Celtic knots

Posted on April 9, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, blue ink, Celtic, Drawing, Europe, Halstatt, Knotwork, Memory, Sketching, Sutton Hoo, ThesisLeave a comment

My college thesis was on Pre Christian Celtic art. I have continued to love the knotwork designs they created. I was interested how the Celts moved westwards across Europe and into the British Isles. Their art was stunning. Various archaeological discoveries of intricate gold and bronze artefacts showed the sophistication of their culture. A massive horde of treasure was found at Sutton Hoo and historical artefacts were found in Halstatt in Austria? I’m sorry it’s 40 years since I wrote it and memory fades.

I continued to draw celtic knotwork, but this style of art needs practice and I haven’t done much of it recently.

Card design

Posted on April 9, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, biro sketch, Bottle oven, Card design, Cat, Drawing, Keeping warm, Pottery, Sketching, tabby catLeave a comment

A giant cat wrapped around a pottery bottle oven, called keeping warm. I drew this along with a few more cat and pottery designs back in 2017. It just came up on my Facebook memories today. Black and white sketch using a black biro if I remember correctly.

Mountains

Posted on April 5, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Drawing, Mountains, Photodirector, Prompt, StylusLeave a comment

Purple mountain #bandofsketchers prompt was mountain, I drew this in Artrage app then adjusted it in photodirector. I must get back to real drawing soon.

Tap

Posted on April 3, 2024April 3, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, ArtRage app, Drawing, Imagine, Life, Prompt, Tap, tube, Water2 Comments

Catching up with #bandofsketchers prompts. This one was tube. I suppose a tap is a sort of tube? I decided to imagine a tap filling a glass for this prompt. Another Artrage app drawing, instead of looking at a photo I’m stretching my imagination, trying o think where reflections would be.

Yellow

Posted on April 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Colourful, Drawing, Fun, Sketching, Uranium glass, YellowLeave a comment

Yellow vase, imagined drawing in Artrage app. My mom used to collect vases made out of Uranium glass. It’s called that because it uses Uranium to colour the glass. It can glow in he dark I think? It’s usually a cloudy greenish yellow. #bandofsketchers prompt was yellow.

Tree sketch

Posted on April 2, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 20 years ago, Drawing, Memory, oaks, Sketchbook, Sketching, soft pencil, Trees2 Comments

Twenty years ago I sketched these trees. I think they were probably oaks, a little old and tattered. I’d love to go back and see if they are still there, if only I could remember where they were!

I used to do far more pencil sketching. Maybe I should get a soft 6B pencil and start drawing again.

2004 drawing

Posted on March 31, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2004, Art, Art group, Drawing, Facebook memories, Five years ago, Life, Pencil, Time2 Comments

Facebook Memory

Sometimes things just pop up on my status and I don’t remember when I drew them. In this case the memory was from five years ago, but the comment said I drew it in 2004. I think that’s right because I wasn’t doing many pencil drawings a few years ago. I think this was from a monthly drawing group. Friends met up at a pub and we would draw each other or customers. I have the Sketchbook somewhere in the house. One of a miriad of them.

Celtic?

Posted on March 31, 2024March 31, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Celtic, Digital drawing, Drawing, incollage, Instagram, Knots, Patterns, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Digital drawing in response to some celtic knot drawings I did thirty or forty years ago. I started with Artrage, then used photodirector app and incollage, finally I used a filter in Instagram. Sketching the patterns was easier for me back in those days, but by using digital technology I can create more complaxity.

An artist!

Posted on March 28, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artist, Childhood, Colouring, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1891, Drawing, Etch-a-sketch, Figures, Life, Memories, PaintingLeave a comment

When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Give me crayons, give me colouring books. Books with paper covered in dots that you wet with a paintbrush and colours emerge.. Dot to dot books, pages with squares on that I could turn into patterns. I might have been a bit older than five for some of these, but I always wanted art things for my birthday or Christmas. I must have heard of artists because I always wanted to be one. I got an etch-a-sketch machine to draw with, I loved that.

My sister wanted to be a musician, she eventually borrowed a violin from school. I got jealous because my parents said I was doing art and they couldn’t let me have a musical instrument, so I overtightened the strings on the violin and they snapped ( bad/very guilty memory!)…

Now? I’ve been an artist all my life. I started drawing when I was a child such as historical people in tudor dress, Asterix the Gaul, horses, clouds, all sorts of things. I still do that, anything is interesting to me.

Early Easter drawing

Posted on March 20, 2024March 20, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black, Colours, craft group, Drawing, Easter, Happy, holographic paper, Layers, Scraper board, ScratchLeave a comment

Today I went to a craft group.

It’s something I sometimes go to, it’s the chance to experiment without doing anything serious. The group has lots of different materials and today it was scraper board. It’s a black coloured layer over the top of holographic metallic board. You scratch through and add shapes or texture. I found a stencil with patterns punched into it. There were rabbits and daffodils, tulips and egg shapes. I drew an Easter egg and added the stencils inside it. Then added spirals and Happy Easter to it to finish it off.

Mallaband-Brown

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