population!

There is now talk of a European Cup of flags!!

Day 37. #uskstoke

Posted on May 25, 2020May 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #grayson perry's art club, #uskstoke, Art, Black and white, Design, Drawing, Garden, Home, Sketching, Staffordshire, Usk challenge Stoke-on-Trent2 Comments

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Today’s theme was doorway, this is inside the summerhouse looking out into the very green and bushy garden. Unipen black ink pen, size 0.2 because I found it and the other ones are running out. The garden smells lovely, but lots of things in pots are drying out, so they are wilting a bit. We need to get the hose out. Another beautiful sunny day. A few clouds.

Tomorrow is the last day of this challenge. I’m hoping people will come up with new ideas. It would be good to have a few days off. As I’ve been posting the challenges it would be good tobe led by someone else’s perspective.

See you later.

Usk day 35, digital close up

Posted on May 23, 2020 Posted in SketchingTagged #uskstoke, Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Life, pencil sharpener, ring, SketchLeave a comment

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Day 35 and the challenge was to draw a close up. Someone drew a necklace so I decided to draw one of my rings. The green tub is meant to be a plastic pencil sharpener. It was quite reflective and you could see the ring mirrored in it. I actually drew both objects on top of the tablet, so the light was shining up . Its a different method to what I normally do, but I want to try and get some skill back doing this kind of thing.

Mirror me

Posted on May 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital editing, Drawing, Future, Mirror, Photodirector, Place, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Thought, TimeLeave a comment

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Reflected, I imagine myself.

Caught between then and now,

near and far.

Lost, not found.

Dimension four,

Time to turn round,

clear my mind,

start again.

Decide to be.

Free.

Mallaband-Brown

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