Tour time

Posted on July 2, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Doodle, Drawing, endurance, Sketching, three weeks, Tour de France, TV coverage, Yellow JerseyLeave a comment

Over the next three weeks the Tour de France is taking place. Its an annual bike race like the Giro D’Italia or the Vuelta d’Espania and on a slightly smaller scale the Tour of Britain.

These bike races challenge cyclists of the world to race their way round mountains and plains, to fight their way through crowds and over gruelling roads. In heavy rain, even snow, or sweltering heat.

So many well known names in the cycling world have held the Malliot Jeun (yellow Jersey) such as Eddie Mercxx, Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome for example. I hope I’ve spelled their names properly. It’s certainly a spectacular sports event. There is a lot of expensive equipment and amazing feats of endurance (plus some drug scandals). I’m looking forward to the final day on the Champs Elyssais In Paris (pardon my spelling).

Lake

Posted on June 30, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Lake, Reflection, Silhouette, Sketching, Walking, Water, Westport lakeLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Lake. This is a drawing of Westport Lake from a photo I took on Tuesday.. The sky was quite dark and overcast so it gave it a very atmospheric feeling. The silhouetted tries look good reflected in the water. This is a felt pen sketch of it.

Sky

Posted on June 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers art, Clouds, Drawing, Hail, Rain, Sketching, Sky, Thunderstorm, weekend2 Comments

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Sky. I tried to draw the clouds I had seen at the weekend as they bubbled up. Shower clouds not quite thunderstorms. There was heavy rain but not hail. Felt pen drawing. I couldn’t replicate the colours in the sky that day.

Wide eyed

Posted on June 26, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, Black ink pen, Drawing, Eye, wide, wide eyeLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was wide. I could have drawn a wide mouth, a wide vista, a wide stretch of water. Instead I decided to draw a wide eye! It’s just a quick black and white ink sketch. Nothing much to explain other than that.

Abstract into face

Posted on June 24, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Doodle, Drawing, Experiment, Glitch, Life, Photodirector, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

A digital drawing or doodle. Started with a blue and yellow drawing, then I used photodirector to add glitches and texture. Once I had saved it I thought I could see a face so I sketched one in using purple then white blue and black.

Energy

Posted on June 23, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Energy, Lightning, lightning bolt, Sketching, ThunderLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was energy. I decided to draw lightning as we are expecting thunder storms later in the week. Lightning is much more complicated when you see a photo of it. Not the single lightning bolt that you get in cartoons or emojis. This is from memory.

Cattle

Posted on June 21, 2022June 22, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers prompt, Art, Cattle, chewing the cud, Cow, Drawing, Felt pen, Guernsey?, Life, Sketching2 Comments

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Cattle. I looked for something to draw. I did a quick felt pen sketch of a cow. I don’t know the type it is. Maybe a Guernsey cow? Just drawn from the Internet. Took about fifteen minutes. I think it’s probably lying down to chew the cud. I was always told when I was a child that they lie down before rain. I’m not convinced that’s true!

Owls?

Posted on June 19, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Endangered, Environment, Life, Nature, Owls, Species, Tawny owlLeave a comment

Too-wit too-woo…

Never hear Tawny owls anymore. We used to have a couple of them up the hill. The males make one sound, Too-wit, then the female answers Too-woo! It’s so evocative of spring, but it doesn’t happen anymore. So many birds are dissappearing, but men don’t seem bothered, they’d rather fight wars. As someone recently said instead of spending money to go to Mars maybe they should spend it on planting forests, or supporting the environment. Endangered means possible extinction. Let’s do something about it.

Sounds

Posted on June 19, 2022June 19, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, felt pen drawing, inlets, Sea, Sketching, Sound, Sounds, WaterLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was sounds. Trying to work out how to draw this. Sounds can be acoustic or geographical. For instance the sound of music, or Plymouth Sound, an inlet into the sea. I decided to draw a combination of sound waves disturbing the surface of water as we don’t live anywhere near a sound. Felt pen drawing.

Histology.

Posted on June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink fine line pen, cells, Doodle, Drawing, histology, Life, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

I don’t know what I was doing but this emerged today. It looks like a slice through some tissue. Maybe animal or vegetable. I kept doing lay ers of pattern. A line of the drawing had to stick to rules that I set for myself, like a curve every few centimeters or a wobbly line, so that some areas are lighter and less marked than others. It actually drawn on the back of the bird doodle I drew yesterday. I could see where the ink was showing through, but then I decided to extend it further. This was the result.

Mallaband-Brown

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