Winkhill Mill Co

Posted on May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cliff Vale, Drawing, Hartshill, Industrial archaeology, Industrial history, Life, Machinery, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Swan Street, Urban Sketchers, Urban sketching, Winkhill Mill CoLeave a comment

I needed a break today from painting, so I went out with Stoke Urban Sketchers for a couple of hours this afternoon. I’m still a bit in and croaky so I couldn’t manage more than that. Thanks to Danny, Andy (hope I’ve got his name right) and Richard from Winkhill Mill for letting us have access to the building. If you wonder what the machine is I think it’s a dust press for making tiles.

I went to the Mill a few weeks ago to see an exhibition there and I drew one of the tiles, the Fox and the Crow.

Stoke has lots of hidden museums. It’s open on a Friday and I think Saturdays?

Portrait from 2000

Posted on May 20, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2000, Art, Drawing, Life, Old art, Picture, PortraitLeave a comment

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This is a portrait of Cyril I did in 2000. I hadn’t seen it since then.

But then we went to an exhibition by Cyril Tilston a few weeks ago at Centre Space in the Spode heritage visitor centre. Cyril had a photography show and we got chatting.

He took one of my cards and then contacted me over the weekend. He had found this drawing. We had met 19 years ago at another exhibition. We had got discussed art and I had invited him to a drawing group we used to hold in a local pub. So I must have drawn him at the group.

So interesting to look at my drawing style then. I think my eyesight was better then, my hand less shaky. The lines I drew stronger than now. But I’m glad I still draw and paint. Maybe I will have the chance of drawing him again.

Abstracts

Posted on May 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Blogging, Colour, Digital art, Drawing, Fun, Life, SketchLeave a comment

Something more abstract. Playing with colour and pattern. All I started with was a photo of the wallpaper on the ceiling. I edited it to change the colours, then added a few coloured strokes in my sketcher app. Then I changes the hue in the phones photo editing suite.

I wish I felt well enough to paint, but little steps….

Petals

Posted on May 12, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Digital art, Drawing, Earth, Flower, Garden, Petal, Plant, Poem, Poetry, SeedLeave a comment

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Just a simple ArtRage oils app drawing…..

I’m mesmerised by colours,

by petals shimmering in the breeze.

Water goes deep in the earth

and shapes the roots

raises a stem,

Leaves unfurl

and a flower opens

petals pink and bright.

Birds and bees sip the nectar,

pollen mixes and seeds set.

Now the flower fades

But next year

another flower will bloom.

Bat’s round the back…

Posted on May 11, 2019May 11, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bat, Drawing, Dusk, Environment, Life, Night, Poem, Poetry, Sketch app, SunsetLeave a comment

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A lovely clear night,

Moonlight and dusk

My husband shouts bat!

I look out and see..

Nothing….

Clear sky..

White moon,

Silhouetted trees.

He shouts

It’s darting and flitting.

I look again

Nothing.. No bat!

So I drew one!

Urban sketch,

Posted on April 28, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white ink drawing, Craft fair, Drawing, Life, Sketch, Urban Sketchers4 Comments

The craft fair was quite quiet to start off with so I did a sketch of one of the other artists. I’m a member of our urban sketchers group and I think this counts as an acceptable image because I have included the brickwork in the hotel we were in and surrounding objects.

Eyes digitally drawn

Posted on April 27, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Design, Digital art, Doctor, Drawing, Fun, Sci fi, Short story, Spooky, Very short storyLeave a comment

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Don’t look at me like that. It’s scary, she said. The screen stared back, green glaring eyes and red scaled skin. Only the slow movement of its pupils indicated life. The screen had been blank up until a few minutes ago. A voice had said humans were under control by the Jranson Collective and if all people worked with them they would be spared destruction.

She scanned her phone. The same image was being sent to it. All computer services are in our power, said the staring eyes. Do not attempt to attack us.

What the devil can we do? She thought. Nothing came to mind, but maybe? She picked up the land-line phone, a steady dialling tone greeted her. Now what’s the Doctors number? she thought.

Moths

Posted on April 26, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Drawing, Humour, Moth, Poem, Poetry, SketchLeave a comment

Everyone draws butterflies but I decided to try and draw a moth. This is based on an Angle shades moth. I haven’t got it right, but I tried.

Moth

Goth

Ghost

Host

Holt

Hole

Holy

Holey

Whole

Whale

Hale

Tale

Male

Mole

Mote

Moth

Mouth

Mother

Motheaten

Mango juice

Posted on April 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Challenge, Drawing, Drink, Food, Life, Mango, Mango juice, North West, Sketch, Sketchfu, SouthLeave a comment

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Another challenge drawing from about 10 years ago. I think this was Mango juice over ice looking at the colour of the liquid. I never tasted Mango juice until my thirties I think. And a real Mango? Probably in my forties. They were just not sold in local shops. Its the same with figs, I never realised how delicious they are. The world has changed in my lifetime. Probably better for the majority of the North and West of the World. Not so much the southern continents. I wish life was fairer where everyone could taste Mango juice.

Sunday and Monday sketches

Posted on April 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Dorothy Clive garden, Drawing, Etruria, Life, Sketch, Sketching6 Comments

Not good photos of these. I’ve been using a black felt pen and them a broad nib cartridge pen. I took the photos of them in bright sunshine so they were overexposed. I’ve used the curves option on my phones photo editor to try and get them less bright but on one of them this caused a blue cast. The drawing of the cup is just a doodle because we were messing about with clay.

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