Urban sketchers, on the roof.

Posted on September 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Drawing, Fun, Life, On the roof, Pot bank Hotel, Sketching, Spode site, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Urban Sketchers, View from aboveLeave a comment

I almost missed this today. We were invited up to the bridal suite in the Potbank Hotel to draw the views from the top room. The windows look out over the Spode factory roofs and beyond….

By the time I got there I was very late. I only had 45 minutes to draw. So I drew the view with the iconic Spode chimney first, looking out over Stoke Minster and part of the town hall. Then in the last 15 minutes I drew the cupola? of a building, its prominent as you look over Stoke. Turns out its an old co-op building. I only found out because as I was leaving I bumped into another urban sketcher who had not been able to get there in time. She had done research into what it was.

I might not have done as much as I wanted but it was fun. I would like to go back and do more.

Youdraw

Posted on September 6, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Blogging, Computer art, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Photos hop, Youdraw.comLeave a comment

Memories of Youdraw, a website I drew at years ago. Each block was tiny and you only had two black pens and two erasers. Together you could use them to draw black and white pictures. The intention was to collect 500,000 drawings. But they had to be acceptable. Sometimes there were rude pictures, scribbles and racist remarks. I was asked to volunteer as a moderator and used to spend hours deleting the bad stuff. It’s an interesting thought to remember all the work I put into it.

These pictures are some of my drawings that I copied from the site then coloured in photoshop. I have others and still own posters that I was sent by Youdraw.com with hundreds of images. They were going to publish a book but I haven’t heard if that will actually happen.

Good memories. X

Memory

Posted on September 4, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Bottle oven, Ceramic poppies, Drawing, Memory, Middleport, Middleport pottery, Poppies, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Urban sketchLeave a comment

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If you can’t read the writing it says (bit truncated) weeping window, 31. 8.18, middleport pottery.

The drawing is of thousands of ceramic poppies which were displayed on the bottle oven at Middleport pottery, middleport, Stoke-on-Trent in August last year. These poppies had travelled round the country to commemorate the men who had fallen in the first World War.

At one stage the poppies were not going to come to Stoke-on-Trent despite thousands of them being made here. I for one am glad they came.

Colouring in

Posted on September 1, 2019September 1, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colouring, Drawing, Fun, Relaxation2 Comments

It’s doing it again, saving to draft failed. Buy I’m hoping that if I just post this without editing it, perhaps it will post?

Anyway my hubby has been having fun colouring this cat in. I guess it really doesn’t matter that it’s green, as long as he is enjoying doing it. Adult colouring books seem to be the in thing these days. They are good to take your mind off things, they give you the relaxation you need, using enough concentration to give you ‘flow’.

More people could use this technique to help themselves to calm their minds. Life is too stressful, and maybe something gentle like this, taking your mind off things, could help?

Anyway it has posted x. I still don’t understand the draft posting warning I’m getting. Anyone know why?

At the warehouse

Posted on August 30, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Etruria, EtruriaArtists, Pencil, Sketch, Stoke-on trent, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

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Although we spent most of the evening moving junk out of the warehouse at Etruria I did get a short time to do some sketching. It’s a bit stern looking but it’s relatively accurate. I give you…..My hubby. A quick pencil sketch.

Morcambe Bay view

Posted on August 19, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Life, Micro poem, Morecambe, Poem, Poetry, Sea, Sketching, Sky, Sun, Urban sketchLeave a comment

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Today’s view,

long drive.

More later!

Drawing again

Posted on August 12, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Astle Park, Cheshire, Design, Drawing, Lighting, Lunch, Picture, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Trentham, Urban SketchersLeave a comment

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Two sketches. One yesterday at Astle Park traction engine rally, I drew this at the end of the day when all the vehicles has left the show ring except for this miniature traction engine. I could have just taken a photo but as it stayed still for quite a while I drew instead.

The second picture was drawn outside but then we went into the restaurant as we were being bothered by wasps. I took a photo of the drawing while we were inside. I didn’t realise it was so dark in there with a blue tone to the lighting. I adjusted it with a photo editor. It shows how long it took to get served, the place was really busy. The food was very nice though.

Struck

Posted on August 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital drawings, Drawing, Electricity, Face, Sketch appLeave a comment

Digital drawing. Playing with the idea of being struck by lightning.

I used a sketch app with various pens. In this case I had to overlay different pen tools like a sparkler pen or a crackleur one. They gave too much texture so I tried smudging the marks, giving an out of focus look, then building up again with the crackling surface and then using a black spray can pen to take out some of the marks. I posted this on Instagram, but used the clarendon edit on that which gave the image a slightly blue tinge. I’ve posted both versions so you can see the slight difference that makes.

Last choir tonight

Posted on July 30, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Drawing, End of term, Happy, Ink drawing, Loud mouth women, Quick sketchLeave a comment

Tonight was our last choir practice until September. We were trying to learn a south seas song called tangihina. It is about a man who has to choose between his lover and a watersprite who had taken her form. He chose the waters sprite by mistake and was swept out to sea.

While I was there I started to draw the singers arriving. I’d began by drawing the chairs but everyone arrived in a rush. I’ve only done one side of the room but that was all I could manage. As it says in the drawing, see you in September!) although it won’t stop me from blogging in the meantime.

Quick sketches

Posted on July 28, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Craft fair, Drawing, Fun, Life, Sketching, Stoke urban sketchersLeave a comment

I was sitting by my stall at a craft fair run by market_@_48 at Spode potbank Hotel today. I realised Stoke Urban Sketchers were there so I decided to ask for a couple of sheets of paper and I managed to draw the view from my stall and then of a singer called merrym’n who was singing songs about stoke-on-trent and his songs were very good.

I will post pictures of the craft fair, there were some very interesting stalls.

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