A Tagline?

Posted on June 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1964, Design, Enjoyment, Life, Pattern, tagline2 Comments

If humans had taglines, what would yours be?

I had to look this up:

“In entertainment, a tagline is a short text which serves to clarify a thought for, or is designed with a form of, dramatic effect. Many tagline slogans are reiterated phrases associated with an individual, social group, or product. Wikipedia”

I would say I’m a “pattern loving gal”? Does that work as a tagline for me? I add patterns to most of my art, and the older I get the more I seem to do it. The three words explain my feelings about art. My genuine enjoyment of entanglements and textures. My enjoyment of and involvement with pattern in my art and designs.

I cannot think of any better description.

Digital drawing

Posted on June 11, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, circular pens, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Pattern, Sketchfu, Sketching2 Comments

Original pattern from 9 years ago. I’ve just duplicated it to extend the pattern. It was originally drawn on a site called Sketchfu which sadly closed a few years ago. As a pattern lover I liked the simplicity of the site. You could draw a lot of things with a few circular different sized pens.

Are you bored yet?

Posted on June 7, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, analogue fun, Design, Digital, Fine Art, Painting, Style, Work in progressLeave a comment

Adding some swirliness to mimic a digital style I like. Why shouldn’t digital and analogue ideas merge? I’m not channelling Van Gogh, just having a bit of fun with texture. I’m going to calm down the Green glasses and add some silver or gold to them… I need to work out how the sky will look. But now… A rest!

Trike

Posted on June 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chrome, Design, eagle head, Etruria, little, Poem, Poetry, Silly, Stoke-on trent, tandem2 Comments

Seen today

Green trike, eagle head

On front mudguard

Long and low

Tandem seats

Lying back

How do you see

The road?

Chrome, black and green.

Doodle to face

Posted on May 3, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Analogue, Art, Design, Digital, Doodle, Drawing, Experiment, Felt pens, Fun, Life, Photodirector, Sketching2 Comments

I decided to play with my latest doodle, I used a sketching app to add the facial details, then photodirector to smooth out the rough edges. I do like to experiment with analogue and digital images.

Art means a lot

Posted on May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Creativity, Design, Ideas, Imagination, Life, Nature, Pattern, Poem, Poetry, Thinking2 Comments

Art everywhere,

Art and design

The world needs

Art

Life would be boring

Without it

Clothes, cars, wallpaper?

Bags, book covers, magazines

Adverts and films

Whatever we do

If its not in nature

It could come from you!

Create a pattern

Knit a dress

I love art

I must confess!

Dance, abstract design

Posted on April 28, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Background, dancers, Design, Digital drawing, Fun, Henri Mattise, Photodirector, Programme, Sketching, Sky artsLeave a comment

Green and red complementary coloured abstract. Drawn digitally in a sketching app then manipulated in photodirector. The plate is a background you can place your design into in photodirector. The final image is a close up of the “dancers”. Maybe this idea is something I can pursue. The idea was inspired by a programme about Henri Mattise on Sky Arts.

Question

Posted on April 19, 2023April 19, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Architecture, Art, cost of living, Design, economy, inflation, Learning, Life, Music, Painting, Question, World4 Comments

Is the cost of living crisis affecting whether you buy or collect art?

As a small time seller of art I’m interested in how the rises in inflation and reduction in pay rises is affecting the Art economy. I’m sure decisions are being made that people either put off buying, or don’t buy art at all.

Art is everywhere, in designs of clothes, furniture, architecture, advertising, maps, car design, and even the Art in people’s walls. The Art economy is worth Billions to the economy as a whole, but I think it is under recognised. We like to be surrounded by visual and auditory stimulation, but do people even notice it’s there. Do you notice a painting on a restaurant wall? Or classical music played in a supermarket. I wonder how things will work out?

Variations, ‘flower power’

Posted on April 17, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colourful, Design, Drawing, flower power, Fun, Sketching, Stained glass, Symmetry, Variations2 Comments

I started exploring the symmetry tool on one of my new drawing apps. I had just watched a programme about Saxon art and illumination illustrated in bibles and books, and also the style you sometimes see in stained glass windows. It’s interesting how different filters change the way they look. I feel like the face ended up looking like the Hollywood film star Bette Davis for some reason….

Abstract horse sketch

Posted on April 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged App, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Experiment, Horse, Life, Sketching, Sketching app6 Comments

Playing with my sketching app again. This time I found my drawing stylus so I had more control over the lines in it. Although you can see by my writing that it’s not much more under control!

The pens in the app are very varied, here I used a solid flowing line, a texture and a watercolour effect. This could represent a chess piece, the knight. I like the way it’s turned out.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Design