Opticians poster

Posted on April 19, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 1930's?, Art, boots, Drawing, Glasses, Illustration, Legs, Life, Opticians, Poster, Wilfrid Sheard2 Comments

This poster is in our opticians waiting room. His grandfather is the Hanwell on the poster. It was done in the 1930’s I think by an illustrator called Wilfrid Sheard who was a private in the second world war and died in 1967. You can find his details on Google.

The picture is a bit disconcerting. The man sits on the road with missing lower legs, his boots strewn across the road. He’s clearly been hit by a bus. His glasses are broken. The sign says “Never Mind – HANWELL will replace them in an hour or two!”

Nose

Posted on April 18, 2024April 18, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged App, Art, Artrage, Drawing, Life, Metallic, Non metallic, Nose, philtrum, Sketching, Stylus2 Comments

Nose is one of the recent #bandofsketchers prompts. I couldn’t resist trying to draw a nose from my imagination. The bit that goes in underneath is called the philtrum. Artrage app stylus painting. I used a metallic gold flood fill to start with, then used non metallic colours and pens.

Jane Russell

Posted on April 18, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital drawing, Drawing, Facebook, Jane Russell, Life, Memory, Sketchfu, Sketching, StarLeave a comment

Another digital drawing of a star, Jane Russell, from my sketchfu account 11 years ago. It popped up on my Facebook memories today.

I’m really interested to see what I was doing then. Lots of pictures might still turn up.

Marylin

Posted on April 15, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Drawing, Drawing app, Life, Marylin Monroe, Memory, Sketchfu, Sketching5 Comments

It’s a drawing of Marylin Monroe I did at a website called sketchfu about 11 years ago. It was a very basic site but it got overwhelmed with users. The owners became difficult to contact as they were setting up a new site called Muzy. Sadly Sketchfu closed. I managed to save a lot of my drawings but I know a lot of artists lost theirs and must have been very disappointed when it closed.

Make up

Posted on April 14, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Blue, Colourful, Drawing, Fun, glow up, Makeup, Sketching, TV programmeLeave a comment

I’m just watching a TV programme called “glow up” about creative makeup artists. I decided to experiment and create my own “look”. It’s just a digital drawing in Artrage using metallic and non metallic colours. I wasn’t bothered about making it pretty. I was just playing with it.

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.

Mallaband-Brown

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