Six years ago

Posted on September 28, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, defraction, Drawing, Flowers, Physics, pot bank cafe, Pot bank Hotel, Sketching, stem, Stoke-on trent2 Comments

I was at the potbank cafe, which was part of the potbank hotel in the grounds of Spode factory site, part of the industrial heritage (and revolution) of Stoke on Trent.

The cafe was taken over by a cafe group called “the quarter”, but the hotel is still there and is based within the industrial architecture on the site.

I think I drew the flower in a jam jar while waiting for a friend? I noticed the deration of the flower stem in the water, an example of how the density of matter changes the way light travels through it. When I was young I hated trying to calculate the angle of defraction. Perhaps I should have drawn it and measured my drawing?

Play using photodirector

Posted on September 26, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged AI, Art, Butterflies, Colour, Design, Drawing, Experiment, Life, Pattern, Photodirector, Sketching4 Comments

I started drawing circles, then decided to run it through several iterations of photodirector using it’s AI style button and adding a background of butterflies, then sending it through the AI texturiser again. I think it makes a quite gentle image, I like the colours, enhanced in the Clarendon Instagram filter. I do enjoy experimenting.

Art

Posted on September 25, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists block, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2070, Digital drawing, Drawing, Life, Painting, Sketching, Thought6 Comments

What could you do more of?

I have been ill and down for a while and I need to start feeling better and reclaim doing some real art. Yes I can work on my small phone screen and create small pieces of digital art, and yes, over the years I have done a lot. But I begin to need to paint again. It must be a good sign? I’ve got to stop being frightened of creating, fear of failure is holding me back. Will I ever get through being blocked? At least now I can admit I want to.

Seahorse

Posted on September 24, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Beach, Design, Drawing, Horse, Life, Memory, Sand, Seahorse, Seaside, Sketching2 Comments

On beach holidays I draw seahorses like this on the sand. I will use a stick to draw it out and sometimes use pebbles to decorate it. These drawings are ephemeral, disappearing on the high tide, tracked over by footsteps, lost in windblown sand. Seahorse is a half horse, half fish. I just draw, them for fun.

Slate

Posted on September 24, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Drawing, Prompt, Sketching, Slate, stylus drawing2 Comments

Slate retaining wall holding up a grassy bank. Drawn in the Artrage app on my phone. Imagined from when we’ve visited the lake district and Wales. There is a metallic slider so I’ve added it to give the slate a wet sheen. For todays #bandofsketchers prompt ‘slate’.

RKB by CMB 23

Posted on September 24, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Hubby, Life, Portrait, sketchbook app, Sketching, Stylus2 Comments

Sketchbook app using the watercolour pen options to create a flowing, wet in wet effect. It’s a portrait of my hubby, watching TV on a quiet Sunday afternoon. I’m so pleased I found my stylus (I had to glue it back together) it’s much more controlled than simple finger painting.

Blue remembered horse

Posted on September 23, 2023September 23, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Blue, Drawing, Horse, imaginary, Mane, Metallic, Non metallic, SketchingLeave a comment

Artrage oils drawing with the canvas set at a rough setting. I used a red background, then drew a horse on top of it. Used non and metallic pens. Pulled the edges into shape with the eraser tool. Don’t ask abut the blue mane, I was being artistic.

Spiralling

Posted on September 22, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Curves, Doodling, Drawing, Galaxy, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Spiral, spiralling, Tornado, Whirlpool2 Comments

Simple swirls and spirals

Helical, spring like,

Layered pattern,

A tornado or galaxy

Hurricane or sink outlet?

Spiralling out of control.

An intricate web has been spun.

Whirlpool spins and tugs

Ties you in knots.

Train

Posted on September 22, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Design, Drawing, History, Life, possible screenprint, Sketching, snow plough, Steam trains, Stylus, TrainLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was train. Train design, didn’t look at an image, just channelling a screen print idea. The Green light is on the front of an American style train with a snow plow sort of thing. Obviously based on steam trains. Maybe in a transport museum? Artrage app drawing.

Style-eye

Posted on September 22, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage doodle, bige, Black, Colours, Drawing, Green, Sketching, stylus drawing, Yellow2 Comments

Artrage doodle of an eye and nose, just playing with colour and line thicknesses. I liked the combination of yellow, beige and green and brown. I wanted it to look like a lino cut print. I used different pens to create the image.

Mallaband-Brown

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