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.

Heads up

Posted on April 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cards, cover, deck of cards, Design, Experiment, Fun, heads, Profiles, Sketching, topsy turveyLeave a comment

I’m imagining the back of a playing card with a pattern on it like this? Two profiles facing each other, one turned upside down. It’s based on the idea of the two heads on the King, Queen and Jack cards. Are they designed to read from both top and bottom to make it easier for all players to read them?

I am not a graphic designer so I am not sure what criteria I would need to actually make these, but I’m having fun as I experiment again.. Hope you enjoy my scribbles x

Sundays prompt…

Posted on April 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Artrage, Colourful, Design, digitally drawn, Drawing, Drink, Prompt, Sketching5 Comments

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was drink. I’m finally trying to catch up with the prompts. This is a digital finger painting of a drink can. I used the Artrage app to draw it. I’ve adjusted the colours with Instagram because it looked quite dull.

Background

Posted on April 11, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Artrage, Background, Collage, Colour, Design, Digital painting, Metallic colours2 Comments

I’m playing with oil colours in Artrage. I wanted to create a geological, rocky sort of image, like a slab of slate. Then I decided to split it into a collage, like five pieces of cake. It was interesting to create an abstract pattern, and I love the blues and reds as they smudged together. If I had oil paints I would try and recreate this as a real painting. I don’t know how I would do it though.

Roses

Posted on April 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Finger painting, Flowers, Fun, Life, Roses, Sketching2 Comments

Finger painted in the new app and then collaged. Is anyone getting bored by these digital drawings? I am not going to keep posting these. I will try and do something else unless I can create something a bit better. There are lots of pens and tools on this app and it is interesting, but it’s going to take a while to get used to it….

Easter flowers

Posted on April 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Collage, Colours, Design, Easter, Eggs, Filters, Finger painting, Flowers, Fun, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Can’t stop playing with my phone apps. I don’t know where I get all my ideas from. I hope you enjoy them. I like using multiple apps to get different results. Then you can use various filters. I really like the freedom of finger or stylus painting. I have only ever “built” an image with CAD when I did a course in computer aided design several years ago. Yes I could build boxes into a house, or circles and elipses into a face, but it’s not the same as the freedom of drawing. Yes I’ve used flower templates here, but I had to change and add to it. I get bored otherwise!

Sweet pepper abstract

Posted on April 8, 2023April 8, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, Colourful, Design, digitally drawn, Drawing, Fun, Pattern, Sketching, sweet pepper1 Comment

I really like that the collage app I have gone for has shaped templates so you can create a design, maybe modify it, then fit each individual image to a shape in the template. That’s what I did here…. Abstract sweet pepper x

Cat drawing

Posted on April 8, 2023 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Cat, Colourful, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Experiment, Fun, Sketching, tabby windowsill2 Comments

Digital drawing using Artrage. I’ve found the tools to change the background so I used the canvas option. You can also chose a background colour. It looks as if I’ve drawn on canvas board but it’s totally digital. A bit rough round the edges but I like the way the cats eyes have turned out. Off to play some more….

Mallaband-Brown

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