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Posted on September 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, black and grey, Blackbird, Colour, Digital drawing, Drawing, Finger painting, Life, Sketching, Sky, Sun, texture tools2 Comments

A bird in a tree…

I always find finger painting trees and details difficult in digital apps, I really need to find my digital stylus out, but I don’t know where its gone. This was drawn in the Sketchbook app.

Anyway this fits in with the poem I wrote this morning. The bird on the tree is probably a blackbird (it’s difficult to draw something that delicate accurately). I loved creating this because it’s different to my usual style. And I’m really pleased with the colour combination of yellow overlaying black and grey.

Sunrise

Posted on September 5, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Bird, Birdsong, Dawn, Digital drawing, Layers, Liquid, Music, Nature, original art, Poem, Poetry, Robin, Sketching, Sound, Sun, texture tools2 Comments

The sun rise is later every day

The birds still wake and sing

At the same time

Their day stretches

From wing tip to wing tip

Music soaring before the sun

Even when night is darkest

Before the dawn

They know to sing…

The liquid notes of the robin

Pierce the night.

Swirl

Posted on August 29, 2023August 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Blue, Design, Digital drawing, Finger painting, metallic pens, Pattern, turquoise4 Comments

The joy of creating a pattern. Layering with different Artrage tools. Playing with a roller, a spray paint tool, and other tools. Also the metallic and non metallic sliders. I tried to give the impression of spinning waves.

Mow Cop

Posted on August 29, 2023August 30, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Digital, Digital drawing, Finger painting, Life, Mow Cop, StaffordshireLeave a comment

Digital drawing for #bandofsketchers prompt. I thought Mow Cop with it’s ‘nooks and crannies’ would do. Still working digitally because I don’t have a spare sketchbook and I still can’t get out the house. This is in Artrage and I did a digital finger painting. Swapping between the drawing and a Wikipedia photo so it’s not accurate. I liked the metallic effects.

Bottle oven day

Posted on August 29, 2023August 29, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Bottle oven, bottle oven day, Digital drawing, Drawing, Photodirector, Pottery, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent2 Comments

Happy bottle oven day! 29.8.23. It’s celebrated every year. I think there are only 47 bottle ovens left from the thousands that used to be in Stoke on Trent. A lot of them are deteriorating but hopefully the heritage of them will be preserved. The potteries, with their bottle ovens were the creative heart of the city.

Flowers

Posted on August 23, 2023August 23, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Colours, digital brushes, Digital drawing, Life, sketchbook app, Sketching, symmetricalLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was flowers. I did a flower sketch using symmetry tools in the Sketchbook app, and I just used a couple of paintbrush tools (salty watercolour and an ink brush). I varied the number of petals on each flower and tried to create something impressionistic.

Costume

Posted on August 21, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Colourful, Digital drawing, Drawing, Jacob, Life, SketchingLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was costume. Here’s Jacob’s coat of many colours sketch using the Artrage app, I just used the oil paint tool. Then I edited it in sketchbook and added the toggles and background etc…

Cornucopia

Posted on August 16, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, cornucopia, Digital drawing, digitally drawn, Drawing, Fruit, horn of plenty, Life, sketchbook app, Sketching2 Comments

Another #bandofsketchers prompt was plenty. Cornucopia or horn of plenty was a display of fruit and beautiful food presented in a large shell or spiralling horn if I remember correctly. I did a digital sketch and tried to create an abstract image of it.

Comparison

Posted on August 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, comparisons, Digital drawing, Drawing, Faces, Finger painting, Pattern, Photodirector, Sketching, Thought, Time, Why?Leave a comment

I play with these drawings to create a double image of two faces. One side has more texture than the other using different apps.

One side is sharper than the other, the left hand side has been processed through photodirector to add texture.

Does it matter what I did or why? Isn’t it more important to create something? I explain what I’ve done, but is there any significance? I see work in exhibitions wherr the piece of art will have a longwinded explanation of what the Art is about. I like to play and explore, I might not have a specific intention, but I hope what I do has some integrity….

Slime

Posted on August 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Digital drawing, Digital manipulation, ectoplasm, Finger painting, Fun, Life, Prompt, Silly, sketchbook app, slimeLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was slime. A drawing using a photo of my hubby, I’d already drawn over it. I tried to add a layer of slimey gloop as if it was a sculpted bust covered in ectoplasm from a ghost in Ghost busters. You hopefully get the idea?!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Digital drawing